Mad Men Season Six Thread - Episode Thirteen - Season Finale - "In Care Of"

[big j 33]

First season, Peggy had Pete's baby and gave it up.

 

[x Buddha Bless x]

Oh, I was just thinking this season. Kinda forgot about that.

 

[big j 33]

I think a lot of people did... until Pete and Peggy have a scene together and some go "Oh yeah.. "

It's probably their most "soap opera" kind of moment on the show, so I think most fans have forgotten.

 

[sunshineblotters]

Oh, I was just thinking this season. Kinda forgot about that.

it is why she was so shook when Pete's mom was talking about their baby confusing her for pete's wife

 

[x Buddha Bless x]

Oh, I was just thinking this season. Kinda forgot about that.

it is why she was so shook when Pete's mom was talking about their baby confusing her for pete's wife

I thought she was just uncomfortable and confused She didn't look shook to me.

 

[spiceman80]

i think the moral of that incident was how far he is willing to go for himself. it can be argued that he saved the kid primarily to rekindle his affair with sylvia...the first person he called was not the Dr, but his wife (plus 'you owe me one').

didn't he say he tried to call the husband but nobody answered? COuld have sworn I heard him say that when she asked him what he wanted. Unless he was lying

 

[welcometothetonezone]

didn't he say he tried to call the husband but nobody answered? COuld have sworn I heard him say that when she asked him what he wanted. Unless he was lying

Yup, I think that's correct. It was the husband that first came to Don, asking for the favor for his son. So after Don was able to get confirmation about the kid, he tried calling the doctor's office first, but the secretary said he went home early, so that's why Don called the house. It just so happened that Sylvia picked up.

 

[mike honcho]

Finally caught up on season 6, been on a marathon for about 2 weeks straight 

 

[bilboshmangins]

wherein Don Gets fat.

 

[frostythepoptart]

Things are poppin off.... really hyped for next week. Don is ballsy.

I don't get the "monster" he is trying to be portrayed as by simply pointing out the evil in others. the same evil he has.

 

[x Buddha Bless x]

Pete I actually liked that he laid down in that situation and let "Bob" keep his job when he could've ignored past experience with a dude like that and go for his neck.

Straight up con-man status. I would've swore earlier "Bob" basically threatened Pete's life.

@ Sally. I'm wondering if she's simply not ready and won't be a follower or if she's leaning to the lesbian side of things due to that trauma of seeing her pops. @ that kid showing up again.

Also where I have heard "My father has given me nothing." before? or at least the last part?

Don is consistently ignoring Megan and making her feel undervalued/unappreciated.

@ Ted being sprung. @ Ken getting shot in the face. Chevy dudes on their **** Cheney steez.

 

[albooboo5]

Jumped the shark. Bob speaking Spanish, Peggy frumpy and fugly self, Sally boring plotline. Way to phone it in. I can't wait till Breaking Bad starts 

 

[rocman23]

gotta watch tonight, was watching the finals last night. if i knew miami was going to lose i would have just watched made men instead

 

[thug]

I always thought glen would turn out to be some awkward kid but dude seems comfortable as hell

 

[sunshineblotters]

Just saw the quality of mercy episode. lol I was asking what happened to Sally's friend last episode. Love how don is so eager to pay for sally's boarding school i wonder what sally will do with her newfound information

I dont know why Ted and Peggy were so upset. No one knew the undertone of the conversation except them two and it got them their budget.

lol at how don tries to be nice and it blows up in his face. He lets go of sunkist and hal gets it instead. Don should have called him back from cali. He saves the Dr's kid and gets caught in affair. He gets the budget and they ***** at him. That is just the way the world works

 

[hybridsoldier23]

Haven't seen the finale yet (westcoast) but can anyone without spoiling anything say how the episode was?

 

[S4L]

Great season finale...

 

[pmatic]

Pete's parents got the worst luck.

 

[x Buddha Bless x]

Yet another amazing season finale.The ending just makes me wish next season would start next week.

Yo man that was THE most ****** up story I've heard all month. None of the other flashbacks even compare. I got some nostalgia and fond memories to hershey's chocolate bars as well but DAMN. I initially thought he was telling that story so he could be like Ted aint no way you got it worse than me but what I thought he'd do at first he ended up doing, realizing he was kinda in Ted's position before and wanted to spare him. Especially since last time a co-worker/colleague/friend/partner desperately asked him for help Pryce died. No surprise they put him on indefinite leave. Got time to school Sally about how he really grew up.

Now it looks like Peggy will be free to transform in to the new Don given her heart's broken. If they do next season right it can be him coming back recharged and schooling all of them.

@ Pete and then Bob screwing him out of Detroit.

I've also just assumed Megan dies on the flight to Cali.

 

[bilboshmangins]

 

[sunshineblotters]

Sounds exciting. will have to watch tonight

 

[rocman23]

The saddest episode in a while. I just feel so bad for Pete, dude just can't catch a break. And when Don told that story about Hershey it was extremely sad. I thought at one point he was going to turn to religion for salvation, and maybe that will end up happening next season. But now it really seems like he legit wants to get his life together. Who was that dude who came in with Duck?

 

[air spider 777]

Don telling that Hershey Story from when he was a kid, wow. Some sad ****.

But I agree, I dislike Pete so much but dude was embarrassed so bad in Detroit and his mom dying. He really can't catch a break.

 

[solexsup]

Just started this show a couple of days ago. On season two

 

[big j 33]

A couple of great quotes from the AV Club's review

I found “In Care Of” somewhat emotionally overwhelming, and that was because Don Draper chose to stop lying. Granted, he did so in a manner that wasn’t entirely convincing, and he did so in a way that blows up the fundamental premise of the show, but he did so in a way that also allowed him the freedom Trudy talked about with her estranged husband. Losing everything also means having the freedom of getting to choose what comes next without the crushing weight of expectations. Mad Men has frequently been about how everybody around Don Draper seems capable of change, even if he himself doesn’t, but “In Care Of” shows a man who’s gotten tired of being himself and tries any number of methods to overcome the fundamental realities of his life. He pours his alcohol down the sink. He promises his wife a new life via change of location. He, himself, steals another man’s idea that he might attempt to outrun the demons that have taken up residence in New York. And finally, he starts being honest—with his coworkers, with two representatives of the Hershey Corporation, with his children, and maybe even with himself. The truth sets him free. It also kicks his ***.

The show has been using Peggy and Pete as mirrors for each other’s experiences for a long time, so it’s fitting that Peggy would find herself the most constrained of any character in this episode, the least free. She’s had essentially no choice in anything that’s happened to her this season, with her employment situation being decided for her, her boyfriend breaking up with her, and her lover deciding to split after just one sexual encounter because he realizes that he needs to cleave ever more heavily to his family. (The finale is also full of people who have families drawing nearer to them, from Roger and Kevin to Pete being with his child for the first time onscreen this season, right before he must leave her.) And yet at the end of all of this, Peggy ends up as the de facto creative director of Sterling Cooper & Partners. She’s gotten to an amazingly high pinnacle, yet she’s gotten here by being manipulated and bruised at every turn. Or, as she says to Ted, it must be nice to have decisions.

A great point in the first paragraph.. this is as close to Don truly changing as we've ever gotten, and we've been given the same pseudo changes throughout the series condensed into one episode. Promising his marriage a fresh start, doing something new with work, gives up drinking, he's done all of this in the past on the show and he tries it yet again last night. Now he's finally being honest with everyone. Yeah, Betty and Megan knew about his past eventually, but he never told his daughter. He was never this honest with himself where he would reveal the truth to his work and children.

The second paragraph is something that shouldn't go unnoticed, that Peggy had very little agency all season. She left the agency on her own, but then she was brought back without a say, broken up, ready to start with Ted but he decides that for her.. and even then, she's the current boss of creative. Brilliantly done by the creative team to get her to the top, but not the way she wanted.

I was DYING when Pete and his brother decided not to spend the money on his mom. "She loved the sea"

And that end scene was perfect. Don showing his kids the truth, but only Sally being old enough to actually get it. She's had a rough shake at times, but that's what a real broken home looks like, that's why Don acts the way he does sometimes. And I would love if their relationship is made stronger in the final season.