The 2010 season came to an end with an episode that tries to tie different loose ends presented in all the preceding chapters. As series go, something is left unresolved to be taken, no doubt, on the now announced 2012 season.
The agency is experiencing hard times due to the lack of new businesses. The opportunity to get Topaz is of importance if SCDP is to survive. Don's meeting with the board of the Cancer Society goes well. There are a lot of influential people that can be beneficial to the agency, but nothing concrete really comes out.
Don's plan for a vacation trip to California is suddenly imperiled when he finds out Carla, his children's nanny, was fired by Betty. What is he supposed to do now, with an impending trip and no one to entrust the care of his family. Don's clear thinking results in interesting Megan to accompany them as a glorified nanny. In fact, that turn of events results in Don taking a different look at his own secretary. He will end proposing marriage to her.
Betty has so much anger in her that it comes to a boil when she arrives home and finds Glen Bishop upstairs. The boy has come to say good bye to Sally. As Glen passes her in the kitchen, she lets him have it. Glen is not shy in giving it back to her. Carla is the escape goat in the situation thus created as she fires her housekeeper in a fit that does not take into consideration Carla's hard work all these years. Her relationship with Henry is also strained. The move to Rye does not change things.
At the office, Joan has a new title, but no salary increase. Joan offers her view of the impending marriage of Megan and Don: he is in between marriages! Peggy is not sure whether to celebrate or pity the man that made her a rising star in the agency. Earlier, thanks to her good work, she is the influence which brings Topaz hosiery to SCDP with its worth of a quarter million dollars in billing. Later, we watch Joan talking to her husband who is in Viet Nam. The abortion did not take place; she is carrying Roger's baby! She is living a lie that might backfire on her.
Don tries to tell Faye about the news of his engagement to Megan, something he has been postponing. Reaching her on the phone, he proposes a face to face meeting, without the desired effect. Faye is too clever not to realize she is being dumped. Don also has another not too pleasant encounter with Betty at the old house, where he has gone to meet a real estate agent. As they reminisce, it becomes quite clear their regrets at a failed marriage they have lo live with.
The final chapter was directed by Matthew Weiner, the creator of "Mad Men". He co-wrote the screenplay with Jonathan Igla. The sense of failure lingers in the air, for as much as the executives of the agency had tried to make a go of the new enterprise, it has not been the success they obviously expected. At the same time, there is hope SCDP might be able to pull it off in a second rebirth as all the indicators seem to be pointing to. One can only hope the new season will keep this award winning show delighting its fans.
The agency is experiencing hard times due to the lack of new businesses. The opportunity to get Topaz is of importance if SCDP is to survive. Don's meeting with the board of the Cancer Society goes well. There are a lot of influential people that can be beneficial to the agency, but nothing concrete really comes out.
Don's plan for a vacation trip to California is suddenly imperiled when he finds out Carla, his children's nanny, was fired by Betty. What is he supposed to do now, with an impending trip and no one to entrust the care of his family. Don's clear thinking results in interesting Megan to accompany them as a glorified nanny. In fact, that turn of events results in Don taking a different look at his own secretary. He will end proposing marriage to her.
Betty has so much anger in her that it comes to a boil when she arrives home and finds Glen Bishop upstairs. The boy has come to say good bye to Sally. As Glen passes her in the kitchen, she lets him have it. Glen is not shy in giving it back to her. Carla is the escape goat in the situation thus created as she fires her housekeeper in a fit that does not take into consideration Carla's hard work all these years. Her relationship with Henry is also strained. The move to Rye does not change things.
At the office, Joan has a new title, but no salary increase. Joan offers her view of the impending marriage of Megan and Don: he is in between marriages! Peggy is not sure whether to celebrate or pity the man that made her a rising star in the agency. Earlier, thanks to her good work, she is the influence which brings Topaz hosiery to SCDP with its worth of a quarter million dollars in billing. Later, we watch Joan talking to her husband who is in Viet Nam. The abortion did not take place; she is carrying Roger's baby! She is living a lie that might backfire on her.
Don tries to tell Faye about the news of his engagement to Megan, something he has been postponing. Reaching her on the phone, he proposes a face to face meeting, without the desired effect. Faye is too clever not to realize she is being dumped. Don also has another not too pleasant encounter with Betty at the old house, where he has gone to meet a real estate agent. As they reminisce, it becomes quite clear their regrets at a failed marriage they have lo live with.
The final chapter was directed by Matthew Weiner, the creator of "Mad Men". He co-wrote the screenplay with Jonathan Igla. The sense of failure lingers in the air, for as much as the executives of the agency had tried to make a go of the new enterprise, it has not been the success they obviously expected. At the same time, there is hope SCDP might be able to pull it off in a second rebirth as all the indicators seem to be pointing to. One can only hope the new season will keep this award winning show delighting its fans.