** Warning: this post contains spoilers about the finale of Mad Men Season 4.The most captivating and heartwarming romance on Mad Men has been that of the audience slowly falling for Pete Campbell. Don Draper saw it before the rest of us did. As the third season drew to a close, Don warmed to Pete Campbell. In the final episode of the season, Don Draper singled out Pete to be a young partner at the new agency. With a start, I realized that I too had developed a soft spot for Pete Campbell. Without my knowledge, Pete had transitioned from being that
Which brings us to the final episode of the last season:
It wasn't just that we wanted to see Don stick it out with Faye. Television that always indulged our obvious desires and never surprised would be boring television. I didn't need things to go smoothly. I needed things to go believably. That Don would so abruptly convince himself that he was in love and propose to Megan was ridiculous and most importantly unsupported by the writing before that episode. Sure, we saw her come onto him clumsily in a prior episode. We saw him glancing at her in the penultimate episode, suddenly realizing that she was pretty. Still, what about the whole season with Faye? What about the laps in the swimming pool, getting past alcoholism? In short, why did the writers toss all of Don Draper's growth out the window, and why did they do it so clumsily?
Having said all that, do we really need to wait until 2012 for redemption?
As an older man, let me tell you, I understand and this is very believable. Faye was not good with kids and a man wants to be with a woman who the kids can get along with, and that was foreshadowed. It also portrays how much emphasis there was in not picking an equal , but an angelic an innocent prescence. Faye gets all corporate on him when he asks for help and i think that was a sign. And the new woman also speaks french and kind of foreign. And that's always hot Nitin.
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