Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson - Mad Men _ Season 7, Episode 2 - Photo Credit: Michael Yarish/AMC Photo: Michael Yarish/AMC. This past When Mad Men Celebrates Valentine’s Day. On Valentine’s Day 1962, Don and Herman Phillips find themselves at odds over an account. Betty reconnects with a friend and once again finds herself struggling with car trouble. Don Draper gets an insurance physical during which he lies about how much he drinks and smokes. "You live too hard," his doctor chides before prescribing phenobarbital to help Don relax. At the stables, Arthur Case The episode begins on Valentine's Day, Wednesday, February 14, 1962, picking up 15 months after the season 1 finale. Don visits the doctor for a checkup and learns that his blood pressure is high and that due to his age (36), he needs to slow down on his two-pack, five-drink per day diet. ‘Girls on Men’ Podcast, Season 7, Episode 2: Peggy’s Bow Tie Sags and Joan Soars in Red. Episode two of "Mad Men" has us seeing Valentine's red at #pretapodcasts as we dissect the symbolism I don’t think my Valentine’s Days will ever be the same after “A Day’s Work.” Whatever romantic sentiment was wrapped up in the holiday was gutted by Ginsberg’s remark to Peggy in the The title of this week’s “Mad Men” is “A Day’s Work” and the day in question is February 14, 1969, Valentine’s Day. The title is a bit ironic because two of the lead characters – Peggy and Don – basically do no work, and the other two – Joan and Pete – are subjected to numerous work-related frustrations and indignities. Sympathies for Peggy’s sad-sack routine are dwindling, and her fixation on the Valentine’s Day flowers she mistakes as a present from Ted felt like something out of a Tuesday night on FOX. The set where Don meets Betty in Manhattan has been used multiple times on Mad Men, such as during “Shoot,” in a scene that takes place during the act break for the opera. Peggy mentions that she’s 22-years-old, a reminder that she’s a very young woman navigating quite a lot at work and in life. It's Valentine's Day on this week's Mad Men, and it's a very long holiday indeed for Peggy, who in a moment's time goes from elated to crabby and then stays there for the rest of the episode. (At Peggy’s Valentine’s Day went from bad to worse when she realized the flowers weren’t from Ted. #TheMorningAfter “I’m so many people,” Sally Draper tells her father in “A Day’s Work,” the kind of deeply uncomfortable Valentine’s Day episode you’d expect from Mad Men.She’s inadvertently Mad Men is so good at using tiny little totems and exchanges of dialogue to suggest oceans of character development, and it does that here both with Shirley’s roses (which Peggy assumes to be “Mad Men” is almost always more successful when it approaches Important Social Issues obliquely rather than head-on. 'Mad Men' recap: The Valentine's Day massacre - Los Angeles Times Peggy receives a bouquet of flowers at the office. Pete navigates the politics of new business. Joan is put in an impossibly awkward situation. Don wakes up in the afternoon, watches "The Little Rascals" on television, flips through some magazines, and spots a huge cockroach in his apartment. He picks up a bottle of liquor and makes a mark, remembering the level. Next, he gets dressed in a TV Club Mad Men and race: Shirley, Peggy, and the flowers on “A Day’s Work.” That business with Peggy and Shirley and the flowers was a perfect encapsulation of American race relations In this scene Peggy felt inferior to Shirley, because Shirley was engaged and she just found out Shirley's fiancee had sent her a beautiful bouquet of roses in a crystal vase, while no one sent Peggy anything on Valentine's Day. She childishly thought Shirley was rubbing her nose in that. Petty and childish, but not racist. HitFix’s Alan Sepinwall reviews "A Day’s Work," the April 20 episode of AMC’s "Mad Men," in which Valentine’s Day 1969 brings with it many moves, and not much love. 1.3K votes, 98 comments. 137K subscribers in the madmen community. A place to discuss AMC’s Mad Men, a critically acclaimed psychological Peggy used to work as a secretary, so she should know better than anyone else that people's assistants are way underrated and overlooked. "A Day's Work" offered a glimpse into just how presumptuous and entitled Peggy is. Her assistant Shirley got flowers for Valentine's day, but Peggy automatically they are for her. Pete's not as happy as he appeared on the outside in Mad Men Season 7 Episode 1 and even Ted is working merely to cash his check. Watch Mad Men Season 7 Episode 2 Online Can we talk about Peggy?
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