Mad Men Recap

Episode Ten, “The Color Blue” found Don Draper in the arms of his new lover, Ms Future Hippie. This, of course, was after he lied to his wife about having to work on the Hilton project. “Working on Hilton” is Don’s little code phrase for hitting on a new chick. He’ll use it for a couple of years, until he hears the phrase “feeling groovy”.

Turns out this new fling has a little brother that likes to bop in at all hours of the night saying such witty things like, “sorry to interrupt you”. Oddly enough, he seems to get into a lot of fights because he has epilepsy, which is news to me.

Meanwhile, at Sterling-Cooper, the British owners are cooking up a 40th anniversary bash to showcase the firm to sell it. This makes Lane’s wife happy, because she misses London and figgy pudding. Old Man Cooper doesn’t want to go because he’ll have to wear shoes or something.

Then something amazing happens: Betty Draper does something that is close to work. That’s right, Betty is doing the laundry. She finds a key that goes to that super secret desk drawer that Don is always locking. Betty puts two and two together and decides to…..unlock the drawer. In the drawer, she finds some comic books and a Playboy.

No, really, she finds all of this Dick Whitman stuff and the divorce from the original Mrs. Draper. She awaits Don’s arrival so she can confront him about this stuff.

Of course, this being Don Draper, means he can come in at all hours of the night for an early 60’s version of a booty call. Ms.Future Hippie’s brother got a new job and Don, in an unusual moment of turning down sex to do something almost decent, offers to drive the brother to Bedford, Mass. That seems like pretty fair distance from Tarrytown, but hey, you know Don. The brother convinces Don to go ahead and let him out of the car because, I guess he likes to walk in the cold.

The pointless subplot of the week has Peggy and Paul competing over the Western Union account. Actually, it is just Paul acting like a sixth grader. We see Paul drink and fall asleep. I don’t think Peggy has to worry about this.

Well, the big night arrives and we are treated to the scene of Don Draper accepting an award while Betty knows that he might be somebody else. Maybe, it is hard to tell with Betty. She might have been thinking about her hair.