In this week's episode of "Mad Men," characters discussed the virtues of truth versus goodness, falsity, orange sherbet, submission, the Holocaust, and OH MY GOD YOU GUYS, THE ROOM IS A KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLORS AND CLASSICAL MUSIC AND I THINK THAT MY LEFT HAND JUST GREW A SIXTH, PURPLE FINGER.
That's right scotch lovers, episode six, titled "Far Away Places," truly embraced the sixties and was all about Roger in the sky with diamonds. Lucy in the sky with Mad Men? Whatever. Roger dropped acid, and the results were glorious.
Matt Weiner's experimentation with flashbacks and disjointed time sequences drew viewers into a confusing world in which the main characters struggled with gaining and losing control of their relationships and surroundings. Immediate gut reactions include:
- Everything is better when Roger Sterling speaks. Particularly while on drugs.
- No, Don. Megan does not like orange sherbet. Betty, on the other hand, would have been all over it. (Bring back January Jones!)
- Peggy is not a little girl, and she will prove it by channeling her inner eighth grader and give a guy a hand job in a movie theater.
- Ginsberg was born in a concentration camp. Things just got really real.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Roger takes LSD at a dinner party and listens to the Beach Boys.
Roger is forced to attend a dinner party with Jane, who is dressed as a Cleopatra/Princess Leia alien hybrid, which is being thrown by a pseudo-intellectual psychiatrist to the stars (and as it later turns out, Jane).
Breaking from painful talk of truth being "good because it's always real," the pretension-fest gets interesting when the oldies decide to "turn on" and drop acid.
"I told you we were supposed to take LSD with them, you were supposed to clear your schedule," Jane whines to Roger. "You really are never listening to me."
She then gives the kiss-of-death endorsement that "it will be good for us." and Roger jumps down the rabbit hole.
"And you say I never take you anywhere."
"Well, Dr. Leary, I find your product boring."
Incredible things happen when Roger drops acid:
- Bottles of Stoli sing Russian music when opened
- Harmonica noises come out of cigarettes when puffed
- People start crawling on the floor
- Bert Cooper's head begins to appear on dollar bills
- The Silver Fox gets a two-toned (young versus old) hairdo
- Already golden lines shine even brighter
At the end of the day, the couple goes home, puts on pink bathtowel turbans, and finds out that one drop of acid is cheaper than any marriage counselor. It's over and has been for a long time—Roger is even shocked that Jane never cheated on him.
Now that Roger's unencumbered, can he make a family with Joan and Kevin?
"I have an announcement to make, it's going to be a beautiful day."
Peggy smokes dope and gets frisky in the movie theater.
Peggy is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. After Abe calls her out for objectifying him as her sex object, he tells her to "have a shitty day." Peggy then gives such a bad pitch to Heinz that she gets thrown off the account.
The cure? Skip out on work, go to a movie, eat some popcorn, smoke some pot, and then give a stranger a hand job in the crowded theater. Pulling a "Pretty Woman," Peggy refuses to kiss.
When Peggy and Dawn had their sleepover two episodes ago, Peggy noted that in order to be successful in her field, she had to channel masculinity and wasn't sure that she could do it. Peggy was forceful in the pitch meeting, and while it may have worked for Don, both the Heinz executive and Bert saw her as a "little girl" who got out of control.
The picture to the right shows Peggy washing her "sins" off her hands, before getting back to work.
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