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So, if you’re not a credits nerd, you might have missed two interesting facts about this episode. The director this week? John Slattery! Way to go, Roger. Also, this is one of the very few episodes where Matthew Weiner doesn’t have a writing credit. I’m betting he’ll be the sole writer on the finale, though.
Unlike Myndi, I don’t work in advertising. I have, however, worked for a lot of companies that collapsed. Mad Men is evoking something very timely here – much like the way last season’s penultimate episode was about the Kennedy assassination but was also sort of about September 11, this episode may be specifically about the uncertain status of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, but it’s also very much about our current economic crisis. And while SCDP is unquestionably cooler than any of the companies that went out of business around me, they captured that feeling really well. The rank-and-file trying to catch any snippet of conversation among the higher-ups. The fear that sets in whenever somebody says your name. Watching your co-workers fill up those boxes and shuffle wordlessly out the door. It all hits home.
