Mad Men Roundtable: “Public Relations”

His inability to cope with reality, which was a completely miserable marriage to a reckless immature woman, doesn’t seem so far removed from the Jantzen executives who wanted to sell sexy bikinis, but without sex.

So, in one of the more brilliant moments in this show’s short and incredible run, Don fires S.C.D.P.’s potential client when he suddenly realized, yes, he can create the future the way he wants it. Not the way he thinks other people would want him to shape it – his way. As with the Jantzen execs, they wanted to work in a delusional, fictitious future where bikinis aren’t the attire for sexy beach bunnies, but for people who like swimming.