Betty is running Fight Club. In essence, each season, Betty’s had a character she talks to and understands her (season 1 = psychiatrist; season 2 = neighbor-boy; season 3 = Henry Francis). What if these conversations she thinks she’s having don’t actually exist and somewhere Matt Weiner and the writing gang are going to show Betts is a whack job and much of the show exists only in her wild imagination – including Don’s affairs (I know, long shot on that one, but still).
This season, Mad Men ended at the beginning. Sterling-Cooper has ended, but a new agency begins. The Draper marriage ends, but Don’s life with his true family – the only family that ever accepted him, warts and all – begins. Betty’s princess fairy tale has ended (her father, the King has died, and her Prince has turned into a frog), and her whatever-kind-of-relationship-that-is begins. Joan’s marriage, for all intents and purposes, has ended. Same with Roger Sterling. And maybe their life together, a life that was meant to be for both of them, begins. Bert Cooper’s retirement ends, and his spirit is reborn. Pete’s self loathing might finally be coming to an end and he might not run from the person he actually is, anymore, and he can begin life as a grown-up-Pete-Campbell (if this piece could be longer, I’d explain why Pete is my favorite character because he longs to be someone else and can’t appreciate his own assets). And is it too much to ask that Peggy end it with creepy Duck Phillips and that she begins having normal affairs?
