Mad Men Carousel by Matt Zoller Seitz

Author:Matt Zoller Seitz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2015-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

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1 “Babylon” (S1E6).

2 The sight of Don Draper backstage at a Rolling Stones concert trying to hire the band to appear in a Heinz ad expresses this in a nifty sight gag, though Don at least has a Madison Avenue predator’s sense of openness to new things, which means he’s not a fossil yet. (It’s funny that his backstage mission partner, Harry, a foot-in-mouth careerist, is the one who gets mistaken for a “young person” by the groupies backstage, presumably because he’s biologically younger than Don.—MZS

3 Ben Feldman had previously appeared in Cloverfield (2008) and various TV shows, including Drop Dead Diva, Medium, and Las Vegas.

4 This was Teyonah Parris’s first major role, though she had appeared on a few TV shows, including The Good Wife, and James L. Brooks’s How Do You Know; she’s since gone on to star in Dear White People and Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse.—LP

5 Roger has been halfheartedly defending his worth since season three’s “Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency” (S3E6), when Guy MacKendrick left him off Sterling Cooper’s new power chart.

6 “Shoot,” (S1E9).

7 Sterling Cooper dropped Mohawk Airlines, against Don’s wishes, in pursuit of American Airlines in season two’s “Flight 1” (S2E2). They didn’t get American (S2E4).—LP

8 They’ve come a long way since the pilot, when Roger asked, “Have we ever hired any Jews?” and Don, only half-jokingly, replied, “Not on my watch.”—MZS

9 Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer came out in 1927 and marked the shift from silent films to “talkies.” The film is about a young Jewish man, Jack, who takes an interest in jazz, disappointing his parents so much that his father declares at Yom Kippur, “I have no son”; their eventual reunion is set to Jack’s blackface performance of “My Mammy.”—LP

10 Betty’s surprise transformation was immediately met with shrill delight from fans. “Fat Betty” lives on in a mix of scorn and affection in think pieces, memes, and YouTube mash-ups scored with the 1977 Ram Jam song “Black Betty.”—LP

11 The “fat” story was written for Betty to accommodate January Jones’s pregnancy, but she ended up gaining very little weight during pregnancy, and losing it quickly afterward. To proceed with the storyline, the production team used padding. Matthew Weiner has, in many interviews, expressed a desire to write about the way women are treated when they gain weight. He leveraged Peggy’s season one pregnancy for this purpose (her weight gain certainly looked more like fat than like a pregnancy). For example, in “Shoot” (S1E9), Paul and Ken mock Peggy’s weight in the same episode that her skirt rips.—DCL

12 Miss Havisham is the spinster figure in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861). She spends every day recreating the day she was abandoned at the wedding altar, until she adopts a daughter in a misguided attempt to save someone else from a similar misery.

13 This friend is Joyce Darling, whom we first met in “Marriage of Figaro” (S1E3). She and her husband, Henry, were adorably in love in season one. When Henry tilted Joyce’s

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