On last night’s Mad Men, we had some gay flavor even without Bryan Batt. But it was the absence of actual lesbian contact that was most capturing. (Possible spoilers ahead.)
I sort of love the way the NYDN‘s Joe Tacopino puts it: “But it’s Peggy Olson who makes the most dramatic foray into the social revolution. While watching the focus group through the looking glass, Peggy fiddles with a wedding ring. Don looks on and scoffs (he knows her better than that.) Shortly after, Peggy meets a lesbian in the elevator, and takes a wild ride into a stoner loft party. There’s another universe outside the straight-laced hierarchy she works in, and Peggy may soon find herself more comfortable there.”
But it’s not because Peggy is a lesbian. (Maybe she is! I don’t write the show.) She’s just hipper than those stodgy straights, and aren’t all queers?
NY Mag‘s Logan Hill: “One would like to think that Peggy will thrive in this new bohemian world — that she’ll finally find a place where her dry wit (“Well, he’s renting it”) and smarts are appreciated, a place where people don’t assume that she became successful by sleeping with the boss, as she’s reminded by Allison. As yet, she’s just a naïve tourist in this world, who’s just learning the barest facts about Malcolm X and art and people who don’t just do things for money. She’s a quick study.”
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Maybe Peggy and Allison will head down that road, and give Peggy her first lesbian experience. Or maybe she’s simply found a new hep friend whom happens to be gay, and wouldn’t that be the real bombshell.
dvlaries
In the 1990s, this program -right now, the most outstanding drama anywhere on TV- would have been on NBC. But they long ago sold their soul for the cheap shit they have come to endlessly proffer: The Weakest Link, Fear Factor, Deal Or No Deal, The Bigger Loser, Minute to Win It…
Brandon Tartikoff is spinning in his grave.
Swimmer - Chicago
This segment was very cool – to see even in NYC in the 60s this side of gay life – quiet clinches in the dark – almost a secret society where all transgressions take place. Well played I might add – Peggy wasn’t grossed out and handled the pass very well.
Today – gay life is so mainstream its lost it danger component…..
red phone
Re your last paragrapgh: Allison isn’t the lesbian. Allison is Don’s secretary, who slept with Don and assumed that Peggy did the same.
JohnnyTrue
This show just gets better and better.
Marcheline
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M