Mad men how old is megan

Aside from his disregard for Megan's emotions, he also never really appreciated the good things about her. The surprise birthday party that she threw for him is a great example of this. While it's true that Don wasn't a huge fan of parties, the fact of the matter is that Megan was still trying to do a good thing for him and only had his joy in the back of her mind.

For Don to react so negatively to such a warm gesture and basically gaslight Megan into believing that what she did was wrong is quite horrible on his end. However, Megan should've also realized the true nature of the man she was married to, especially after he clearly lost all his romantic feelings for her. Perhaps it was her blind trust in her husband that ultimately led to her being completely curious about Don's infidelity — that too with their next-door-neighbor, no less.

After being pretty much forced into a leave-of-absence from his job by the partners of the firm, Don should've ideally stayed with Megan in order to keep their marriage alive and make it seem like he was actually putting in some effort. However, at the end of the day, Don Draper is an enigma molded by the trauma of his past , and he preferred wallowing in his own misery as opposed to sharing both the highs and lows of life with his better half.

Unfortunately, Megan is not entirely absolved from the blame for her wrecked marriage — she should've realized just how volatile Don really was and not leave a well-paying job on a whim. After leaving the show that she had been such a constant part of, Megan's career ultimately stagnated — after all, acting is no easy job, and taking this major risk without giving it a second thought isn't a great move.

California is supposed to be the land where actors either make or break it, and while it's very much possible that some people just get the short end of the stick, that's not to say that Megan hadn't already established herself in her career already. So, the idea that she didn't manage to secure a job with her talents is quite hard to swallow.

To conclude, AGRs can be an attractive option from a social exchange perspective, and often lead to high life satisfaction and commitment. Social disapproval, however, can weaken the relational tie and cause the relationship to disintegrate over time.

Skip to content Age-Gap Relationships. Why did I believe the things you said to me? Why am I being punished for being young? I gave up everything for you because I believed you. Faye, the far more interesting, complicated woman he was dating at the time, but I never understood why she wanted to marry Don.

A visa to make it easier for her to work in Hollywood? And even while I'm enjoying my revisionist history of Megan and Don's marriage as a long-running immigration scam, I can't quite believe it, because Megan's devotion to acting never seemed quite real. Maybe Megan was just too normal for Mad Men 's world.

And thus, Dylan, I share your affection for the weird, dark Diana. Her line about buying her perfume from Avon in her living room in Wisconsin jumped out from an otherwise lackluster episode. Although Todd's right that her background is stuffed with melodrama — her ex-husband of 12 years back in Racine, her daughter died of the flu, she abandoned her other daughter to move to New York — highbrow melodrama isn't out of place at all in the world of Mad Men.

Perhaps the impact is greater because we get the whole story at once, but nothing that's happened to Diana is more dramatic or improbable than Don's arc, or Joan's, or Peggy's. And that brings us to the real "new business" of the episode: Pima. To me, it seemed like the latest variation on an old Mad Men theme: sex as quid pro quo, often an expected quid pro quo. This runs throughout the series, starting with Peggy's awkward pass at Don in the season premiere, but this episode was particularly full of it: Marie Calvet slept with Roger so she could pay the movers; Harry propositioned Megan in his imagined role as Hollywood agent; Pima propositioned Stan, successfully, and Peggy, unsuccessfully but intriguingly.

Like you, Dylan, I thought for half a second that Peggy might play along, too. But the more I reflect on her scene, the more I think about what it says about Peggy's power in that situation.

Peggy started at Sterling Cooper as the secretary making herself sexually available to her boss because she thought it was what she was supposed to do. She's endured an absurd degree of sexual harassment, including the Topaz meeting in the midseason premiere. But this is the first time, as far as I can remember, that she unequivocally had the upper hand — that someone was using sex to try to get something else out of her. There are so many quietly radical dimensions to that scene that symbolize how much times have changed since the beginning of the series.

Speaking of symbolism, "new business," in Robert's Rules of Order, refers to what's introduced near the end of a meeting, after all the pressing decisions are made. That's a startlingly accurate, if not particularly flattering, description of this episode: the loose ends have already been tied up, so here are some new characters to throw into the mix! But eventually, at least in the world of meetings, new business always becomes old business. With five episodes to go, I can't tell if any of this was important.