MadMen Episode 6 Review

In this episode Don starts out with a flashback after falling down the steps in his home. Then at his office he meets with a new client, a Jewish travel agency of some sort, who is trying to make new adds so more people would come to Israel. This is a struggle for Don because he is unsure of how to draw people for this business and knows very little about Jewish society or its story other than what he considers the mass "propaganda." He meets with a past client whom he has some feelings for about "her people." He gets a little bit of information and still has some feelings for her, which she is refusing to reciprocate but does have. Don then goes to see his artistic mistress but has some competition and reflects some while watching a performance in the midst of that tension.

Peggie and the other ladies are put into a room for some "brain storming," something that the admen have arranged in order to get some insights for a lipstick company they are working for. The men in the office all act like pigs even though they say that the women are the less intelligent/capable sex. This is summed up well in the singular comment made by one of the research and development guys when he tells Don that watching Peggie was like watching a "dog play piano."

This episode was racist and sexist, two of the biggest themes in this time period. The problems that come up between Don and his men and the Jews show just how much a problem there is among people groups. As for the battle of the sex's, there isn't much of a fight coming from the women's side, something that seems quite difficult to be remedied in the picture that is being given us. The men really do own the scene, making for the daily ruffing up of women and scandalizing of their personal lives. All around this episode shows us a difficult time for "foreigners" and non-men.