Mad Men 4x12 - Fever

So I was thinking about writing something in English, just to practice, and I decided I would do it, considering nobody reads it anyway. So here it goes:

"Trust in me in all you do. Have the faith I have in you."

This pretty much sums up the entire episode. Don Drapper is trying to save SCDP (which, by the way, is already short on one letter, since Cooper left the company at the end of the episode, to my complete and utter astonishment) and he goes a long way in doing so. Our dearly beloved hot looking mad men begins the this hour of TV going on a meeting Faye arranged him with some prospective client. The answer he gets, over and over again, is the same: we'll think about it and let you know in a 6 month period. He starts to panic. The building is going down and he NEEDS to do something. So he simply writes the NYT a letter saying him and his company won't be doing adds for tobacco companies anymore. Lucky Strike was what ruined his bussiness, so what could be better than saying it wasn't them who ditched SCDP, but SCDP who ditched them?

All of the other partners learn about the letter the next morning, completly out of nowhere. And Don's attitude is the best. He just walks in the room with that "call me crazy but I saved this place" look on his face. And he truly believes he did, expecting everybody else to just "trust him".

For us, who live in the 2000's, it's easier to see it actually CAN work out. But for those 1960's cigarette smoking guys, it just seems plain stupid. And the nice thing is the only ones who don't totally freak out over it are Peggy and Meggie, the girls. 

Roger is relieved, as he himself says, because the blame for destroying the company is no longer his to take. Cooper goes nuts and leaves the building - and the partnership, for that matter. Lane is mostly just worried about his family. And his british-self won't let much be noticed. Pete, however, is in trouble. He doesn't have the necessary amount of money SCDP will be needing for the bank loan that will keep the company alive. He fights with Trudy over it, gets really mad at everybody and then... the unthinkable happens. Or at least what I thought to be unthinkable: he finds out via Lane gossip that Don has paid his share. DON helping PETE. Fine, their relationship has grown, I can't deny that, but grown this much? I wouldn' think so before this episode and aparrently, neither would Pete. He looked truly surprised when Lane told him about it.

Meanwhile, Sally's world is falling apart. Even though her therapist congratulates her on her recently acquired ability to deal with her mother, Betty is still disappointed at her daughter, especially after she finds out she has been hanging out with the "creepy boy" who once crashed the Drapper's ops, my fault, the Francis' home.

If that wasn't bad enough, blond monster mom decides the family is finally moving out of their house - which is actually Don's house - much to Henry's happiness and Sally's despair.

Random Musings (this title is inspired in Automn Tysko's reviews)

• I must say I hate Betty more each day. The woman simply HATES kids, as creepy boy so cleverly pointed out, and enjoys destroying her own daughter's life! I just can't believe she hasn't realised how much Sally hates her and how much of that hate is completly justified. C'mon, Betty isn't THAT naive.

• What's going on with Faye's wardrobe? It gets worse by the minute, geez.

• And that season one recall moment? I still have to elaborate on that before I can say anything, but I like the idea, that's for sure.

• Need to say I can't believe how incredibly stuning Don looks. Maybe it's a result of being around not so pretty women like Faye, who I believe to be kinda weird, and Meggie, whose teeth I've already talked about before.

• As the beginning of this review already induces, I loved the credit song. Very well picked.