Before tonight, I only knew the English derivation of the term 'unto a land flowing with milk and honey'. The last time that I had my hands on a full Bible was during my hours at the school library where I made trinkets of notes on the terms that inspired me. Through Mad men's episode, I assayed the route with an effect of both, sorrow and joy. I have come to understand that only the chosen ones will be guided to the 'milk and the honey route'- a place where the kosher elements would co-exist alongside the non-kosher ones, legitimately. The route thus, will be laced with an opportunity to obtain ultimate salvation; the same way Hindus redeem their Karmas.
Mad Men's chosen people have always been Don and his ex-wife, Betty.
Don is on a road to his own redemption, trying to rid himself of the demons of his past. He 'was in advertising,' we are now too sure. His professorial attitude is flashy – his insistence to Andy (in whom he sees a younger version of himself) to not mislead himself into living a life of deceits; and, teaching Sally the ministrations of money spending. Is he finally ready for a full blown up regurgitation of his past? If there is any semblance to it, we shall get to see only in the last episode of the series.
But, Betty, on the other hand, has freed herself of her linear-life of being a wife and a mother; of running errands of the day; of waiting aimlessly at the dinner table in the exact same position, every night. She has come out of her existential crisis; has found complacence in Freud's Analysis of a case of Hysteria (12th episode), only to await a bigger crisis in the face. Must her life end so tragically? Betty, to me, is a personification of a kind of a familiar boredom that comes with the riches, and 'being lucky.' In her case, the boredom has turned onto her in the form of a charade that gleams merrily through her pretty face. She definitely has graduated from being an overprotective mother, to being this new person who, suddenly, finds marching 'to the beat of your own drum will be adventure.' With her letter of commandments, she seems to have also passed her jarred-wisdom and over-protectiveness to her daughter, Sally (the scene with the brothers). One must give credit to her prescience on reading through Henry's inabilities of dealing with her loss later.
What bothers me really is whether and how Weiner would manage to wrap up the series in the one hour that is left of it. In the meanwhile, his anti-heroic, utterly flawed characters are on a road to happiness, much less to finding themselves. Though the one to be always surly, Pete, too seems to have been the chosen one. He has finally found closure. He is 'not dumb anymore.' Joan wanted money, and respect; but she is a woman of the 60s, compromise is not an unknown ground. She finally walks towards the honey route, with her money, respectfully. Bert died mid-way. But, how will things end for Peggy and Roger? Will Don find Dick? Will it all be cushy in the end? Will there be a complete closure? Or, will it be like life, moving on without any neat ends?
Mad Men's chosen people have always been Don and his ex-wife, Betty.
Don is on a road to his own redemption, trying to rid himself of the demons of his past. He 'was in advertising,' we are now too sure. His professorial attitude is flashy – his insistence to Andy (in whom he sees a younger version of himself) to not mislead himself into living a life of deceits; and, teaching Sally the ministrations of money spending. Is he finally ready for a full blown up regurgitation of his past? If there is any semblance to it, we shall get to see only in the last episode of the series.
But, Betty, on the other hand, has freed herself of her linear-life of being a wife and a mother; of running errands of the day; of waiting aimlessly at the dinner table in the exact same position, every night. She has come out of her existential crisis; has found complacence in Freud's Analysis of a case of Hysteria (12th episode), only to await a bigger crisis in the face. Must her life end so tragically? Betty, to me, is a personification of a kind of a familiar boredom that comes with the riches, and 'being lucky.' In her case, the boredom has turned onto her in the form of a charade that gleams merrily through her pretty face. She definitely has graduated from being an overprotective mother, to being this new person who, suddenly, finds marching 'to the beat of your own drum will be adventure.' With her letter of commandments, she seems to have also passed her jarred-wisdom and over-protectiveness to her daughter, Sally (the scene with the brothers). One must give credit to her prescience on reading through Henry's inabilities of dealing with her loss later.
What bothers me really is whether and how Weiner would manage to wrap up the series in the one hour that is left of it. In the meanwhile, his anti-heroic, utterly flawed characters are on a road to happiness, much less to finding themselves. Though the one to be always surly, Pete, too seems to have been the chosen one. He has finally found closure. He is 'not dumb anymore.' Joan wanted money, and respect; but she is a woman of the 60s, compromise is not an unknown ground. She finally walks towards the honey route, with her money, respectfully. Bert died mid-way. But, how will things end for Peggy and Roger? Will Don find Dick? Will it all be cushy in the end? Will there be a complete closure? Or, will it be like life, moving on without any neat ends?