Megan's Stealthy Campaign to Marry Don on 'Mad Men'
SPOILER ALERT. Were we all surprised that Don Draper finally made the leap to have a permanent female form in his life in the
'Mad Men' season finale last night? Dating, after all, takes so much more effort than being able to come home after a few scotches and fall into bed with a warm and willing body. It was time for Don to settle down. Bachelor life made his hangovers so much worse.
The real surprise was Don's choice of lady life partner. For sure, we thought Dr. Faye Miller was the lead contender in the running. She was the polar opposite of the last Mrs. Draper -- well educated, outspoken, Jewish, yet still bottle blonde and vulnerable. But no. Megan, the big-toothed beauty, the secretary who wants so much more in life, the woman Roger refers to as "Megan, out there?", the surprise mama hen led a calculated campaign into Don's heart and home.
"This is all so fast," Megan said to Don's early morning proposal. But was it? And was she really surprised? We think Megan knew what she was doing all along.
Megan is much much savvier than we all gave her credit for.
First, she offered Don no-consequence couch sex when he was low and vulnerable and feeling rejected by Dr. Faye. This shows that she is free-wheeling and easy-breezy. She's a modern woman who is in control of her sexuality. She didn't get all teary and attached like the last secretary Don asked to do more than dictation.
Megan tolerated Don's relationship with Faye, sat back and waited for an opening. Not once did she display any jealousy, showing again that she won't be the kind of heavy lift that Don abhors in his women.
She passed the mommy test with flying colors, whereas Faye was mediocre at best when she had to watch his runaway miscreant of a daughter for a few hours. Megan putting the kids to sleep with a French lullaby melted Don's heart and drove the final nail into Dr. Faye's coffin. She might as well just have put Anna's engagement ring on her finger herself that night.
She even played her cards right on vacation. She made a girl date with a friend she couldn't stand just to show Don that she had other things going on besides him and the kids. We can imagine she made just the right amount of coming home noise to tempt the in-bed beer drinking Don out to her balcony of love.
Laying in bed, she told Don that she knows "who he really is." While she doesn't really have a clue, she tapped into Don's primordial need for a woman to accept not Don Draper but Dickie Whitman, the ghost that haunts him every time he comes to California. Even though Megan doesn't know Dick even exists, she made Don feel like she has already been privy to his deepest darkest secret.
When Don finally dumps Faye over the phone (the equivalent of a Post-it or G-chat breakup), she says she hopes his new bride realizes he only likes the beginning of things. That may be true, but Megan seems to have the savvy to weather Don's mood swings ... at least until she gets that house in Westchester.
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Hello SPOILERS???? How can you justify having this headline?? So many loyal viewers with DVRs are going to HATE that you posted this.
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It's called a SPOILER ALERT.
not cool guys.
nice one.
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Don, Don, Don - when will you learn?
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