Full Spoilers ahead for Season 5, episode 8 of Mad Men
More on this week's episode just after I taste some of this Cool Whip.
This week on Mad Men we got to see Don and Pete go further and further down the roads they've made for themselves this season with Don continuing to be the caring, loving, understanding husband (does anyone actually prefer Don when he's like this?) as opposed to Pete who's basically becoming Don of seasons 1-3. The episode started like a few others this season with Pete taking the train to work while talking to Howard (we finally get his name in this episode) about life in general but as per usual their conversation drifted towards adultery and the different ways Howard cheats on his wife, Beth (another name given to us this episode). Right after watching this opening scene, I thought that we would see some more shady behavior from Pete and I was right as Pete continued to cheat on Trudy (I'm still not sure why anyone would, has he seen Trudy?) later on in the episode.
The other main storyline of the episode involved Megan's resignation from the advertising business to continue to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. Before we got to this, we were treated to Megan receiving a mysterious phone call at work and then lying to both Don and Peggy in order to meet the director of some off-Broadway play she auditioned for. This gave us some good scenes between Peggy and Don, especially Peggy answering Don's phone call by yelling "Pizza House!" so she wouldn't have to lie to him. The extremely bad Asian accent she used made this one of the more random scenes of the episode but funny nonetheless. As this was going on we also met Howard's wife, Beth for the first time. She is waiting for Howard at the train station because she locked herself out of her car and right away you can tell that she is not happy with her marriage (much like Pete) and even knows about Howard's adulterous ways.
