Mad Men “Ladies Room”

Okay, short blog post tonight.  I just got back from seeing Iron Man 3, which was great by the way.  Enough about that for now, though.  We’ll discuss it more on Tuesday after I see it again, plus it will give you folks a chance to see it before I drop the spoiler bombs on you.

Anyway.

I watched the second episode of Mad Men today and I have to say, this show isn’t growing on me quite yet.  Not that it’s badly written or anything.  The show is good, but nothing has grasped me yet.

This episode revolves around (you guessed it) the ladies room.  Many of the plot’s revelations come inside that enigmatic room where I’ve never been.  Betty’s hands are going numb, and we learn about her problem as she’s in the ladies room with a friend and she can’t open her lipstick.  This leads to a heart wrenching scene where she accidently crashes her car with her kids in the back seat because her hands go numb and she can’t grab the wheel.  I can’t imagine the feeling of almost killing your kids because of something you can’t control making you a danger to the ones you care the most about.  That is horrible, I am sure.  We learn that Peggy still lusts for Pete and that one of the office girls is having troubles because we see her crying in the ladies room multiple times.

Peggy has to fend off other men in the office because there is apparently a pool to see who can hook up with her first (game’s up, Pete won).  One of the copy writers courts her, buying her lunch and giving her a tour of the offices, although she just thinks he’s being friendly until he shoves his tongue down her throat.  Peggy also has troubles with Joan who, even though she poses as a friend, takes every opportunity to make snide comments toward her.  This is a random note, but Christina Hendricks nods her head a lot in this episode whenever she is saying something mean.  I don’t know what that’s about, but it distracted me.

I hope this show starts to pick up.  I’ve heard from a co-worker that they didn’t get into the show until episode 5 so we’ll see.  I hate to cut it so short tonight, but it is almost 3 o’clock and I have to work at 8, so tata.