This
episode begins with a big shocker. Don probably
isn't Don Draper after all. Someone by the name of Richard Whitman's thinks Don
for someone else. But the way Don behaves shows he is hiding something. Don is grouchy
and begins to binge drink. This alienates Betty even more. The
episode doesn’t take place in the office or in Manhattan but in the Draper
household. It is when Don begins his binge while building a playhouse for his daughter’s
birthday. Don doesn't get drunk simply
to so he can tolerate building the playhouse but it seems pretty obvious that
he's drinking to suppress the real him that began to emerge when he was
recognized on the train. In this episode there are some hints about Don’s past
and how he is comfortable with manual labor the hilarious scene where he takes
a leak and finds himself unable to wipe up without dirtying Betty's meticulous
organization of the bathroom. Betty and her friend suddenly see Don as a sex
object once his rough side begins to surface.
The scenes with the Drapers' friends and neighbors during the birthday party
are among so
hard to watch. They all gossip and speak badly of others who haven’t
been around. The hardest scene to watch was when they assume about the new
neighbor, Helen Bishop, and how they her divorce makes her less than them. It is
expressed by the braying men and whispering women. It was extremely hard to
watch how one of the neighbors slaps someone else’s child for accidently spill
a drink. Don comes in and the neighbor plays it off. Betty ask for Don to go
and get their daughter’s birthday cake. He goes only to not show up until 2 am
the next morning. While this is happening Betty tries to make it better and
Helen comes to the rescue with a frozen cake. During the episode you can tell
Betty is upset but is trying to save face with her friends and neighbors. When Don
does return home he not only returns home drunk and late but with an older dog
for his daughter’s birthday. Betty is more upset with the dog then him
returning home drunk and at 2 a.m. The only glimpse of the office is when of
course Don cheats on Betty again with the women from the first episode the
owner of Chanel. We see how much of a jerk Pete Campbell really is. We see Pete
talking to Peggy about not speaking of the brief relationship they’ve had
because of the fact that he’s married now. Peggy reluctantly agrees to what
Pete asks.
The same theme I have seen continued yet again. The theme
is adultery. Don cheats on Betty and continues like nothing’s happened. I also
noticed that all of the people in this show like to gossip. Betty and all her
friends gossip about Helen. It’s sad how even though they gossip they pretend
like their friends and Helen is the one who helped saved the daughter’s birthday.
As you can see another theme that has continues is the alcoholism. Don goes on
a binge because someone called him by a different name. The neighbor in the
episode slaps a child who doesn’t belong to him for spilling his drink. Everything
revolves around the lies that are being told.
The scriptures that come to mind are Hebrews 13:11 which
discuss how marriage should be held in honor
among all, and let the marriage bed be undefined for God will judge the
sexually immoral and adulterous. It says it clearly how adulterers are going
to be judged. For drinking I found 1 Peter 5:8 which says be sober-minded; be
watchful. I wonder what would happen if someone in the show would just choose
not a drink. How much would it change the way people see them? If they where
Christians in this show would it change their habits or would they just play it
off like they are now?
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