To recap: Don’s real name is Dick Whitman. His prostitute mother died in childbirth; his dad, her john, beat him. His fundamentalist stepmother called him a “whore’s child.” Then his father got kicked in the head by a horse, and the stepmother moved in with her sister, herself a prostitute, living in a brothel. The stepmother, heavily pregnant with Don’s half brother, prostituted herself to her brother-in-law, as the teen-age Don knelt outside her door. He watched them, through the keyhole, have sex. C’mon, now. This is no longer the backstory of a serial adulterer; it’s the backstory of a serial killer.
We haven’t even got to the part where Whitman goes to fight in Korea, accidentally blows up his superior officer, Don Draper, steals his identity, forms a secret relationship with his widow (she’s motherly, yet also somewhat prostitute-like, since he pays for her upkeep), becomes a greaser, and seduces a model who is also concerned primarily with appearances. Eventually, he gets into advertising, and when his half brother, Adam, finds him, Don rejects him, and Adam hangs himself. It’s not that none of this makes sense, or could make sense; it’s just too much, overdetermined. None of the other characters has this sort of reverse-engineered psychology, and for good reason: it’s a lazy way to impose meaning. Nested among better scenes, the flashbacks feel like a high-school production of “The Grapes of Wrath.”
(Back in Season 1, when Don was canoodling with the department-store heiress Rachel Menken and reading “Exodus,” I wondered if his dark secret was that his mother was a Jew. Life was so much simpler then!)
Oh, oh.
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A word to the wise. The surreptitious motives of the annointed one have been brought to light. When a rulers lies have been publicly exposed its time for him to start killing everyone. He must now DOUBLE DOWN on his devilish assignments. After 1000's of years of waiting his goal of destroying Israel is within a hands reach. HE IS DOUBLING DOWN DO NOT FORGET THAT!!! An exacerbated form of lunacy has set in and an imagined smell of burning hair and flesh fuel his maddness. With his hitler mustache, his loyal sidekick is now stiching up the loose ends....the press. HIs maddened soddomite base is screaming for blood, any blood that is not soddomite. David Silverman, a liberal Jew is calling for the recrucifiction of Jesus, Mikey Weintein is traing our troops to kill Israelis claiming they are more dangerous than Jihadists. Is Islam right. The Koran claims that the butt stupid decadent Americans are dogs, pigs and monkeys. Soros another Jew along with the saudis, hired the annointed one to reduce America to its base instincts. The congress searchs similar to monkeys swinging in cages... searching but never finding it...blinded by political correctness.... as their soddomite messia arranges and orchestrates their demise. Bebe be very careful that you only take those actions required to defend your nation. DO NOT include yourself in plans orchestrated by the haggalites, do not attempt to facillitate the American agenda because it also includes your complete destruction. Plan your moves very carefully, with much prayer. Get a meeting of the minds with Putin. You may agree to disagree in certain areas but don't forget God has your back.
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