Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 891 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Company Woman
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2012.05.27
Peggy, however, seems like she prepared herself for the Draper charm, as she assures him she's serious about moving on and once he believes the nice-guy angle isn't going to work, he clenches and grits his teeth and makes just the most horrible faces anyone who looks like Jon Hamm could make before asking where she's going. The answer of course earns a bitter "Of course" chuckle before he suggests, "Let's pretend I'm not responsible for every good thing that's ever happened to you. Tell me the number or make one up, and I'll beat it." But Peggy, it turns out, anticipated the meaner form of condescension as well and simply replies that he'd do the same thing in her shoes. (Although maybe not with Ted Chaough, I will say.) Don tries one more tack, saying that Peggy doesn't need to wait two weeks, as he's got a room full of freelancers out there, but it too fails as Peggy nods and mistily says she understands. She takes a long moment before stepping forward and sticking out her hand and oh my God, this is amazing; Don takes it and presses his lips to it and the moment goes on waaaaay past any level of comfort, not to mention after the way Joan touched him earlier it creates this unspoken three-way-bond between them and Peggy just almost loses it and after fifteen seconds -- FIFTEEN SECONDS! -- she gently pulls her hand away and tells him not to be a stranger. She leaves and Don's face does other things of which I didn't think it was capable as he wonders how many more people who really know him he can lose...