Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 893 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Company Woman
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2012.05.27
Don comes home to find Megan, who obviously didn't get the part and no word on whether it was her ass that was lacking but it's a hard thought to dismiss. He sits with her and strokes her hair as she asks how the Jaguar presentation went and he tells her they're waiting to hear. Megan says she bets he was great and you can practically see the fishing line she's cast, but Don takes the bait as he replies he's sure she was great too. Because this gives her the opportunity to snarl that the difference is, she wants him to get it and if she has to choose between him and work, she'll choose him, but will hate him for it. There's no orange sherbet this time, but this is the second time she's explicitly made this point; he'd do well to listen. On the other hand, their relationship is getting awfully textual even granting that she speaks her mind more than most and I'm still thrown by how she complained about being diminished and since then has picked a fight in literally almost every episode. Don tells her he doesn't want her to fail, but she warns him he'd better mean it: "Good. Because I'm not going to." She cuddles up with him and in this brutal episode I can hardly blame either of them.
Don comes in the next morning and Dawn (actual Dawn, not just-out-of-sight-Dawn) informs him Peggy would like to see him. He calls for her and she warily steps out into the hall, but before anything else can happen, Roger and Ken come running out with news that agencies are starting to get rejections from Jaguar. You'll remember that there were only five or so in the running, so two others being eliminated is significant, but of course what really matters is that the phone rings and as the men look paralyzed for a moment, Peggy realizes this is not the time and heads back to her work. Roger barks at Don and Ken to get the partners into his office and then Carol picks up...