Sep
21
“It was almost as if Don were consciously holstering his deadly, conflicted-pleasure-giving fingertips, knowing that a week down the line, he’d likely need them well-rested to administer a proper, grim digital penetration, should Miss Farrell suddenly return to collect on the boozy IOU she issued him over the phone, or should a comely realtor on his presumed house-hunting trip in Notting Hill need to learn a hard lesson about negotiating Draper-style. And so the Threat Level quiets from last week’s screaming “Penetration Imminent!”, all-banging-fingers-on-deck siren, to a mere “Medium” this time.”
Mark Lisanti’s weekly Mad Men Power Rankings at Movieline may be my favorite thing to read on the internet these days and this week’s “Don Draper Fingerbang Threat Level” left me with tears in my eyes.
