It's also obvious that Don had many more affairs beyond what fans saw in the episodes of Mad Men. But regardless of what his grand total actually might be, 19 women in seven seasons of Mad Men outside of his wives is an impressive number of conquests by Don Draper.
Midge is a bohemian artist who is a sharp contrast to the slick Madison Avenue ad man. Midge is also a swerve as audiences are initially led to believe Midge is Don's significant other before the end of the first episode reveals Don has a wife, Betty, and two young children in the suburbs. Don's fling with Midge ends in season 1 but she reappears in Mad Men season 4; sadly, Midge has become addicted to heroin and Draper cuts her a check before vanishing from her life.
Don didn't pursue his mutual attraction to Rachel until after he ended his affair with Midge, but his fling with Rachel didn't last long. However, Don did confess details of his life as Dick Whitman to Rachel. In Mad Men season 2, Don ran into Rachel, who is now married, and in season 3, Don is sad to learn that Rachel died of leukemia. The free-spirited Joy may have been the youngest of Don's flings in Mad Men. Related: Mad Men: D. Don meets Bobbie after Jimmy upsets the owner of his sponsor, Utz Potato Chips, and their affair included getting in a car accident that required Peggy Elisabeth Moss to help out and let Bobbie stay with her.
Don ended their Mad Men season 2 relationship when he learned Bobbie had been gossiping about his prowess in the bedroom. Shelly invited Don and Sal to dinner with her flight attendant friends, but she was gone after a fire alarm evacuated the hotel.
But the real fallout of Don's Baltimore trip was his discovery that Sal is a closeted homosexual, which later led to Romano's dismissal from Sterling Cooper. Despite her hesitation, Suzanne began an affair with Don but it abruptly ended right when they were planning to leave on a vacation together at the end of Mad Men season 3. Betty had discovered Don's hidden records that he was really Dick Whitman and confronted him, which immediately put an end to Draper's tryst with Miss Farrell.
Candace Erin Cummings is a prostitute Don frequently hired and later in season 4, Draper introduces Lane Pryce Jared Harris to Candace and her friend to cheer him up when his marriage is on the rocks. Unfortunately, Allison succumbed to her attraction to Don and slept with him after the office Christmas party. She was then heartbroken when Draper pretended like it never happened and gave her cash as a Christmas bonus. It's a measure of this show's quality that she asks him that question in reverse, in reference to her soap opera character's wicked behavior.
If Megan knew the real Don, would she understand? If her acting career really takes off, if people keep asking her for autographs, will she still be satisfied as the wife of an aging ad executive who drinks too much. Shouldn't he have a backup? Isn't there someone else who can prove that he's still desirable, lovable, worth having around even when he isn't paying the bills?
And if the doctor has the power to heal, to bring the dead back to life "What did you see when you were dead? Maybe by seducing the man's wife, he can prove to himself that he's just as good as any surgeon -- better, even.
She's fucking Don Draper now, after all, not her husband. But fucking another man's wife doesn't make you than better him -- it makes you worse -- especially when that other man is a selfless healer and saver of lives. Meanwhile, what are you? A cheat, a sneak, a whore. If Megan knew what you really were, she would be disgusted.
She would leave you. And then where would you be? This must be why some people whose taste I admire refuse to watch "Mad Men. Like a good ad, television is generally expected to be an escape, but this show is just the opposite. What is happening to this man on our screen? Where is he going? Why is he acting like a man with a death wish?
Instead of alleviating our anxiety, "Mad Men" dares to depict it, give it shape, rub our faces in it. We can't help loving Don and Roger, but look at what they do. Look at how they live. Maybe I can be a person who really investigates his interior life. Which is what lead him to Megan. Perky, enthusiastic, casually but not oppressively maternal, roll-with-the-punches, have-a-good-time Megan.
He tells Faye that he has no idea how to be a good parent, and then he watches Megan effortlessly forgive a spill at the table. She wants to be gazed at, admired, and it forced Don to wonder if he wanted those things, too. The answer was no — just look at how uncomfortable he is having his photograph taken in his office. Wistful, intellectual, married to a Jew like he would have been had he settled down with Rachel or Faye.
It seems unlikely. Because Don has yet to embrace the advice everyone seems to tell anxious middle-schoolers and reluctant OkCupid users alike when it comes to love and romance: Just be yourself. Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. Account Profile. Sign Out.
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