Re: Mad Men: Season 5 Premier
I didn't think the intercutting was heavy-handed. I think it was done pretty elegantly. You could say that the scene in the GODFATHER with the intercutting between the Christening and the killings could be heavy-handed - and maybe it would be if it wasn't so thematically powerful. The same with this episode IMO.
It may not be completely believable that Joan would get 5% of the company, but I'll take great drama over believability any day. Beyond that though, Mad Men has trafficked in that space between melodrama and history, so it's not such a stretch that they would offer her partnership. And I think they wanted to make the payoff to be in equal proportion to the moral sacrifice Joan would have to make.
I didn't think the intercutting was heavy-handed. I think it was done pretty elegantly. You could say that the scene in the GODFATHER with the intercutting between the Christening and the killings could be heavy-handed - and maybe it would be if it wasn't so thematically powerful. The same with this episode IMO.
It may not be completely believable that Joan would get 5% of the company, but I'll take great drama over believability any day. Beyond that though, Mad Men has trafficked in that space between melodrama and history, so it's not such a stretch that they would offer her partnership. And I think they wanted to make the payoff to be in equal proportion to the moral sacrifice Joan would have to make.
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