Blog: thus spake drake

Disparate Housewives

If the preferred drink of Mad Men 's pilot was a straight up martini, last night it was the vodka gimlet , as the ladies get (wolf-)whistled up to center stage. Since Betty Draper (January Jones) was left out of the pilot until the (not so) surprising twist at the end, last night we got to play catch up with Don's lovely lesser half. She seems the idyllic housewife of the time - two kids, a successful husband - but like many women, it all feels like a trap. Triggering these feelings she can't [...]