Mad Men Premiere: Season 7 Episode 8 "Severance"

I'm guessing the old friend is Mrs Drapers niece

This AMC trailer LINK

Old fashioned

We've come a long way:

Vice.com released a good read about each character What I Learned from Watching 'Mad Men'

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Pete Campbell – Try and Try Again

Poor, poor Pete. He's likable in the way a sniveling sycophant can be, and is apparently enough of a people person that he can charm clients, but Jesus Christ. Almost all of the stories centered around him show a man in the grips of his shitty, shitty impulses. Remember when his affair with a neighbor ended with her being beaten by her husband and him kicked out of his house? Or when he spent a driver's ed class ogling a high-school girl? Or when he ran into his father-in-law at a brothel? Or that dalliance he had with the mentally unstable woman who ended up getting electroshock therapy and forgetting him? How about the time he crashed a car in front of a bunch of Detroit executives because he lied about being able to drive? His life is a blur of disasters and bad decisions, but he manages to seem upbeat despite everything—even his own inherent lousiness.

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Sally Draper – Adults Are Even Worse Than Men

The show generally does a good job of avoiding and subverting the cliches of the 60s, but Sally's journey is about discovering what a lot of Boomers discovered during that era: Your parents are not on your side. Betty is controlling and abusive, Don lies and cheats routinely, and their new partners aren't invested in your lives. Like most of us, Sally has had to come to the realization that adults are no more moral than kids, they're just more experienced liars, and it's up to all of us to carve out our own space in the world.

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It's when they have the partners meeting and Roger tells Joan the buyout was around 65 million. Roger breaks it down that she would make 1.5 million. Pete's face lights up looking at Joan, "I have 10%" as he grins one upping Joan's happiness.

It was classic Pete...

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Mad Men Premiere

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Sally has had to come to the realization that adults are no more moral than kids, they're just more experienced liars, and it's up to all of us to carve out our own space in the world.

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That is incredibly disheartening. However, there is some truth to that statement.

Forgot how awkward this episode where Don returns to office was.