Since this is the last blog, I have decided to write it on the end of the last season of Mad Men.

One of the most exciting things I think has happened all season is the progression of Peggy. When she started at Sterling Cooper, she was very much a small town girl. She was pretty modest and couldn't stand up for herself. As I have mentioned in previous blogs, Peggy has been asked to help with one of the campaigns. Throughout the course of the past few episodes, this has only progressed. The lipstick company loved her concept for their campaign. Don also put her on to another client who wants to sell a weight loss machine... that.... isn't exactly a weight lost machine. She takes her job very seriously, and most of the office doesn't like her for it. She follows the rules, and when possible, tries to get others to follow the rules as well.
The person in the office who might dislike her the most is Pete Campbell. They had an affair. He is married, and when he is stressed out with his wife, he uses her. The first time this happened, she was very passive, but since then she has learned to stick up for herself. She has become a very strong woman. I think she is almost like a physical representation of the bad decisions that he has made, and she no longer allows him to make her feel worthless.
This conflict comes to a head when Pete gets a huge client for the company via his father-in-law: Clearasil. Don suggests that Peggy and him work together on this project since the product is geared towards women. Pete is outraged, but blames it on her just being a secretary. Don responds to this by giving her a huge promotion to Jr. Copy Editor. She has her own office now and things are looking up for her so much. Just as she moves into her new job, she starts to get debilitating cramps. When she goes to the doctors, he tells her that she is pregnant, and later that episode, she delivers a baby out of wed lock, with no boyfriend, and no one to help her raise this child.

Rodger almost dies in this section as well. Prior to this, his relationship with Joan just kept progressing. One night, he took Don down to casting and picked up some models. He got really drunk and slept with one of them. She had a very fair complexion, which he kept complimenting her on. Out of no where, he had a heart attack and Don called the ambulance.  His spoiled wife and angry daughter where incredibly glad that he was safe. They hugged him and they all bonded. Once Rodger realized how short life was, he called off his relationship with Joan, regardless of that fact that he seemed to love her up until this point. As much as Joan acted like she didn't love him, at the thought of his death, she proved that she did.

Another reversal is in Don's relationship with his wife. He and his other lady friend ended things, and Don has been becoming very close with Rachel. He has told Rachel so much about his childhood in the short time that he has been with her, and his wife literally knows nothing about his past. Don suggests that he and Rachel just run away together. He would send Betty and the kids money, but never see them again but Rachel talks him out of it.

Sterling Cooper gets a new client, Kodak. They need a campaign for their new projector. Don uses pictures of his wife and children to pull in the nostalgic angle of the product. You can tell that he is having a connection with these pictures, and at the end of it, he takes time off work to be with his family for Thanksgiving. Betty had been begging him to talk this time off, and he was saying no. By the time he came to the realization that he needed to be home, they had already left to be with her parents. Betty has also come out of denial of the fact that she knows Don is cheating. She passive aggressively tries to give him a chance to admit it, but he doesn't. She also has developed a crush on a door-to-door salesman.

There are serious consequences for your decisions. You literally can't be a whore and mistreat everything you have, while expecting it to wait around for you--especially not people. What comes to mind her is the idea of becoming one flesh in Genesis. One. All of these people got into trouble because they were being sluts who disrespect their loved one.