Hello, and welcome to TV Tuesday- today I’m going to be talking about the fourth season of the hit AMC drama Mad Men!

This seasons starts off really slow. We open the season with our new ad agency, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. They are trying to figure out everything as they are just getting off the ground. They have a lot of money issues, which has it’s own problems.

They are having a Christmas party that is low scale, that is until Roger opens his big mouth and invites Lee Garner Jr. from Lucky Strikes that it has to become a full out Christmas party. Garner Jr. is one odd guy.

They want to gain Honda motorcycles, but Roger is very against it. It’s because of his prejudice about the Asians and the Korean war. They go ahead with it anyways without Roger finding out, and that backfires because he ends up yelling at them. They get a second chance but pretend like they don’t want Honda’s business so that Honda wants to be represented by Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.

Their next adventure is to gain Life cereal. The presentation doesn’t go as planned, Don is drunk because they have come from an award ceremony where they have won an award for one of their commercials. Don pretty much makes a fool out of himself trying to come up with something the client will like on the spot. Turns out they liked an idea that wasn’t even Don’s original idea, it was a kid named Danny who they interviewed that morning.

Peggy is going through a lot this season. She seems to have a new beau, Mark- who thinksshe’s a virgin, and she doesn’t correct him. It’s her birthday and she has plans with Mark, but Don keeps her to try and figure out an ad for a suitcase brand. Don doesn’t realize it’s her birthday, he tells her to go, but she can’t make herself leave. She calls her boyfriend at the restaurant who has a surprise for her, her whole family is there to celebrate, and once that is spoiled because she’s not coming, she gets mad that he asked her mother to come because she hates her mother. They fight and potentially break up. Her work is starting to really be her number one goal. I hate that they brought Duck back. Ugh he was just a complete drunk which was just annoying to watch.

Don and Betty are going through with their divorce. Henry has moved in, while Don has moved out. Betty has told Don she will eventually move out and that she’s looking, but Henry tells her that she isn’t even looking. I would hate to be those kids. Sally is not having any of it. She’s pissed at her mother for leaving her father and dating Henry.

Creepy Glen is back. I thought after season two he’d be gone, he was just a background character who was obsessed with Betty, but he’s making his comeback, with Sally. He is so freakin’ weird. He calls her at all hours of the day to talk (I guess to relate since his parents divorced and his mother remarried). But then he goes and trashes their house.

While at her dad’s house he gets a neighbour to babysit, and Sally cuts her hair. She does this because she thinks her dad will like her more if she has short hair. This poor girl has so many issues. Her mother is so not happy about that.

Later on, at a friends house during a sleep over she is caught touching herself which leads Betty to sending her to a shrink. This could be good for Sally.

Sally runs away from home to Don’s office, when she has to return to her mother’s house, she throws a tantrum and Don gets Faye (Dr. Miller) to calm her down because they have met the previous day, but that just makes Sally even madder. Surprisingly it’s Megan (I’m assuming Don’s new secretary) who calms her down.

Don goes back to visit Anna, and we find out she’s dying. She has cancer (although she doesn’t it know it). I’m so sad that they want to kill her off. She is the only person I think Don truly loves, and can be his complete self with. He even becomes Dick when he’s with her. Can she miraculously get better?

We get the story of how Roger and Don met. God Don was such a doofus back then. Always grinning, it was a little creepy. Don was working at a coat shop, and Roger went in to buy Joan a coat. Roger notices the ad they have in the store, Don says he wrote it, and I guess Roger was impressed. Roger clearly does not like Don, but somehow they became best friends. This all comes out because Roger is writing a memoir, why, who knows.

Kenny is back! Ken Gosgrove is back in action as he’s combining forces with Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (lord that is a mouthful). It’s good to see him returning to the show, as I’m not a fan of some of the new characters.

Near the end of the season, Don, Joan and the whole SCDP Company find themselves in hot water. First North American Aviation is looking into a background check, and Don is in question by the FBI. Betty spends time answering questions, and lying to protect him. This causes a lot of pressure on Don, who eventually tells Faye the truth about himself. I find it interesting how he just opens up and tells her even though he hasn’t known her long.

Then there’s Joan, who is pregnant… with Roger’s baby. They hooked up, and it can’t be her husband’s as he’s overseas in the war. She goes to get an abortion, but does she really do it? In the season finale we find out, she in fact did not get an abortion and she will be having this baby!

Speaking of babies, Pete and Trudy have their baby, a girl! We haven’t seen her yet, or know of her name, but I’m sure that will come next season.

As the season winds down we find out that Lucky Strikes is no longer s client with SCDP, and the makes all their other clients antsy and unsure. They start to loose business. It isn’t until Peggy brings in Topaz panty hose, a multi million-dollar client. This will help them bounce back, but Don’s news out trumps Peggy’s news, he’s getting married.

Let’s back step a moment, he’s still with Faye, a girl he has told everything pretty much to, when he takes a trip to California with his kids and asks his new secretary to join them to help watch them, (as Betty fired Carla, more on this). Now at first I didn’t like Megan, she was just another girl who was falling for Don, big whoop, she’s supposed to be a Peggy, but she is no Peggy.

But I do like the way she handles the children, so I can live with the two of them getting married. Spur of the moment Don proposes to her, and she says yes. This should be interesting.

Things look like they’re looking up for season five.

Now to Betty, she fires Carla for letting Glen see Sally, which was a little over the top. I love when Henry finds out because he’s so honest and up front, and takes no bullshit from her. I know Betty has been through a lot with Don, but sometimes she’s just a complete bitch. Betty has also decided it’s finally time to move (that is after she found out Sally had been meeting Glen) and so they are moving. Does this mean it’s the end of Glen? I have a feeling it’s not.

I’m a little excited to find out what season five has up it’s sleeve, this season was good after a bit of a sleepy second and third season. I want to be happy I stuck around.