Mad Men Power Rankings, Week 9: 'When I Say I Want The Moon, I Expect The Moon'
8. Lee Garner, Jr. (up) Last week: unranked
How is it that all of Sterling Cooper's being plunged into turmoil by the entitled offspring of really rich guys? First, we had Horace "Ho Ho" Clark Jr. crapping away his trust fund on a jai alai pipe-dream and potentially threatening Bert's relationship with his father. And now we have Lee Garner Jr., heir to the Lucky Strike coffin-nail fortune, harassing poor, poor Sal. What's next? Some Utz brat demanding a slow-dance with Pete Campbell as the entire firm watches? (Yes, please.)
9. Harry Crane (up) Last week: unranked
"I'm not gonna panic and do something stupid like I usually do." HAHAHAHAHA! Oh, Harry! Harry, Harry. Harry. You're so adorable when you think you can avoid being a silly little boob!
10. Miss Farrell (up) Last week: unranked
Well, it happened. It was eight episodes in the making, and it took a lot longer than he's accustomed to waiting for extramarital nookie (he's no Henry Francis, after all), but Don got his woman. Sure, she played a little hard-to-get, dissing him as a cliche teacher-diddler, but in the end, she gave it up after a little sweet-talk about how badly he wants her, even if she did warn him that the whole thing is going to end badly. (Which it will. Don might even come home one day to find Bobby boiling in a pot on his range-top.) On the other hand, Don spooned her afterwards, which Betty only gets when they go to Rome. So there's that.
On the bubble: Peggy Olson (Last week: 6); Joan Holloway (Last week: 9); Pete Campbell (Last week: 3)
The sad truth is that there's just not enough time in 44 minutes to service every character every week. So we'll just have to imagine that Peggy's still having her wardrobe devoured by Duck Phillips in between meetings on the Hilton account, Joan's been demoted to the perfume counter, and Pete's still weeping himself to sleep for porking the German nanny.
Not ranked: Paul Kinsey, Ken Cosgrove, Bert Cooper, Bobby Draper, Lane Pryce, Moneypenny, the Lucky Strike Thousand-Yard-Stare Seaman, Kitty Romano, the Hilton moon colony, salad.
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Dear Matt Weiner,
All I ask for is one (at least one!) scene of Carla going home after work and saying to her husband, "You would not believe what that dumb bitch said today."
Carla should be Top 10 this week. When it comes to her, one look says everything!
I love Carla, too! I would love to see a Carla-centric episode.
Since I think Don and Betty are in a dance of death, maybe they can spin off off Carla and the Draper kids into their own show...
Yes indeed, Dollywould. Carla had a "I know what's going on" look at Betty which deserves elaboration and illumination.
Also, I feel like Don should be "down". Maybe I'm taking it too seriously, but the finger banging of Sal was a bit much to take. If Don Draper is basically the ad man James Bond, he's dropped down to Roger Moore status in my rankings.
Carla could help Sally with the 'ol patricide! And add some matricide to the mix.
The write up still works, but it was Bobby that didn't want a salad.
First the blackmail by Bertram Cooper, then the shitcanning by Connie Hilton and THEN the humiliating dressing down from Roger Sterling.
Face it, the person getting the stiff middle finger firmly inserted these days is Draper. The fingerbanger gets fingerbanged by the game.
Seriously. Carla definitely should be ranked for clearly knowing that there was something more than "fundraising" going on between Betts and Francis.
Connie should be number one in the power rankings. Don should be number ten by now. The Betty letter was hilarious, though. The teacher has turned out to be a total disappointment.
I'm all about Carla. Trust me...you'll be ranking her soon enough. The time IS right for civil rights.
Where the hell is Joan? I'm ready for Betty and the Teacher to kill each other off in a knife fight. Short of that, those two character arcs are spent.
Right. And it was Sally that wanted to "go outside" when it was raining. Like we don't know that code.
CARLA. Why is Carla not #1. I watched the episode and afterwards, waited to read these power rankings to see where Carla would be. Carla knows ALL. Not only does Carla know all, Betty also knows that Carla knows all. That alone is why Carla should be #1. I'm glad that many others agree with me.
A carpenter makes use of a set of house plans to construct a house. If he didn’t the lavatory may get overlooked altogether.
The second best part of these, after the finger-bang threat level, is easily who IS NOT ranked every week.