In a series with almost countless subtle foreshadows it's difficult to discern each in any given episode. Some foreshadows or hints are given seasons in advance making multiple viewings a necessity.
Mystery Date offers some foreshadowed events like the prior episode's "gypsy" tea leaf reader telling us Betty would be alright. Stan is seen wearing a stocking mask, a common criminal device, just prior to Joyce appearing with leaked photos of Richard Speck's murders. Speck, btw, didn't wear any mask and wasn't apprehended until 4 days later, despite a call to Chicago P. D. on the 15th. Minutes later Stan's mask becomes a "gypsy-type" headband which foretells another event in a dream hallucination recreation of a nurses apartment on E. 100th St in Chicago. The survivor in Chicago hid under a bed, the hallucination victim was shoved under a bed, not to mention being murdered in another brilliant series.
I'm never sure if Mad Men writers make deliberate errors like poetry misspellings or e.e. Cummings, a living contradiction. Noted by another commenter here, Capt. Greg Harris wears an outdated uniform at dinner and doesn't correct a Private for saluting indoors. He wears a RVN Gallantry Cross Unit Citation not authorized for U. S. personnel until 1968 (retroactive to 1961). He also wears a Bronze Star ribbon something I find unlikely particularly since no mention is made of it or the action by either him or Joan. His other Unit Citation ribbons (gold framed) are Army Meritorious (service) and RVN Civic Action Honor With Palm. On his left below the Bronze Star are National Defense Service ribbon, Vietnam Service ribbon and RVN Vietnam Campaign ribbon. Above, is Army Combat Medical Badge 1st Award, now worn by Army Medics, just some FYI. Anybody open to correcting my stones vs glass house grammar and sentence structure here?
The episode concludes with Joan exorcising Greg from the baby's life and hers. Playing as the credits roll is the contrary logic He Hit Me It Felt Like A Kiss by The Crystals, a metaphor of Leo Durocher's "Nice guys finish last'.
The episode would have won a 10th star from me but for so much attention to Richard Speck's crime spree and actor Ben Feldman's near imitation of Eddie Deezen. Contrarily, it was Feldman's Ginsberg character who calls others out for ogling Joyce's leaked photos.
Mystery Date offers some foreshadowed events like the prior episode's "gypsy" tea leaf reader telling us Betty would be alright. Stan is seen wearing a stocking mask, a common criminal device, just prior to Joyce appearing with leaked photos of Richard Speck's murders. Speck, btw, didn't wear any mask and wasn't apprehended until 4 days later, despite a call to Chicago P. D. on the 15th. Minutes later Stan's mask becomes a "gypsy-type" headband which foretells another event in a dream hallucination recreation of a nurses apartment on E. 100th St in Chicago. The survivor in Chicago hid under a bed, the hallucination victim was shoved under a bed, not to mention being murdered in another brilliant series.
I'm never sure if Mad Men writers make deliberate errors like poetry misspellings or e.e. Cummings, a living contradiction. Noted by another commenter here, Capt. Greg Harris wears an outdated uniform at dinner and doesn't correct a Private for saluting indoors. He wears a RVN Gallantry Cross Unit Citation not authorized for U. S. personnel until 1968 (retroactive to 1961). He also wears a Bronze Star ribbon something I find unlikely particularly since no mention is made of it or the action by either him or Joan. His other Unit Citation ribbons (gold framed) are Army Meritorious (service) and RVN Civic Action Honor With Palm. On his left below the Bronze Star are National Defense Service ribbon, Vietnam Service ribbon and RVN Vietnam Campaign ribbon. Above, is Army Combat Medical Badge 1st Award, now worn by Army Medics, just some FYI. Anybody open to correcting my stones vs glass house grammar and sentence structure here?
The episode concludes with Joan exorcising Greg from the baby's life and hers. Playing as the credits roll is the contrary logic He Hit Me It Felt Like A Kiss by The Crystals, a metaphor of Leo Durocher's "Nice guys finish last'.
The episode would have won a 10th star from me but for so much attention to Richard Speck's crime spree and actor Ben Feldman's near imitation of Eddie Deezen. Contrarily, it was Feldman's Ginsberg character who calls others out for ogling Joyce's leaked photos.
