Mad Men: Tom & Lorenzo don't buy the story SC&P is selling -

"We don’t have an issue with Don being brought low or having no allies. But having worked in offices for several decades and in advertising for the better part of one of them, we found the politics here to be hard to swallow. As the show – and Don himself – keep reminding us, he’s a senior, founding partner of the agency. There literally would have been no agency without him and it would have remained a farm-team, lower-level one if he hadn’t taken the bold move to propose a merger with CGC. Everyone who’s treating Don like crap now has benefited tremendously from Don’s work. Sure, people are short-sighted and petty (Peggy seems to be the queen of that little group at the moment), but no agency would take its star creative person and founding partner and treat them like a junior staffer just because he had a drunken crackup in one meeting. The optics of it would look terrible once it got out – and it will get out, since the ad industry of the time was notoriously incestuous and prone to gossip. And since when was Hershey the be-all and end-all of all clients? It’s not the first client Don – or anyone else in this story – has lost. The punishment far outweighs the crime here. And Peggy has been driven to tears this season in part because no one around her cares about the creativity or the quality of the work. Is she really so petty as to treat the man she knows is a creative genius like a junior copywriter?"

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