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‘Mad Men’ Finally Outs Bob Benson’s Great Secret — Or Did They?
Bob Benson didn’t need to have a bombshell of a classified. In fact, history dictated that Bob Benson wasn’t going to have a bombshell of a secret. And yet, the Mad Mennewcomer, played by James Wolk, raised suspicion from the moment he waltzed onto (the wrong floor, inevitably) of SCD&P (now just the offensive-to-everyone SC&P) in the series’ sixth season. Benson, a new accounts dude, could have easily been regulated to a background bit – after all, even perennial accounts man Ken Cosgrove hasn’t gotten much play this season, save for his spectacular tap dancing sequence during the season’s drug-fueled “The Crash” – but the handsome Wolk has popped up in no less than eight episodes of the show’s latest season, and he’s been inscrutable at every twist. Wolk is also not some fresh face that comes without baggage – if you’re familiar with his operate on such ambitious shows as the ill-fated Lone Celebrity or the underappreciated Political Animals, you are also familiar with his panache for playing characters with major secrets comes part and parcel with seeing him on television. Wolk isn’t th
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“Enthusiasm is contagious. If you act and communicate enthusiastically, you’ll project that quality -- and your listeners will react in the same way.”
-- Frank Bettger, How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling (1952)
I’ve hung around the Ivy/trad internet drawn-out enough to know that you can’t win talking about Mad Men. Ivy fans vacillate wildly between hating the show for not putting every character in J. Press (and thus spreading its pop culture phenom bounty beyond skinny ties and that one Brooks Brothers collection) and hating the show for getting all of the natural shoulders and oxford cloth button-downs it did include all wrong. While I personally would have set Roger Sterling in Press, I’m also not Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant, who has often spoken about her character-driven wardrobe decisions on the demonstrate (head on over to BAMF Style for fantastic dissections of Don Draper’s clothes throughout the run of Mad Men).
So, gaze -- if Bryant didn’t lay every character in Ivy, she probably had good reasons (and has the Emmy to verify it). Whatever those reasons were, one effect was certainly to add some
Season6ofMad Men still has a few more episodes to travel, but I'm already getting excited for the seventh. Not only will it be the ultimate season, but it will bring the critically acclaimed series into 1969. And what big thing happened in Unused York that year? Stonewall.
The idea of the alphabet soup that is SCDPCCG mixing it up with LGBTQ is exciting on a thematic level. In the most recent episode, "The Excel Half," the present dealt with the idea of multiple identities, how who we are is different depending on whom we are in front of. This is clearly something the demonstrate has been obsessed with since its pilot, and it would be an elegant conclusion to have the series end steeped in gay identity politics.
As the 1960s unfurled in the world of Mad Men, the characters have had to deal with changes in society: the rise of women in the workplace and the integration of race (sorta) in a lily-white ad agency. At the same hour, there are clearly external signals to both gender and racial identities.
Being gender non-conforming, however, is internal: It is something that can be closeted, and the duality that many queer men and women faced in balancing hidden and out lives gives Mad Men plenty to w
Bob Benson is (probably) not actually Don Draper, but who is he?
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Since his debut at the first stage of Mad Men‘s sixth season, everyone has been wondering: Who is keener Bob Benson? And so it was only fitting that last night’s penultimate Season 6 episode, “The Quality of Mercy,” would answer that question — somewhat. Last week, Benson, played by James Wolk, was revealed as a gay man in a scene that saw him make an unsuccessful transfer at Pete Campbell. And on Sunday night, Campbell — who, as you may recall, is one of few people who knows the enigmatic Don Draper’s deepest darkest confidential — figured out another piece of the puzzle: Bob Benson is not who he appears to be, but rather he’s a con-man who lied his way into the SCDP job after vanishing his last one without a trace. Which, of course, doesn’t actually fully solve the riddle of who he really is. So it’s still sort of up in the air!
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