Eye-Opening Perspectives for Heroic Hearts

Eye-Opening Perspectives for Heroic Hearts

Thursday, August 4, 2011

MAD MEN'S EPISODE 422 HAS CATCH 22



DON DRAPER'S  22nd ADULTEROUS
AFFAIR YIELDS UNEXPECTED
CATCH


by Winsip Custer CPW News Service




With the 63rd Emmys airing on September 18th and promising to showcase MAD MEN'S 19 Emmy nominations, writer/creator Matthew Weiner was asked if it is true that in episode 422 Don Draper gives his wife syphilis. Shipping her off to Johns Hopkins University, she is accidentally placed in a syphilis study at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama where her case comes to the attention of the black nurse in charge of recruiting syphilis patients, Eunice Rivers, RN.

"The episode follows the behind the scenes class warfare between Draper's wife and nurse Rivers, until the lid is blown off the whole clandestine study in 1972 by factors beyond either Eunice Rivers or Mrs. Draper's control," said another insider who wished not to be identified.

While seeking treatment at Cedars of Sinai Hospital, Don Draper, having blamed his wife's infection on a previously undisclosed tryst with a diseased tow-truck driver, is left balancing his sudden role as Mad Man and housekeeper-father-mom with his continued affairs through which he passes his unchecked syphilis around like Life Savers at a spin-the-bottle party.  In Episode 423, writer Matthew Weiner has placed a temporary office worker named Harry Weiner on top of the new Xerox machine where he photographs his penis, mailing copies to several of the office workers, one of which falls into the hands of a gay Mad Man who offers the temp a temporary place to stay.  Locked in each others arms they rejoice in their passionate love making by one proclaiming, "thank God we don't have to worry about anything like Draper and his poor, dumb blond, syphilis-riddled wife."

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