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Whatever could be on your mind?

Whatever could be on your mind?

I've been rewatching Mad Men and I just finished season 4. And you know, the one thing in this show that I wish we got more of, that left me wanting, is Joan and Peggy's conversation at the end of Tomorrowland.

I almost titled this post "That one work friend you can be bitchy with", except at that point in time I'm not sure you can say Joan and Peggy are friends. They respect each other. I think you can say that by the end they probably are friends, if not super close friends. But at this point? I don't really think so.

And that's the thing. I want more of Joan and Peggy being snide and bitchy about their coworkers, because it's absolutely delicious and relatable, but I don't necessarily think there were a lot more (or any more) of those conversations.

Which kind of makes it even more perfect I think.

Peggy and Joan both deal with so much bullshit in that office, and I don't really think they ever commiserated about it before. Hell, what happened with Joey was a source of acrimony between them! But this one situation, this one time, Peggy finds out, hey, guess what! Don Draper is fucking marrying his secretary. And you have to be polite and diplomatic about it, but inside you're thinking this is just so fucking basic, and no, you can't just wait to talk to Joyce about it, because she wouldn't really get it because she doesn't personally know these people, it wouldn't be satisfying.

But you know who would get it? You know who probably feels exactly the same way you do? You know who's probably itching to let it out and be judgy and bitchy about it?

So you're Peggy, and you just go to Joan's office and you knock on her open door and don't say a word , and you know what she says, in that tone of voice and with that Cheshire cat smile?

Whatever could be on your mind?

And that is just fucking perfection.

Because Peggy knew. She knew that in that moment, they are kindred spirits. Soulmates.

Who just want to smoke together and talk smack about these people and this situation and oh my god, I felt that so much. Because having that one person who gets it, who you can just be a bitch with about your coworkers is priceless. Whether or not you are friends.