Six Things Guaranteed to Happen on the Last Three Episodes of “Mad Men”

[Dave Monroe]

1.  Pete Campbell will not kill himself…

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... he even tells us, before boinking the Gilmore Girl sans merci,
that his life insurance policy pays out even in the event of suicide.

He says this while reading The Crying of Lot 49, the paranoiac
masterpiece by Thomas Pynchon.  In Lot 49, Oedipa Maas, the
protagonist, finds the “muted horn” symbol seemingly everywhere, and
we’re never quite sure if this is real or a product of a hyperactive
imagination. That an artless stick like Campbell is even aware of that
novel is the single most unbelievable thing that’s ever happened on
the show. The appearance of the book in that episode, I’d argue, is a
warning not to read into all the Pete Campbell/suicide references.

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