woman mad men woman eleventh episode fifth season american television drama series mad men 63rd episode series overall written directed aired united_states episode takes place january pete asks joan personal moral sacrifice ensure company lands jaguar account work long nights come perfect pitch presentation don furious learning impact new profession life feeling lunch encourages later meets rival firm accepts offer chief woman critically acclaimed critics calling best episodes series lauded journalists performances episode woman watched million viewers received adult rating marking slightly higher viewership previous episode plot team discusses stan suggests word mistress don reminds client want hear word advertisement asks don approval projects tells charge jaguar watches lunch delivered jaguar team pete head member jaguar selection committee suggests competitive standing improved arrange evening joan pete tells joan proposal shocked asks pete feel asked wife asks joan convince replies couldn afford works jaguar attends conference company wants pull hard day night spontaneously comes changing existing targeting women instead wins client pete presents proposal partners meeting lose account comply don idea leaves remaining partners reluctantly agree offer decide christmas bonuses extend credit line cover cost don instructs jaguar team ditch mistress concept vulgar later harry praises work tells don client ultimately went paris setting don says jaguar pitch finished prompting reply charge don pulls money face telling wants paris tries comfort saying don upset jaguar replies care lane advises joan demand partnership stake company adding thought essential future firm settled felt joan later tells pete wants partnership comprising business voting rights exchange spending night pete asks arrangements asks pete later tells don arrangement joan don visits joan apartment dissuade thanks wishes luck presentation eventually revealed unbeknownst don sexual encounter taken place pete tells wants apartment city refuses telling love affair manhattan trying second child day tells don audition gained little murders rehearsals begin shortly boston voices displeasure gone months accuses expecting acting career fail tells choose play choose hate assures want fail kiss approaches don new jaguar concept portraying car woman jaguar beautiful truly don lunch exclusion jaguar suggests leave offers help day don presents pitch jaguar don tagline joan don presentation meets discuss job opportunities praises work writes job requirements copy chief year piece paper table crosses writes following day roger summons partners office learn fate jaguar presentation don locks eyes joan joins realizing fact slept roger receives confirmation jaguar office celebration don office informs accepted job thinks asking raise attempts negotiate salary tells money holds tears kisses hand walks office waits elevator production episode written directed said august intended departure woman centered joan episode literally value women workplace relationship sexuality knew level writing stage way stories went stories fold starts ahead simple way opportunities ahead narrative involving joan storyline don jaguar pitch solution tell story according ordering events problem got point don pitch joan guy said explaining felt don gives pitch audience seen joan going listen word says doesn matter good audience going believe won great idea elliptical thing loaded cues know end don late seeing joan taking necklace joan mother taking don hat room joan joan putting green coming seeing scenes moment second time cemented said allowed joan going hours don giving pitch audience convinced great pitch slowly dissolve reality don coming work pretty happy joan asking went roger having dead response good ones don wondering joan excited spoke shooting scene episode august toughest moments come expect episode moment don throwing money face pivotal story point didn like hard beat hit rehearsal threw money right eyes inadvertently exactly scene required course shoot scene setting lights jon money response tells help jon nailed cash harder think perfect aim loose bills pocket target feet away took takes patience cash finally landed needed took surprise moment ended seeing onscreen discussing prostitution plot said confusing situation joan involved completely insulting second opportunity sudden money involved opportunity involved label scary road said joan motivation protection child felt joan saw equal way partners going deal joan seen worse things thirteen years employment called storyline example business tactic described pete thinks needs account don know good thing common business think situation pete represents type businessman characterized lane decision fold gave joan best advice praised prostitution sequence elegant paired don pitch jaguar idea beautiful possess thing talking car talking human said told leaving shooting episode right unusual didn tell usually tells happening pitches things ask sound moss initial reaction feeling like logical way happened years head wall person needs place don moss said thank forever telling life harder knew baby season fought play living feeling head knowing quit allowed find feel growing frustration don season according moss capability don office goodbye scene don difficult shoot moss said scene tough scene didn tell going told jon hold hand let lost single tears absolutely real wants stay heart want leave knows said respect understanding admiration characters exact right time leave reception critical reception episode received critical acclaim television journalists described critics knockout episode season knockout episodes funny parts poignant downright heartbreaking storyline involving joan secure jaguar account came particular analysis scrutiny journalists related execution use themes female sexuality sexual alan_sepinwall fought execution prostitution story episode asking buy partners willing sell joan joan feel way time great episode series don company making characters act fit theme sepinwall described story fundamentally changes way view number major characters uses perfect work maybe todd_vanderwerff opined woman shouldn work obviously constructed message episode message far subtle matter try equal men going turn women objects level men perceive vanderwerff compared employee month episode going far woman stronger episode final scene leaves don agency critics standout sequence said scene don tremendous magnificent coincidence final pose don waist kissing hand recalled don brutal reconciliation weeks ago kneeling begging stay surprised reaction joan storyline knew dramatic moment expected treated drama stakes high knew joan felt level hadn word prostitution public nature going love joan fact position people stunned suggestion people questioning actually shocked maybe saying questioning hoping certainly judging history joan obviously time issue august said woman favorite episode fifth season mad men spoke reaction joan storyline woman aired people sort outraged joan storyline like god thinking kind looked like wait minute joan saint having affair boss married slept person office let thing making sort financial decision trading thing found kind psychological thing interesting august moss said final scene favorite season easy tears trauma music simple know brings dark sad place gives face turns elevator matt didn feel sad thing says audience don cry night accolades episode received writing directing nominations primetime emmy awards nomination submitted episode consideration primetime emmy award outstanding lead actor drama series drama series respectively primetime emmy awards episode won writers guild america award episodic drama ratings woman watched million viewers received adult rating marking slightly higher viewership previous episode
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