
Sterling Cooper & Partners. SC&P, for short.
We finally have a new name and, in a weird way, it’s a shocker. If you had told me that the long national nightmare of the nameless “Mad Men” agency would have been resolved with a shingle that omitted Draper, Cutler and Chaough, to say nothing of Campbell, I would have expected a mushroom cloud where the Time-Life Building is.
Instead, there’s relative calm. Things are groovy, even. Ted Chaough and Jim Cutler are cool with it. In fact, it was their doing. Don Draper goes along with it so easily it’s as though his ego had been surgically removed. It’s only Pete Campbell who freaks, a reaction that in the end might even be productive. After all, it leads the tightly-wound fellow to grab a joint and take in an eyeful of a short skirt and go-go boot combo in the final scene. Maybe the christening of SC&P will lead Pete to stop worrying and enjoy the 1960s.
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