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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Deep down, she clearly wasn’t cut out to be a suburban wife with an important husband. [b]At the end, she is fulfilled by a career, a company she co-owns with Peggy.[/b] Yes, she had a baby along the way, and found surprising joy in that—but her son isn’t her happy ending; he’s part of it.

And it turned out catching the “right” man was very, very wrong for her, and harmful to her, and she had more fun with men on her own terms. Which is kind of what her instincts were telling her all along. [/quote]
At the end Peggy stays at McCann and Joan is running her own commercial production company.[/quote]

…the company which she and Peggy started together with writing and development, but OK [/quote]

DP but no, the PP is correct. Peggy doesn't go into business with Joan. Peggy and Joan have both been shipped over to McCann as part of the acquisition, but Joan HATES it and proposes starting her own company with Peggy. Peggy does consider it, and even I think writes copy for one commercial for Joan, but ultimately decides to stay at McCann. Peggy also considers going somewhere else, like to another agency, and works with a headhunter on it. But he winds up advising her to stay at McCann and get the experience and the resume line, before heading elsewhere.

Joan is initially upset that Peggy doesn't come with her, but realizes she can do it on her own and just hire out the creative as needed (lord knows she has the contacts) and she marches on. She also winds up breaking up with her rich, jet-setting boyfriend because he basically tells her it's the company or him, because he doesn't want to be tied down to the demands or schedule of a business. She chooses the business. It's a really fitting end for Joan who started out the series at least theoretically looking for some man to come and sweep her away and give her the life she feels she deserves, and ends with Joan straight up creating that life for herself and her son with her mom (of all people! Joan would never have predicted this) helping out at home. [/quote]

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