I dreamed two of the TV shows I enjoy, Orange Is the New Black and Mad
Men, joined forces in one wacky TV plot. Orange Is the New Black is ostensibly a comedy set in a women’s
prison. Mad Men is a drama focusing
on an advertising agency in the ‘60s. They couldn’t be more different but they
recently cross-pollinated on the astral plane of my mind for one scintillating
episode in a late-night time slot.
The dream sequence starred Orange’s Vee and Mad Men’s
Peggy Olson. Vee is a charismatic, cold-blooded drug dealer who organizes a
drug ring on the inside. Peggy is a rising creative director who shows great
promise in her career but whose personal life is a bit of a mess. In my dream,
Vee was recruiting Peggy to sell drugs.
I have no idea what white-collar crime Peggy committed to
end up in Litchfield Prison. Embezzlement from Sterling Cooper? Stabbing
another boyfriend with a bayonet? She seemed pretty subservient to Vee and was
trying her best to please her. Vee was berating Peggy for something she screwed
up during the drug trade. I don’t know what happened but maybe the problem is
that these women simply come from two different worlds — not to mention two
different time periods, given the 50 years that separate the two shows.
In the dream, I could vividly hear Peggy’s thoughts as a
voice-over: “I had a good job at the ad agency. Why did I give that up to sell
drugs in prison?”
And those, my friends, are words to live by. Cut to ending
credits.
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