Kater Gordon worked her way from personal assistant for "Mad Men" writer Matthew Weiner to a writer on the show herself. She even co-wrote this season's finale. Now, not long after winning an Emmy for her work on "Mad Men", she is let go because Weiner allegedly "reluctantly decided that their relationship has reached its full potential." Whatever the hell that means.
But the good news is, Gordon has been offered her old job back making coffee, answering phones, running off Xeroxes, and generally being a pleasant feminine helpmeet to the "Mad Men" office.
(No, not really.)
To be fair, the Mad Men writing staff is hardly Sterling Cooper. With Gordon gone, six of the nine writers are women leaving the writing staff with a woman-to-man ration of 2:1.
ReplyDeleteThe Letterman scandal and the Cinderella aspect of her story will pretty much ensure more speculation of why she was fired. My guess is that a relatively unskilled writer was overwhelmed working on what is currently the most highly regarded show on television.
This article asks all the questions, and offers a lot of interesting insight. http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/12/kater_gordon_fired/
ReplyDeleteAll the usual Mad Men jokes are cliche right about now.
ReplyDeleteI think rather than "relatively unskilled," the poster above meant "relatively inexperienced."
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