| Tv Club Mad Men, Season 6 The abiding mystery of Bob Benson, perfect employee. By Paul Ford
Posted Tuesday, Jun 04, 2013, at 01:01 PM ET  Hanna, Seth, I am glad you asked me about Bob Benson. He came into focus for me this episode and I'm anxious to talk it out. Bob has been the gun that might go off all season. People have put forth that he's a spy or an investigative journalist, and now Ginsberg himself has asked if Benson is gay (shades of Salvatore Romano). This is television, after all, so anything is possible, including Bob realizing that he's Don Draper's long-lost gay son and killing the entire staff (except for Peggy, who is left to tell the story to Advertising Age). Or maybe, as has been suggested at Vulture and elsewhere, Bob is a doppelganger to Don. After all, he is inventing his own Bob Bensonhood in the same way that Don invented his Don Draperhood. But perhaps a sort of "Weiner's Razor" (ouch) applies. Maybe no great reveal awaits us, and when we peel back the Bob we'll only be faced with yet more Bob. There was that brief scene in which Bob was listening to a sales seminar on LP, right before he got the call about Ginsberg. He didn't know that particular call was coming; he just knew he'd need to pitch Manischewitz. Here's what he heard, eyes closed, with an assist from a sales website. Gentlemen, after all, this business of selling narrows down to one thing, just one thing: Seeing the people. Show me any man of ... To continue reading, click here.
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