 Creator Matthew Weiner said " Far Away Places " was inspired by " <unk> French films " with " lots of short stories in them " , with all three short stories linked by a thematic " desire to go away " . He further explained that " Peggy has this moment where she tries to be Don and fails and then goes on Peggy 's version of Don – sexually irresponsible , and drunk , and working " . Elisabeth Moss said the <unk> Peggy gives a stranger in the theatre is a " moment of forgetting " after the frustrating Heinz pitch . 
