Joanie's career may have had the most interesting trajectory. When a pig of a client requests an evening with her, she balks, then complies with a condition: partnership. The move makes Joan rich and powerful, but at McCann-Erickson, Joan quickly learns she's not valued. One sexual harassment lawsuit threat later, Joan takes half of what she's owed by McCann and leaves quietly. It looks like she's going to relax on easy street with her new beau Richard, but Mr. Demand-y is very put off by both her child and her career ambitions. Realizing what's most important to her, she lets him go and starts her own production company, with the all-powerful, all-Joan name of Holloway Harris.
