You should consider to taking that hour you spend every Sunday watching this show and start watching M.A.S.H.

*Yet the show remains beautiful poison.*

They didn't give him a shot out of pity. They weren't going to hire him, but eventually did because Don got drunk, showed up to a client meeting and used the only original idea Danny had and the client liked it.

Two parts I loved:

I re-watched that scene a few times. I don't get the sense that she was *pleased*. Like a lot of these type of scenes in Mad Men, her reaction is rich, intense, but also kind of ambiguous.

Ken Cosgrove, abstract expressionism aficionado. Converted by the Rothko. I love that detail.

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Makes me wonder how many dads you've known, then.

I think he's getting angry for all the wrong reasons, but Pete has consistently shown that he has natural liberal tendencies regarding race. He's never been very progressive about it, but it's shown in a few episodes. One of my favorite Kartheiser moments of acting is his response to Roger in blackface in "My Old…

Definitely an acid bro.

Feel free to go into detail right now.

Who and what is a Bob Benson?!??!??!?!

He is the rooster. Helps the hens and brings on the day.

This will be one of the great legacies of Mad Men. The character development over the arc of the lifetime of this show is incredible.

Well done.

Whoa good catch on the cancer bit.

"I'm gonna watch from over there."

Also, the idea of Betty going hippie has never occurred to me. I think most people have assumed it will be Sally. Seeing Betty affected by the squatter dude's language is very interesting.

Betty Francis finds a musical instrument that belonged to someone she knows and is told she should learn to play it, but she rejects that idea. The Betty who might have done that long ago disappeared, washed away in the unhappiness of her marriage to Don Draper."

I dunno, it's just some retarded thing that Todd VanDerWerff wrote in this review and I repurposed it for no reason at all. Also sorry bout the comma, I'm mostly just a lonely, sad, despairing person that isn't a writer!