I LIKED it! (So much I succumbed to the nefarious use of caps.)

Howsomever, there are also those girls whose daddies loved them so well that, when they grew into women, they could never find a man who could really fill the bill the way dear old daddy did. Seems like Betty is one of those (although her image of dad was obviously a fantasy).

Especially putting Carla in that miserable little hat.

@ Wattznext: I had the same reaction to "toes the line." Whaa? He must mean "pushes the limits." Nonetheless, I find myself doubting even my surest certainties when they're challenged in print—better get over that, these days…hey?

Speaking of abuse, was Joan putting Peggy down with the bit about her being with a bunch of girls on NYE, requiring Peggy to refer to her "boyfriend" (emphasis on "boy")? Why does Joan continue to need to debase Peggy now that she herself has established some power at SCDP?

Peggy and her boyfriend were giving me Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney vibes. (And Freddy Rumsen is the Tin Man.)

…about the Glenn thing (just can't leave it alone). I enjoyed him first round, when he was younger and therefore not as "powerful" a presence, but when he showed up at the tree lot he just emanated pure "menace" (and not like Dennis the Menace). It overwhelmed all that came after. I do agree with fohgs (way back at…

@ your momma: very good assessment.

The fact that Don sent Allison out to purchase and wrap all of his kids' Xmas presents set us up to feel that she was "used" in a typical way by her divorced, drunk and lonely boss after the office party. Just another example of Don's era-typical lack of enlightenment. It seems to me that their actually getting…

Poor, poor Don. He'd better get back on his game soon or it's death of a salesman. He (or John Hamm) looked absolutely awful, woozy and out-of-it, on his couch, before he managed to grab sweet Allison and wrest her into submission. I don't know if it was great makeup or brilliant acting or both, but it was all too…

@ yuck, shit is too kind..sack of vomit. Ugh.

Oh, your momma! It's better than "doll."

There's no question that MM is focusing on some really sinister characters at this point and Don may be entering "a wood so dark that I couldn't tell where the straight path lay." Part of me really rebels against this and wants the "fun" characters like Ken and Paul and Joan (free-wheeling Joan) back to amuse us and…

Phooey! I can recognize a fellow woman's nostalgia for one of the perfect garments of her past. (I think real style in clothes is taking a sad hiatus presently. Truly awful.)

Kind of like Jack Nicholson in Carnal Knowledge.

Somehow it would have been comic, not the tone that's needed really.

I agree—Keith wrote a very good review.

Just watched episode a 2nd time, now distilled into 3 conclusions:

This is somewhat off topic but I want to say that I think the character Don Draper is supposed to be a more tough and brutal guy than we actually accept, driven by anger from his past (like a tragic hero, Hamlet or Othello, ready to kill) but this is mitigated by the actor John Hamm whose naturally sweet, kind persona…

Did you notice that Liz was all beautified at the beginning—attractive sexier outfit, good hair treatment, nice make-up—then after she found out about Floyd's wedding she reverted to the frowsy haired, schlumpish Liz we usually see. What was that about?