I thought it was very brave or very foolish to have one's characters compete with the upheaval and turmoil of 1968, but the agency and the characters became analogues to unpredictability and disjointedness of that year.  In the same way no one would have predicted Nixon would wind up becoming president, at the…

I was venting in envy of you guys overseas who get much more time off than we do.

This is the U.S., we don't get a week off work for anything.  Two days off (if you're lucky) for Thanksgiving.

Don isn't necessarily being let go; he's still a partner and they would have to buy him out, and that would cost the company a pretty penny.  What the partners did seemed more like an intervention as opposed to a firing.  Don had become erratic, non-participatory, and off the reservation.  At the very time he used the…

Where's the overpowering and inescapable coercion?  Where's the violence and domination?  Dick was old enough to process what it was that was going on and he never said afterward he didn't want what happened.  Maybe he was raped, but that encounter feels like something different than rape.

He said he'd be there a day or two and then go down to personnel to say he never got his onboarding paperwork. They'd make him up a packet, and he was on his way.

He said he'd be there a day or two and then go down to personnel to say he never got his onboarding paperwork. They'd make him up a packet, and he was on his way.

Betty not only got her body back, she got Don back, and she knows she could have him again, if she wants.  In a way, she's been validated; she got her cheating former husband to cheat on his new wife WITH HER.  That "victory" may be part of what got her going again.

Good points about "Rosemary's Baby".  And Don's lines about doing it for the firm call back to Guy (Rosemary's husband) saying "I did it for us".  Rosemary spit in her husband's face, unfortunately, Peggy couldn't go that far.

Nice discussion, but Rolo's actions simply provided a way for Sally to break up Glen's little tryst; his punching his friend around was a welcomed bonus.  Viewers, like the characters around her, underestimate Sally's sophistication, particularly about sex.  Sally knows what she wants (Glen).

C'mon.  Don is the hardest pimp since Iceberg Slim.  Ted's trying to seduce one of his hoes, so Don undercuts him with the orange juice account AND the asprin account while snatching the Clio out of Peggy's hands to give it to a dead man.  Don is a bad guy.  He's a pimp — he's so bad to you, you think he's good.

The lines about residuals seemed to be shots as well. 

Without a doubt, yes it was.

I wrote several weeks ago the Bob Benson was a guy who showed up to the office and helped himself to a job.  I knew a guy who said he had done this in real life, more than once.

"That Spanish fly"!

Having Matt Weiner take a week off shows what happens with Mad Men when it's presented in a more deft hand.  This is no slam against Weiner, but sometimes when have the full scope and vision of what you're trying to portray to the world, when it's totally your baby, your efforts can sometimes become too overtly…

You don't give Sally enough credit.  This is the same girl who didn't go bonkers or worse after witnessing a blow job.  This is also the same girl who wasn't freaked out or disgusted when Glen told his schoolmates he had sex with her.  And, as I've pointed out before, her friend liked more innocuous things about…

@The Elusive Robert Denby
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Henry is more of a Nixon Republican; not as liberal as Rocky, not as conservative as Goldwater. Pete is a Rockefeller Republican.

"The only interesting thing about Sally's experiences this week is that
they seemed to reverse the show's handling of her. Up until now, she's
seemed more mature, more grown up. But the way she was dressed, and her
lack of experience with boys, and even her rather childlike use of the
same lie over and over…"

Dyan was such a bad ass, he transcended religion affinities.