He ought to ask Pete for some tips on that.

Yeah, I thought he was allowed in Cos Cob—in fact, he must be in Cos Cob—when there was anything family related going on. But while he was there, or within a 50 mile radius, he would keep it zipped.

I think she meant that as a character everything she does is just to effect Don. So Megan is her own person so that Don has to deal with a woman telling him she's her own person. As opposed to a character like Trudy who's clearly a different person than Pete, and one who is far stronger than him at that.

I totally buy Pam hating change—and I agree that Michael Scott paper supports that. Not only was it impulsive and out of character, but she was with Michael with Jim supporting her in the same place. Similarly when she went to New York there was an end date. When she tries something new it's a big thing.

@avclub-5e7e49d9ac705cfa3a4ec1b2b4692404:disqus If Pam's position were more reasonable people wouldn't have to make up fake situations to explain it. Jim told his friend he wanted to work for Athlead without telling Pam. This was a bad thing. It was a for a few weeks, back when he was just talking on the phone. Since…

Phillip's known Gregory for over a decade at this point and been in the US for years. I would hope at this point he's able to relate to Gregory as Gregory rather than "a black man."

@avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus I don't think he'd be much of a hero, though. The reality would be that he'd have a nice apartment and a small salary without being rich. It's not like the man on the street was going to be that impressed with him any more than we in the US were amazed by KGB defectors…

@avclub-a6a24889b5a204f69d48dff027111d15:disqus I think for all Elizabeth retreats into "respect me!" mode, she does want Paige to like her. In the scene where Paige interrupted her, that was affection. She was joking about her mom having a baby when Paige was a teenager. They were friendly. She hoped to continue that…

But she didn't really win because she knows Paige still sees things the way they are, not the way Elizabeth wants her to see them. She can force Paige to shut up, but she hasn't convinced her of anything. And didn't she leave it with "I'm not finished with you?" only to have Paige walk away?

I think he also just couldn't live in Moscow. As Claudia said, not everybody's cut out for that. Elizabeth said becoming a traitor to his country was harder than anything they had to do, but obviously what Phillip and Elizabeth did was pretty hard in Gregory's eyes as well.

I couldn't help but think that too.

Given his reaction at moving to Moscow, I'd say the US was his country till the end.

I don't think the Army was that good about tracking down cigarette lighter owners.

Is this true? I've heard many people refer to the idea that we're going to see the characters "now" as a fact but what did MW ever say that indicated this? Given how paranoid he is about spoilers it seems weird that he'd just drop a thing about how he's planning to end the whole series that way.

The ad wasn't actually supposed to be bad, according to MW. And it wasn't, really. He pointed out that the concept Don's pushing would eventually get used, just not in 1968.

Yeah, the tagline made no sense to me. You can see it? It took me a second to get that I guess it's supposed to be that I'm seeing how this guy is rocking out to the music. But I didn't like it as a tagline. I think I would have gotten it better if it was something like "You don't have to hear it to see it."

I thought in the commentary they all (the writer, MW and VK) agreed it was rape. There was a little quibbling over semantics but basically the girl had good reason to think that if she said no she'd be in trouble and while Pete probably wasn't thinking of himself as specifically coercing her at the time, that's…

I don't think it's that extreme. It's more like all these men can cheat if they want to, and the ones that cheat do it for different reasons. Harry wasn't a nice guy who went down a slippery slope. He was always the guy who was up for cheating on his wife. The first time he felt guilty and mostly suffered because he…

Donna Reed is in black and white even on color TVs!

I don't think he did say Jim had changed. He just said she wasn't crazy. Because he's going to agree with her on anything she says about what's wrong with Jim. That was the real thing she wanted to get from Brian. Then I think it was just a change in conversation where she had to bring in the privacy issue too and be…