I thought Dawn was filling something we've missed as Peggy moved up—she's the young career girl who wants to get ahead and do the right thing. I like rooting for her.

I thought Don's campaign was better than Peggy's actually. But I don't think either of them was bad.

I think Pete sees it as a legitimate business deal that Joan made and the partners agreed to because it was worth it and doesn't think Harry gets to question it.

I didn't think Pete was shocked. I thought he was defending Joan's status as a partner.

No she wasn't forced and she wouldn't have been all that disliked. I think the story loses something if you take away Joan making a decision and make her a victim. It was a good deal in her eyes and she did it.

@avclub-3db41011acc2d229176bf6a92202728d:disqus This bug is real—it's the one Phillip and Elizabeth planted.

Neither Beth nor Peggy were harassed until they gave in. Beth, in particularly, initiated sex with him twice out of the blue.

She threw him out and hasn't asked him back, during which time she's been focused on mourning her dead boyfriend and now her father figure. Phillip, living on his own, decided he needed to move to an apartment because having the kids at the motel is gross. He's in the middle of packing when she shows up. He tells her…

Jump at what chance? She didn't ask him to move back.

I don't get it….where is he being an asshole? He supported her doing something he thought was stupid to protect her and because he knew it was important to her.

I love how in an ep about how Elizabeth's alone we're shown how she's been mostly surrounded by all these people who think she's special and important. She had Gregory, she had Zhukov (who I think they'd already established as important before now), most meetings Grannie, hostile as they are, are with Elizabeth.

I believe she refused to sleep with an old boyfriend to get his story published. She was never naive and dependent on Pete. She's been the woman behind the man, but she's always had the power of money over him.

I think they definitely established that Megan's dad is an atheist-that's why her mom was there alone at Easter.

He doesn't even trick her into getting the apartment. She announces he's getting an apartment when it suits her.

I think the thing with Trudy is that we've seen her a lot and she really does seem like she's intentionally someone who doesn't see or mind much beyond the practical life she wants to set up. We've seen Cynthia less, and in her short scenes the most I get from her is that she's married to Ken the writer rather than…

@avclub-705562aaa4a5b85bfa44373d8e6bf234:disqus Or like calls to like. Pete's a mess so he doesn't notice when the woman is also a mess, or he's attracted to it, like with Beth. And sometimes the person just made the mistake of taking notice of him and his neediness takes over.

Well, one real difference is that Don has affairs and Pete barely does. I mean, the most Pete's slept with any one mistress was twice—twice with Peggy, twice with Beth. Which could be just another way of saying he doesn't take the emotional validation from them, but then, Don didn't make much of a connection with the…

I would really enjoy a whole season worth of her getting Pete under her boot for life.

@avclub-d450f01b90e9cfa5848596f1e6457c17:disqus I think Pete had already been castrated by the Jag guy. He was having to placate him by talking up this bad idea for real. He really ought to have been thanking Don for tanking it while doing what the guy said, allegedly, and making it look like a mistake.

I could swear MW said something about how this season in some ways could have "happened before the pilot." Meaning that we're seeing everybody revert to their pre-s1 selves. This is definitely S1 Pete. And S1 Trudy, really. She was never a dope!