Sure, I know intelligent people too who watch Mad Men, but do not care about characters, plot, dialogue or historical changes happening in the wider world, all they care about is 1960s style fetishism, kind of a 'retro commodity porn', and how the characters can drink, smoke, and be casually sexist and racist with…

I think I downloaded the same.  I also remember what looked like a freakishly-old-looking Cybill Shepherd in that clip, but may it wasn't her. Strange indeed.

Speaking of unmistakable references to the past:

I don't think Megan was being deliberately calculated or cruel, but I do think she was acting in a childish and bratty way that would be even beneath any bullshit that Betty could say or do.  If anything it shows up Megan's youth and immaturity, that she has lived a care-free existence and is now overwhelmed by the…

Would love to see you in a flashback, conspiring with Arnold Rothstein.  I guess even then it would have been impossible to indict a minor for matchfixing.

Maybe Dr. Faye was right: Don only likes the beginning of things.  How in driving back to New York he has a flashback to a year earlier when he is returning from California with Megan and his children, whistling 'I wanna hold your hand' by The Beatles, just before he proposes.  The Beatles could be used as a…

What got me about the particular part of the episode was Ginsberg saying he was born in a concentration camp, yet unconvinced of this, and Peggy ignorant of the plausiblity of Ginsberg being born in a concentration camp, and having it confirmed by her liberal intellectual boyfriend.  Were younger people in 1960s…

Yes! That smackdown came across to me as as a more subtle, but just as effective 'get your shit together' warning like the one Lane Pryce's father metted out on his son last season.  Cooper may have become meandering and redundant in the last season and a half, but this was a reminder that it was Cooper and Roger…

Peggy's dialogue with the Heinz guy I thought was reminiscent of Don's encounter with the two prudes from the swimsuit company in the previous season.  Sensing a lack of foresight and appreciation for creative work on the part of that client lead to Don giving them marching orders, and Peggy was doing the same, except…

Megan probably would.  She's French Canadian.

Lane's an equal opportunity lecher.  Sure he likes himself some brown bunny, but remember he pulled the moves on Joan in the last episode and the woman in the photograph he pulls from the found wallet is white.  His taste in women transcends race and creed etc etc.

You should add 'Putney Swope' to your Netflix queue.

This isn't a Community episode review you pervert!

Two months ago, Gotye performed at the Laneway Festival in Auckland, New Zealand.  I caught a news item on the late news where a bunch of hipsters were bitching about how Gotye was now 'sooooo mainstream' and should not have been allowed to play.  I can only suppose being covered on Glee can only amount to widespread…

"The Doctor said he'll never golf again!"

If it did, you better not tell Kurt Sutter.

Perhaps Don's happiness is genuine.  Megan is very much the type of women Don previously cheated on Betty with: An intelligent, strong-willed brunette.  He's got what he wants whenever he wants it, and does not have to look elsewhere.  Of course, there's not much entertainment value in a monogamous Don, so they will…

I recall Roger's first wife remarking how Don and Joan made a lovely couple, obviously oblivious to the fact that Joan was sleeping with her husband.  Roger was having an affair with Joan while Don was trying to get his foot in the door at Sterling Cooper, as evidenced in the flashback from last season.  It would be…

She once went on a date with a blue-collar truck driver, and he objected to her smoking.

If it turns out Peggy did let it slip to Roger, it would be a very bitch thing to do, given how Ken has made it clear he wants to keep his fiction writing discreet.  It could have been Don who casually mentioned it to Roger, as he was at the dinner party where Cynthia revealed and bragged about Ken's literary exploits