Whoa, son.  Don empathizes with Joan.  But on the other hand, like the sociopaths described in the Yachov and Samenow article Dr. Kupfenberg gave Dr. Melfi (in "Second Opinion"), Don does love his children (and maybe small pets).

Peggy: The workers know they're lazy.

And we were once more reminded how much our Megan's actually acting in her "real life".

Or just order Bob Benson to do it for you.

I like Henry's treatment and handling of Betty…and her kids. And the fact that he made her come to him by sending his female aide to give the fundraising talk at Betty's house, before she divorced.

I can't dig it.

Lola - nicely put.

Looking like a squatter/hobo or like young Dick Whitman (the dirty little spy living at a whorehouse).

Yes (and as I wrote somewhere else in this forum), the lights out in that scene mirrored Joan's turning off the lamp after learning her husband had washed up as a surgeon.  Dashed hopes; doomed relationship.

In "The Doorway", Megan even jokingly asked if Don would still loved her if she [her soap opera character]  became a conniving, backstabbing whore.

Moreover, that someone from literally right down the street showed up at their doorstep, bloodied, banging at the door, crying, with her husband yelling loudly enough for the neighbors to hear, "She's your problem now, Campbell!"

Bugs Bunny:  What a maroon.

RE: "So Don's male role-models were a hobo and a pimp. Maybe Don would have been happier as a hobo-pimp."

The actors don't get separate director's pay?

Reminded me of that ep. with all the light fixture imagery - e.g., when Joan turned out the lamp after learning her husband had washed up as a surgeon.

Complete opposite of Ginsberg, who (though too uncomfortable to follow through) wanted to ask Megan to reimburse the $20 he'd lent her for lunches, and who errs on the far opposite spectrum from ass-kissing behavior.

But Don's now the greasy whoremaster, emulating Mack-daddy (Uncle Mac) right down to shtupping a woman in the same house as his wife and to his clothes-on sexual position with Sylvia (who looks something like Abigail).

That was a tough spot to be in…squeezed between the two power brokers Bob Benson buys coffee for.

Dr. Melfi: You don't have to eat every plate of rigatoni you encounter; you don't have to bed every female you meet.

People so often ignore the help (especially the colored help), assuming they don't know what's going on, or downright not caring what they know, as if they're non-entities. The help may be tight-lipped (a la Jonesy's "I didn't see anything" to the falling down drunk Don Draper), but as Betty's former maid Carla and…