@avclub-a171d9b078d8fd668b699188db001042:disqus That isn't my point. My point is that Don has let Peggy know that the work will always be more important than their personal relationship. Ted wants people to think that he values relationships more than the agency, the work, profit, control, etc. In reality, he is…

It's not "a" Don, it's Don… he didn't go off with the Jet Set folks because he'd always be living off their dime. Don wants control, and he'd never really have it hanging around with those tax exile types.

@avclub-9cd818ea56273170b63f339aa6f34bca:disqus …okay I'll buy that. Her (probably false) portrayal of "happiness" left Don feeling as though he'd lost some element of control in his life. Which he has, of course, but he probably didn't consider that he'd lost his power over Betty until that moment.

I didn't say Ted had done anything wrong. I said that Don was the only honest man in her life. Don told her that Ted was just like him, and so Ted is. Ted's lies are found in his veneer of positivity and encouragement when, in reality, he's just as self interested and ethically flexible as Don. Teddy blamed his…

"Happy and carefree" …. Don doesn't give a shit about happiness. It doesn't motivate him at all.

I don't think Don is lonely and desperate; Don is calculating and desirous of nothing but experience. Don controlled that sequence from start to finish, letting Henry know (albeit subtly) that he'd had Henry's wife, and further that he's tossing her back to Henry like an underweight fish. Don is not governed by…

Margaret:  "What are you two planning on doing?"

Gay angel sent to protect Don from the FBI and to help Joan bring Kevin up to be a more ethical (yet slightly less awesome) version of Roger.

Never thought of that…. interesting.

Henry has a little bit of a cuckold thing going on I think

Right? Don decides reality; not a portrayal of reality, but reality itself.

Summer camp, too, is lame.

New Bobby is lame

Some things:

@avclub-29539ed932d32f1c56324cded92c07c2:disqus and @Scrawler2:disqus - Don is a creep, an ass, a fraud, a user; he's manipulative and dismissive of others and their feelings. He's selfish and impulsive but also cold and calculating when it serves his purposes. Don is egotistical, disingenuous, ill-tempered, combative…

yup

Cutler:  *standing in doorway* "Oh, yeah, my dead partner's daughter, yeah, screw my artist who I made to take my drugs. Yes. It's fantastic, I own these people… they're mine."

Megan:  "Look, Bobby, I made you spaghetti!"

"Fuck your couch, Cutler, fuck your couch! They should have never given y'all whitehairs money!"

Correct. Thank you, Bunny.