Same question. As a "conservative Catholic," you think less of a person when you find out he or she is gay? (But you're resisting this "temptation" in this case?

I just want to make sure I've got this clear. You're saying that Benson being gay means that he is not "just a normal, decent enough guy trying to get ahead at work"?

@avclub-d155e6847d268061f3d8cd008a44a202:disqus 1) All we know about Cutler is that he was "in the Air Force." (We don't know if he saw action, and, if he did, whether it brought him anywhere near "death.") Meanwhile, Ginsberg is from a concentration camp.

@avclub-c722c3a0141d8ccebbee6869f18478c9:disqus I'm not saying he's incompetent because of his moral deficiencies. I'm saying that he's incompetent for other reasons: the lack of any evidence whatsoever that he's got a creative bone in his body, any interest in advertising at all, and any managerial acumen to do…

@avclub-c722c3a0141d8ccebbee6869f18478c9:disqus Your anecdotal evidence of cops acting badly (in a small town situation) doesn't excuse or explain anything.

It was a classic "Don't tell X; he/she will say 'no' and we'll be screwed" situation.

ut But Don was getting some action…and if he hadn't freaked out it would have continued. That would never happen to Harry.

@avclub-7ee8e2fdc6652f2351e0bf3cd9a1a4be:disqus What do you mean, creative is "just window dressing"? They have to make the ads!

And therein lies the key to the entire so-called "pro-life" movement.

@avclub-ee2e9e1447fcb49c96e19af584ca11b4:disqus Joan's office IS "the listening room."

The first time Megan Calvet actually got any real lines of dialogue, was during the Faye Miller (spits to one side) focus group about Pond's cold cream, wherein Megan talked about being French and washing her face the French way, like her French mother did. (Of course now we have a face and an actor's — hilarious —…

When was she rolled "literally"?

No, he said that the person who makes the comparison loses the argument.

Nobody "dropped" anything. The episode was overrun with thematic elements as usual.

I can't figure out what happened with that hostess girl. He was kissing her; "Megan" showed up and led him away…and, if you watch the girl he's kissing; she reacts like, "Oh well…easy come, easy go." (But she says, "Is that your wife?" or something like that.)

Yeah. Like that (reasonably appealing) musician talking to Don over at the outdoor bar: cool people will always see Don as what he is — a classic New York ad man — and respect it.

Have you seen the idiotic sentences those dull-witted patrician hacks over at The New York Times have been coming up with for decades? (I mean, going all the way back to Bosley Crowther.) Give me the AVClub any day — best arts coverage around.

"Dawn" is well-named. She's like a ray of sunlight in a bleak, overcast company. Every time the camera's on her, I'm glad. Even the King assassination couldn't darken her mood.

Very perceptive indeed.

It was fairly obvious that Peggy was not in "creative pitch"/"brainstorm with client" mode, at all.