"Kiernan Shipka was in fine form for her possible swan song tonight."

While "Separate Ways" by Journey anachronistically plays.

So is Rachel going to be the only early season character call back? It would be a little pat for Mad Men, but I'm half-hoping to find out that Kinsey has a steady gig writing for Night Gallery.

"Grass" for when the protagonists courts his wife, "Earn Enough for Us," for when the he's a struggling public defender, "Knuckle Down" for when he's an idealistic Secretary of State.

The Kinks are the band that popped into my head first, but not necessarily because their entire catalog begs for it, but because throughout the '70s Ray Davies was actually writing Broadway musicals in the guise of rock operas. I'd vote for an adaptation of Soap Opera, but if Bobcat Goldthwait's Schoolboy's in…

Federal Agent Mosley stealing Jack's cigarettes in midnight run. Not the funniest running gag of all time, but the only one I could think of off the top of my head.

I'm not so sure. He's definitely grown a ton, but becoming "fully realized" usually doesn't have a finite end point.

I think the second half of the season will be delving into this.

Agree about Elisabeth Moss in the ep. Full of great moments by her. But my favorite was the little moment when she tells Julio she'll visit him all the time and he replies "No you won't." She gives just a hint of that 'yeah, you're right' shrug of the eyes that she's done some many times before. It wasn't…

re: Sally. It also shows that she takes her father's opinion to heart.

I kind of feel this way about he first seven episodes in general. You'd have to say people in general are in a pretty good place. Yes, Don and Megan split, but that's been a long time coming. But he's in a good as a person (definitely the best he's been in during the run of the show). His relationship with Sally is…

Plus, there's precedent for it. Don has seen dead people before. Albeit, not performing a Broadway number. Though he did witness Cosgrove tap dancing.

One thing I haven't seen discussed much in the reviews of this episode is Don's development as a person. The obvious comparison episode to "The Strategy" is "The Suitecase"; it's the last time Don and Peggy connected on a personal level over a project.

I agree… which is why I like the interpretation that her monologue is all in louie's mind. on that level it works, because her soliloquy sounds like she's channeling what louie thinks about how society treats "fat ladies." It doesn't sound like what a woman in that situation would actually say. it's too "on the…

I was surprised by how much Joan seems to loath Don. Yes, he often acted like a selfish, reckless prick with no regard for others, but he always was like that. And it seemed that only Joan and Peggy saw through that to a better person lurking underneath. I'm thinking specifically of "The Christmas Waltz" and the…

The crowd-pleasing direction for the show to take is to have Don return to the Don-of-old with some dramatic dressing-down of Lou, akin to him firing the bikini people. But that probably won't happen.

Yes. Performed by Ron.

Margaret's serene response of "Something like that" to Roger's quip "What, did you find religion?" certainly played into that feeling. Maybe she ends up part of the Mason family.

I love the songs on the show, but I'm trying to think of when I would actually play an album full of them. Maybe at a cocktail party with all my hip friends which will never happen because I don't throw parties or have hip friends?

JFK famously killed the hat as formal male fashion attire. Draper is putting a hat on. Therefore, season 7 will reveal that Don Draper killed Kennedy, either literally or in an existential sort of way.