"…it also suggests that there would have been something unresolved and unable to be filled inside of her, no matter how good her relationship had been with her mother or how attentive a husband Don was."

"It’s the funniest half-hour the show’s ever produced, and it probably will be for as long as the show is on the air…"

The "wow" is indeed epic. It tells us that Sam actually has grown, and that he's not your typical, two-dimensional sitcom character.

Ginsberg being adopted also serves as a reminder to Peggy that she gave up a child for adoption herself. I think this, more than anything else, is the strongest base for any connection she may experience with Ginsberg going forward.

The most shocking thing: Click the link to review of Debate 109 and you'll find a scant 357 reasonable discussions.

"Coach Buries a Grudge" is one of my all-time favorite episodes of this series— and maybe any series— ever. Because of the emotional beats as well as the comedic ones. Coach's reaction to hearing that it's "in the newspaper" and that one line, "let's hang him right here in Boston!" crack me up every time, silly as it…

I like Larry David, but this finale was a failure in every way. The faux reunion on Curb wrapped things up much better, so he did redeem himself to a large extent. (Plus he made fun of the fact that the original series finale sucked several times, so bonus points for that.)

I'm a sucker for father-son themes. This one was like a serious gut punch. Extremely well done.

This outcome seems too obvious and too cliche. My guess is he becomes a career army doctor and winds up surprisingly successful at it. As an aside: Joan's relationship with him is over, but I don't think they're going to formally divorce right away. Still a lot of bickering to be done, I'd guess.

I thought this was a great character episode for Don. We forget sometimes that he is literally the bastard son of a whore— and that the mother who raised him wasn't shy about reminding him of this fact. This is the type of thing that would stick with a guy his whole life. The dream shows just how little he thinks of…

Joan's words to Roger were, "He's been gone seven weeks. It can't be his." This made it sound fairly impossible to pass the baby off as Dr. McRapey's. I would have rather she had her tryst with Roger, say, a week after her husband left— this would have left real doubt (for all concerned parties) as to true paternity.…

Leaving the guy in the wheelchair in charge of his two hostages all alone. These two massive contrivances are what dragged the grade down, I'd guess.

When Megan delivered the line “nobody loves Dick Whitman,” it was definitely the OH SHIT moment of the first episode, and I’m sure that was its intended purpose. Conventional wisdom at the end of the last season was that Don was running away from his past in choosing Megan over Dr. Faye, since Faye knew all about said…

There are power struggles in (nearly) every relationship, yes, but last week's review read (to me) like you were painting her as a soap-opera villainess. I think (or at least hope, certainly) that the character isn't that two dimensional.

“I think Megan’s great; I just don’t terribly think there’s much chance of a good relationship between her and Don, if only because their respective ages and back-stories will always place an unbridgeable gap between them.”

As sparse as those clips are, I believe we can discern that Megan will be introducing Don to her father for the first time in the next episode. That should be interesting.

Listen, I'm sure there will be friction here, as in any marriage (especially in this era), but it's going to be a very different friction than with Betty. Megan is a much more modern and (cover your ears in anticipation of the screaming feminist protests) liberated woman. There's also a much wider generational gap…

"…a piece of information he only offered up to Betty just before their marriage fell off a cliff."

"One of the things I like best about 'A Little Kiss' is that it dares to take both Don and Megan seriously as people, while showing that their marriage is a colossally bad idea."

Well that certainly went in a few unexpected directions.