Agree. One of the more frustrating things about this season is how long they've dragged out this Marnie/Desi storyline. How many times have they broken up at this point? It's so redundant and not telling us anything new. Meanwhile Shosh has been MIA all season.

I agree that it hard to suspend disbelief when Selena herself is so incompetent so much of the time. I wish they would give her a few more 'wins' here and there, like they did with her speech at that funeral earlier in the season. That had the right mix of showing her talent as a political speaker while still being…

So true. Advertising rivals Hollywood in its nonchalant allowance of ego-crazed hotshots to fail upward.

Yeah I totally get that. This harkens back to whether you think the partners are way overreacting to Don's misbehavior last season (I believe they are, but I understand other arguments). I get the no drinking at work and sticking to the script, but reporting to Peggy/Lou?

Am I the only one still having trouble suspending disbelief that Don would actually accept such a lowly position writing tag lines for someone at Peggy's level? The advertising industry is full of top-level creative directors who crash and burn in outrageous fashion and bounce right back to senior level positions like…

Nice review, but I can assure you even though Weiner is credited as a writer, he did not take this week off. I've read in countless interviews that if he doesn't rewrite more than 70% of a script, he lets the writer have the standalone credit. Rest assured the script definitely passed through his computer and he…

Hah, I love this. On this show though, the underling writer is responsible for the first couple of drafts. Weiner then rewrites the script. If he doesn't change more than 70% of the script he lets them keep their name on it alone. Most of the time he's rewriting everything hence his writing credit on almost every…

Funniest part for me was Coco looking back on her make-up: "Oh yeah, I did look like a Dorito."

Loved the episode, but one thing that ran false for me, as someone who works in this stupid business, is the Chevy pitch (which we conveniently never see). How can a client as big as GM hand over reigns of their account to two small agencies who on a whim decided to merge the night before? That is a huge business risk…

I would LOVE to read that. I know in seasons 1-3 he had a legit staff who got writing credits. Now he's the sole credited writer for every episode. I wonder if he abides by the Matthew Weiner rule of taking full credit if he rewrites more than 80% of a script.

Did Tom Kapinos fire his writing staff? He's been the writer of every episode for the past couple of seasons, which could be the reason why this show has been running in place for some time.