If Roger went around white knighting like that, he wouldn't be Roger… and Joan never would have been with him in the first place.

No dash, no cash for this Jay Z.

Diana has abandoned her living child. Children have at most two parents, and if one takes off the other one is stuck raising the child or children. Don't you think Diana's ex suffered pain as well? Someone has to stick around for their other daughter.

The show itself does comment on how Don's latest quest might be viewed by others. Remember the scene at the house in Racine? Don, who is telling multiple lies to find this waitress he screwed a couple of times, is reamed out by Diana's ex. Remember that Diana and her ex had another daughter, who presumably needs…

It costs a lot to live so free.

Don't try this in Toronto if your name is Garry Hoy.

No one really reacted to her, though. She's a faceless drone to them, just a face in the crowd.

I really hated this episode. Not the show, not the season, this specific episode. It seemed like Weiner resented having to make 14 episodes this year, so he deliberately tanked one. I thought the unnecessary scene of Don getting out of the car to pee was commentary. Seriously.

Nick is a pretty boring dude being so content. He did nothing the entire season. It is boring. Four or five employed people living in a loft, all friends, not that interesting. Needs to be some tension.

What would be the best way to defeat Elias? He seems to outsmart everyone, not just Dominic. Probably just admit that he's smarter than you and kill him before he has a chance to talk.

Thank you for the link.

McCann Erickson has to all be on the same team. It would be like the same person owning two different baseball teams in the same league. It doesn't work. McCann was never going to put any resources into SC West if the only business was competitors of existing clients. So Sunkist would wind up walking anyway.

Well, Mr. Science, if you knew anything about divorce, you would know that kids raised by divorced parents underperform academically compared to kids from intact families. You would know that divorced people report being much unhappier as a group than married people or those who have never married. Remarried people…

If he fails it will either be a cult classic or loved ironically by hipsters. Lou Avery uber alles.

Maybe Frank Burns gets called back up for Vietnam?

How this episode should have ended:

I don't know if that was even a plausible idea anyway. Wouldn't the conflict of interest still be there with a subsidiary? What was the point of going with McCann in the first place then? The whole plan was just an attempt to renege after they'd received the padded bank accounts.

A religious counselor is presumably going to be arguing from a pro-marriage perspective, or they should. "These are the tenets of marriage in our church." The secular counselor can't do the same thing, because they are just responsive to their clients, the couple. One of the couple is likely doubting the marriage…

Don doesn't have the inner life to make it as a creative. I think it's the opposite, he can give it all because there's nothing beneath. Peggy, Ted, Roger, the others have pasts that they acknowledge to some extent.

Most white males in any era can't write million-dollar cheques.