Stephanie said she hadn't eaten meat in a year. It's 1969 - what do you offer someone who hadn't eaten meat? I doubt she had seitan sitting around the house.

Agreed. Megan's aware of Don's secrets but there is a difference between being aware and knowing in the way Stephanie does. I think she likes "Don" and doesn't want his true identity thrown in her face. I also wonder how much she knows about Don supporting Anna. If she does, the check could be the easiest way out…

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That's what I thought, but then I saw it spelled "manner." Shows what I know.

I also think, as she's gotten older and moved up the ladder, she's realized that men can get away with things a woman never could. A woman who got drunk or spoke to a client like Don would've been fired immediately. Also, she sees it in her personal life - a man has a kid, he walks away (Roger, Pete, etc). A woman…

I think the animus is more than losing one big client - it's almost losing Chevy over Don's behavior at the dinner, it's the suicide/hotel ad, it's (for Joan) Don not preventing you from being prostituted (even if he told her not to do it), running the anti-cigarette ad (Bert) and it's having to pay someone you think…

I think Roger understands better than Margaret does. Read Robin Morgan's essay, "Goodbye to All That" or any of the second-wave feminists like Shulamit Firestone to see that hippies could be as sexist and miserable towards women as their fathers were.

In addition, not only was she under him, he promoted her from secretary. Working for your ex-secretary has to be demoralizing, no matter the genders involved. It's a rare person who wouldn't get in any way passive aggressive.

I think Don realizes that Freddy is ultimately the only man he can trust. I also think he sees Freddy as a kindred spirit - a good guy who hit bottom. I also think he empathizes with him as a fellow striver (although I don't think we've ever heard Freddy's back story, he doesn't seem like someone to the manner…

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And Rich Sommer is Greg Ostertag? Lumbering white lummox?

Sally Rogers was funny, albeit desperate. This is more the backstory of the woman in your building who complains at tenant meetings about kids in the lobby and has three cats (more than that goes into crazy cat lady territory.)

I think Eli Whitney developed interchangeable Black people.

That's what I meant by "pull the trigger." He had her but just couldn't put the "death by alcoholism" or guilt or whatever out of his head to take her home. The old Don could compartmentalize that.

No, it reminds me more of an EST-Landmark Forum kind of thing, which is very 1970s. With Forum, you're supposed to tell your parents, no matter awful they were, that you know they loved you and did their best. No one gets killed or anything. They just stare at you like Roger did.

I don't know. I think it's more life withdrawal - I can't do publicly what I'm best at and have to hide behind an ex-drunk who used to work for me. I couldn't pull the trigger on Neve Campbell. And California, where I used to be able to be the real me, is now my wife who left me and doesn't want me.

He needed Detroit like a hole in the head…

Former San Diego Padre Nate Colbert. You don't have to change the name or anything.

That Eddie Murphy did not win an Oscar for his performance as a retarded slave is criminal!

No. He never seemed that self-aware nor, if you believe what you read, was he willing to do the work needed to make his performances better. He always struck me as someone who was getting by on a shtick (the anarchic fat guy).