Max Weiner doth protest too much (about metaphors) methinks.

I don't know if anyone has noted that Leonard practically wrote the Coke commercial for Don (the final meditation scene gave him the visuals, hence the smile). Leonard laments on whether the love of his family is real (It's the Real Thing). Then, when he says he has a dream that he's on a shelf in the refrigerator…

Betty, in her encounter with Glenn, played both the Madonna and the whore, and strangely, in the end, gave him what he needed, allowing him to open up about what really happened, and receiving from her, once the seductive flirting was done, motherly comforting which the frightened kid was sorely in need of.

The Forecast: Angsty with intermittent Weltschmerz.