So the partners at SC&P have "died and gone to Heaven" at McCann where they will experience travel, adventure, immense riches and power. Of course, there is someone you go to in a jam (as Don, Roger & company were at the end of season 7A), who will offer you a solution to all your problems and success beyond your…

+1 for "Shadow of a Doubt," and a really interesting contrast to Welles' Lime. Because Welles plays Lime as sort of an "Orson Welles type" who happens to be a villian, whereas Cotton's Uncle Charley is more of a true sociopath - superficially charming and well-adjusted until you start to get to know the guy better, at…

I vaguely recall reading an interview done with Marlon Brando right after "Missouri Breaks," where that was his chief complaint - everybody spent half the movie going on about how his character was on his way and what a badass he was, and so he had a lot to live up to when he finally did show up.

Not to mention some of these things are multi million-dollar franchises for these comic book companies. Much of that worth is tied-up in fan goodwill. That makes the people who own these franchises pretty conservative about what gets done with them. It's the same reason why every new version of the Ford Mustang is…

The actress that played Don's realtor looked sort of like… Betty. Not an especially alluring Betty, but sort of a caricature of Betty's more nagging/judgmental tendencies. When she went off on how Don's apartment reeked of sadness and failure, it sort of felt like Betty ridiculing Don over his life since their divorce.

I think the term they used for the Brady's was "blended" family, even though after a handful of initial episodes none of the Brady's act as if they have ever been anything but one, unified family.

I like this take. Costume and production design has always played a big role on this show (to the point where people who don't really watch it accuse it of being shallow), and I keep noticing how most of the main characters have really jumped into the whole groovy late 60's/early 70's polyester, loud colors and…

I read the last scene in Don's apartment a little differently. He looks fairly disoriented as he walks out, then starts to go back in, then pauses. Rather like the confusion in last episode when all his furniture was missing. It's almost like, having confessed the story of his upbringing, some sort of spell was broken…

Yep, that's exactly what I was going to say. I half expected some acoustic guitar chords to play, and Daniel Stern to start narrating. Bruce Greenwood's Mr. Furley collection of leisure suits and Apache scarves also seemed way too, "Hey, it's the '70s now!" I could be wrong, but weren't leisure suits a little later in…

Harry Crane is not gone. He was in the last episode, and Roger said he'd be giving a presentation on the computer to McCann. Which, BTW, means there's a faint glimmer of hope for those of us who wanted to see the "Harry and The Computer" spinoff. Maybe as like a web-only series or something?

And to add insult to injury to the L.A. office, they sent Lou there.

Yeah that part felt a little off to me, especially since the time jump between season 7A and 7B is only about nine months. Pre-'stache Ted was all "Advertising's so empty and meaningless. I'd rather crash my plane with my clients in it than suffer another moment!" Now he's all, "'My future plans? Dunno, maybe I'd like…

No kidding. You know what would've been really amazing? A video that actually explains HOW their geometric nest looking things actually represent particular pieces of music.

Yep, meets or exceeds the work of the recently departed Todd VanDerWerff reporting on this show, which is a pretty high standard to meet!

It actually seemed pretty natural to me - he's probably really in his head at that point about what just went down with Diana, then he strolls in and there's kind of a short moment of going through the motions, followed by puzzlement, then resignation/"It figures, after all that's already happened to me."

Re: Diana not appearing in Betty's space. Note that in that opening scene in the Francis Kitchen the other person who prominently does not appear is Sally. Now, Don later explains to Diana in the kids' room at his apartment that Sally's away at boarding school. But given the structure of the scene - Don, Betty and the…

Interesting side note re: "Is that all there is?" Episode 7 was centered around the moon landing, which was this thing the whole space race had lead up to, and the whole world watched as if it was going to be a major turning point in human history. And then it turned into sort of a bust. People mostly ignored the next…

The analysis didn't really touch on Joan's glance at Peggy as she walked towards the elevator. Because what made this scene so poignant is that after Peggy, Joan tends to be the character (at least from what I've observed on sites like this) that fans of the show tend to root for/feel protective of. Mad Men is almost…

Peggy wasn't exactly in a higher position than Joan. Joan had seniority. Also recall that Peggy used to work under Joan in the secretary pool; by this point in the series Peggy is still just one of the creative staff, like Stan and Ginsburg, while Joan has pretty much assumed all of the duties of actually running the…

Ironically, Don's also the guy who says to his long-lost brother, "My life moves one direction: forward." The guy who gazes out of his jet window with a smile on his way west as the futuristic-sounding "Telstar" plays triumphantly in the background. Who raves about how "everything's new" out in L.A. Of course, what…