I'm so upset they didn't get picked up for a second season! I did enjoy seeing Stan get into disco though.

I dunno, I think USA is a pretty good header for that sentence.

Limit…your exposure

And maybe they could retcon the origin of "…and don't call me Shirley!" (nothing against Airplane by any means, but I mean, come on)

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Yeah, I'm glad the show didn't try to shit all over Pete over the course of this last season (which they easily could have, and it could certainly be argued that he deserved it - see also Harry Crane). But I'm happy he got some redemption and that the writers were able to make it feel earned.

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Oh I see. Not sure I can help then, but good luck!

You may try iTunes. Not sure if you can buy individual episodes the next day, but I bought the season pass which is how I've been watching most of these.

That was exactly my first thought when I saw it. Brilliant.

I think OP meant Roger leaving an inheritance for Kevin. He was already the "silent dad," but now he left him a presumably large sum of money with "no strings attached" (and of course Joan was initially hesitant to accept because of said strings)

you…heartless bastard.

double entendre to hint at what's to come in the '70s?

I'm thinking it's pretty cynical either way. Even if Don did have a breakthrough and didn't go back to make the ad, somebody did make it, and the show's intentional juxtaposition of Don's supposed inner peace with capitalism's capitalization on that feeling to sell sugar water is still pretty damn cynical.

Maybe. Though I saw it as Don relating to Leonard's inability to connect with other people. He's really the mirror-image of Don, as the review points out (i.e. Leonard is invisible while Don is highly visible, yet neither are connected to those around them). But just hearing someone else express what Don has felt for…

Think about this too: throughout the entire series, as far as I know, the only real-life advertisements/slogans the show ever borrowed were "It's Toasted" for Lucky Strike and this Coke commercial. Considering the former was in the pilot episode, that's a rather convenient bookend for the series for it not to have…

Yeah, I agree. But I think that was more the writing than her acting. Though if you think of Betty Francis in terms of her relation to Don's children rather than to the rest of the show or even Don himself, it makes more sense. You get an insight into what Don is subjecting his kids to by being basically absent.

That's probably true too. Either way, as far as I'm concerned Betty Draper/Francis is a well-realized insight to mid-century housewifedom.

I see it as being kind of intentionally vague, so that either interpretation is valid. Perfect blend of cynicism and optimism.

Agreed. People try to argue that JJ is a bad actor by using her work in other things as examples. Whether those arguments are true or not is irrelevant to this show, because she's perfect for the role of Betty Draper/Francis.