Looking at the picture at the top of this page, it amazes me how this show makes me feel nostalgic and wistful for the past, or early 60's, as if it was my own life I was looking back on. I don't know if I've felt the passage of time within a series as acutely as I have with Mad Men.

Yes, I think this show could actually be it's most bold this season if they commit to Draper actually rebounding from the depths of his personal hell to a more enlightened man. It's easy to see Draper just descend into oblivion, the times marching on and over him. But, Don is a very smart, very talented, strong…

This episode was one of the first times when I had to look up who this girl was playing Peggy (obviously we know E. Moss now). That scene where she's just been gobsmacked by Pete's rejection in the bar, and the camera just stays on her face as she dances with a numb face on the dance floor and projects the most lost…

True, but I think it's because Roger makes the pointed line in this ep, "When a woman turns 30 it's like a light switches off" (paraphrasing). What's ironic is all of these young women with the glow of youth still don't hold him captive or get close to him the way the 'old ladies' Mona and Joan do.

The AV Club only started recapping Mad Men during during S2. Therefore, Todd decided to go back and week by week recap S1 of Mad Men - he started a few months ago.

Remember Mona's great line? "When you left me for Jane, I thought it was because I got old. Then I realized, it was because you did."

Yes to this.

Does anyone know if Don Draper was tracked down by Anna Draper in NYC, or if he was living in California and she tracked him down there, when he was a used car salesman on the West Coast? Did DD ever live in California pre-SCDP?

I agree with John John. This was the first ep of Mad Men where I said, "Oh, this show's going places I haven't really seen before and it's not afraid to just bust all the structures I've seen before in an hour drama."

I am sitting here gasping for breath from laughing from the comments this week.  Anything about Peggy's cat is pure comic gold from you clever folk -  thank you all for the laughs!  I needed it.

LOL, amazing and true!!!