I took Pete's fat farm comment in the first ep to be a rumor he started and "verified" because he knows damn well it wasn't Don Draper Peggy was knocking boots with on the office couch last season.

I think that if Peggy had been institutionalized, she may have started/confirmed the fat farm rumour. I still think that Pete is too oblivious.

She was on Pushing Daisies, too, we think.

She was the Make-A-Wish lady who murdered the insurance agents who denied the transplant for the grumpy teenager.

I'm on the Oblivious Pete train, too.

The directing in this episode was especially stylish.

There was an overhead shot towards the beginning of Peggy lying on her bed after the party at Paul's that was an incredibly well-composed shot.

She was the Make-A-Wish lady who murdered the insurance agents who denied the transplant for the grumpy teenager.

Ah, that's right.

Oh, I meant to say that Peggy was incredibly bitchy to the guy at the party. the "I'm in the persuasion business" thing was unnecessary, especially after she'd been making out with him in the hallway.

Oh, I meant to say that Peggy was incredibly bitchy to the guy at the party. the "I'm in the persuasion business" thing was unnecessary, especially after she'd been making out with him in the hallway.

I didn't think it was that bitchy. He presumed too much and was mister grab and grope. I think it takes a blunt force line like that for her to enforce boundaries.

Oh, I meant to say that Peggy was incredibly bitchy to the guy at the party. the "I'm in the persuasion business" thing was unnecessary, especially after she'd been making out with him in the hallway.

I liked that scene. It's what she should have said to Pete.

I liked that line too - I thought it illustrated the new confident Peggy.

I liked that scene. It's what she should have said to Pete.

amen.

But, I would have liked it as a strong move if she hadn't just had his tongue down her throat. It made it seem less like she was being decisive and more like a whim that he said the wrong thing so he wasn't getting any.

Very interesting personal piece on being an ad man in the 70s.

I want to live in a penthouse in Rome!

Also, does anybody have that link on the real life inspiration for Rachel's character?

My fondness for "Big Love" has me starting to seek out books about real polygamy. Found, re Big Love, in a Slate summary, My Life in a Polygamist Compound, Carolyn Jessop's FLDS memoir, condensed.

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Page 333: Carolyn decided to flee in 2003, soon after Jeffs finally became prophet. She took her eight children, including her profoundly disabled son, to Salt Lake City. As she and her family struggled to adjust to the outside world, Carolyn developed post-traumatic stress disorder. But as she worked to make ends meet, her polygamy background came in handy: An HBO costume director came to town, and Jessop says she made some money sewing costumes for Big Love, HBO's series about a suburban polygamous family connected to an FLDS-like cult.