So, Don's reinventing himself? He's stripped himself of his costume, naked and referring to himself as Dick Whitman. Do you think he's going to disappear for the season ender and when next season comes back it's mid-1963? Will he come back to Madison Ave. and what will bring him back?

I suspect that either Roger or Burt's going to die. Which, if Mona makes out well in the divorce-- or if the divorce hasn't gone through yet-- would put her in a very interesting position.

I was also ruminating on that scene between Jane and Roger-- a few things that she said and how she said them. Saying that he'd been with Mona for forty years, and her response when he said that he'd lose her if he didn't keep her in line was interesting in that she didn't say "you might" or have any sort of teasing rejoinder, but rather, it was a very serious, "Yes, you would."

Lot of interesting subtext in that one scene.

What episode are we on?

Are we near the end of the season?

It was the eleventh. So, two left.

Wow. That could totally happen then.

And we're heading into an era of extreme change when lots of people probably moved away, changed their names and reinvented themselves.

There's a lot that can happen in two episodes. Next week's ep, according to amctv is called "The Mountain King."

Last season, the final two episodes only covered about a month: the penultimate episodes was the election and the finale was Thanksgiving weekend. Not that that means squat, just an observation.

Squeee! Peggy's getting her look updated!

Oh, Peggy has her own gay!

And anyone recognize Charles Shaughnessey as St. John? Lewis did before me and he was spluttering, "Look, from the Nanny!"

I did, but I thought "Shane Donovan!" (from Days of Our Lives)

Also - who knew that Duck was so duplicitous.

he had to get his reputation somehow, it certainly wasn't through talent.

Roger's such an idiot. Marriage has been nothing but a trap to him, but the first thing he offers the new gf? "Marry me,"

Roger's never been particularly smart when it came to women. this is the man who paid how much just to have dinner with a prostitute.

Well, and for him, he's of the generation where women fall into one of three categories: wives, mistresses, or whores. Plus, it's what he expects-- that the pinnacle of what a woman reaches for is marriage. He thinks he's offering her what she most wants and desires.