I don't know I missed that one. I'm a Newman fan and everything. But I'll get to it soon. And Ms. Laurie seems to be a fine actress, even with all the scary parents in her resume.(I wonder if she and Kurtwood Smith ever messed up a kid together. Fictionally, at least.) I won't ask if you succeeded till I see the movie...might be more than I wanted to know.

(Lewis noted, btw, that he thinks that throwaway about the mom in the campaign image looking familiar is something that's going to come back again.)

She's totally BVM. [link]

God, I LOVED Don/Dick with Anna. She's the only person who knows his whole story, so it makes sense it would be the only place he could relax, of course.

Yep-- totally BVM. Supplication and all.

Oh, I meant to have pasted this one instead:

Twoppers are calling the Popsicle mom something like "Our Lady of the Popsicle."

Same gist, tho.

Wow. SHOW.

I wonder if she and Kurtwood Smith ever messed up a kid together. Fictionally, at least.

I don't think they ever did, but I wish they had. That's genius casting.

she's built up such a string of performances as everyone's unapproachable mother...Marlee Matlin, Holly Hunter, and a few others besides iirc. (And wasn't she the mom in "Carrie," too?)

Yep - that was her big comeback role. She's also been the unapproachable mother of Aria Argento (in her first lead role, though it's a lesser Dario A. movie).

And, of course, Twin Peaks!

but the bit about the Popsicle mom looking like a priest handing out Communion certainly could be plausible.

What Jesse said. It was WAY more than plausible.

Anna is such an interesting character but I wanted to bop Matt Weiner over the head with the 2x4 symbolism at the end.

Which symbolism? Do you mean Don in the ocean also doing the BVM thing?

Which symbolism? Do you mean Don in the ocean also doing the BVM thing?

Yeah, and the whole baptism imagery.

I think I like the ocean so much and I would love for Don to be happy (and am also a Christian) that I didn't mind the obviousness this time. Rebirth! Rebirth!

I didn't mind the imagery because I think Don was consciously making that gesture. Not the BVM hands, which I think is how you'd normally go into the waves to keep your balance, but just baptism and renewal.