I did not believe the jumping at all. Sure it's easy to throw in a suicide attempt for someone whose life is as fucked up as Tommy's. But there was very little support for it this season. His character has been uneven this season - not in an interesting way, but in a poorly written way.

First he's pussified, then supposedly he gets his balls back, but he's still being pushed around by pretty much everyone. Then suddenly when he's playing for NYPD he's kicking ass at hockey again. He lets the nameless woman treat him like shit, is still phoning it in at the intervention (although the rest of that scene was pretty good), and finally starts drinking and smoking again because of Probie's depression?

Very little of what happened last night with Tommy resonated as true with me.

Mad Men - How amazing was last night? I don't know who's creepier now, VK's character or the divorcee's son. It might be a toss-up.

I agree!

And I'm a sucker but I had this fear that Don was going to shoot Adam -- I was completely surprised when he pulled that stash of money out of the briefcase. And it is interesting that he keeps a $5,000.00 stash in his desk at home -- is that the Depression-era distrust of banks coming into play?

I'm loving Mad Men, but I am kind of disappointed that they have made the divorcee's son a psycho, even if it is interesting to watch. I haven't seen this weeks episode yet though, but last week it seemed that they were trying to set it up as all the mother's fault. At least through Draper's wife's eyes.

Well, we don't have to believe what Mrs. Draper believes. (Do we know her first name?)

(Do we know her first name?)

According to amctv.com it's Betty, but I can't remember for sure whether I've heard it said.

Betty sounds right. Betty wants it to be the mother's fault because how can anyone that gets divorced be a good mother? I think she protects herself from having to know the real circumstances.

I actually guessed the whole money scene, figured it was cash but it was made to look like he was pulling a gun on him. I was trying to figure out what $5,000 then would mean today. $50,000?

Also liked seeing Christina Hendricks again. I hope they give her a lot more story - I find her character (and acting) more interesting than Don's secretary.

Betty sounds right. Betty wants it to be the mother's fault because how can anyone that gets divorced be a good mother? I think she protects herself from having to know the real circumstances.

Logically, I know your right, but emotionally, probably because I was raised by a single mother, I wanted to see her do the mother thing even better than the rest of them. Especially since most of the women in the town are just looking for excuses to hate her.

Also, I apologize for never knowing characters names. I really suck at it.

Burn Notice is really starting to become interesting for me. How are others enjoying it? I really want to know more about why he got burned, and it looks we might actually get some of that information.

I loved love loved last week's The Closer. I hate that all of these awful things are happening to Brenda at once, but I loved the way she is handling it. The elevator scene was excellent, as were her parents. I loved that we learned that she got her closer skills from her mother, and the actor who played her father was just perfect.

Saving Grace hasn't really taken off for me yet, but I am intrigued enough by it to keep watching.

Mad Men: I bought the thing as a gun. And was surprised and relieved and horrified when it turned out to be cash.

I love this show so much now.

So, now, speculatively, the title sequence is perhaps Don's past? Thus the fall ending up in him as he is now? So interested in his backstory now.

And VK's character moved from benign if naive and arrogant and entitled to already completely suffused in ambition and jealousy. Desperate to be somebody; caught where what he is is not due to him at all.

I thought his wife's role was well played. She's in it all, too, ready and eager to play the role she'd chosen, putting on the false front so easily. And then discovering what she's put herself in.

I still like the secretary. I want to know more about her, but I find her interesting. I was thinking about when I was a secretary to a university VP and how much about his private life I really did know. He was quite dull, really, but if there had been juice, I would have known it. I don't know what I would have done if asked to protect him.