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.

I thought that the title sequence is Don's future.

I'm guessing that we'll start seeing more of Joan (Saffron) - she seemed like she was so important in the pilot and then she pretty much disappeared.

I wasn't sure if I liked "Mad Men" but now I need to know what Draper is hiding.

My guess is that there was some ugly situation in Korea and the real Don Draper is killed - and he grabs his dog tags. And then Dick Whitman is listed as dead or MIA.

My guess is that there was some ugly situation in Korea and the real Don Draper is killed - and he grabs his dog tags. And then Dick Whitman is listed as dead or MIA.

so, Mad Men is stealing plots from The Simpsons?

That part I figured on. But is there something he's covering up, or is his family life just that trifling. It's kind of funny...he was his own first ad account. Sorta.

That is what he's covering up - he's not who he says he is. Why should it be more than that?

No special reason, but I thought there might be because of his wartime traumas and whatnot. Also, while I have joked about Changing My Name And Moving Away, Don really did.