Loved the end of Mad Men tonight. Don found an inventive way to punish Sterling for making a pass at his wife, though I was a little disappointed that he seemed to blame her for the pass being made in the first place.

I knew that hair thing would come back to bite her, but I thought it would be in a different way. I loved the friend making up the excuse to come over. So very old school

No, he was the guy who killed his partner in episode 2. (If you're talking about JM.)

Yeah, that was excellent revenge. And I was also disappointed that he blamed Betty for Roger coming onto her but then I figured that it made sense given his insecurities about who he is compared to Roger and Betty, you know? And I was pleased that the mother of the insano boy had the same reaction that we did about Betty giving him the lock of hair.

Mad Men: I wasn't surprised that Don blamed Betty for Roger's grope. One big aspect of the show is that everybody buys into the culture. That's how it works. That's how Betty's neighbor can talk about loving that look down the dress look.

Yeah, Don's smile as he leaves Roger on the landing definitely indicates that was a revenge. And planned back at at the last martini.

An interesting thing about Pete is that he's right about the future. He sees how things will play out, the little weasel. But he's the character that anticipates the changes in the sixties.

They're going to develop Peggy as a writer. That's clear. And fascinating. There were a few major female writers in the ad business in the sixties.

Has anybody else noticed that the last three episodes were either written or directed by women?

The whole show reminds me of Tim's "Are You Now..." because they use the past to illuminate the present. It's the inverse of science fiction; historical fiction as a metaphor for the present. The implication is that the sexism, racism, anti-semitism is still present but just buried in different ways.

Another vote for disappointed but not remotely surprised. This is Dick Freakin' Whitman we're talking about, after all.

And I loved Pete seeing the Kennedy youth appeal and completely not convincing any of the others. Also, various people not knowing what "dip" was.

I loved how people didn't know what chip and dip was either. I didn't realize that was a exciting new culinary adventure in 1960. Didn't Dick plan the revenge well before the lunch? Because he bribed the elevator operator much earlier.

Rescue Me: A TWOPPER posted this screencap to support the idea that the season, has so far, been a dream.

(I will be sad if Tommy doesn't have an actual IW pup and it's just some sort of dream spirit animal.)

Yeah, Hec, I noticed the thing in the credits. But then, I always do. Look for that, I mean. They really made Don's boss look sick in this one, didn't they? And I'm not talking about what he put Betty through. I'm talking about when he got sick in the meeting, he really looked green and stuff. Most shows don't do that to their actors. About the look, even though I spend half the time watching this show wishing I could tell the guys to keep their hands to themselves, growing up with a different set of expectations, I sort of understand what Mrs.Draper's neighbor means.

Sexist or not, I don't get that kind of attention. If you do, that probably sounds like what our mothers fought for, but actually? It kind of feels like being at the kids'table for life.

I'm surprised Helen didn't find that a strange request from her boy...has he been doing that a lot?

You've got to think that he has -- but I thought her response to Betty giving him the lock of hair was appropriate. Perhaps she should have mentioned the kid's strange proclivities to Betty and told her to not indulge him.

Yeah, it is, in a strange sort of way, like he kissed her and Betty kissed him back. I have very little idea what I would have done in Mrs. Draper's place, though.

Okay, we're NAFDA in here, right? That's what all the confusion over in Bureau was, right? Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but Ima talk about it in blackfont.

First, an awesome, crazy episode. How much do I love Joan? "I don't care if it's to Cuba, I need some notice."

I knew something was up when they gave us the shot of Don's hands and the money as the elevator doors closed, but I didn't ping to what he'd done until the little grin at the end. I thought it was an interesting revenge, since it took place in the context of work. He made Roger look a fool in the building with his name on it. It was all so deliberate, the oysters, the alcohol, the freaking cheesecake. And then when he left him, he practically skipped up the last steps. Until I realized what was happening, I thought Roger was about to have a stroke or something.

We don't think Betty did do anything to provoke Roger's pass, do we?

I liked how the lines of the gender world keep getting drawn. The womens' world of groceries, shops, kitchens. What people expect out of each other.

And I'm still so completely creeped out by the shrink's reporting back to Don. As a woman today I function with so much autonomy; I take it all for granted. And it's not. I know my putative daughters will live again in a world completely recreated from mine, but it's hard to realize how different my world is from that of my mother.