Just watched 2.5 times. (Umm, twice, plus some strategic rewinds. Full-season rewatch scheduled for the weekend. Sadly, can't do tomorrow.)

Sumi, I can't say I'm disappointed, if only because I never for a moment expected anything different. This show (or I guess I should say, Weiner) has been an absolute master of the not-really-a-redirect all season. Of *course* Peggy was knocked up. Of *course* Dick's secret shame was class. Of *course* there was a real Don who died in the war -- all of it was there from the first moment, and the brilliant thing was how he made what we always knew was coming... not at all a surprise, because there really wasn't much redirection, but it's still new, maybe because of the lack of pointers and anvils and over-explanations. Kennedy won, and yet the show played it differently than I've ever seen it.

Youth culture is winning. Clearasil and Bob Dylan. OMFG BOB DYLAN -- not played for Pete, or Peggy, or already incredibly dated beatnik dude, or anyone else who represents the upcoming generation: for Don, because Dylan at 20 had that regretful thing going already, and because Don can't escape it.

(I've been veering back and forth between Dick/Don for weeks, but, no, Don.)

Damn, Don. Fucker made me feel for him, like I always knew he would. Not with the carousel presentation, which was sheer amazing ad-man slick, but with the callback to the earlier staircase moment. Stairs are the domain of lonely children.

Damn, Betty! Absolute triumph of playing the shrink. I share JZ's tiny-fist-shaking rage at the people who see her as a child. Love me some Betty.

Next season.

OMG NEXT SEASON. CAN'T WAIT.

The footage from the wrap party cracked me up, because the three stooges have exactly the same vibe in life as on the show. And because Morse and Slattery are so completely made of awesome. And can I take home a Jon Hamm of my very own please?

I loved how Betty played the shrink. Really excellent.

Poor Peggy. She'll put the baby up for adoption and be haunted by it.

Yeah, that was an awesome play by Betty. Also loved her scene with Glen. Poor little fucked up pre-teen pervert.

I like the new guy but I want Roger back.

And Betty was also passing along a message to Don. . . assuming that the shrink tells him what she said, the way she said it.

BTW, Maggie Siff (Rachel Mencken) was on GA this week.

Oh, very clearly -- hence the "playing".

Okay, so I really enjoyed the whole "Mad Men" ep last night, but the thing that really really bothered me is that Peggy didn't know she was pregnant. I think the reveal to the viewers could have been done differently. How the fuck didn't she know for nine freaking months? She mistook labor pains for a bad sandwich?

That whole thing didn't sit right with me.

But that happens, right?

I mean, it hits the news about some teenager who didn't realize that she was pregnant.

And really, I'm sure that Peggy thought that having started the pill she was protected so she couldn't possibly be pregnant.

People still think that. It takes a month, of course.

sumi,

I guess I can see a teenager, but Peggy is not a young teenager. It just seems ludicrous to me that she wouldn't feel the baby KICK and dismiss it as...what?

I bought the pregnancy storyline, but I'm not sure they made it clear that she didn't suspect it at all. Not that they gave much indication that she did suspect something, but she was looking at her weight gain in the mirror in one scene and there was enough ambiguity that just maybe something was running through her head.

Or not. Fact is, people have been know to give birth on toilets totally unaware that they were pregnant.