Did Fairly Legal do the same plot as Ringer? Weird.

I really liked that episode of Mad Men. Are people still hating Megan? Because she was pretty badass tonight. I also love that Peggy was happy for her rather than being jealous of her, which is what I expected.

Poor Sally. That kid is so scarred. Also, those boots were great.

Some belated thoughts on Justified.

Boyd and Ava are not just likeable. They are super likeable. The writers have us cheering for them. But they are have very real dark sides. Boyd is a crime lord. He heads an empire of drug dealing, prostitution, extortion. They have both sides - caring often heroic, but bad guys as well - and I don't just mean law breakers. That he often ends up in alliance with Raylan and likes Raylan enough to take risks to save his ass does not change that.

Boyd is not above using threats of violence (I'll bet not bluffs) to get people to work for him - like threatening the mother of that doctor who wanted no part of the Oxy business. That is not an "honorable outlaw" schtick - but straight out bad guy action.

Ava, aside from sitting still for murder, crossed the line when she decided to become a Madam. Note that in the election, pineapple juice was being handed out, which implied that blowjobs were being given without condoms. Further in the season finale, she descended to slapping around one of her prostitutes.

Ava and Boyd are multi-layerd characters. Ava especially tends to be awesome a lot, though Boyd is not slouch at that. But their darks sides are real and not going away. (BTW Raylan has his own dark side. We have seen him deliberately maneuver things at least twice to legally kill someone he believes deserves killing (and of course we agree with him). In the first episode of the first season, and when he killed Dickie. That is murder too. In this fictional world Raylan only murders people who deserve it, but in the real world murdering cops are seldom as perfect judges of "needs killin" as Raylan is.

I'm pretty sure that is one of the strengths of the show - how the good guys and the bad guys kind of blend into one another. Even Raylan's semi-by-the-book boss was willing to torture a suspect and threaten (again not bluffing) to kill that suspect while he was tied up - to save someone's life and get revenge for his friend. All the simple codes don't work. Raylan fails his own test if he ever looked at it too closely, and Boyd's quest for a simple set of rules lead him into huge trouble. I'm pretty sure that in the end, "getting paid and blowing shit up" won't be enough for him either.

Yeah, I really dug tonight's Mad Men. Peggy and Megan, and Joan and Peggy especially. And that sad tableau at the table, everyone disillusioned with their prizes.

Inspired by that great last scene: Who Watches the Mad Men?

It's a dirty city, but only Sally Draper and Rorshach can see it.

Nice. I can see Sally growing up to be a masked vigilante. That seems like a viable option for her.

Peggy and Megan, and Joan and Peggy especially.

Yeah. Peggy still looking for Joan for validation and Joan now able to give it graciously. Then Peggy turning around and praising Megan instead of being jealous, and trying to put it into perspective for her.

Also, I can't believe they got Julia Ormond!

Also: poor Sally.

Seconal and blow jobs. That just sounds like s song title for The Strokes.

Typo Boy, Death is his gift. I've been rereading the book "Raylan" and there's a funny part between Boyd and the oil company lady. She says "Go to the nursing home, which we're paying for," and then orders him around about something else. Boyd gets pissed and says "You shouldn't talk like that," Ms. Conlan says "No, wait...we agreed, Mr. Crowder." "It's not about that. You should never end a sentence with a preposition...you should say 'The nursing home for which we provided services." ETA: Mad Men: I liked Roger Sterling a lot this week. You could see the guy Joan fell for.(I've had a soft spot for JS for a long time, and it was nice to see Roger being other than an overprivileged knob.)

Ooh, is the road clear for Roger & Joan and a happy little nuclear family?

Little notes: Sally with her hair up looks like Betty in her happier Italy vacation days. Loved her instinctively lying about the cause of the trip being the phone wire. We used to do that, too, that thing was treacherous! After a while we were only allowed to drag the kitchen phone cable with us wherever, which means we could only go as far as the coil would let us.

I'm kinda glad that Peggy got the response she did to her announcement about Abe. Anything else would have been unrealistic for the time. And especially when you know that the mom covered Peggy's pregnancy. She's already had to deal with the reality of her daughter's sexual activity. Peggy's successful career was made possible by that gambit, while I'm sure Peggy's mom only intended to protect her daughter's successful later marriage and family. Which she appears now to be uninterested in.

I'm glad that this is the resolution to Peggy and Abe's relationship problems as reflected in the past few episodes. I really like them together and think he's good for her.