Yeah, that was exactly how that needed to go down. And Sally has the potential to be even more manipulative than her mother, learning from the best. Sally is smart, and she's kinda emotionally falling through the cracks here, even though both sets of parents are apparently trying.

It was the sort of thing that would totally have thrown Old!Don and nearly threw New!Don. But Betty's disappointment when the gambit failed was so severe.

I agree with all of that. In other news, I wonder whether the writers have a contest to see who can give Bobby Draper the dumbest things to say.

I wonder whether the writers have a contest to see who can give Bobby Draper the dumbest things to say.

He's Ralph Wiggum.

Betty's little ploy was so minor compared to shit I know about going down in a divorce or afterwards. A bitchy little stab to put a wedge between Sally and Megan (and Don), while she's feeling helpless and deprived. Loved her Thanksgiving speech: "I have everything I want. And nobody has any better."

In that way she's just like Pete. She can never be filled up, no matter how much she gets. At least Don and even Roger are breaking from some of their patterns. Roger's arc this season has been fascinating and strange. From pure farce to a genuinely soulful reappraisal.

Back to Joan and Lane and apparently Harry Crane next episode.

I didn't even get to the end, because my hate for Betty is so severe it feels like misogyny.(I know that even women internalize shit like that, but I can't help thinking that if they wanted to humanize her by making her fat, it's not working at all.) Like I know I was supposed to feel something in that little thing where Betty sees Megan all lithe and flexible, but it just looked like a bad actress in latex and probably the world's ugliest coat, making that constipated face Ms. Jones makes when she has feels.

Like I know I was supposed to feel something in that little thing where Betty sees Megan all lithe and flexible, but it just looked like a bad actress in latex and probably the world's ugliest coat, making that constipated face Ms. Jones makes when she has feels.

Actually her best acting moment was the very last scene where she tries really really hard to enjoy her three bites of Thanksgiving dinner and just can't.

That'll teach me not to finish, then.

Well, it wasn't my favorite episode either. And Betty's Best Scene is never going to be as good as Joan's Best Scene. Betty hasn't had a Fuck Yeah moment since she started shotgunning birds.

She hasn't. Although I liked her when she was able to share the Beatle-ticket moment with Sally. And I felt bad when she wanted to talk to Dr. Edna.

I would love for Betty to get a real storyline and not be reduced to Bitchy Ex-Wife But She's Fat Now So Feel Bad For Her Being Fat.

January Jones is not the best actor in the cast, but she is able to play emotions other than Hungry and Angry, if only Weiner would write her some.

Yeah, I'm beginning to feel that she is, like, standing in for Bitch-kind in a very uncomfortable way that's really heightened my response (and, though I love sympathetic characters, everyone on "The Wire" got to be both sympathetic and not) and even sticking to *this* show, I don't like Pete at all. But I do stop short of wishing VK would walk off the show and not come back... Hamm is really excellent at drawing us into Don's drama against what feels like our better instincts...not everyone can do that... I get that. Not everyone can be fresh and eager like Peggy, or molten sexuality like Joan. Roger is the closest of the dudes to being one-note like Betty, but he got a real story this year. (Although if he wanted to be martini comic relief, I'd be down with it...he kind of tickles me. Although I'm not sure if I like Roger, or have always enjoyed watching JS work.