Mad Men is on in 5 minutes! OMG!! So excited!!!

That is all.

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and I'll watch it tonight. Looking forward to it.

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I love how intellectual this show is too--no spoon feeding the audience. The little bits and pieces of Don/Dick's past were so brief, and yet revealed so much not only about who he was, how he got his name, and what made him the man he is "now"--as a writer, I say YIKES. Minimalism at its best. (And DAMN he is SUCH a dog! But now we know why...sort of...)
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He was always the "ambitious young man" in the '60s, now he's part owner of the company! :rofl:

He's a great character, but I think they're focusing too much on the partners. I think they need to give more screen time to the secretaries & the frat boys. More Hildy, more Kinsey, and more Sal.

It was a rare sour note for a show that rarely makes any mistakes. Dick was a fairly common name in the 1920s. As a plot gimmick, it seemed gratuitous and a cheap giggle compared to the serious character development and otherwise very intelligent writing.

Sal having his first gay experience was daring and flawlessly played. I just hope we haven't seen the last of the tragic and intense Duck Philips. After Joan, Don, Hildy, Roger, Kinsey, Pete, and Little Sally Draper, Duck's my favorite character.

It actually was a minor event compared to all the other stuff that went on in the ep. I mean, zOMG Sal! That was INCREDIBLY played--the passion and desire but also the fear and the taboo--the actor really showed his inner conflict. Amazing, powerful stuff. And his fear of Don after that--! Wow. And I truly believe Don would never, ever "out" him.

LOL Sally. I love that kid. A product of her environment--who knows how she'll turn out? Will she repress all her daddy (and mommy) issues when she gets older and be like her mother, an ice queen (an ice queen in therapy perhaps)? Or will she explode in the hedonism of the '70s? Fascinating to speculate about.

Yeah, I like Duck too, dealing with his alcoholism and loss of his family because of it, during a time when you not only were surrounded by booze and the pressure to drink at all times, but also lacking any support system/form of therapy to overcome the addiction. You'd just have to "buck up and deal with it" and keep it all to yourself. Wow.

But that's because he always sympathizes with outsiders and people with secrets, even while ruthlessly pursuing his own career and selfish interests. He's almost incapable of being faithful to his wife, but only screws around with women who are basically of high moral character. I really loved the way they showed his loyalty to Ann Draper last season--she's way high up on a pedestal for him, because she knows his secret. I think he's developing the same relationship with Peggy.

It wasn't clear in the last show of last season that they were going to get rid of him.

Pete Campbell griped about Peterson in a couple of eps in Season 2. How he got to be head of accounts is a mystery, unless they were hinting at the crappy management decisions of the new owners. Certainly the double heads of accounts is going to be a shitty decision plotline for the next few episodes.

Have you seen this site? What Would Joan Holloway Do? http://whatwouldjoando.tumblr.com/

on the way back from Baltimore, when Draper comes up with a slogan for the London Fog campaign, gives Sal a warning about his secret and yet reassures him of his own silence on the matter, all while skillfully avoiding the awkward intimacy their conversation was going to require, in only three words: "Limit Your Exposure."

That was brilliant.