Mad Men.

Mad Men has the ability to trust in itself and take time to develop storylines - wasn't there (in Series 1?) a flashback to Don's war service when he changed ID's with a dead soldier?

... and as for Sal's new storyline - that dinner-party scene in the flat just oozed repressed sexuality from Sal (and, sign of the times, Ken's absolute naivet
 
I think Don will find Betty more attractive when she's not his wife and becomes unobtainable. I don't think they are over by a long chalk.
 
Maybe too clever. I can see a very good case for dropping that theme from the campaign for exactly that reason. It's far too close to the real assassination to be tasteful. If I was a client, I wouldn't want my product associated with such an event.
 
Apart from the fact that she is still beautiful January Jones is nothing like Betty when you see her interviewed. It really is a great performance.
 
He had called her Ruth earlier in the episode - he thought she was his wife who died as Betty does look a lot like her.

Well, she looks a lot like the painting of her! :D
 
The episode which shows him ask his father for money actually shows him in a very sympathetic light. He wants to be creative but has to take a serious job, because of the Campbell name, or his mothers name, whilst he struggles to make his way for himself, outside of the burden of the name, but yet at the same time he is the weasly, sniping, tattletale that he is because his name has always opened up doors and so he has an inflated sense of who he is. He also in one of the later episodes behaves extremely like a posh boy at a public school instead of a young man in a workplace. Nasty piece of work but a complex one.
 
Another great episode. Betty finally knows the truth about Don.

As regarRAB Joan and her husband, I remember in the last season he basically forced himself on her, does she still hold that against him? Do people think that with him joining the army, he and Joan are going to last?
 
Poor Sally, that scene where she's alone in front of the tv in the dark room, and the adults are all in the kitchen.... broke my heart!

Great episode, I adore this show!
 
Absolutely the best programme on TV and how typical of the BBC to drop it. They have no idea of what the (thinking) public wants. Let's hope a commercial channel picks it up quickly.
 
I agree that it's wonderful. I've been watching it at US pace because I was so hooked. What I like most about it is it's attention to detail- not just the setting and time period but in the characterisation too.
 
Love this show, total class.

I agree about Peggy, oh dear that will be a major crisis for Peter.
 
Oh, you caught me :D, I do have a small crushette on Mr Hamm, but I have to admit that the Don character is also attractive - not his philandering ways obviously, just certain masculine, in command, level qualities, enigmatic as you say. Don and Betty are my favourite characters on the show and I so hope they will stay together and manage to overcome their problems mostly. I enjoy other characters too though.

One of the things I dread about the long wait is that inevitably one can read spoilers along the way. This was my first series watching MM, but towarRAB the end certain plotlines were revealed by searching for news and info and reading other forums. However disciplined I'll try to be about not spoiling it for myself, I know I'll end up knowing the story by this time next year. Which is a pity.
 
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