Mad Men.

What, and the new guy isn't? I don't buy this reasoning. She has been with Don a long time and ups and leaves him for someone she's met maybe half-a-dozen times. Who cares what Don's past is - he's obviously quite a private person and doesn't like discussing his lowly origins, that's hardly grounRAB for leaving someone. ISTM the only real difference between their infidelities is that Don enacts his, while Betty just fantasises about hers.
Don definitely seems to be the closer, more caring parent.
 
I may be wrong, but I took it to mean that he thought the scramble for a loaf of bread by hungry people was more dignified than the sight of his firm being so eager to exploit a rich fool.
 
Ref last nights episode. Explain something to me. When Cooper was in Dons office, he made a remark (about the contract) along the lines of "after all who's really signing this". What does he know about Dons past?
 
Loved seeing the High Flight video on television with Pete and the model.

But that's just me and an obsession of mine.

Bob Barker with Truth or Consequences last week High Flight this week, its like they are tailoring the show to me.
 
I am really hoping that Don and Peggy will become a couple. She would be very good for him - she's already pulled him out of his alcoholic despair. He would be good for her too. He knows her true self and she senses his.
 
Indeed there was - but, as I recall (and please correct me if I'm wrong), the story of Don swapping IRAB in the war was told over several scenes in the course of one episode.

What we had here was one isolated scene - quite a radical and bold thing to do. In most other dramas, this wouldhave been paid off within that episode - but Mad Men left us tantalised and intrigued ...
 
Great discussion here. I'm just wondering, what does anyone think about Don's funny turn by the pool? Was it really heat exhaustion, or is he starting to crack up? He did seem very out of it for most of the episode, compared to how controlled he usually seems in public, and there was that amazing moment where he picked up the phone and said "This is Dick Whitman."

I'm slightly wondering if he is tempted to go back to being Dick now that so much has gone wrong for Don and the supposedly perfect life he has built for himself is unravelling, with Betty throwing him out. He's walked out on his whole life once, so could he do it again?!

There was also a strange moment at the start in the hotel bar where it looked as if wife Betty and mistress Bobbie were both walking past Don together - was that an hallucination (maybe the start of him cracking up?) or were they just women who looked like them?
 
I watched this late, on iPlayer so I have little to add. Mad Men continues to grip me and it's an indication of what a saddo I am that the episodes are the highlight of my week ... I'll be bereft this time next week.

I thought Mona was absolutely superb in this episode - elegant, cool, capable - and the actress is a fine looking woman. I recently found out she is married to John Slattery, who plays Roger, in real life!
 
MM is far and away my favourite show...possibly ever...actually no, scratch that...my favourite since Sopranos!
 
Really enjoying season 3 so far. But can someone clarify a plot point for me please (from episode 5).

When Don is in the hospital, waiting for Betty to give birth, he gets on well with Dennis, the prison guard, whose wife is having their first child. Why, when Don is next in the hospital, walking to see Betty with a bunch of flowers in his hand, does Dennis not smile or say hi when he's wheeling his wife the other way?
 
I think most 20-year-olRAB with Jane's looks have an uncanny ability to land on their feet and know they can get away with things others can't. I suspect it was as true back then as it is today.:)

Joan is riled by Jane because she recognizes her as a younger version of herself.
 
I love to see pete featured in the show - remember the plane crash when the airline didn't think it was a good time to air an advert? 'My father died in that crash'

And when he sort of forced the au pair next door and told his wife never to go away again as if it were all her fault. he's such a sleaze!
 
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