Best thing about last night's show: Rory Gilmore sideboob.

Worst thing: they brought back Peggy. Every time she showed up, I yelled at the screen: YOU QUIT THE FIRM, NOW GET OFF MY TELEVISION! Oh, and she's working on an un-named women's cigarette, made in Virginia. What they're saying is that Peggy is the one who came up with the name "Virginia Slims" and the slogan "You've come a long way, baby." Further proof that Peggy is the worst.

Also, Megan stabbed her blonde friend in the back over the shoe commercial. Pity, she was one of the few genuinely likeable characters on the show.

This has been the season for punching Pete in his stupid baby face, but sorry, dead Lane, train conductor got off the best punch of the season.

+1 infected tooth as a terrible metaphor and +1 Rory's sideboob.

That final shot smirk of Don's sure was a nice pander. The show's becoming more overtly self-aware. That shit is cheap and sucks the marrow from the bone. Hope it doesn't continue next season but I fear it's already too late.

Last week's teaser intimated there would be some fallout from Joan's 'extraordinary duty'. Disappointing there wasn't.

Roger Sterling's naked ass on LCD gets my vote for moment of the episode. I hope next season has more Peggy and more Ginsburg. I'm sorry we're not going to see more interplay between those two characters, but I'll take them separately if I have to.

I disagree about Don's look, but I guess it's all in how you interpret it. The question was "Are you alone?" and I feel that the lesson of this season is that Don finally isn't alone because he inexplicably has found happiness with Megan, and he will do what he can to make her happy.

Jacob,
Hmm. Guess it is all interpretation. I see Don being/feeling alone despite certain joys in his relationship with Megan. Lest we forget, he also near-sexually assaulted her a few times, lest we all forget a tendency towards sexual assault being a pattern of his behavior from the show's start. He's lost his business fastball, he's transforming from sauve lothario to old man grumpy pants.
That look, to me, said "Old Donny's back you guys! Ya feel me?" Ugh, that wry grin to the camera? No like!

@4 Good call. Betty ended up an oblivious pawn in that one but it recalls his current problem. Variations on a theme.

Minor emergency: Was the woman who approached Don at the end of the episode Megan's friend from acting class? They looked very similar but I can't tell because I have that sociopath problem with recognizing faces, even when I'm skipping around an iTunes file. Plus I can't screen cap it so...what do you think! It's a big deal if it is and it's bad casting if it isn't.

good shit:

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