Okay, Mad Men fans, what's up with Don Draper? Is he going to leave his job, his wife, his made up life? I couldn't hardly believe his boss left his wife, Mona, for that dipwad secretary of his. She is his real wife in real life, her first husband was George Clooney!

Oh no - I missed Sunday night - AARGH!!

Char...this is now, hands down, my favorite show on TV!!

I think Don is jumping from woman to woman because he's the ultimate emotionally unavailable man. He and Betty barely know each other.

Gosh, Jon Hamm is certainly a beautiful looking man!

OMG yes, he really is beautiful! Even that man by the pool referred to him as 'beautiful', some men just are. And then........lying with just that sheet on, and his hair all messed up, wooooooooooooo, I'm having a hot flash here!!

I love the show. It too is my favorite (not that I watch that many, but I tell myself I've made a conscious decision to tune it
to this one every Sun night (and read the blog, too occasionally,.... so It Is my favorite, bar none ;-) )

I don't know what's going to happen, outside of JFK being assassinated and the whole ball of wax unraveling from thereon.
If You look at the sneak previews on the blog site, this series is ending in two more episodes, Roger and Mona get back together
(Chard who is Roger's wife in real life?? Jane or Mona? methinks Jane is too young to have been Clooney's wife, so it must be
Mona (sorry don't know the actresses' name---- I haven't seen the entire first season (yet), but I know 'Mona' is a big
favorite of many of the MM bloggers, so she must be a great dame ;-) )

This was a Great episode..... the dreamlike atmosphere of everything that transpired in Cali --- the Betty look-a-likes and sound-a-likes,
Peggy finally getting rid of that awful hair/look and by the outspoken foreigner, no less. (loved it), DD calling someone as Dick Whitman (!!)
Pete getting rebuffed and rebuffed again by the west coasters, playing What'll I Do (sung by Mathis no less) as one of the music motifs.

I Can't Wait for next week's episode. I think I like it even more than Rome --- and that was pretty damn good......

As perfect as a diamond. That Palm Springs house! The pool, the interiors, even the phone!

This is why I love MM so much. I knew something was going to happen to Don in California, but I never dreamed he'd be taken in by...Eurotrash? Decadent tax exiles? Of course! But I never would have thought of it.

Don and Roger are both dealing with death; Roger with his own by suicidal behavior (smoking, drinking, risking everything for the young secretary); Don with has moment-of-truth as he realizes the possibility of nuclear holocaust. Lots of "mirroring" going on, too...it harkens back, I think, to the scene where he's sitting in the bathroom with his daughter, the closet door swings open, splitting the screen into the real Don and the mirror Don. Then the woman in the bar, who looked so much like Betty; the cracked cocktail glass, the reflected pool light playing across his face. Exquisite.

And the music in this particular episode...yes, it was just truly perfection. There is so much trash on TV. It's a pleasure to watch a show that so much care goes into.

The scene where the new guy in the office...the cute European guy...casually makes his announcement. OMG, I laughed out loud at their faces.

Do you like Peggy's new hairdo? Very chic.

Yes, it certainly is an improvement! It believe that in 1962 the "bouffant" was all the rage, because women wanted to emulate Jacqueline Kennedy.

Now, if her new GBF would get to work on some makeup for her...

As far as the announcement is concerned, it was incredibly brave, even from a European (what is he? German?) in that time and place. And someone will make him pay.

I felt awful for Salvatore, too. I wonder if it will be the miserably closeted Sal who takes his revenge.

I think that the person Don was calling at the end of the episode was a member of the real Don Draper's family.

I so agree Mary, I like the fact that there are so many layers or dimensions, whatever to the story and the characters. You can watch it once and see one thing, and then watch it again and see more, I love that kind of show where you really have to pay attention or miss something. I will be so unhappy when this season ends, but then I will also be looking forward to the 3rd season of The Tudors....

Luv The Tudors!

That's a good guess, GD. It could be (but I doubt it) the woman who showed up at the car dealership where he worked as a young man. She had been looking for him, and said, "You're not Don Draper." Did we ever even find out who she was? The family must be completely mystified, because he never came home, despite having survived and receiving a purple heart (so the Army would have told them).

But, to set the record straight, he might very well be calling the Draper family. Still, think about it: the whole show is built on the fiction of Don Draper. If he tells the Draper family who he is, and word gets out, his own world comes tumbling down. Unless he simply tells them what happened to Don, and then hangs up and goes back to NY. Where, it seems, he has some 'splainin' to do. I don't know. I'm not as smart as these writers.

Didn't his brother tell him that his father and his stepmother were both dead? Maybe it's another family member he's calling to tell them that Adam hung himself. Maybe another wife????!!!! I wouldn't put it past him.