<p>^^^</p>
<p>Thanks for this bit of news, but check the time again. It says Monday May 14 7PM in my guide.</p>
<p>Should have double checked it. Thanks! It is Monday May 14.</p>
<p>Pete: “I’ll go to your house and screw your wife.” just, wow!</p>
<p>Everyone’s getting to know Dick.</p>
<p>Mad Men has ruined Alexis Bledel for me. Watching old episodes of Gilmore Girls is just going to be weird now.</p>
<p>Never watched Gilmore Girls, so this is a fresh impression of her for me–as in fur coat. Very fresh.</p>
<p>I thought this was a terrific episode. So many jealousies brewing. Peter, Betty, Don. </p>
<p>I loved the scenes with Betty. Just when you get a glimmer of hope that maybe she can be a happier person, she reverts back to her jealous, petty self. </p>
<p>As to Alexis B. - I felt the same way - RORY!! Stay away from Peter!!!</p>
<p><lalalala fingers="" in="" ears="" and="" eyes="" closed=""> Does anyone know where I can watch Season 5 episodes online for free? I was recording them but missed the last two and knucklehead DS came home from college yesterday and erased them all. I am particularly clueless about these things–am not seeing episodes on the AMC web site (lots of extra content stuff), and have been to several web sites that either charge or look a little dicey.</lalalala></p>
<p>“knucklehead DS came home from college yesterday and erased them all”</p>
<p>You are well within your rights as a parent to take the cost of the Mad Men box set out of his tuition payment.</p>
<p>Don well on his way to joining Rodger as a has-been. Advertising is a young person’s game. He knows that. Will he revert to chasing women to validate himself?</p>
<p>MyLB - You can download an episode for about $2.00 from Amazon. Worth every penny! :)</p>
<p>In fact, I have started to wait until Monday so I can watch the commercial free version. I really think it flows so much better.</p>
<p>I can see mad men on demand from my cable company.</p>
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<p>Don is almost a full person with Megan…just have to wonder when he is going to crack. Clearly Megan is headed for some professional envy herself - that young woman who was reading with her was really good.</p>
<p>I love Roger.</p>
<p>Was anyone surprised by the way Don treated Michael Ginsberg, the new copywriter? I have not seen all seasons, but I did not expect him to stoop so low. Don is scared he’s losing his touch.</p>
<p>Don is defiantly realizing how he isn’t part of the young crowd anymore. It has been demonstrated numerous times - at the Rolling Stones concert, asking Megan about The Beatles, and just looking at the work being done by all the copywriters. I think Megan really helps him out in these situations.</p>
<p>Don is the guy who is just a few seconds too old to be in the Age of Aquarius.</p>
<p>It is particularly painful and even a bit touching for him to be feeling just on the outside, as he prides himself on these things:
his prowess with women due to that masculine confidence and mystery
his apparent adventurousness or is it restlessness?
his canny trendiness in the Ad Biz- was usually at the cutting edge, a bit ahead, a bit revolutionary
his escapist tendencies</p>
<p>He is being one-upped on all his games by the generation blossoming right in front of him.
He is showing a wonderful ambivalence: more comfortable than ever as a father and a husband, yet out of sorts with the rest of the world, esp his career.</p>
<p>It is interesting, because the cliche would be to have him turn into a hippy.
But he is much more complex than that.</p>
<p>But is it really that he has never really known himself, and thus is not all that flexible about changing?
Isn’t the Age of Aquarius the beginning of the hyper self-conscious, let’s analyze ourselves to death period? Now THAT is a big part of what Don just cannot do.</p>
<p>Thanks worknprogress–I must say I have been <em>loving</em> this season. Might have to cough up the $4.00.</p>
<p>(P.S. to musicamusica–good news/bad news is he graduated on Sunday!)</p>
<p>Interesting analysis performersmom. I see Don becoming a dinosaur pretty rapidly. Roger is adapting (I wouldn’t say evolving). He knows Pete is nipping at his heels but is more sanguine about it (and more openly devious), cheerful in his bitter way about some of the new possibilities…I don’t see Don dropping acid to “live together in the truth” anytime soon.</p>
<p>I think you can age and feel out of it socially and still be confident that you have the goods professionally. I just hope the next episodes aren’t dealing with impotence.</p>
<p>^ right. I think Don doesn’t have the same confidence anymore though. The only reason he was able to beat Ginsburg (this time) creatively is because he rifled through his folder and then spent hours alone riffing on Ginsburg’s ideas.</p>