I don’t know, I thought that Frederick Douglas costume was adorbs and nerdy and innocent. Does that make me a racist? Even though I have black friends? Guys?

You mean “sno ball” though, right?

I was prepared to hate this show on principle, then I started watching it and begrudgingly liked it but continued to talk shit about how I liked it “in spite of my better self” AND THEN I saw the episode where Lizzy Caplan hates Jess for the same reasons I was hating the show and I felt bad for being such a dick about it. And then Jess said my favorite of her lines, something like “And now I’m gonna pay this fine, and my checks have baby farm animals on them, bitch!” So now I just love the show because it’s great. Yay!

As Gabe once said, the man will always be a goddamn national treasure.

Maybe that’s true, but what was really abhorrent about Don in that scene wasn’t just that he ordered for her, but that immediately when she rejected the sherbet he copped that patronizing dad tone with her that is just. so. irksome. “Don’t you think you might be overreacting with your uterus just a tiny bit, sweetheart?” Ugh!

I thought of that too, very briefly, when one of Megan’s friends at the party tells Don that Megan is a really good actress. Like, why would they put that line in THIS show if it didn’t MEAN something, right? But no, I don’t think that she is a literal con artist. I think she is genuinely optimistic and naive but also ambitious and wily. What is also interesting is not just how she handles Don, but how Don responds to her. He doesn’t seem to try manipulating or charming HER into anything, where that used to constitute so much of his MO with women before. For now, he seems to be genuinely honest with Megan about his insecurities and fears, which is… crazy. What about this girl inspires such openness and trust in our Don? Even their angry sex felt more like a game than a legitimate power struggle. Is he purely lying to himself about Megan, or was that crazy proposal last season not as crazy as it seemed?

I’m with you. I thought the Betty stuff was a little too on the nose. Ooooh the beautiful one is fat now but she might be sick! Oh wait, she’s not sick, she’s just fat and she has to deal with that cold, hard truth! And also, the episode just took like 3 random subplots and smooshed them all together randomly; the best episodes IMO are the ones that revolve around a common thread.

God, I hope not! I really hope this season will reveal Megan as a character separate from Don. It’s clear to me she’s in no way a villain here, but I also don’t see her as a good long-term match for Don. I think it would be great if she were given as much character development as the old Mrs. Draper.

Yeah, I hated her on principle last season finale and a little bit of the season 5 premiere, but it’s not her fault Don is morphing into Roger Sterling. She’s no Jane Segel, that’s for sure, but she is definitely filling the child bride to Don role right now. A way different kind of child bride than Betty was for Don, but still. I’m actually a little uneasy with this seemingly season-long theme of the new generation sweeping in and messing with everyone’s comfort zone. It’s odd not to see Don and the gang be front and center of everything/the cool kids in the room. But I think I like it! I don’t know, though, guys. I trust Matt Weiner but I’m nervous!

Kelly, no offense, but do you live in a house with, like, padded table corners ? Because this trick doesn’t seem THAT dangerous to me, a self-proclaimed non-daredevil-type person. Although… I guess I DID once lick jelly straight off of a butter knife, so.

30 Bras

Yeah, I mean if publicly humiliating then-wife Elizabeth Hurley by getting caught with a prostitute didn’t do it….