ok, so my only problem with Mad Men is one that keeps getting worse as the show progresses: there aren’t any good relationships on this show. there are interesting relationships, and plenty of them. but there aren’t any good ones. no one truly loves or even likes one another on this show. every relationship is driven by an admixture of lust, envy, greed, fear, and fingerbanging. i know that this is the early 60s, and that a lot of marriages were awful, and all of that. but can’t someone on the show have a loving, healthy relationship of any kind – between friends, or co-workers, or even a parental one? i realize those aren’t as interesting, but the complete lack of them is causing the show to ring false for me.

Also, writing “Sterling” with a marker on the overhead projector was just heartbreaking.

This episode drives home the point that, in reality, there is no The Man. Every The Man, like Lane Pryce or Guy McKendrick or Don or Roger, has other The Men for whom he works and who will always be willing to screw the lesser The Man over.

So I’m going to stop trying to be The Man, now.

Yeah, I’m Mormon, too, and Beck does not in any way represent my views or those of the church.