no wonder he's still on the show, despite his terrible acting. I haven't seen acting like that since Greyson Fletcher as Shaun Yost on John From Cincinnati.

his acting really should be an embarrassment to Weiner. he should be feeling how GHWB must have felt watching Dubya run the country.

yeah, i commented to FShe that he's just such an awful, awful actor

*applause* for the JFC reference.

i had no idea that was his son!! hilarious.

@The_Michael_Jay: @iamcolinquinn you look at Joan after Don pulls Lane off the door and say "if you bang him now you can take over his ownership share".

Haha, Colin is the best person on Twitter, bar none.

I am glad the heavy-breathing calls to Megan -- erm, not to her, but received by her -- were someone other than Glenn. I mean, how far-fetched: she's raven haired, & Glenn digs blondes (Betty, Sally...).

Also: love that Roger is apparently still dropping acid, &, now, doing naked yoga. Odds Roger goes to Woodstock, & on the way, picks up a hitchhiking, runaway Glenn & Sally (at which point, Sally, incredulous, asks the driver, "Mr Sterling?", & Roger replies, "Sally? Does your father know where you are??"), also on their way to Woodstock: OFF THE BOARD.

& Pete & Trudy's neighbourhood either turns into Peyton Place; Pete, Trudy, & the Gilmore Girl have a threeway; or Pete & the second man to live out every Mad Men viewer's fantasy ("punching Pete in the face") do the Kekich-Peterson two-step.

pete gets his ass kicked on this show more often than martin prince does by jimbo, dolph and kearney on the simpsons

LOL

I'm thinking ol Pete, tired of getting his ass kicked, turns to the bottle and starts dishing out some domestic violence.

Notable quote; "I'm going to have the same view as you Don"

After the Lane Pryce ep, this was kind of a let down.

Best thing I saw on twitter: "More like a Season Meh-nale"

I don't know. I was let down by the lack of Lane; after the opening credits included Jared Harris, I was expecting some flashbacks, or visitations from beyond the grave, but all we got was Dick Whitman's Benedict Cumberbatch looking brother showing off his neck scars. But other letdowns? Not so many.

(If any.)

& I laughed out loud at Peggy's new colleague(s) insisting she smokes, when she doesn't, unless you count reefer. (Do they know she's a pothead?)

Nice Reservoir Dogs style closer, too, with the surviving partners arrayed across the second-story addition.

That shot and the overhead shot of Roger/Marie on the bed stood out for me in the episode.

I love the crank/disguised calls on this show - first Peggy's "PIZZA HOUSE" and now Roger's bad french trying to reach Marie. I also thought it might be Glen breathing heavy on the phone to Megan and was relieved that it wasn't.

A funny tweet I saw about Pete was quoted in the Vulture recap from Community writer Megan Ganz: "Pete Campbell should think about getting a less punchable face."

I dunno. The whole "You Only Live Twice" music and James Bond metaphor seemed a bit ham handed for me. A self assured Don Draper just doesn't carry that same heft given what we know of all his flaws. Then again, it stems from my having unrealistically high expectations for everything this show does.

I will say I'm still amazed that as imminently punchable as Pete is, I always end up having some sort of sympathy for him. Just a brilliantly complex character.

True. I was hoping for some Leonard Cohen to close out the episode/season. Especially considering the heavy French Canadian current.

Then again, I have always* had a hard-on for Suzanne.

*Since October or November 2002, always.

I'll go on record as fucking DESPISING the dream sequence thing with Dick's brother in the dentist office. Talk about Hack City. I thought him continually seeing the brother was good enough of a "Yeah, he knows he fucked up" but of course Weiner is Senor Dream Sequence - he can't help himself.

I want to re-watch this (tivo'd the whole season) - was the chick at the end Megan's friend from earlier in the episode (who looks like Ivanka Trump, and had a lot of trouble deciding what accent she was supposed to be using)?

I think this was sort of anti-climactic after the events of the season, and I'm kind of surprised that's how they chose to leave it.

I did think it was awesome that Pete got beat up again (twice!) and that the husband basically dropped that his wife is insane, and a damn ol gut beater, which should be an even bigger blow to Pete's ego since he thought he was in LURV but the wife don't even remember him.

i honestly dont know about the whole season. maybe the weakest of the bunch. very entertaining, just didnt pack much of an emotional wallop for whatever reasons. thoughts?

weird season - online chatter seems to be evenly split between those who think it's the worst season ever and those who think it's the best season ever...not many fall in between

Even the I didn't much like Joan going from de facto to de jeur prostitute, nor did I want to see Lane die, I think this season has been pretty damn awesome.

I think the haters have gotten hung up on the (supposed) infatuation with Megan on the part of the show's creative & writing team, starting from the "Zubee Zubee Zub" opener, but seeing how they stuck the knife in at the end, Megan using her friend's suggestion to big-time her, we know why.

(Additionally, Betty was going to be a small part of the season, if for no other reason than January Jones's off-set condition (pregnancy), & they needed a female intimate to Don around whom to build the story. & preferably not Peggy, who's not supposed to be as prone to using her body to get ahead as the rest of them.)

As it goes, though, anybody who could get past the Sterlings acid trip installment without thinking this a top season is crazy.

No, believe it was a rando

I feel like this season feels like S4 of The Wire feels now (not when it aired) -- getting ham-handed and running out of ideas. I realize part of the point is that everyone is "borne back ceaselessly into the past", but I don't feel like the next season has anywhere to go. Extra office space or not, the awards on Don's wall read 1957, 1958, 1959. We've been watching him fall for over a decade now, but it's starting to feel stale. At the same time, going McNulty Fake Serial Killer is a sure-fire dud.

With all the call-backs to earlier seasons, especially the first, this felt like it was written to be the end of the series.

I thought the finale was good not great--it's always hard to tie things up especially when you have two episodes as strong as the two preceding the final.

I've never rewatched this show but my memory has always been that Season 3 was the worst; not only was the Don/Betty marriage breakup an uncomfortable bummer but it was definitely the most "soap opera-y" of the five.

all that nonsense with the teacher down the lane and her good-fer-nothin' brother

Whatever season had BOBBY BARRETT had some clunkers of episodes, IMO. I mean, it established that Draper is a Z-Grade scumbag, but yelch.