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WHAT....THIS IS HIS BUSINESS....SA you have been on rangoon leave too long

Insightful, bet you are on to something...

The jumper was originally going to be Harry Crane, after he cheated on his wife in Season 1. But they liked the actor enough to keep him around instead.

Same here. I read her first 3 from this season and stopped because there's really nothing in there. It's just a cliff notes of the show.

Sepinwall did point out something very interesting, about how accelerated the cultural stuff is in this year after the show was only gradually affected by it in the first 4 season. Which IMO is really reflected historically, since what people consider to be "the 60s" is really the years from 1964/5 to the end of Nixon. So it makes a lot of sense that the history and culture of the show remained fairly stagnant, or at least minimally impacted by outside forces thus far.

Did she point him to that specific song? If so, I missed it. I didn't understand why he would immediately go to the last track on side 2 of the disc.

Why didn't Don immediately report the issue with the elevator to maintenance?

At the current pace of the historical events included on the show (Richard Speck, Charles Whitman, Revolver), I will be born in about 3 or 4 episodes.

I don't remember her saying a specific song, she just gave album to him

Yeah....I'm going to go back and watch that scene again.....and then I'll go back and watch Peggy give the hand job to the random dude in the theater during the movie "Born Free".

Don't know if it's been mentioned but the cast and Weiner will be on Inside the Actor's studio on May 14th.

This is my feeling as well. Or at least, I doubt it will be Pete. There's been so much around him that screams "THIS GUY IS GOING TO DIE" that it is now so obvious that they're building towards his death that I'd actually be surprised if it ends up happening. Did anyone notice that when he hung his coat up in the office right before talking to Harry, it was framed in such a way to look like the Grim Reaper lurking behind him?

I also had a different interpretation of the elevator shaft than Sepinwall and a few others I've read. Don clearly wanted to chase after Megan, and try to convince her to keep going like they had been going...the "love leave" that Cooper talked about. I think the shock of the empty elevator shaft jolted him away from that. I don't really know what it means for Don and Megan, but I think that his work will start improving again. I already felt like his presentation with Peggy was an example of him being the more focused and driven of the two of them. Back to blaming Peggy and believing in his heart that he could do no wrong even when she really wasn't to blame.

As an aside...I didn't really catch why, exactly, they needed to be doing that presentation in the first place. Why wasn't it in the office? And why did they need to see Don and Megan (or Peggy) act it out instead of them just describing what it would be to Head of Desserts Belding? Just seemed like a very unusual pitch from most, if not all, of the others we have seen through the series.

Pete is too interesting/important of a character to kill off.

Killing off a main characters seems too cheesy and expected. I doubt it happens.

For what it may be worth, my psychologist wife thinks the elevator shaft and Don's staring down that shaft was a projection of his isolation, detachment and helplessness.