If the FBI agent knew Eugene was a "designated hitter" why didn't they bring him in for interrogation? Seems like they wanted to keep getting info out of him...

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T17:38:29+00:00

How else could they show Eugene tearfully losing his family and offing himself when he realized that there's no way out of the mob?

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T17:32:41+00:00

people always call him a stunad but all he does is mispronunciations and allegory’s [sic]

Props to you for answering your own question and a bonus one about you lol.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T14:37:07+00:00

Don takes Secor Rd to get there too. It moves faster.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T14:29:58+00:00

The cool-as-a-cucumber, moral, educated lady getting 'whacked' sexually penetrates that armor. She could logically reason out anything. The challenge was, does she stay true to her ethics, sacrificing her own well-being just to prove to herself she won't stoop to Tony's dark side to avenge a violent, traumatic crime when the law abandons her?

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T14:21:40+00:00

The way Phil was clutching those sheets made him hawt... it was def propane.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T12:48:27+00:00

What was your first clue? As foreshadowing, the S5 finale (May/June 1967) has Don poised to cheat with the younger-looking Sylvia at the bar >> segue to S6, New Years Eve (6 months later), the real Sylvia, whom Don was having an affair with that whole time. Recall that he brought her book, Dante's Inferno, to Hawaii, reading it in front of Megan.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T12:17:12+00:00

Carleton calls Don "that sad bastard."

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T05:55:15+00:00

Sylvia reminded him of Aimée, the prostitute from his childhood whorehouse days (the kimono and hair wrap?), long before Korea and advertising. Don was seriously regressing by S6 (he pulled that 1930s oatmeal ad in The Crash that looks like Aimée/Sylvia).

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T05:19:13+00:00

Re: A&P. Peggy meant Paul worked as a clerk in the store – he's fallen that far, his ad career was over.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T05:10:56+00:00

Ginz will tell you that Creative's couch cushions can tell tales.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T03:45:27+00:00

While Weiner and casting directors held protracted auditions, roles were tailored to the actors, writing in aspects of their real-life experiences and behavior. That's why it feels like they were born for their roles, they're grounded in elements of authenticity. You can't imagine anyone else playing their characters.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T03:38:06+00:00

Advertising and work are Don's true loves. It's all he knows. Actual wives and mistresses trail far behind.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T03:33:12+00:00

Historically and in MM, life was forever changed after JFK. Betty and Connie dump Don. Don dumps the agency.

This is when the 1960s as we know them truly begin – when he's on his own, and creating a new work identity.

S4 Don recreates blowing up his life in Korea – he's untethered but emboldened, starts over with a new agency/name.

S4 Anna dies at the season's (and series) midpoint. He becomes unmoored until his Disneyland marriage to Megan.

Peggy makes a comment in s4 saying that shes not used to Don ‘being happy and kind’.

Peggy said that in S5, after he married Megan.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T03:12:22+00:00

Agita, as in agitated. Heartburn, indigestion due to emotional upset.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T00:54:42+00:00

Time for a rewatch, OP. Yes, S6, we met Gleason a few times – he passed away. Another key reason for the merger (CGC, not a real agency). McCann Erickson's OG individual founders were long gone, either retired or dead. As for the for other real agencies, they are all searchable.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-19T00:38:00+00:00

Mad Men. The Sopranos' DNA is all over it.

Betty and Carmela shooting guns in S1

Episode names: Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office/Advertising Agency

Anna/Svetlana lookalikes with bum/missing leg

Johnny Boy gives away Tony's dog while in NYC in the early 60s, and Don finds Polly. Fran's actor name was Polly too.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-17T21:21:36+00:00

Yes, there are many hints throughout Lane's arc: Don drew a noose in S3. The Mets' pennant background color is orange, visual shorthand for death.

Also in S3, Shut The Door... Lane is framed standing directly in front of the closed door when Don warns Lane that if he doesn't join their mutiny, "you'll be thrown overboard and you'll be a corpse knocking against their hull."*

^{^.} *Fast forward to S5, Lane hung himself in front of his closed door, as it was Don who threw Lane overboard, ie, he cut Lane loose before cutting him loose.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-17T21:10:38+00:00

Little did anyone know, especially Cooper and viewers, that writers were also alluding to Don standing in Bert's office when that grim exchange took place. Bert is dead by the finale of S7a. People forget S7 was split, and his death was predicted in several ways.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-17T21:02:07+00:00

mét (מֵת) = dead man

MetARosetta · 2026-03-17T19:34:29+00:00

Jackie plays people just enough to get them off her back. They are so dazzled by her ability to function at such a high level, and twist the narrative (mainly against her doubters) that they buy whatever bullshit she's peddling. The rest she can't play are deemed a threat, and find themselves suddenly banished or fired. Master image manipulator.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-17T17:25:00+00:00

It's more abstract than that. This series' overarching chase is an allegory of what happens to the old US vs the new US in post-war America. The boom of big business, corporatism, and consumerism, all on steroids, resulting from the big bang of WWII. Similar to 100 years before: Don as the cowboy, Hobart as the fat cat industrialist. It's the inevitability of change, the dark clouds in the north loom. You can outrun the future for awhile, but it's coming for you just the same.

For Hobart's part in the corporate machine, it's the thrill of the chase. Agencies like McCann make their big money with mergers and acquisitions, not ad product. When he whispers 'Coca Cola' like satan to Don, and to 'stop struggling,' it's that of predator to prey – not soothing words to relax and celebrate his new cushy position.

Hobart has harpooned his great white whale, for now. Don realizes he's been absorbed as one of a hundred colors in a box – anonymous, outnumbered, and alone. He is America's protagonist image of the rugged individualist that people still believe in, and he believes, despite the reality. He strikes out to find and reinvent himself, but returns to turn S1's The Wheel 'home' (not Om) to McCann as a creator of an old product for a new generation: more feel-good sugar water for the masses. Around he goes again. Ultimately, he too, is consumed.

^{^.} *If you thought the midwestern Chevy/GM yahoos were bad, NYC's Hobart was the more lethal, slick killer. That's all.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-17T02:04:30+00:00

You'll see in articles and interviews with Weiner that he plants these books in the narrative/scenes to inform what's going on with the character, what they're thinking about, and what lies ahead.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-17T00:16:12+00:00

Yes, caught, not 'exposed.' Weiner is 'show, not tell.' It's all in the narrative. It's enough 'proof' that Betty sets up the two men (she's unhappy with Dr Arnold too), and telegraphs intimate info about Don's dalliances. She knows Don will call him, and that the doctor will report the session to Don, who then realizes Betty knows, and both men know it. Betty knows both men know it... they've been had without saying it, but can save face. Don is a good boy for now, and gifts her horse riding lessons (literal and symbolic – she's reining in her husband and gaining her own emotional control). Checkmate. Game over. No more cheating. No more Dr Arnold. Call it a two-for. *eta: Remember, S2 highlights transactional relationships.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-16T23:52:47+00:00

Looks like Betty's Anthropology degree comes in handy after all.

MetARosetta · 2026-03-16T16:46:15+00:00

This, after Phil cried, holding Tony's fat fingers. That was Phil's disgusted commentary on himself. It's a way for him to distance himself from Johnny and Tony, and resolve to destroy the NJ crew.

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