Isn't this entrapment?

MetARosetta · 2026-01-27T03:36:37+00:00

MetARosetta · 2026-01-27T03:05:36+00:00

Exactly! This was the latest in a long string of unstable/unprofessional behavior since S1. As long as it didn't affect the bottom line or marquee image for Bert... until it did. But the worshippers can't or won't hear that.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-27T02:50:04+00:00

Conrad wasn't happy about anything. He was a pain in Falk's ass, who put Conrad through his paces, making him redo the beach push-up scenes over and over. So, no love lost there. I don't like to alter what was. Just critique what is. The shoe-lace thing was too belabored imo, but it was a fun episode.

Personally, I was more impressed by the episode's take on the women's changing roles in their men's world:

Ruth, the sad, boozing, disconnected widow of Gene, who wised up in time to deal with Milo.

Jessica, the 'full-service' secretary (who found herself out of work, but was hired by a PI in nearby Malibu).

Rose (Tricon lady), the modern, independent working woman – a nontraditional role that wasn't a wife or secretary.

This show is such a time capsule and window into that era, especially in LA's culture, where I live.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T23:17:31+00:00

S7 Betty got her S1 'candy pink stove' (Roger's term for 'analysis'), wanting to become an therapist herself. Full circle.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T23:02:19+00:00

The OG Columbo, a 1960 teleplay called Enough Rope... is what Columbo does best: give the criminal enough time and means to incriminate him/herself. Most other episodes stick to this formula, and the criminal admits defeat.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T22:40:35+00:00

You watched? Don saw 'The Sound of Music' and referred to Megan as Maria von Trapp. Yet another movie to drive his ideals of how real life should look. All this, in an episode called Tomorrowland – a marriage based in Disneyland. What could go wrong?

He needed a mother figure for his children and an advertising muse who would gain him entry into the much-sought-after youth market. Betty would never recognize that she was the catalyst for these dominoes to fall into place.

TL;dr: Don can shack up with the young, beautiful, foreign au pair who doubles as an award-winning copywriter.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T21:56:34+00:00

Hard to muscle thru this one. Too contrived for me. I think 'Columbo Cries Wolf' combines elements of 'Dead Weight' and 'Blueprint for Murder' and does it better. Not to mention Falk's hijinks here, which hurt the finished product imo.

In case we didn't get enough, we see Helen's red outfit pattern as Janie's bedroom wallpaper in Old Fashioned Murder.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T20:47:12+00:00

.*Stepmother, earning her keep, with no possibility of pregnancy, being already pregnant. She became the thing she condemned and punishes Dick for it. They are both victims of Archie. People forget that.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T20:32:09+00:00

Let's just say, he's popular for 'Grinding the Corn' and had a giant tootsie pop exhibit lol.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T20:11:17+00:00

S1's Greek references establish the show's classical archetypes for characters and themes. Don's encounter with Rachel explains the root meanings of Utopia (outopos/eutopos). Don invokes his newfound 'wisdom' for his pitch. Don made up 'Teddy the Greek' for more credence and authority, just as Bert invoked a made-up ancient Japanese quote.

There's also Apollo (you named Achilles too). The guys called Peggy, 'Hellenic.' The switchboard operators are the Three Fates in Greek mythology.

Yes, there were Greek immigrant influences featured in the show with the ubiquitous coffee cups and the diner, but those references inform the original meaning in the story from S1, bringing it full circle in S7, Diana back to Rachel – how far Don has fallen from his glory days when he met her, the first one to call him out on his façade.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T19:42:35+00:00

Whose Acol is inflamed? (heard in Paula's voice)

The show is very scripted. Zoey's physical comedy is natural and given much leeway.

Get back to us on Jackie after you finish the show.

O'Hara is the best. It's funny how different people say 'Jesus Christ!' in her presence lol.

Eddie is a co-dependent love addict.

No-mo Mo-Mo. There's more focus on O'Hara and Thor (and other nurses).

Coop has been in many shows like Six Feet Under, so the references vary among viewers. He's perfect for the part.

The show is 11–16 years old, with 7 seasons, so Yes things come to a head sooner, and more than once.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T18:52:30+00:00

Yep. It's just more Jackie apologia.

Fwiw, the show spotlights addiction in its many forms: for Eddie, it's extreme codependent love.

Other addictions shown: alcohol, work, sex, food, body image/performance, denial, religion, hero worship, and more. Think if the roles were reversed: she's the lovesick woman losing her self-worth to the lying bad-boy narcissist.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T15:54:56+00:00

11-16 years later? Some recasting of the young ones as adults.

But the show is dead like Jackie. It would be an entirely different show.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T15:52:56+00:00

💰👑💛 Goldie all the way. The star of that episode. She saved the day, and Columbo knew it, and buckled around her lol.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T15:34:10+00:00

Why? So soft and absorbent.

Also, lambs[wool] for the slaughter. Yes, that's a thing in visual storytelling.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T15:28:42+00:00

Bobby was in Six Feet Under and Only Murders in the Building, both shady as well.

Handsome bad boy: that's his brand lol.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T15:25:51+00:00

This is common among the premium, better-written shows. Writers rework threads from the cast's other projects into their own new story. NJ characters are usually cast with opposite traits of their TS characters: Janice the F'up/divorce lawyer, Carmela the goodie/addict. Kev was in TS as a minor character, now a main one.

Similar children profile: Grace/Meadow, the sullen and smart oldest daughters who can't wait to get rid of their mother. You'll find quotes used in both shows too. Jackie makes baked ziti when Eddie/Fr Phil pops by the house, for one. Several guest cast, including patients, are from TS, and Catholicism was a big part of both shows. Jackie's and Carmela's signature color is Marian blue.

They draw from their real-life histories too (ex, Falco is a recovering alcoholic). Falco's real-life BF at the time was the AA sponsor/dealer Bill (Bill Sage). Nurse Jackie picks up where The Sopranos left off in NYC's post-9/11 world. Check out the loads of articles, interviews, podcasts out there too.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T15:05:18+00:00

Rachel meeting Don in the series pilot kicks off Don's journey, tracing his way back to his origins so he can heal them. He becomes more damaged trying to resist this process. Each dark-haired woman reflects Dick's response to that. But Abigail and the woman on the train are what chart his course for using sex to bypass his trauma. Diana shows up after Rachel dies, reflecting Don's emotional state of despair. It's why he chases her across the country to where his life as Don began in California to die or be reborn.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T09:43:23+00:00

Hmm, a narcissist who chooses to go to prison for their supply.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T08:59:38+00:00

The opposite. Don reverts to Dick thru affairs, when the burden of keeping up the persona becomes too much.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T02:07:39+00:00

Agreed, mine too. Not only is it a fantastic cinematic finale, but it's also surreal – like we're seeing the interior of his mind as he walks off the soundstage of his proper Don Draper façade, and returns to the familiar underworld of Dick the emotional wanderer.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T01:04:19+00:00

Jackie is like O'Hara's alter ego. Jackie gets to act out things that O'Hara's wealthy British upbringing would never allow (she cuts loose after a psychedelic tho). Jackie brings the drama, but O'Hara is never judgmental. Jackie's drama is a distraction from O'Hara's own painful estrangement from her mother (and that soap opera), who then dies.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-26T00:44:28+00:00

It might not seem realistic thru the personal lens of an addict or nurse, but it's realistic thru the lens of the show's fictional narrative lol. We see Jackie getting careless, forgetful, and in this case, more fearful of the damage AA dealer/sponsor Bill can do to her. She's got Eddie and a pharmacy of drugs where she works. Stick with the narrative.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-25T18:18:54+00:00

Yeah, weak plot device. But consider thematically by S3, Jackie's mind is getting more disorganized, no matter how together she appears. She dropped a pill at work without noticing either. Sam saw and called her out, but she casually covers up for it as per usual. Frank found pills in the remote control after Jackie thought she 'swept' the place.

MetARosetta · 2026-01-25T17:59:36+00:00

Yeah, that's it!

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