Aug 17, 2010 - 1:14 am - Season One, Episode 12 "Nixon vs. Kennedy"

- So that's what happened to Paul Young! He traveled back in time to 1960s New York and became Duck Phillips to escape his dark past on Wisteria Lane!

- I don't care what anyone says. I LOVED the office party!!! More Joan, Sal, Harry, Paul, and Ken is what the doctor ordered!

- Loved the "kiss" between Sal and Joan, but the expressions from each party afterward had me over here dying! Sal's look of "yea, I'm one of the boys..." and Joan's expression that screamed, "Something is not right about this one..." is one for the record books.

- Harry, no! The last of the 'good' guys has been tainted!

- Ah! Dick Whitman's life has dwindled to a box. Pete has ammo, but will he use it?

- Pete is working the nerves, but I will cheer him on if it means taking Don Draper's ass down a peg...

- YES! Draper's resolve has been shot to hell!!!

- BAM! Rachel serves Draper his walking papers along with a side of truth! Take that, you bastard!

-Draper stole his name from his commanding officer... Wow...

- Seems that Draper regained his resolve. Now, Peter is a sniveling imp again... Connor would not approve.

- Is it just me or is Bertram looking after his fellow Objectivist man?

- And I might be the only one who did NOT think that Bertram's "Who cares?" response to Pete's revelation was funny at all. Pete's a slimy bastard, true, but how many people has Dick/Dan crushed to get to the top? I'm sure there are countless and the tab might still be running on that number.

- DAMN! That final scene with Adam seeing Dick, now Don, on the train took the breath out of me as if someone punched me in the gut. Now my resolve has been rocked... Brilliant episode.

Aug 17, 2010 - 2:34 am - Season One, Episode 13 "The Wheel"

- Here we are! The end of leg one of my journey through Mad Men manhood...

- So everyone knew about Don's infidelity, including Betty who played dumb to the fact. Now tell me that this woman is not on the way to a nervous breakdown...

Speaking of which, Francine is not the best mother there is, so I don't know if I really want to sympathize with her plight due to how she treated Helen earlier. Not saying that Helen is a saint herself or anything...

- Duck Phillips hasn't even been there for a week (I think) and he's already trying to run things? I don't think so. Why is Don not calling him out since Don help pull most of those accounts that Duck is not impressed with? No, Duck, I'm not impressed with you so far...

- Seems like Peggy is on her way to become one of the boys, and she's not taking any prisoners.

- Those phone bills back then look silly as hell. Plus, were the women not allowed to look at the bills back then if the man was paying for them? Hmmm... My how far we have come if that's the case.

- So Betty knows about Don's talks with her psychiatrist. Love how she played the shrink like a fiddle by giving him a subliminal message of her own to pass to Don. She revealed that he doesn't make love to her like she wants him to, which is code for that he is thinking about someone else. Damn shame... I didn't know women could detect that.

- I feel bad for Harry, because he at least knows he messed up and knows what he wants in life. Don is a sharp contrast to this man.

-It's sad Betty is really all alone in the world and the only person she can talk to is creepy Glen. Now THAT's a new low...

- Don looked like he was affected by Adam's death. This might be the break in his resolve that he needed, but is he sad for Adam's death or elated that the last factor of his previous life is not dead? Which means that he is now truly free?

- With Adam now dead and Rachel far away from him as possible, Don can look to the future and what he's been missing: his current family, which he used to sell The Carousel campaign to Kodak, which was the best scene in the entire episode.

- After getting her promotion, Peggy found out that she was PREGNANT AND IN LABOR!!!!!! How in the hell did she NOT know that??!?! True, it's kinda bad timing with her new promotion now, but damn she didn't have to blame the baby for something that is not his fault by not wanting to hold it. Speaking of which...

- Pete's in-laws are fussing for a baby and it's kind of creepy. Little does he know that he already has a kid fresh to the world. If only it was his wife's kid...

- Now that Don has somewhat grasped the concept of 'family' and a normal life, is it too little too late? Will he lose interest and how will both his revelations and Betty's revelations play into their marriage now? Thank God I don't have to wait close to a year to find out...

I'm officially hooked, but I am just at first base with this show. Maybe Season Two will help me get even closer with the beast known as Mad Men? I smell a second volume of confessions coming along. Stay tuned...

I Had To... It Was Inevitable.