yakalskovich | Mad Men 4.03 -- running commentary (now complete)

Finally, something personal about Joan again! That awful hubby of hers is so going to end up dead in Vietnam, and I don't even feel sorry.
Don took the hint of all those style bloggers and finally stopped wearing hats!
Lane Pryce?? Are you quite sane?? You don't go and offend Joan like that. She'll surely find a way to leave you up shit creek without a paddle at the next possible opportunity (without damaging the business, of course, as she'd never be that unprofessional).
I like the way he treats the 'real' Don Draper's wife as an equal, without any of that either predatorial attitude or passive-aggressiveness he usually displays towards women. With her, Don is at ease and himself.
That bloke!!!! My inner!Urq wants to go and shoot him dead. Right now! But I know he's got Vietnam coming to him, so he can probably be left alive now to suffer all the more later. Nah, there are things I have no patience with or pity for at all. That kind of 'hubbies' is among them.
Don talks about himself at last!! Why didn't he go and see Anna months before. All that suffering and falling about drunk and trying BDSM and bonking his own secretary was so needless! Just talk to Anna and get it off your chest!
Ahhhhh this is Don as he ought to be, telling his stories, making things up as he goes along and leaving his audience spellbound! Let it all hang loose, man, and be yourself again.
Oh no, and now the one fixed point in his life is crumbling away! I mean, can life please stop throwing Don Draper curve ball after curve curve ball? Or rather, can Matthew Weiner? This is getting, well, not ridiculous, but a bit annoying.
Or did that girl make it up on the spur of the moment to get Don off her?

~~And then, the video conked out. They only have the one link. To Be Continued. Now, for Sherlock...~~

Don knows how to paint a wall, and goes about it in an utterly no-nonsense way. He doesn't even need masking tape!
Why does Joan pick pencils out of the ceiling? What kind of infantile mind sticks pencils in ceilings???
Aieeee she finally shows some real temper! Poor Joan is fraying. That bloke needs to get to Vietnam soon. Communally taking out the frustration on the secretary is not good form, though. Both Joan and Pryce should really be above that, with their respective senses of style and propriety.
She doesn't trust her bloke with her fingers. Of course, he's a bit incompetent, and he can do things to it that would seriously interfere with her typing, later. She doesn't need to type much any more (just as she doesn't need to file papers), but she does need to be able to...
If that is Acapulco, I'm the Empress of China...
He is wearing a hat again. Tsk.
Pouring Lane Pryce's expensive scotch all over the rug while drunkenly missing the pocket flask -- really, Don, that's probably your rock bottom so far! But I guess the news about Anna have knocked him sideways worse than his divorce. It's odd how both Joan and Don don't get a chance to show their feelings but have to keep up appearances.
OMG Godzilla!!! Or is that a giant mutant turtle? Huh??
Draper and Pryce, the two partners that weren't on the name plate of the old company, bonding over a silly Japanese monster movie and behaving like schoolboys. I'd be annoyed at them, too, if I was sitting in that cinema, but it's somehow cute. They're both at the end of their tether, and it relaxes them.
What you want vs. what people expect of you, again. That's probably the theme of the season.
Huhhh?? Pryce is losing it, too. Poor bloke.
For me, that setup looks like a recipe for utter, utter disaster...
'Not there!' I guess that's the room where the kids stay when they're with Don.
And then they all sit down again at the conference table they do now have, as if nothing had happened...