Yes, it looks like Pete’s back to square one with girlfriends after the shock therapy zapped him out of his mistress’s mind. That’s got to have him wondering about his prowess in bed.

I’ve always thought Joan and Peggy would come out on top in the end, so your scenario of Joan taking over the firm and bringing Peggy back would work nicely for me.

I’m something of a Rex Harrison scholar, and that would be right, too. Rex married Richard’s ex-wife Elizabeth and did the stepfather thing for a few years in the ’70s, but he wasn’t a fatherly kind of guy and it didn’t sit well with him so he moved on. I’ve got a picture of him somewhere sitting on the floor with Elizabeth and all her kids.

Bacardi, that’s my favorite Roger Sterling episode as well.

Adele, I felt like Don walking away in a black and white foreground from Megan in her Never-Neverland technicolor world on the set was the last glimpse we’d get of her — ever. If we want to get all literary here and evoke L. Frank Baum, it was like he chose to stay in Kansas (and reality) while she went off to see the wizard.

Weird concidence. Just last week I removed a picture of Richard Harris from my hallway. He was King Arthur in Camelot (which I saw him do live TWICE, and he was lousy both times, singing off-key and walking through it). I replaced him with a painting I bought in the Bahamas. The frame was perfect.

As far as John Slattery – aka “Roger Sterling” – I agree. The writing for him as well as his delivery of it is spot-on & so funny nine times out of ten.

Although I must say that my favorite episode involving him, which was early on in the series, was when he made a pass at Betty while having dinner at the Draper home, & the next day Don took him to lunch, plied him with dozens of Martinis & platters of raw oysters, bribed the office-building elevator operator to claim the elevators were out of order, which then had the 2 of them climbing up dozens of flights of stairs. Roger walks into the office in front of new clients (the Richard Nixon election committee), & promptly pukes all over them. That was priceless!!

I’m sorry to see Jared Harris off the show as well — I knew he was Richard Harris’s son, but his step father was also a famous actor; I’m having a brain cramp and can’t remember who. I saw him on a talk show, and he looked way more like Richard than he did on Mad Men; I think he wasn’t wearing his glasses.

I have a hard time getting John Slattery’s SATC character out of my mind as well. The cast of Mad Men was on Inside The Actors’ Studio, and Slattery said that that was a hard role to live down. But Roger Sterling is a great character, and Slattery plays the hell out of him.

Was surprised to also fortuitously see him in an old episode of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” yesterday as an extremely creepy serial killer.

Hope he continues to pop up here & there. He’s a very good actor capable of doing different personas.

I’m sort of sorry of his end on Mad Men – was in a way kind of hoping he might end up with Joan, even though he definitely wasn’t her type.

John Slattery looked surprisingly good naked, I must agree. But even after 5 seasons of MM, I still think of him as the politician who wanted Carrie Bradshaw to pee on him in Sex & the City.

I read something where Lane Pryce (can’t remember his real name — Jared Harris?) was asked if they gave him a big farewell party, and he said no, because too many people were leaving. What???!!

I don’t think Weiner knows exactly what to do with Megan. Having her start out the opposite of Betty painted him into a corner because she was quickly boring. Now he’s got her throwing things and having tantrums like Betty would, and it seems completely out of character. Season 6 may start with Don divorced again and Megan off the show. She hasn’t been around long enough for viewers to be invested in her future, so who cares? Maybe they’ll have her come back for one more episode where she’s slaving away in the chorus and Don attends the show — with another gorgeous woman, of course.

I miss Downton Abbey, too. The next season is supposed to air in England in the fall. Maybe I should move.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-producer-and-an-executive-producer.htm

The finale did have the feeling of just tying up loose ends. Previous seasons have either had something pretty momentous happen — like Season 3 starting the new agency or Season 1 where Don gave the fantastic pitch about the Carousel projector. The critics I read were pretty split on whether they really liked the Season 5 finale, although that back view of John Slattery brought out the dirty old lady in me.(I don’t always look for deep meaning).

I can’t imagine that Peggy will be marginalized for long — she’s too important to the story, and there’s no character like her. I can’t imagine that Elisabeth Moss isn’t coming back; this is the role of a lifetime for her. And Megan — I was willing to suspend disbelief and for a few episodes believe that she showed surprising depth for her age, but she sure ended the season looking childish and manipulative. Time will tell.

In any case, I cant wait until Downton Abbey comes back (talk about short seasons). Summer Sunday nights don’t look that interesting TV-wise.

I didn’t pay any attention to the contract negotiations on MM, nor do I know if the terms were ever published. It’s one of those thing I couldn’t care less about. No matter what any of them make, they will now get opportunities from just being affiliated with the show they never would have had. Even that no-talent January Jones, who has reached the peak of her fame as Betty Draper. I’ve seen her in a couple of other things, and if she’s not playing a frigid Grace Kelly lookalike, she’s just awful. She’s lucky Kiernan Shipka (Sally) can act circles around her and cover for her most of the time.