S4.E3

The Good News

Name: The Good News
Genre: Drama
Released: 2010-08-08
Duration: 48 min
Rating: 8.7
Cast: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser

Episode aired Aug 8, 2010
TV-14
48m

IMDb RATING

8.7/10

2.8K

YOUR RATING

Jon Hamm, Melinda Page Hamilton, and Caity Lotz in Mad Men (2007)

Drama

Don flies to Los Angeles to visit Anna before his New Year's vacation to Acapulco, but her bad news influences him to cancel his vacation and return to New York, where he discovers that Lane... Read allDon flies to Los Angeles to visit Anna before his New Year's vacation to Acapulco, but her bad news influences him to cancel his vacation and return to New York, where he discovers that Lane has problems of his own.Don flies to Los Angeles to visit Anna before his New Year's vacation to Acapulco, but her bad news influences him to cancel his vacation and return to New York, where he discovers that Lane has problems of his own.

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IMDb RATING

8.7/10

2.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The comedian calls Don and Lane, "George and Martha." Those are the names of the main characters from the 1962 Edward Albee's play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The play deals with the complexities of marriage between a middle-aged couple, and would later be adapted into a movie of the same name. Since the play's 1962 opening, there has been, in some communities, an alternative interpretation of it being a veiled story of turmoil in a homosexual relationship. This theory received mainstream exposure when powerful critics such as Leslie Fiedler and Stanley Kauffman started publishing it in such widely read periodicals as the Partisan Review, Newsweek, and the New York Times. Albee himself was vehemently opposed to the interpretation.

Goofs
The imported Japanese monster film, Gamera, had not been released until after the date that the episode was set.

Quotes
Joan Harris: Sandra, everyone makes mistakes, but the fact that you're the kind of person who cannot accept blame is egregious.
Sandy Schmidt: I don't know what that means.
Joan Harris: It means I can't believe I hired you.

Connections
Features Gamera: The Giant Monster (1965)

Soundtracks
Pacific Coast Highway
(uncredited)
Written by David Carbonara
Performed by David Carbonara

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Featured review

7/10

Hippie Platitudes

Don's first wife who was never a first wife's hippie niece in Southern California is extremely annoying, and it's hard to believe the fact that America survived those pretentious young Left Wingers, but they did still buy things and turned out more greedy than the previous generation that they couldn't stand...

The further this show goes into the hippie era the... well not the worse it becomes because it's always a great show, one of the best, from beginning to end... however it's far more compelling earlier on because of the early 1960's where Don really fits... but after the whole peace movement took over, we had to hear their dumb childish ideals, and the kind of idealism Don would shrug-off with Midge's jerky beatnik friends he now embraces with the younger generation, who aren't even as smart as those beatniks...

Anyhow, not a bad episode, but the whole Dick Going To California stories are getting old, which, obviously, given what happens, even the writers were aware of: We know Don is Dick and not Don, but who cares... the cat's out of the bag... let it roam free again and enough of "the big secret" already.

But thankfully the episode is saved by Don and Lane's night out, great stuff, two fantastic actors, from America and England, sharing great chemistry... need more moments like this: stretching out the legs and going out amongst 'em.