This has been the weakest season of a show that had no weak seasons so far. Since the merge so much has been contrived and forced, and Don slugs around with flashbacks of a kid who looks nothing like he'd ever look young. And has an affair with a boring married woman. Now though we're back in action, and like Don says, moving forward. This is a forward episode. Don and Roger are back in action, and on a trip to boot while Joan gets a lead and Pete acts like a jerk, in an awesome way, as usual. What's best is we're literally back to business here. The only bummer are all the hippies and protesting and acting as if people from the 60's talked during the 60's like people now imagine how it would be.
Also, when Don does drugs, he hallucinates in a very Hollywood fashion. Drugs don't make you see completely different people talking to you like in a dream. Not acid. Not hash. Not anything except maybe being up a week on speed or something. But hey...
I have to say though, having a left wing news story every week for the side-story kind of slows the pace; it's better to center on the characters, all this anti-cop and anti-everything-except-hippies is boring; do we really need Joan and Megan crying for the violent hippies getting handled violently?
Also, when Don does drugs, he hallucinates in a very Hollywood fashion. Drugs don't make you see completely different people talking to you like in a dream. Not acid. Not hash. Not anything except maybe being up a week on speed or something. But hey...
I have to say though, having a left wing news story every week for the side-story kind of slows the pace; it's better to center on the characters, all this anti-cop and anti-everything-except-hippies is boring; do we really need Joan and Megan crying for the violent hippies getting handled violently?
