This Week’s Mad Men: “The Fog” What If It’s Peggy’s Time (To Not Have A Child Like A Drugged-Up Betty Is)?

Last night's phantasm of an episode featured Betty tripping the baby fantastic as she Demerol-ed her way into motherhood yet again as Don developed a waiting-room drinking buddy who exposed Don's raw nerves about what it means to be a father - and ultimately, maybe a better person.  Duck quacked and Pete and Peggy joined him for lunch with a side of "woo" encouraging them to bring what he sees as their Machiavellian partnership to his new agency.  Pete pouted and walked at being treated as anything close to Peggy's professional equal (well, she did give his baby away without telling him and all...).

Some very nice moments including the trippy caterpillar scene with Betty.  With each episode I'm reminded how catnippy January Jones would have been to Alfred Hitchcock had they been contemporaries.  And it was nice to see Gene back in the fold as a ghostly janitor who declares his daughter "a cat!"  And I predict we're going to be seeing more of Sally's May-pole dancer teacher, who also drunkenly calls her student's parents at night.

I don't care for how AMC has "gotten cute" with next week's teasers, running a series of quick cut quotes so that you never know what to expect, but who's complaining?  Oh yeah, I just did...