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"Last week, we talked about how tertiary the men on seem this season of Mad Men&amp;amp;#8212;and vowed to stick to primarily keeping track of the women until the males step it up. Episode three largely kept this pattern going&amp;amp;#8212;and threw in some amped-up action on Don&amp;#x27;s end for good measure. While his facial muscles are working overtime to show distress (pretty sure I could sketch Jon Hamm&amp;#x27;s forehead veins in my sleep), the rest of the guy stuff remains low-stakes. I find myself putting things like Harry Crane&amp;#x27;s computer spat in my mental PROBABLY WILL BECOME IMPORTANT LATER file; once again, it&amp;#x27;s the women who have the lioness&amp;#x27;s share of the real-time drama. And in this episode, that meant they also had most of the stunningly resonant dialogue. These lines stuck with me long after the credits rolled: &amp;quot;Can you hold?&amp;quot; &amp;amp;#8212;Dawn Everyone&amp;#x27;s been there: You just got a promotion, but your old boss can&amp;#x27;t move on. He still needs his coffee; you&amp;#x27;re strangely powerless to deny him it. But the small move of putting Don on hold&amp;amp;#8212;as his former assistant&amp;amp;#8212;was a concrete indicator of Dawn&amp;#x27;s new place in the world and the fact that, quietly, she knows she deserves it. &amp;quot;I thought they were the reward.&amp;quot; &amp;amp;#8212;Betty Sitting across from her newly career-oriented girlfriend, Betty is still spitting the same conventional motherhood truths she&amp;#x27;s been subscribing to for years. The heartbreaking thing is: The rest of the episode shows us that she doesn&amp;#x27;t feel like her children are &amp;quot;the reward&amp;quot; at all. &amp;quot;This is the way it ends. It&amp;#x27;s going to be so much easier for both of us.&amp;quot; &amp;amp;#8212;Megan Sure, the momentousness of this quote was later undercut slightly when Megan and Don had a classic &amp;quot;should we stay broken up?&amp;quot; teary phone call. But her decision here wasn&amp;#x27;t just strong in relation to Don, who&amp;#x27;s not a frequent dumpee. It was strong considering that her life, as we&amp;#x27;re led to believe, is falling apart a little otherwise: She&amp;#x27;s lonely in L.A., and she&amp;#x27;s hit some bumps in the acting road. But she still knows she deserves better than bicoastal dishonesty. &amp;quot;Violation of which will result in termination and a reabsorption of your partnership shares.&amp;quot; &amp;amp;#8212;Joan It seriously gave me tingles to see Joan giving Don a stern, no-BS talking to. She CEO&amp;#x27;d that conversation like she&amp;#x27;d been doing the job since birth. Power shift complete. &amp;quot;OK.&amp;quot; &amp;amp;#8212;Don There have been many times on Mad Men I&amp;#x27;ve looked at Don and thought Oh, how the mighty have fallen. But now I realize I jumped the gun every time. This two-syllable line, uttered after a painful day of feeling like the odd kid out at the cafeteria table, officially turns Don inside out. Once arrogant, irascible, unaccountable, he&amp;#x27;s now willing to cop to a humiliating list of rules, just to get back in the fold. What did you guys think of last night&amp;#x27;s episode? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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