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"Sometimes it takes hindsight to appreciate a great TV moment. Last night&amp;#x27;s Mad Men was not one of those times. I&amp;#x27;ll forever think of it as the One With the Great Don and Peggy Scene. var bc_params = {&amp;quot;api&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;hybrid&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;playerId&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;83327935001&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;playerKey&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;AQ~~,AAAAAAuyCbQ~,-gfAmfm8njJ8S-9E4q2UfzG931rvkxuP&amp;quot;};brightcove.createExperiences(); I&amp;#x27;m a sucker for a slow dance, but this one specifically had so much heart behind it: the old generation and the new one, embracing for a moment, acknowledging that sometimes the latter needs the former purely for comfort. Just a gorgeous piece of television, except for one thing... Can we talk about Peggy&amp;#x27;s reaction to turning 30? What a twist of the ladyknife it was to watch TV&amp;#x27;s foremost symbol for female progress actually mourn a birthday. That&amp;#x27;s not to say it wasn&amp;#x27;t honest&amp;amp;#8212;Peggy isn&amp;#x27;t a paper doll from a feminist pamphlet. But, man, as someone less than a hundred days out from the big 3-0, it was a pretty depressing interaction to watch. Let&amp;#x27;s review: Peggy [full of shame]: &amp;quot;What the hell do I know about being a mom? I just turned 30, Don.&amp;quot; Don [looking up, alarmed; someone has died]: &amp;quot;When?&amp;quot; Peggy [more shame; she killed whoever died]: &amp;quot;Couple weeks ago. Doesn&amp;#x27;t matter. Kept it as secret as I could. Now I&amp;#x27;m one of those women lying about her age. I hate them.&amp;quot; Don [making the best of a truly awful situation]: &amp;quot;I worry about a lot of things. But I don&amp;#x27;t worry about you.&amp;quot; If anyone wants to go ahead and bookmark this post for their 30th birthday, I think Don&amp;#x27;s brave face in the wake of such a tragedy is a real comfort. To leave our world and get back to the characters&amp;#x27;: I don&amp;#x27;t want to be flip. Peggy is haunted by a child she gave up. She&amp;#x27;s got the same case of the why-not-mes every single girl with a married-off social set comes down with now and again. Showing her being vulnerable&amp;amp;#8212;and him caring&amp;amp;#8212;helped ground a show that&amp;#x27;s been slightly gruff and off-the-rails lately. Speaking of off-the-rails: If what I think&amp;#x27;s about to happen is about to happen, we may as well start planning Megan&amp;#x27;s funeral&amp;amp;#8212;but not for the reason we originally expected. The show has all but spelled it out for us: The plane she&amp;#x27;s on, right this very minute, is about to crash, taking Pete Campbell&amp;#x27;s pouty girlfriend down with it too. The show rarely tips its hand so hard. I mean, flight attendants pulling a dark curtain as the strains of Frank Sinatra&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;My Way&amp;quot; floated into the scene (key lyric: &amp;quot;And now the end...is near&amp;quot;) is this show&amp;#x27;s version of every horror-movie heroine&amp;#x27;s ill-advised trip to the basement. It wasn&amp;#x27;t subtle. And it wasn&amp;#x27;t vague. If the plane doesn&amp;#x27;t go down in the next episode, we&amp;#x27;ll officially be justified feeling misled. Especially after all the other scattered cues: Don quietly confessing that he&amp;#x27;s afraid of having no one and going on to eat with his &amp;quot;family,&amp;quot; Peggy and Pete, at Burger Chef. He looked more at home at that table than he ever has sharing a meal with someone he&amp;#x27;s legally bound to. And come next week, he may be down a person in that category. So, yeah, Pegs, when your new decade&amp;#x27;s getting you down, think of Megan and put it in perspective. Thirty might feel like a kick in the pants&amp;amp;#8212;but I&amp;#x27;m guessing it beats being dead."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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