Mad Men - Season Three (2009 Matthew Weiner)

1963. The ads have changed again in the opening credits scene.

There's clearly a top pocket etiquette going on here - Roger always has three points, Don is always a straight top. Bert has four. Other people come and go.

Gynocracy = woman centred.

In a crazy episode 4, this happens:

Then this:

Roger! What were you thinking? (You'd think the two scenes are connected, but they're not.) Then this:

I know. It's all going on. Q liked this outfit:

In an unforgettable moment, one of the Brit bosses has his foot run over by a lawn mower.
"He might lose his foot."
Roger: "Just when he got it in the door."
(Whilst glass is cleaned of blood in the background.)

Neil Dickson is the politician who's come into Betty's life, Ryan Cutrona is Betty's dad (who allows Sally - Kiernan Shipka - to drive), Jared Harris has joined the team from London. Now we understand Don's 'meet cute' with the man who turns out to be Conrad Hilton (Chelcie Ross) at the wedding.

Lovely shot from Chris Manley evokes Russell Metty

Lots of lying, deception, unspoken things... Don hasn't seen A Guide For the Married Man because it hasn't been made yet, but if he had, it would be Robert E Morse (ironically) who would be saying 'You can't screw this girl, she's single, lives two miles from your house, your wife knows her...'

David Ogilvy's 'Confessions of an Advertising Man' get a name check (publ. 1963). And noticed Frank Pierson as consulting producer - thought that name sounded familiar - he wrote Dog Day Afternoon, Cool Hand Luke and the 1976 A Star Is Born. More lovely bits of music from Dave Carbonara  - add him to the list of other great Italian film music composers: Piersanti, Marienelli, Rota, Giacchino, Morricone... Puccini, Q adds, usefully. And I seem to be the only person finding a link between Chris Manley and Metty's Sirk pictures.

Anyway, in the end, Bets has had enough - out of the frying pan... (She's not a nice character, and a terrible mother.) But the agency is sold again, to McCann, so Don has the delicious bright idea that Lane should fire them so they can start a new agency.. but they don't know where anything is. Roger seeks help... when Joan walks in to the office there's a round of applause from everyone... (well, us, anyway.)

Christina Hendricks is just great.

We have a new nickname for him - Dick Dong Swinger.