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I'm not as down on this season of Mad Men as Matt, though I agree that Don as well-behaved husband is sadly ho-hum (and therein lies a whole treatise on marriage that I don't want to read). And Matt, you're right that the race/gender messaging is more didactic and less surprising than in sparkly Season One. But I'm finding bits of the messaging moving and real. This week's episode was mostly drifty and even boring (for me, those dream sequences were beyond saving, despite Julia's valiant effort). But Peggy's failed bid to convince Don to pay her what she's worth made me sit up. The Equal Pay Act of 1963, which Peggy referred to (a thrill for the lapsed lawyer in me) absolutely should be her weapon ... (Read more in DoubleX)