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Tv Club Mad Men, Season 5 A persuasive theory of Don and Joan. By Patrick Radden Keefe Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at 03:46 PM ET I can't exactly defend Mother Lakshmi's stratagem, Julia, but we can probably agree that this is a woman whose judgment is not state-of-the-art. There's the fact that she's with Kinsey in the first place to consider, as well as Kinsey's curious, period-appropriate suggestion that back when her name was Janet, it was promiscuity that led her to drugs and prostitution, and not the other way round. I saw Lakshmi as a little foreshock tremor to the great earthquake of muddleheadedness to come. Remember, in just a few month's time, one Charles Milles Manson will be released from prison and make his way to San Francisco, to begin assembling his own damaged and impressionable family. One of David Simon's knocks on weekly recappers is that we tend to judge characters and events on the basis of incomplete information, before we've experienced a season, or a series, in its novelistic entirety. Mostly I think this is, uh, bunk. But at least in the case of Pete Campbell, we stand guilty as charged. Just last week we dinged Pete, querying the basis for his rapid ascent at the firm and wondering why we hadn't seen him doing any really impressive work. And where was Pete while we were carping? He was out making rain! Jaguar is hardly a done deal, to be sure, and Pete, naturally, spent most of this episode indignant about how underappreciated he is. "No one has given me the reaction ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Saletan: Doctor Behind "Gay Cure" Study Apologizes, but Therapy Shouldn't Be "Eradicated" Can Women Sing in a Falsetto Like Guys Do? The Real Reason Dan Harmon Was Fired From Community	Advertisement
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