Mad Men: "A Little Kiss" OAD 3/25/2012 ***spoilers***

For the avid fan, Lionsgate, the studio that produces "Mad Men," is releasing Ms. Paré's cover of "Zou Bisou Bisou" as a single, to be sold at iTunes. The song will also be sold on Amazon.com and in retail stores.
And it can be ordered as a limited-edition vinyl release at AMC's merchandise Web site where it shown along with the Mad Men Barbi Dolls.:eek2:

I've mentioned before my wife gets angry because of the show. In an article in the New York Times Watching 'Mad Men' With My Mother we're told:

"Mad Men" made my mother remember life in her 20s - too clearly. When the show focused on Don Draper's wife, Betty, a repressed housewife in suburbia, my mom visibly cringed. "During Betty's scenes," she told me, "I feel this pain, right in my gut." She took a breath and explained that she loved her life and her marriage now, but when she watched Betty say she just wants to serve Don, it took her back to when she and my father were just married. "That's the way I thought. I lived to serve. I wanted to make him happy."

It was odd to hear my mom compare her relationship to the Drapers'. My parents split the household duties, held jobs in teaching and systems administration and pursued their interests in meditation and aikido. What I was coming to understand, though, was that my mother did not come into the world fully formed in 1981, when I was born, that there was a complicated and somehow painful life that predated me.

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trainman said:

Harry's new glasses look very much like the glasses my father had in 1966 (as seen in his high school yearbook photo -- he graduated in '67).

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I have a picture of myself around that time wearing glasses like those. Not sure they flattered me much....

Phrelin, excellent review. To add a little bit...

This week's episode was about that one moment in life upon which you look back and say, "that was when everything changed." In many cases that moment is a huge, world-changing event, like the death of a leader. But just as often, it's something that seems tiny at the time but has repercussions as time goes on.

The time you were cruel to someone who didn't deserve it, like a small child.
The time you realized that the glamorous part of your life was behind you.
The time you finally stood up for yourself at work.
The time you said something stupid and someone found out.
The time you first saw someone you should resist, and didn't.
The time you first asserted yourself as a parent.
The time you broke down at work and trusted someone.

Each member of the SCDP family has a moment like this, and for the most part they go unnoticed. Slowly, though, the eyes of the camera narrow until they focus with unblinking precision on Jessica Paré's oh so public, yet oh so private seduction dance, "Zou Bisou Bisou" It was impossible for anyone to look away, yet if a slight glance in the other direction were possible, you might see party guests wincing at being present for something so private, while excitedly taking it all in.

This is the moment when marriage changes for Don Draper. He's out of control, uncomfortable, and he becomes the old man Megan later accuses him of being. He sits, plastic smile on his face, choosing to rely on old habits instead of embracing the situation.

This is the moment when marriage changes for Megan Calvert Draper. 18 months ago she was a colt, barely able to navigate life. Now she is an irresistable force of nature. She demands attention and she gets it. This party is as much about her showing off as it is about Don's birthday.

And yet all she asked for was a little kiss.

I was disappointed that the time jump wasn't longer, but seeing the fresh fashions of '66 made the disappointment a bit more tolerable. Don's apartment is fantastic; I'd decorate that way myself today. There's still a chance that the show will move briskly forward as the season progresses.

Can't wait for Sunday.