And best of all, the scripts just do not follow standard convention; it really keeps me on my toes as a viewer. Last season, every time I thought I could guess where a scene might go, based on hundreds of shows/movies I've seen in the past, 'Mad Men' would do something unexpected. (It happened last night with Betty's encounter with the tow truck guy.)

It does feel strange to basically be on Don's "side", when he's clearly on the losing end of the coming cultural shift. Any other show would have made him the visionary of the youth-oriented future. But here, he's the dinosaur resisting change.

Okay, so I'm espousing those same old-boy network values here, but nothing said "Mad Men" is back better than seeing Christina Hendricks in her red dress!