Thank you.

Well, that poem's pretty dead on for the whole Don Draper thing, isn't it. Matthew Weiner's training at "The Sopranos" has done him well.

Lots to like in Episode One, but I was intrigued by the treatment by first Peggy and then Joan of Don's new secretary. Peggy tore into the woman (a bit unfairly) for fumbling the cover-up on Don's lunch absence (note: a re-release of "Pinocchio" WAS in release around that time!). Then Joan tore into the secretary for saying that "Peggy yelled at me."

Joan's corrective was telling: She's not Peggy, she's "Miss Olson!"

I was reminded that 1962 corporate American retained a military structure. Joan is in some ways the master sergeant. Peggy stunned Joan by becoming an executive, but now that Peggy IS an executive, Joan will honor her as being "an officer."

For her part, Peggy's shaping up as one tough cookie. Her attitude in the group meetings is now "one of the guys,"and she was upset at not maybe being invited to one meeting.

The cliche-with-truth-in-it about early women business leaders is that they were pretty tough individuals. Their role models were men. Last year, Don even told Peggy "Don't be timid...be a man." Well, we're about to see the results, me thinks.

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Yes, Don probably sent that package to a paramour. Did you notice how "off his game" Don seemed at the office now that he's toeing the line at home? I thought so. He had trouble coming up with creative thoughts. Wonder if...

But its all questions and wonderings and let's see what happens next. Any good series does that. "Mad Men" is how I personally like to see it done.