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See Slate’s interview with Alexis Bledel about this episode.

Oh, Pete. I’m afraid I can’t defend his lovesick attachment to Beth, his train buddy’s wife. If Pete is determined to have an affair, this woman is a more palatable prospect than the bobby-soxer from driver’s ed. And Pete relates to Beth’s loneliness—she’s lost, and sad, and caroming around a big Connecticut house too. But it is jarring to see Alexis Bledel in the role. As much as I loved her on Gilmore Girls, her character here felt false, like a young girl broadly pantomiming suburban ennui. It made me appreciate anew January Jones’ formidable talents. Even the dialogue—including that post-coital conversation about the immersive beauty of Vincent Kartheiser’seyes—made her seem miscast.

(Bledel’s character on Gilmore, however, was not unlike the one Alison Brie, Pete’s wife Trudy, plays on Community—high-strung good girl with a screw loose—so maybe he has a type?)

As for Megan’s departure from SCDP, I liked how it unsettled the ranks. Her acting ambitions befuddle Peggy and Don because they can’t fathom a gig better than advertising. (“My dream was indoor plumbing,” Don tells Roger.)

But Don isn’t just unsettled because advertising no longer seems as coo

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