[Mamzelle]

Well, I had to giggle when it turns out that Sally was "aroused" by the tied and bound image of "Ilya Kuriakin" from Man from Uncle. One of the reasons I watch the show is the jarring nostalgia, the way I'd forgotten about so many things from my childhood--the chain-smoking, the fashions, the attitudes.

We know a little bit more about the writer of this show, don't we? A little bondage, maybe? Like getting turned on by the effeminate character from a sixties spy show?

[OldDeckHand]

"One of the reasons I watch the show is the jarring nostalgia, the way I'd forgotten about so many things from my childhood--the chain-smoking, the fashions, the attitudes. "

Me too. I'm roughly the age of Drapper's second oldest, so I saw those days through that same prism. But, while the artifacts of nostalgia bring back long-forgotten memories, the family dynamic that is being portrayed is COMPLETELY foreign to me. I'm not saying there weren't families just like this, but I grew up in a loud, Catholic Italian family with an entirely different dynamic.

I don't know if Betty Draper is a caricature of Matt Weiner's (the Producer and show-runner) own mother, but she doesn't remind me of anyone in my own childhood.

[tophat9000]

“Ilya Kuriakin” effeminate character ???!!!

[ichabod1]

I didn’t know Ilya was effeminate.

[bert]

You didn’t get it did you. The girl was fantasizing.

She was visualizing an older man....a man named Ducky