Mad Men Roundtable – “The Good News”

That aside, it’s always good to see Anna just because of how she affects Don.  I love seeing Jon Hamm handle these scenes, because he’s almost physically different when he gets to be Dick Whitman.  And my heart did funny things when I saw how he signed the wall – he signed it as “Dick”.

What I like is that it, apparently, was not something difficult for him.  They could have really milked that moment with a melodramatic scene where he paints the “D”, and then pauses, as if uncertain which vowel comes next.  That’s what a bad series would have done.  But here, it’s not an issue.  When he’s with Anna, he’s Dick.  It’s just how things are.