OK, I'll go first....Sally's grief over Gene's death has not been properly attended to!! I was mistaken on another thread about Don and Gene at least having a bit of liking for each other, as Don's take on the relationship was one of mutual hatred! Now, his son has the name "Gene" and so there's that going on with Don. Betty just wants to move on and forget, even though she named her baby after her dad....still keeping his memory alive. Yet neither one of these parents are talking to Sally about what's really bothering HER. She's clearly hurting over Gene's death and not the new baby, which a new Barbie doll won't fix! Don and Betty need a great big light bulb so they can actually GET IT!

Similar to Sally, my grandmother died in 1963 when I was 9. No one tended to my feelings - I learned to deal with them myself. I believe this is the way children have been treated since the beginning (Eve to Cain: "talk to me about your grief and pain, at the untimely loss of your brother, sweetie.")

In the context of the show, I think Weiner is purposefully setting the stage for an adolescent Sally to become one of the 60's archetypes (a hippie, a campus radical, or a drug addict). The show probably won't take it into the late 60's, but I still think he's playing into this speculative epilogue.

While we're on the subject of Sally...that little girl has become quite a good actress. She really shined in last week's episode. (I'm sure her scenes will go on her "reel").

One more thing...she really does look enough like January to be her daughter. Beautiful mother, adorable little girl (even if both characters are twisted on the inside).

Sally has always been one of my favorites on the show, even in Season One when she didn't have that many lines. She's a fine actress and has great screen presence.

The way Betty and Don handled the kids' role in Gene's death is typical of how people did those things at that time. Some people included kids in the grieving/burial rituals, but most did not.

I think one of the most interesting aspects of Mad Men is that it highlights the changes in emotional lability that our society has undergone in the past 40-50 years. Back in 1963, people didn't air their "dirty linen in public," now people can't wait to text message or tweet exactly what just happened and exactly how they feel about it.

Sometimes I think we could use a little emotional repression these days.