Mad Men Recap: Is Pete Campbell the New Don Draper?

It can be slightly unsettling to see Don Draper (Jon Hamm) happy and content in his new marriage, but for those Mad Men viewers who like their advertising men lecherous and unhappy have no fear, there is a new Don Draper on Madison Avenue!

WHAT WE LEARNED?

Saturday in the Suburbs: Don and Megan (Jessica Paré) are definitely still in the honeymoon period and it is slightly disconcerting. In a good way. As we see them together more we to find out just how their marriage works. Most importantly she pushes him. She makes Don do unpleasant things like call Trudy Campbell (Alison Brie) and wear a hideous sport coat. But in turn they have fun together. Like getting frisky on the side of the road. Who knew babies and plumbing mishaps could be so hot?

Lane vs. Pete: We've seen all the men of SCDP, maybe with the exception of Ken Cosgrove (Aaron Staton), go through some episodes of wayward behavior but when Lane Pryce (Jared Harris) and Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) are pitted against each other in a fisticuffs matchup in the conference room, they really couldn't be more different. As it was well represented in their different styles of courting the Jaguar executive. But even when Lane tries to kiss Joan (Christina Hendricks) after she is so kind to him, there is incredible remorse while Pete still rails against judgment at every turn. There is just something so pathetically sad and yet perfect about Pete watching a high school girl get felt up and hearing "Ode to Joy" play through the credits. Oh Pete, have you hit rock bottom yet?

Lost in Cos Cob: Pete is living Don Draper's life of just a few years ago. Hosting dinner parties, living in the suburbs, cheating on his wife, leering at inappropriately aged girls, all while being supremely unhappy. Pete is absolutely the new Don and we've seen exactly where this story goes. Except our Don, the now monogamous and happy Don who lives in a hip apartment in the city, has the benefit of having one failed marriage under his belt and his eyes are opened to just how much he has to lose if he were to veer off track again. Maybe he also remembers his fever dreams from last week and doesn't want to have to strangle an ex-flame.

I, Robot: We have a crush on Ken Cosgrove. He's just so normal and unaffected. And he's not a raging narcissist or supremely depressed. It's so refreshing to hear that he has a real love outside of the advertising agency and it's his writing. Maybe we just have a thing for writers, but it's cute that his secret passion for writing, that has been mentioned before, is actually successful. We also take a little pleasure in the idea that his observations into the psyche of unhappy Pete in the suburbs can be parlayed into a new nom de plume.

Jessica Alba: How Her Daughter Honor Goes Green!

Jessica Alba isn't just a red-hot mama— she's a hot green mama!

How so? Alba and hubby Cash Warren's 3-year-old daughter Honor is probably one of the most eco-friendly toddlers you'll find in the sandbox.

Don’t Trust the B

The new comedy Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23, which premiered last night on ABC, may not be the most comedic show on television—zany yes, laugh-out-loud no—but it may well be the newest. And not because the pilot was seen for the first time just a few hours ago. This is one of the more modern network sitcoms of our time, using cross-media inside jokes in a way that would have been impossible just a few years ago.

At first glance, the plot fits the mold of a show about a small town girl lost in the big city (spoilers ahead). Pretty June (Dreama Walker) comes all the way from Indiana only to discover that the mortgage brokerage firm that hired her and paid for her apartment has gone under. Jobless and homeless, she answers a series of wacky roommate-wanted ads before finding what appears to be the perfect place, an unrealistically nice apartment with someone who seems like a great flat-mate. The roommate-seeker, Chloe (Krysten Ritter), even serves snacks. The apartment number, of course, is 23, and, yes, Chloe is indeed a B—- (bitch), concocting a scheme to secure first and last month’s rent and then act like such a lunatic—walking around naked, stealing, invading privacy—that the roommate cuts and runs. Thus begins a brief war in which June retaliates by selling Chloe’s ottoman—a piece of furniture that just so happens to contain a sizable inventory of Chinese energy pills that Chloe sells via the black market. It is through retrieving the ottoman that the two women bond, that Chloe decides to allow June to stay, and that a bizarre and unstable friendship is established, setting up the broader arc for the series.

Hunger Games - The Best movie in our last days.

After four rounds of combat, Katniss Everdeen is still undefeated. The teen archer of The Hunger Games took down some new challengers — The Three Stooges, The Cabin in the Woods and Lockout — to win the weekend at North American theaters with $21.5 million, according to preliminary studio estimates. The bucolic action film is the first picture to be No. 1 in four consecutive weekends since James Cameron’s Avatar (which totaled seven straight wins), and only the sixth movie to fourpeat in the top slot — the others being Saving Private Ryan, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Meet the Parents, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Avatar — since Cameron’s Titanic registered 15 weekends in a row in 1997-98. In 24 days, The Hunger Games has accrued $337.1 million at domestic theaters and another $194 million abroad for a $531.1 million worldwide cume. The odds are not in the movie’s favor to take a fifth weekend: Friday’s debuts of the romantic drama The Lucky One and the ensemble comedy Think Like a Man should end Katniss’s streak. And it won this frame only because of the modest openings of the competition. For just the second weekend in 2012, the box-office total was down from the same period last year — 11% — when the animated feature Rio opened to $39.2 million, a figure higher than the combined grosses of The Three Stooges ($17.1 million), The Cabin in the Woods ($14.85 million) and Lockout ($6.25 million). Even the runner-up movie a year ago, Scream 4, pulled in more money ($18.7 million) than any of this weekend’s new entries.