“The Good News” starts out with precisely that- good news. Joan can have a baby if and when she wants to. What? Joan had her annual exam and asked her doctor what condition her condition was in. You see she’s had two abortions, one performed by a doctor, and wondered if either procedure had done any damage to her body. Neither did and so we’re left wondering what pregnant Joan, if she wanted to be, would look like. Those darned 60s made their first appearance of the episode when Joan’s doctor lit a cigarette in the examination room. Also we don’t get to see Roger this week 
and Allison said she’d, “be here ’til the bitter end.” Maybe she really is the perfect secretary.
Lane’s secretary (Sandy) doesn’t like the smell of pipe tobacco and by the end of this week’s episode neither Lane nor Joan liked Sandy. Good riddance, doesn’t like the smell of pipe tobacco… why I oughta!
Don Dick visits Don’s widow, Anna, in Los Angeles on his way to Acapulco. While in L.A. Dick meets Anna’s niece Stephanie, a student at Cal Berkeley, and he almost makes whoopie with her until she pulls out the patented anti-Don Draper line “my aunt, the widow of the man whose identity you’ve stolen and subsequently supported financially, my aunt, has cancer ‘in her bones’ but she doesn’t know because she’s going to die soon and according to the doctor there’s no reason to tell her. Please don’t tell her!”
No whoopie and Dick decides to go back to New York. Serious question- when Anna dies what happens to Dick?
When Dick Don gets back to New York (notice how he never actually went to Acapulco because he “didn’t feel like it”) he finds Lane still at the office alone and working. We find out that Lane’s wife has left him and will be staying in England. Don and Lane are now both single for New Years Eve. Don finally welcomes Lane to the boy’s club- drinks, a movie, steaks, laughs and ladies.
The End.
Not really but wouldn’t that have been storybook? I only wish I’d been in that theater, drinking with Don and Lane while watching Godzilla on the big screen. Jump to the morning after the boys shag a couple of working girls and the year is1965. Business as usual?
What do you think will happen with Joan and the rapist?
Will Roger get another divorce just so he won’t feel left out?
Does Peggy really want to get married?
What questions were you left with after watching “The Good News?”
