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All About Joan: 'Mad Men''s Hot Topic

There's only one more episode of this season's "Mad Men" left, which means you've got about two weeks to read about all the permutations of the show with seemingly endless subtext to explore.

Hollywood Reporter has a whole slew of "Mad Men" content, all themed around what is reportedly "Topic A among the TV-viewing intelligentsia": the character Joan Harris, who decided to trade a night with a creepy Jaguar salesguy for a partnership stake in an ad agency.

Not surprisingly, Matt Weiner says the most interesting things about "The Arc Of Joan," from discussing a potential hook-up between Joan and Don, to explaining why he went with the indecent proposal subplot: "Honestly, a lot of what happens in the show is derived from what I would call my own personal social-history project -- that I'm lucky enough to have people tell me about their lives. This scenario was something that came up so many times that I kept thinking, 'Well, we're going to have to do it eventually.' So while I love that people think that Joan wouldn't do that, all I can tell you is it really happened."

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