The Mad Men Season 2 premiere happened on Sunday night. There’s little for me to add, except I wanted to point out again just how incomparably researched Matthew Weiner’s dissection of 1960s Americana is:

In Season One, Episode Eight, “The Hobo Code” : A devastating moment in the relationship between Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) and Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) as Peggy twists over to Pete at an after-hours party at P.J. Clarke’s. Upset about an argument with his wife Trudy and seeing the intoxicated, goofily sultry Peggy for the first time not as the passive doe he seduced, Pete cruelly leans toward her and says, “I don’t like you like this.” Series chronology would place this at about August or September of 1960.

The first time “The Twist” hit number one on the Billboard rock charts: September 19, 1960.

Season Two, Episode One, “For Those Who Think Young”: Begins with a montage of the main characters getting prepared for their day set to “The Twist.” Series chronology places this episode at February 1962.

The second time “The Twist” hit number one on the Billboard rock charts: January 13, 1962.

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