the perfection of fruits grown under glass

“ Zion can’t be real. Rachel, a realist who lives in Babylon, knows, despite her own yearning, that Utopia means a place that doesn’t exist. But Don doesn’t. You can see it on his face as he watches the Edenic family life shown in the pictures at the climax of “The Wheel.” He’s caught up in it (God, Jon Hamm is an amazing actor!), conned far more thoroughly than the Kodak reps. When he goes home he’s fantasizing that that perfect family (something neither he or Dick Whitman ever knew) will be there. When they’re not, it’s a crushing final image of the season. It’s Don in Babylon, weeping as he remembers Zion. ”