Jon Hamm as Don Draper and Jessica Pare as Megan in Mad Men. (Maple Pictures)

**Spoiler Alert***

If you have not seen season four of Mad Men (which came out on DVD today), do NOT keep reading or I will spoil the hell out of it for you. And I don't need that on my conscience!

If you're a fan of Mad Men, you can't tell me you weren't FLOORED by the twist ending of last season. Don Draper, the delicious cad that he is, dumps Faye Miller (a woman with as much baggage as he has) and proposes to his sweet, naive, young, gorgeous secretary Megan Calvet. Mad Men just got really, really interesting.

And not necessarily because Megan (played by Montreal-born actress Jessica Par) is really all that interesting. Because she isn't. Jessica copped to that in an interview with CBC today in Toronto. "She's kind of perfect." And she is... for now. Mad Men isn't a show with cardboard cut-out characters. Every player has flaws - small or giant, and we love or hate them as much because of these flaws as despite them.

Which is why I'm so amped for season five... which we will arrive sometime in 2012, AMC announced Tuesday. There are reports of ongoing negotiations between AMC, Lionsgate TV and creator/exec producer Matthew Weiner over product placement (oh, the irony), cutting two minutes out of each episode to make room for more ads (more irony), and either losing or demoting two main characters. Woah. Apparently the $30-million-over-two-years paycheck is not enough for Weiner to roll over.

Getting back to the show - I'm waiting for Megan to suddenly pop into three-dimensions. Is she bipolar? Is she power-hungry? Does she have a homicidal twin? No matter what her secret struggle, you can bet her star will get tarnished in her hurry to become Don's newest plaything. But the romantic in me wants to believe - for just a little longer - that it's love.

What do you think? Can Mad Men keep Don and Meg pure? Or will the writers have a field day with their love affair and write them an epic fall from grace? I have a feeling I know the answer to that one. Sniff.

-- by Arisa Cox