I couldn't disagree more, but we're admittedly talking about a subjective thing. What I do have a problem with is Sorkin trying to make some special exception like this isn't the constant direction each passing generation takes us in. Technology makes things easier, that's why we invent things. His media was…

@avclub-0c4eda39c04c2b0566526710ddfa7dad:disqus I agree with so much with what you said (to the point that I'm having a hard time seeing where we really interpret things differently), but here goes my hair splitting.

@avclub-0c4eda39c04c2b0566526710ddfa7dad:disqus "All that's really saying is that he never had a gun to her head."

"so don's dominator act would actually be putting sylvia in control."

I liked her asking Don if he wanted her to answer the phone, nothing better than passive-aggressive Peggy.

I for one am loving the hell out of watching them pull the rug out from everyone who thinks we're supposed to be watching this show and rooting for Don Draper (other than rooting for him to get his personal demons in order and become a whole person, of course).

Don's previously shown to be into the sub/dom fetish, and he's also been on both sides of it, which I think is common. (I'll be honest, all my knowledge of this world is friends' stories, so I can't claim to be an authority.)

Yeah, taking advantage of new technology like that and not just submitting to old media traditionalism for the sake of it. Let's all sooth our jangled nerves by giving this new Vampire Weekend album a spin on the old Vitrola.

Two episodes and he's immediately jumped to the top of my favorite secondary character list.

Yes, fighting tooth and nail to make an uncompromised artistic vision against the profit-driven bottom liners at NBC and Sony…what a dickhead.

Eh, to be fair their news section is pretty separate from the front page nonsense. It's just blocks of text and original reporting like any other site, but ultimately it's as good as Salon or Slate: once in a blue moon a good piece slips through but the vast majority of it is chasing the same sort of beltway gossipy…

"Win" "Cute" "WTF"

Todd, you click-baitin' sonovabitch. Trying to join the mass exodus and score a gig at Buzzfeed? Well you're gonna need to get off the Community kick and start writing 12 Ryan Goslings Eating Bacon in the 90s gifs.

Agreed, a lot of people misinterpreted it as an act of stupidity and not that of a petulant child taking a parent's orders very literally to prove a point and be difficult. Granted, still to an extreme degree that could still be argued taking the show in a broader direction.

Haha, I can promise you he didn't do it with any subversive intent. He just likes silly reality television more than shitty cable news.

@avclub-7bcbc6826654907d7e1aebf014511b49:disqus Relatively! That's two responses in a row of cutting off my modifiers. There are three sentences in my original comment, it's not too much to ask people to read every word.

It'll be at least more interesting than last season, and they'll have to make it something new and different than these vague gestures toward what the show used to be. Even though Harmon wanted to get to the point where some if not all of the characters graduated, he never really gave any indication of how it would…

Loved Paul/Werner calling out his "Aw shucks" demeanor.

I'm basically with you. Generally pretty positive on the show; it's consistently watchable, well acted, and frequently inspired bursts of great moments. But it has a some glaring flaws that a number of critics have inexplicably overlooked. It frequently gives over to the laziest jokes (fatties, foreigners, dirty,…

The Mole was a ridiculous reality show hosted by Anderson Cooper before he tried to be taken seriously. Cool Story Bro: My father once bumped into Cooper years back and said something like, "Hey, it's you!" to which Cooper replied, "Yeah, CNN." To which my dad replied, "No, The Mole." He described the look on Cooper's…