I'm a long-time fan that was hoping for the best. First two hours weren't great but showed potential. This hour was Season Six Bad.

Yeah, that's pretty much just a fixture of the first few Season 1 episodes. And, really, I don't think the show has ever been about shaming the past. It really has a great deal of sympathy for those who lived in that time period. The most disturbing thing about the show is that it makes you question, "What about our…

Peggy Olson has the best character arc since Michael Corleone. Fact. The idea that they pulled off her development from the naive earnest whatever girl of the Pilot to the Queen of Incredible believably is fucking amazing. She's the best example of how rewarding it is to follow characters throughout the years in a…

Honestly, as someone who watched the show on DVD, I just never saw Part 1 and 2 as separate seasons.

I was actually more irritated with the show's discussion of torture in Season 7 than I was by the show's actual reliance on torture. They probably could've pulled it off back in the early seasons. However, when your story is "African Soldiers have taken The White House", you can't pull off a serious discussion on…

Kim's story is easily ignored, though and I think the greatness of the material around it outweighs it. The impending death of the nuclear bomb threat allowed them to tell some personal stories with the cast at CTU that let you get into their characters and kicked off the Tony/Michelle romance. Sure, other seasons had…

"Everyone is going to hate me if they know I'm in charge of the food! Charlie is going to want crackers! Sun will want suntan lotion! Fuck me and this terrible burden!"

I feel like Anna leaving was the bigger loss.

I'll actually stand up and say that the first half of Season 3 is also pretty good, but that it is completely overshadowed by the amazing second half. That season, overall, has a lot of flaws (and it's a step-down from Season 2 — which is the show's best season), but I often think of it as the last time the show was…

The Mad Men Collection.

Yeah, Evil Jeff, I still like Betty after all these years but I can *understand* the dislike a bit more nowadays.

Yeah, Evil Jeff, I still like Betty after all these years but I can *understand* the dislike a bit more nowadays.

It's a little different for The Wire S4. They sent out seven episodes for review that year, which I feel helped with the score. If they had only sent two episodes, I'm not sure if it would've gotten a 98.

It's a little different for The Wire S4. They sent out seven episodes for review that year, which I feel helped with the score. If they had only sent two episodes, I'm not sure if it would've gotten a 98.

There's a weird misogyny in some of the dislike of Skyler that turns me off (though not all posts about hating Skylar are misogynistic, of course).

There's a weird misogyny in some of the dislike of Skyler that turns me off (though not all posts about hating Skylar are misogynistic, of course).

Deadwood.

Deadwood.

He's a bigger asshole in the High School seasons. In the fifth season finale, he takes off to spend some time with his summer romance Cara *while* he's still dating Winnie.

He's a bigger asshole in the High School seasons. In the fifth season finale, he takes off to spend some time with his summer romance Cara *while* he's still dating Winnie.