Glen lives under the stairs and writes creepy blank verse.

Me too, but this episode was already really busy.

@avclub-3db41011acc2d229176bf6a92202728d:disqus - what sword intended for use as a weapon of war weighs 15 pounds? An executioner's sword maybe…most medieval swords, even two-handers, weighed considerably less.

I think we as a group are misinterpreting the imagery - I figure it's more about this society (50s-early 60s America) taking a fall over the next 5-10 years. The world these characters know is ending, basically, hence the low-grade apocalyptic tone.

Odessey and Oracle is one of my favorite albums too. So many other good songs to pick from on that album other than Time of the Season, which I'd hope is too obvious a choice for Mad Men. Brief Candles, Hung Up on a Dream,…

I was really hoping for "She Said," but "Tomorrow Never Knows" might have been the perfect pick - it felt like it was cutting through the insular SCDP world like a knife with all that jagged sound. Hopefully now Don knows what was so horrifyingly wrong about the client's song pick.

Same here, I'm kind of looking forward to this, though. Just hearing how it got made makes me want it to be a success.

I guess the show differentiates male and female nerdery a bit - male nerdery includes juvenile pursuits like comic books, action figures, and video games. The type of female nerdery displayed by Amy and Bernadette involves scientific professions and some type of social awkwardness, but none of the juvenile hobbies as…

She's my CherryPy…

He'll always be Col. T.C. McQueen from Space Above And Beyond to me! Baddest hardass in space.

I don't know whether she expected him to reveal what he knows about Conrad and Victoria's misdeeds, but Emily was clearly hoping he'd use the opportunity to draw a clear line of separation between himself and his parents.  I briefly wondered whether Daniel was playing some sort of longer game, supporting Conrad…

I've been impressed with the writing for the voiceovers, though. Totally agree that they feel extraneous, but it helps me watch the episodes through the eyes of a calculating revenge machine.

Van Camp is pretty great here, and I don't think I've watched her in anything else. There's been some discussion here about how her real identity is a bit too chilly and revenge-driven to really know or like, but I love both sides to the character, and I can't help but admire her icy control. Plus, Stowe's energy is…

They could always have Arstan suggest this course of action. It wouldn't make total sense, because Jorah supposedly knows stuff about the East because of his long exile, but having Arstan suggest buying Unsullied would work, I think.

@thomasrhys:disqus If you found a print example of "a person's voice is what it is," I don't think "it is what it is" is that much of a stretch. This show does indulge in the occasional anachronistic phrase, but I don't think this one is.

I preferred to read it as her being rather ambivalent or unsure, just like her whole "entree into the adult world" evening. Exchanging witticisms with Roger? Awesome! Spotting Roger getting a hummer from your step-grandmother? Confusing and disturbing!

He wasn't wearing pants because Sally's phone call got him up in the middle of the night, and he lives in a boy's dorm so he doesn't have to worry about it too much.

Like someone else pointed out elsewhere, the argument that Peggy is using Abe for practice is way more plausible than the other way around.

I'm reading "Captains of Consciousness" right now - it makes a great companion to Mad Men, and it definitely positions advertising as in service of capitalist ideology (the first chapter talks about shorter hours and higher wages for the working class as being ideal in creating a new consumer base for massively…

Ian Fleming novels are about an eighth that size.