But….Lou is adequate!

Betty Draper is like a Livia Soprano prequel.

I have a feeling this is an episode we're going to look back on as the most hopeful episode for Don Draper in the series (which also means I think we're heading down a long personal growth relapse for Don).

I think he answers that earlier in the review where he says he thinks he's ready for Community to be done. It's just show fatigue. Sometimes people get tired, or grow out of a show.

I think the lack of more substantial character development/character stories are in larger part due to the shortened season. And really, the 13 episodes might as well have been 10, because they needed Repilot to establish a basic premise for what this show is at this point, and an episode each to deal with Pierce and…

Some people said he hid his money using a portal to another dimension — those people were on LSD

Loved the episode. Hoping for another season. That is all.

Weiner is a Chase descendant and if you've ever heard him speak on how Tony's arc in the Sopranos progresses towards the end, he loves it because (paraphrasing) "Tony tried, he really tried to change, but he just couldn't because people generally don't change, because they're flawed and blah blah blah." And my hunch…

That was Mad Men's "Take THAT, Americans!" moment. Annet Mahendru is going to have to go full-frontal this week as a response.

Could be that, or it could be that Los Angeles can't be for him what it was for Pete, because Megan's there. He's screwed in New York because he has no purpose, and he can't run away from SC&P and all of that and find himself on the West Coast because he hates his wife. He's trapped.

I'm struggling a little on how to read it. So, at the end of Season 6, it seemed like the Don Draper facade was shattered. He couldn't hold it together professionally, he seemed like he was on the cusp of detonating his marriage, and he had essentially revealed some pretty core Dick Whitman back story to his children.

Ugh, Moonves said to Bloomberg today that The Late Late Show is up in the air. It may just be contract posturing since Ferguson is up in a couple months, but there's a persistent rumor they're looking at Chelsea Handler for that spot. If they give Ferguson the boot, I'll be so disappointed.

True, but they almost have no choice. Parks & Rec and Community are at the point where at best they may buy them one more season, and even with that, those shows aren't doing much better than some of the shows they cancelled. TMJFS was like 0.6-0.8 territory, I think.

It just happens with aging shows. People gradually start to fall out of love with it and/or pick it apart. I'm not even sure if the quality of the show is worse (I'm sure many people will argue it is and it's entirely possible), or if the perspective of the viewers just changes over time (or some combination of both).…

It is worth pointing out that BBT is down 0.6 from last month, so the Community decline is likely just an overall decline in TV viewership as the weather gets nice and people do more in the Spring. Community is probably still a 0.8-1.3 type show.

NBC's in a tough spot. They have nothing to replace Parks & Rec and Community, but the fact that they keep renewing these two shows that have been in steady decline really since they started has prevented them from putting more irons in the fire and/or putting itself behind something new and sticking with it.

Britta was MVP for me, but Duncan a close second. John Oliver killed it every time he was on screen. Really hope he can make a decent number of episodes next season (fingers crossed for a next season).

Five! Five dollar! Five dollar footlongs!!!! Anyanyany!!!

I think everything about the episode worked (and it was funny) except for reincorporating Subway into this. I think they could have told the same story and just as funny a story without Subway as the antagonist. There was maybe 1 or 2 Subway related jokes I found funny. Now, they may pay it off in a big way in the…

Yeah, it worked for me because clearly there's no chance of that working out from the get go, and I thought the whole sequence was pretty good storytelling. Jeff's 40, I think we found out for the first time Britta was 33 tonight, they're both exiting their prime years, and there's a growing sense of shared dread with…