But Slattery jokes about how the war will be over next year, thus giving us the usual hindsight comfort that MM delivers as if it were irony gold.

Does anyone still really fall for the old Mad Men ploy of fifty minutes of directionless, mundane scene-piling punctuated by the customary 'shocking finale'?

That King family produces more hacks than a Hutu uprising.

DON DID POT AND NEARLY DROWNED! I NEARLY WOKE UP FOR A FEW MINUTES!! A NEW LEVEL FOR MAD MEN!! AWESOME!!

I was only slightly paying attention to the show, but on Mad Men Don did pot, hallucinated his wife and dead Korean War buddy and nearly drowned. I almost woke up for a few minutes! Awesome!

Dana Andrews brother! Huh! Now I see the resemblance!

Look above, casual browser: the bitchy, jealous losers that comprise the A.V. Club (who can't even be supportive when one of their own gets somewhere). Glad to see nothing changes around here.