Thank *GOD* "Product Recall" got an A.

I think this was the first time we heard about Kate's husband being dead, by the way. And I could see how omitting that from earlier dialogue might have not been organic, but I think it setup the swerve nicely. From the get-go, we assumed his name was going to be cleared, so this puts an interesting spin on that.

The entire "tricking a nuclear submarine into sending a missile to create an international crisis" was the entire premise behind Last Resort.

Yes.

But doesn't that prove the point - their deaths don't matter at all.

How about 24 channeling Last Resort in those final few minutes?

The fundamental gripe is that a season finale rather than a series finale.

I do think setting it three years out softens this concern (albeit cheaply).

I agree with this.

Yeah - as they started undressing, I was questioning if "choke" meant what I thought it meant (actually choking someone) or if it was slang for some sort of non-choke-related sex act.

I didn't notice that because she's not.

It was. I guess that could be construed as a red herring, but the Liv Tyler character's reaction to the the stalking made it clear that wasn't her mother or anything.

Sorry - by essentially, I was referring to the earlier moments in the episode. Obviously, when he yells "that's my wife" (and when the daughter removes the glass to show Amy Brenneman's face), it's no longer "essentially" but factual.

Mad Men is the counterargument to this. As I've mentioned before, Jon Hamm does not have an impressive physique whatsoever. And as others said in response, apparently Weiner doesn't want them working out because it wasn't consistent with the time period.

Not "The Rundown" starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Seann "Stifler" William Scott?

While I see both sides, I'm inclined to agree with the "you need to have seen Lost" point. Hate on the finale all you want, but it is the defining show when it comes to this sort of genre (it would be like evaluating a mob movie without having seen The Godfather or, to a lesser extent, Goodfellas), and it's…

I'm fine with it given that the show cast someone as striking as Andie MacDowell's daughter in one of the key female roles. Girl's eyes and lips are crazy.

Completely confused by the first paragraph of this review. I'm assuming the "accidentally" part is some sort of sarcastic swipe at the show for not doing a good job of making it clear (if not, it's another criticism or comment that I'm not following), but that's not consistent with what I just watched.

Whether or not the naked guy was *really* the chief remains to be seen, but he said it was his dad - and what they showed clearly wasn't Justin Theroux running around naked.

The thought-provoking dialogue was on a completely different level in season one, and I *DO* miss that thus far (I've rarely appreciated anything on TV the way I did those Tawnee & Daniel conversations), but I almost wonder if the current approach is better by TV standards. There were definitely moments in which the…