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Sutter Vaught
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I have only seen three episodes of Grey's Anatomy, and two of them featured female characters just "cutting loose" and dancing their worries away with their friends in their bedroom.  So I thought that was a little more trope-y and not at all original, but maybe my viewing sample isn't representative.

I agree with @JLTucker:disqus that every character is an asshole, and I don't think that that's a bar to a successful show, but I do wish they'd find some way to make some of the characters endearing assholes.  Other comedies centered on terrible people (Curb Your Enthusiasm, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) somehow

When the Tolerability Index gets a spot on the Tolerability Index, the prophesy shall be fulfilled.

"Y'all" is plural.  "All y'all," is a folksy expression.  "You" is the singular of "y'all."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe he wasn't saying that people don't say "y'all," he was saying that in pop culture, people say "y'all" to refer to one person (second-person singular).  I have never heard this done in real life and have lived exclusively in the South, and it drives me insane when I hear it on

What are the odds that Roger runs back to Mona?  Likely only to have her shoot him down, but I could see it happening.

If she could mind control him, then would steps 1 and 2 be unnecessary?  I think it's far more insidious.  She clearly poisoned Anna Draper with radiation to give her cancer, then blackmailed niece Stephanie into giving Don the ring, then used subliminal messaging in the hotel to indoctrinate Don and the children.

In a Season Two episode, Bobby asks Don what Don's father liked to eat, and Don says "Ham…and candy that tasted like violets, in a beatiful purple and silver package."
Fast forward to tonight's episode, where we learn that Peggy's lucky charm is a purple and silver package of violet candy that Don had given to her.

She did lean in to take a deep whiff of the spray paint fumes in that scene, so getting high will probably happen sooner than later.  Maybe she'll develop a new drug of choice instead of running back to pain pills?

Donal Logue did a pretty good job of playing Jim Rockford on Terriers…

I reeeaaalllly wanted to hear what she had to say to Alexis.

Am I remembering wrong, or was there a scene in the pilot (or early on) where Don is in the elevator and Pete rushes to jump on with him?  That happened somewhere right?  If so, Don holding the door for him is a nice callback.

Did anyone else read Joan's "don't worry about it, everyone in this office has fantasized about beating up Pete" to extend to "also, don't worry about it, everyone in this office has fantasized about making a pass at me"?

You mean Mad Men: The Book (Where All The Fantastic Characters Are Replaced With Shrill, Excruciating Caricatures).  Frank and April at their very, very best are Pete and Betty at their very, very worst.

Is the season building to Pete going on a shooting spree?

I thought Peggy might have told Roger because she's so work-focused that she doesn't appreciate Ken dicking around with sci-fi when the firm is still struggling get and keep accounts.

Pete's only hope was to tackle him off of a waterfall.

If Sally and Mama Henry ever join forces with Trudy, the end will be upon us.

As Joan nicely summarized, (paraphrasing) everyone wants to kick the shit out of Pete.

This show is so pretty that I want so badly for it to be good, but right now it just feels like a warmed-over Ellroy knockoff.