I gave up on SH4, just short of throwing the controller across the room when I realized I had to replay every level, but one thing that stood out to me was the prison. That really got into my head and left me disturbed for a day or two.

People had pretty much forgotten about R. Kelly's assaults around the "Trapped in the Closet" and more recent Black Panties eras. It was totally cool to like him. People seemed to think, at worst, he was caught having consensual sex with someone SLIGHTLY underage. I can't remember who wrote the article months ago…

Wasn't Pete talking to his girlfriend when he said "I knew I'd find you here"? As in, he was afraid of her hitting on Don?

I will pine patiently for the return of Nick the Handyman.

I don't think it was out of desperation; I think they were showing that Sally's learning not to be as superficial as her mother. The older kid was hot but he was an asshole. She had a genuine and interesting moment with the younger one.

I always thought it went along with the theme that Dick Whitman "died." I still think that Don Draper will eventually "die" too, and free Don from being stuck in purgatory between the two.

I think this one was very well-done, unlike Anna Draper doing the Are You Afraid of the Dark?-esque, semi-transparent ghosty fade-out.

I can believe Don's Hershey meltdown was enough to lose all Cooper's respect. He liked Don because he thought Don was like himself, pragmatic and ruthless. He was only okay with the Don Draper guise when he didn't know what it was hiding—not to mention, he was costing them business, at that point.

"I will destroy you." Trudy belongs in King's Landing.

I don't think they meant to portray her as a bigot, but the scene is certainly meant to expose some conflict—you've been saying it wasn't racially motivated at all.

Because clearly I craved someone's pointless, bitchy reply.

Yes.

Oh jeez. Peggy is white. Dawn is black. Dawn is staying there because of race riots in Harlem. Do you really think they just happened to choose that moment to portray Peggy's general, completely non-racial protectiveness over her purse?

I need to rewatch it, but no, I never got that impression at all. Don was just being a giant asshole with infidelity double standards, like when he flared up at Betty for flirting with Roger.

The girl in the restaurant (Emily?) looked exactly like Anna's niece Stephanie, didn't she?

AV Club doesn't seem to like me posting the link, but it's from the Hitflix interview with Alex Graves:

One of the quotes I saw went something like "None of us wanted to talk about what was going on with these characters." Well… that seems like a great way to approach storytelling.

I haven't been keeping up with the show; is there any logic, so far, for Jaime coming home early? Because it's starting to seem like they made that change purely so he could get mad enough at Cersei to rape her.

In the passage from the book, Cersei goes from being somewhat hesitant to begging him to f*** her in front of her dead son’s body. My theory is that this was too much for them—that it makes Cersei look depraved (WHICH SHE IS) to completely forget her son has just died and desecrate his crypt with passionate incest…

No, I'm saying that book!Cersai protests because of the location, not the sex itself. And Jaime doesn't coerce her— she enthusiastically -demands- that he have sex with her. The situation is still a little murky, but in the books it's a weak no vs. enthusiastic yes ("Hurry, do me now," etc), in the show it's a firm no…