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Huh. To be honest, those temporal winks were the reason I never got more than three or four episodes into Mad Men. Maybe I should go back?

THIS IS EXACTLY HOW I FELT.

Lol, so you're arguing that The Flash and Supergirl are products of the MCU-inspired LESS campy era? C'mon, these shows are far campier than any Marvel film, except maybe the (Sony-made) Spiderman films.

Six months late, but thumbs up for your Buffy reference.

Bahahah, so true.

That's absolutely fair. I guess what I'm saying is that I think it's generally unwise for shows and movies to be "about" a certain time period.

That's fine. The sequence was the best part of the episode, and it's not that big of a deal that the cook yelled something out and got himself killed. It could certainly happen, though it was a pretty stupid mistake for him to make.

It wouldn't be out of character to have Luca and Sonny taking a shit either, but it also wouldn't be particularly relevant to the story being told. A skilled, imaginative storyteller can often find a less clumsy way to set the stage; name checking the decade's greatest hits just to get the audience going "Whoa, this

Eps have said it will NOT be a fake-out. No Lazarus Pit, no take-backsies.

Garber kinda has that Professor Dad vibe, too

This was by far the best episode of what had previously been a disappointingly mediocre series - how does the reviewer not see that??

I live in shit-infested heart of Hollywood and, yeah, OP nailed it - this sounded like your average Tuesday.

Thinking the same thing. Where the fudge is Ted Grant?

Arex << Perfect comment.