To be fair, he did ask her if she had mouths to feed, and she said no, but still, Joan is only the badguy here to the people who want to make her the badguy no matter what.

The reason she told Bruce she was giving up her kid was, as I've said, a reductio ad absurdum to make him realize that he can't expect her to be anything other than what she is, a mother with a small child. That's why she said it as soon as she saw him in the office with flowers, indicating that he wanted to give…

Yeah, I think part of the trainwreck was just how much sense it would have made. Like—on the one hand, it was nice to see a plot from the earliest seasons come full circle and get closure, but on the other, I was flailing and praying Weiner (writer, not actor, but I guess both) wouldn't take it that far.

Are you kidding me? I know there's a subset of fans who think Joan is Satan incarnate for some reason and are just waiting with bated breath for the episode where she unzips her human mask to reveal the cackling she-demon within, but there's no reason to believe she'd dump her child in a fucking orphanage for a guy…

I did, and my skin still hasn't stopped crawling from that realization.

You realize she was being sarcastic about that, right? Bruce Greenwood's character was the one coming on really strong and acting like she'd betrayed him by not inferring that he wanted a serious relationship and telling him about Kevin on the very first date, and when he turned up unexpectedly in New York to pursue…

If this weren't the end of the series, we could be sure Glen would come back from 'Nam unscathed, because you know Weiner would never close off the possibility of shoehorning his offspring into more episodes unless it were impossible.

I couldn't tell the difference between him and any other off-putting dude who hits on Joan, except that this time she was receptive to it.

"A lot of wonderful things happened here!"

I always find myself wondering if her hair can actually be achieved by mortal women. I would not need anything else out of life if only I had that hair.

I didn't think he was actually going to, but there was still a tiny part of me waiting for Richard to respond to Gavin's offer by standing up and putting his balls on the contract.

I dunno, I thought the giant neck-brace sweater accomplished that task pretty admirably. Must have been laundry day when she wore it to work.

I think this show and Mad Men are the only things his talent hasn't been wasted on. He's way too good for the shitty work he gets.

Kumail Nanjiani gets sexier with every episode, too. It's really just the ugly shirts that hold him back.

Bear-chested Ken was a lovely surprise indeed. Unf. God bless the 70s. (Statement not applicable to any aspect of the 70s except the gloriously un-waxed body hair.)

All he has to do is pull a screw out of the bridge and the whole agency goes down.

He's a short-story writer (did he win an award for it? I can't remember), but that requires a different skill set than novel writing, and not everyone can do both. That isn't something he should have to feel insecure about, but it seems like he does.

I'm just glad that at least one show Ben Feldman is associated with is getting another season.

I still think the best censoring of that nature is what TBS did to The Big Lebowski. "This is what happens, Larry! You see what happens, Larry? You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?"

So given Ryan Murphy's track record with him, this means Cheyenne Jackson will have about five lines spread over two episodes and then be killed offscreen or something and never mentioned again.