An easier solution for the Best Drama and Best Comedy categories: first, a show can't win in consecutive years, and second a show is "retired" from consideration after 2 total wins.

This bugged me too. Side note: do we know when Tony was born in the MCU? Robert Downey Jr. was born in '65, but Howard would be in his 60s by that point.

That Don Draper pitch is spot on! I have nothing to add, but just… Well done! S.H.E.I.L.D always did seem too clever of a name for a government agency, but it all makes sense now.

I assumed that Elizabeth's father was killed at Stalingrad; since that's probably the most famous example of Order 227, yet was eventually a huge victory which would merit the parade young Elizabeth wanted to attend.

I also assumed she was in the Lubyanka. If she were in a gulag, why would the Belgian girl be trying to contact her embassy, or Oleg's dad be able to visit her so easily?

Pardon my lack of knowledge about the MCU, but is there a Soviet equivalent of Capt. America in it? Or is that the Winter Soldier? I got the feeling from Dottie's looking through Peggy's old pictures of the machine which created Cap that her mission is to steal that tech. Plus there is Chekov's Steve Rodgers blood…

Plus, now I'm imagining Americans episodes where the Jennings have to steal Stark tech. And I like it.

I'd like to think that Agent Carter is really a prequel not for the MCU, but for The Americians; and Dottie is the young Granny. The timeline works!

I never realized just how many characters in this show are named for flowers! Is that laziness on the part of the writers, or that common among the British aristocracy at the time?

I got really excited for a moment there thinking that OckhamTruth.com might actually be a real website parodying truthers. Well done, sir!

Ha, I like that idea!

Hmm.. Hadn't even thought of that! That does seem to be where they're headed though; especially with (if I remember correctly) the DoD pushing Ben & Rachel to turn on the nanobots before they felt they were ready. Perhaps it's a "rogue faction" within the Pentagon which plotted the whole thing, and this show's plot…

So were all of the [hundreds, if not thousands of] 'United States' soldiers living down in Cuba this whole time? Did they do nothing but manufacture bullets for the last 15 years? Why aren't the soldiers all tanned?

A few episodes into Season 1 I resorted to thinking about this show in terms of Final Fantasy VI characters & plot-twists.

That's about 25% true. I was working in Brand Marketing for Sci-Fi at the time of the rebrand - not my idea, I swear! -  and while the ownable branding thing was a nice side benefit for NBC (Syfy's owners), the primary reasons where twofold: 1) Make the name sound less geeky & more "inviting" to new viewers who didn't…

This comment is a little out there, but in light of what happened in Boston last week and the revelations that it was two Chechens behind it, and that the FBI had been warned of one by Russia's security service, I couldn't stop thinking of which if any Americans characters might still be around and involved.

@avclub-fd49932f918497f20b2931ddc110bcbe:disqus Thanks! And I'm with you on wanting more of that background. I think they'll give it to us… I'm absolutely loving the world that this show has built and how organically the characters are seeming to grow from it so far.

@avclub-2a5866203b479586ecc9183837a2d3e0:disqus You're right, and Switzerland never gets any props for being the world's longest running democracy, but the key difference is that Switzerland doesn't vest power in one single executive who could (theoretically) sieze power after a defeat. In 1800 America transferred…

The thing is that the US *is* pretty exceptional in this regard and that list is very misleading in two ways. First being, they're measuring "consecutive transitions" - in the US that's only every 4 years but in parliamentary systems can happen much more frequently. The more important difference between the US & a…