And characters that you genuinely grew to love. Just about the perfect show …

What are you up to , Mr. Handsome?

How's the world treatin' you, Mr. Handsome?

Oh, really? I didn't know. Are the stories worth checking out?

Turns out Norrell is banging Dr. Rosen's wife.

Yeah, I liked Copper, too. The beginning was shaky, but I thought that the last four or five episodes were really dark and suspenseful. Looking forward to Season 2.

It's terrific, and the ending is beautiful …

I really like Pop, and a lot of the remixes, and I agree: this is where the endless studio sessions began.

Take away Miami and Playboy mansions, and you're left with a bunch of good tot very good tunes with electro-affectations. If God Will Send His Angels, Gone, and Wake Up Dead Man are great. A lot of bands should be lucky to record an album as "bad" as Pop …

Wait, what? That's a thing?

My favorites are the first two seasons, but every season is still streets ahead of any other show on television. But Seasons 1-3 almost seem like a bit of a different show - the Don and Betty and S&C firm. Seasons 4-5 are Don and Megan and SCDP.

Yeah, I was starting to wonder if that storage room would just be filled with old props from the previous seasons - a shotgun, a John Deere riding mower …

Yeah, I find it hard to believe that Don and Roger, even in 1967, would be comfortable in that frat house atmosphere.

Agreed. I thought it was a "This is what normal people do" moment, for him to make a friend outside of the office. I also thought it was another step to something of a life outside of the confines of Don Draper: Advertiser. But no, he's just banging the guy's wife.

So Redford is in this? No fooling, I think that's a neat bit of casting.

Well, they all had to go somewhere after St. Patrick drove them all out of Ireland …

… and with the introduction of the pit of snakes … it'd be interesting if this show killed off Ragnor this season or the next, and then jumped ahead in time/generation each season, to cover decades/centuries of Viking conquests.

I learned that fun fact from Wikipedia … so where is this going? In true Ragnorok style, is this show presenting the grim, inescapable fate for its protagonist early on, to hang as a pall over the rest of the show? Or will it deviate from the sagas/history, and have its Ragnar escape his fate?

A Jon Hamm penis? Where does he find the time?

See, I feel like Letterman somewhat respects O'Reilly, and genuinely enjoys their give and take. And Simmons has to be in on the joke, right?