Wasn't it successfully and stylishly rebooted already as Penny Dreadful?

Gotham by Gaslight, the source for this, is actually quite good, however - sort of like From Hell, starring Batman.

Thankfully the level of political acumen and discourse had risen a bit in the ensuing years …

These guys look like the guys Dave always cut to when "Generic NY Teamster Laborer" was needed for a bit or a sketch

Colbert's not starting until the fall, right? What the hell was the hurry?

Agreed. I think people have to equate "dark and miserable" with quality. A show of Mad Men's magnitude couldn't end with some bit of happiness, it seems, for some people. Don had to die to make an "important" statement," I guess.

He always was the frattiest of the Sith lords.

Yeah - I was worried that there might be a Sopranos ending, which, while respecting David Chase's vision, does seem to have a bit of a fuck-you to the fans of the show. Instead, we got a thoroughly satisfying ending.

Agreed - that relationship has built so organically, that what could have been a cliched moment just felt like a natural conclusion.

Apparently, the real Coke "Hilltop" ad cost a small fortune … I'd like to think that, in nice f**k-you to Jim Hobart, Don insisted on paying Hollaway-Harris a small fortune to produce that ad.

Wow, really?

I thought the coda of the Coke ad was to show that the campaign rolled on without Don; I ended the show thinking that Don Draper was gone, and the "new" Dick Whitman was born in California. I thought that it was meant to contrast the real connections Don might be making at the commune, versus the fake ones he conjured…

Yeah, that's one of those "use in everyday conversations frequently, still …" Simpsons lines.

Or at least reboot it, or jump it ahead in time a decade, or something, anything … recasting beloved voices just seems really unseemly …

I'm sure the DJ3000 could probably come up with some good lines.

Yeah … how the hell did they get Bradley Cooper for this? He's a pretty big movie star, no? For a shitty CBS drama?

Well, unless there's a multitude of strained comparisons between Big League Chew and the 1987 Celtics, the cast members of Square Pegs, or the Kardashian sisters, I'm not sure what would be here for Grantland readers …

I didn't realize that there was a "Gaslight Gotham," but Gotham by Gaslight has always been a favorite Batman story of mine. Putting "the Batman" in Victorian Whitechapel just works so well.

I think I'm the only person besides Kurt Sutter who actually liked Season 3 (no, I'm not just saying that to be a contrarian!). Maybe it's because I'm Irish, but I liked the different setting, and the Sons getting involved in chaos far from Charming.

He probably couldn't get anyone to cover his shift at Senor Frog's …