I don't think the resemblance to Matthew Rhys is that strong, but Misha looks a heck of a lot like Henry.

To be fair, Stan looked super-punchy from being up 48 straight hours waiting for William to give him some actionable intelligence, or die.

Best moments of levity this episode came from them continuously finding angles and obstacles with which to hide Keri Russell's belly, with scrunched-up comforters, coats (I think the only time her coat was off this episode she was in bed), the laundry basket, and and even her dry cleaning (which was the point at which…

Starting with the disclaimer: the guy's guilty, the punishment's a joke, the drummer's letter to the court was stupid, and the festival was within their rights to drop her band.

Trump is a tremendous jackass, but I don't think there's anything wrong or bullying about "low energy" as a critique. It's not in the same league as making fun of someone's weight, hair, or the size of their hands. Heck, with Bush it was kind of inspired, because the phrase really captured Bush's affect, which wasn't…

There's a reason he does those Prilosec commercials.

Oh, my heaven! Hulce as Kaffee really gives a different idea of what that role could've been, before it turned into a Tom Cruise movie(tm). Hulce is a way more convincing manchild than Cruise ever was.

The main lesson from the IRS targeting controversy was that right wing fake 501(c)(4)'s were easier to flag for further scrutiny because they're less imaginatively named than lefty fake 501(c)(4)s. They were more susceptible to a key word search.

"Baby, you are gonna miss that boom tube."

I know that alternate history (as opposed to historical fiction) is an acquired taste. While historical accuracy is notionally important to historical fiction, alternate histories hinge on prominent deviations from historical accuracy (think The Man in the High Castle or Inglourious Basterds).

I thought Mad Men handled history well, always feeling part of the times while seldom making you feel like they were ticking off a checklist of required period elements. One of the things they did better than most period shows is that not all the characters were current to the era—many of the Sterling-Cooper men and…

At the time, I didn't know the show would be as deft at handling the characters' relationship to historical events (they seem to have learned a lot from the good and the bad of how Mad Men handled history) as they've proven to be. Knowing what I know now, I should've had more confidence in them.

Still better than the stuff the National Enquirer was claiming.

The only thing better would've been if Mysterio was Bryan Brown, reprising his role from the F/X movies.

The studio decides who gets to make the movies, and sadly they almost never accept "studio meddling" as a reason for failure.

They kind of set up that idea in Batman Begins—what with Arkham being emptied out and that entire neighborhood being driven crazy by Scarecrow's fear gas—and promptly abandoned it in The Dark Knight.

Good point. There's also the scene with him stopping all the artillery the Soviet and US fleets are shooting at them, and sending it back at them. First Class is an awesome Magneto movie.

The next closest thing is Arkady sending out the Embassy cars with the abort sign personally spray-painted on them. Other than that, it's a bunch of moments where Philip hears something on a wiretap, and several scenes later we hear Arkady discussing it at the Rezidentura. The idea that Rezidentura employees are the…

[Carefully rolls a toy dumptruck full of pennies to Megan Fox's house.]

Eh, I think that cynicism is uncalled for. First of all, this isn't the typical situation where someone might be "forced" to apologize publicly—he didn't insult a group of people, or even a very influential decisionmaker or someone with a huge, loyal online following. Mark Romanek called him a shithead, which would…