Pastor needs to fucking go of course. And not just for his haircut.

If Protestant then agreed. If Catholic, change "daughter" to "son" obviously.

And yet it is the greatest fucking thing fucking ever, apparently. Despite more or less retreading the same plots/themes constantly since about Season 3. Oh, Don is trying to figure out who he is! Don cheats on his wife! They restructure the Ad Agency. Roger cracks a bon mot. Pete looks successively more skeevy. Oh…

Oligarchs are far, far above the heads of any Voriy. More like "once Putin wants to take over his business." But good references nevertheless.

You DARE to slag off on Roger's glorious 'stache?

On Pete's current trajectory of looks and overall vibe, I easily can envision him at a dodgy adult theatre as some degenerate patron of a Jack Horner/Brock Landers production roughly eight years forward in time from here.

Re-edit above to "allegedly killed five hookers." Or attach "irony tag" or whatever.

Would he have known about Craig James killing five hookers while at SMU? Well fuck yes, the KGB would have known about that.

As to the drug war, Obama represents a party that has public employee unions as one of its largest constituent interest groups. Police. Prison guards. Exactly the people who want more funding and membership.

"Shalom. I'd like to apply for a loan….."
"Based on stereotypes…… that I don't agree with…… you might not be a very good driver."

And also I might add it is highly unlikely that any state would accredit anything like the "University of American Samoa" as a legit law degree. Or admit someone with an arrest record (as Jimmy apparently has.)

Tsk tsk Vince Gilligan et al, for dipping into that late-90s TV trope toolbox of having someone just walk in and say "by the way, I've been secretly going to law school, have just passed the bar, and am now an attorney!"

Being neither black nor a former "Wire" character, I'd fancy Glen to survive. But on the other hand, "Father" Carver deffo needs to take a walk down the alley with Chris and Snoop.

The one thing that would have made Justified much better is if they had actually used Eastern Kentucky (or somewhere in the Appalachians) for filming. Maybe it is just me, but as a person who worked in that part of the world for a few years the show just never looks at all "right."

Martha is a receptionist at FBI counterintelligence. Not lacking in sophistication as to the spy game, then.

So what's your play now if you are Phillip re: Martha?

Exhibit A as to the stupidity of the Emmys. Mad Men is not a bad show by any means but is almost comically overrated in my mind. Two or three riveting moments/sequences per season with Mad Men. Two or three per episode with the Americans.

That show was pretty weak, though. The protagonist was far less interesting than the Nicky Sobotka character.

I think the people who write that show must drop acid and then watch WWE programming AND "quality" TV shows in alternating fashion before setting figurative pen to paper. Somehow the end result is both utterly bonkers and legitimately good at the same time.

That is a surprisingly underrated series. And its final season was for me the "best final season" of any series I ever watched.