My favorite Mad Men episode is still when he used face-gel to trans-substantiate out of prison

I dunno, my bi-polar is often pretty hilarious. Then it's an empty grey husk. Then it's hilarious again!

I know, right? Like if it was intentional deception wouldn't they at least come up with a GOOD lie? As opposed to this knee-jerk reaction of saying whatever they feel is in their immediate interests without bothering to think about it?

All of Australia is full of adults who talk like a toddler who has just been hit in the head by a brick. Also, a toddler who's every second word is "fuck".

As a Melbournian, I find the past two episodes delightful, most especially for how hard it appears to be for Americans to pronounce Melbourne. It's Melbourne, not Melbourne you idiots. Don't you know how silly you sound?

I feel like all their news coverage right now should be of themselves: "PC snowflakes and lamestream media collude to dismantle Fox News, long reported to be the last bastion of truth in this wasteland of Babylon". That way they can finally complete their transformation into Ouroboros.

Not exactly, but there is a… reckoning with their awfulness, is I guess how I would put it.

Well that certainly was a charming little show. I gotta say, I wouldn't be that sad to see it as a one-and-done, it felt complete enough for that to not seem cheap. Am I the only one who felt that all the characters were so charming, and the ensemble had such chemistry, that the only really identifiable antagonist was…

I would actually recommend sticking it out. Yes the characters are just… the worst, but that actually is a part of its conceit, and I feel like by the end it earns having to stick by such terrible people and manages to pay it off.

Hey, Tina Lemon, I had this crazy dream that all my friends were actually actors on a TV show, and Kenneth kept on telling me to call him Jack, and Jack kept on telling me to call him Alec, but I was still Tracy! It was confusing and weird, I'm glad I woke up.

I have to ask: did you see the English version first? Because if so, I can totally see coming to that assessment. But going the other way the sense of repetition is so strong that it is hard to judge its quality on its own terms.

I saw the remake and yeah, it's fine, but in the sense that it is exactly the same as the original, so the only point in it existing is for people who find it tiring to read subtitles. Something in me revolts at the idea of TV adaptation though. In a weird sense the unspoken implication of a continuous cycle was…

Yes?

I think Chick was, not just one of my favorite characters on this show, but one of my favorite on television right now.

Kind of the same argument Trump uses in regards to the historic uptick in the murder rate… wait, do we think there is a correlation between music industry profits and murder?

Also Knut Hamsun, the philosophy of Heidegger, etc. Hemingway defended Stalinist Russia for quite a while. I think there's a lot of "history is written by the victors" interpretation going on to redeem culturally valuable works from their… difficult political inclinations.

"This time next year, I'll be your Bitch-in-Chief!"

Yeah, all forms of flyer handout seem like some weird, archaic form of torture. I remember once I was in Madrid and a guy was handing out flyers at an entrance to a subway, with a totally blank, lobotomized look on his face, just mechanically passing them to everyone coming in to the station. About… 2 metres into the…

Bradley Cooper was one of the early ones, but I mean, obviously Obama and Hillary were kind of stunt shows from after it became a popular platform, not great for judging the overall quality. Check out the ones with Steve Carrel, or Jon Hamm, or Natalie Portman; they are sickeningly hilarious.

"Most underrated character: Giles". You're goddamn right.