Yep, agreed that no one ever suggested that Betty should learn the violin. That kind of self-discipline is simply not in her nature and I never considered it. Like you say, @ZorroMeansFox:disqus , it is about her attaching significance to other people's decisions and how they affect her. I like your take on how she…

At first, when Don was kind of wistfully or even enviously watching the doctor gear up to go out and save somebody, I thought he was reflecting on how little difference his profession really made to anybody. So he asks Rosen how it feels to have somebody's life in his hands and the doc says, "It's a privilege and an…

And can we give props to Henry Francis, who seems to be a pretty chill individual all while living with Betty and a teenage girl at the same time?

She knows - or at least suspects - her own limitations and perhaps she feels like she'd made enough leaps for one day. She might also have had (a) some sympathy for the guy who bought the violin fair and square, or (b) some sense of pique at Sandy for not being there and for selling the instrument in the first place.…

I agree that some odd CGI facial filler is being applied to January Jones to make her look like Betty but I like that she's physicalizing her resistance in a way that goes beyond self-destructive eating or whatever she had going on last season.

I did think that, considering the theme of bodily fluids already on display at the memorial, but my bigger thought was, "You cheap bastard. All the wealth in that home and you hand your daughter a crappy jar of river water."

And, not to be gross (like that would bother anyone here), but couldn't she smell the other woman on him? He said he was going out to smoke the world's longest cigarette and Megan kissed him on the mouth when he crawled into bed. Did he shower first? I don't think he did. She knows his natural scent, I'm sure, and had…

Don never seems whole until he goes on vacation. The ocean seems to clean him up - I'm remembering his last dip in the Pacific when he went to L.A. with Pete. He should move West, buy some Hawaiian shirts, and open a bar on the beach. It may be the only way he'll live to see 45.

Are the bleeped-out "fucks" a new thing? I could've sworn Peggy said, "Fuck the Tonight Show" and, later, I think one of the squatter guys said it in the kitchen.

The only redeeming part of that whole weird exchange was Henry's quite sensible response: "Betty, what the hell."

Do we know who the dreadlock guy in the alley was? And also, as an aside, the production design was beautiful in this episode through that contrast between the vivid graffiti in that oddly (for this show) urban setting and the desaturated forest location. The show seldom uses bright colors - so for them to signify the…

@Meander061:disqus Finch: mad game, Reese: none. My first thought is that Reese doesn't need game but then I realize, you're kinda right. Monica made a big show about thanking Finch before she walked off into the mean streets while John just stood there. I'm like, "Hey, woman, this other guy is the one who saved your…

I cannot love this thread enough. Here we are, TV people (movable comma).

Yes, needing a do-over, a re-wind, and because that restaurant is the polar opposite of the non-date that Jess had in mind out at the street vendor. And also because Nick has the Old Man Gene, the one where you pick a thing and stick with it no matter how wrong things go.

Benny's desperation the last time we saw him still haunts me. When he talked to Dean on the phone, he was barely holding it together and was only able to do so because he thought Dean was on his way so, when Dean called and said he wasn't coming, Benny felt something like disappointment times infinity and the actor…

Amen - The Descent is a nightmare that you cannot unsee once you've been there. I liked the Hell in this episode because it was also kind of like an asylum (which would make it a pretty consistent site for this series to return to since many of their eps have used insanity as a geographical and psychological…

@avclub-2f2b7ca7553ba4230cad836ea1125578:disqus I hereby state we can all be both!

Totally there with you on Krissy's supposed toughness (let's start with that name, huh?). I know I'm one of the few people in this neck of, well, almost anywhere who really likes Star Trek: Voyager, but Krissy's crap acting reminded me of the one episode (from seasons 3-7) VOY that I actually hated and that was when…

I'd actually prefer the boat, but only if Mrs. Tran comes back and joins her son in the quest - not just to make him better food than endless hotdogs. I wonder where the damn budget for this show is going because I sure wish they'd use it to pay more actors to populate the Win-verse.

@avclub-cb0e59b8f769a8698b9f7154dd8809b5:disqus (I'm responding to your comment above about Sam rigging up his iPod to the Impala.) Dean said he hadn't given Sam permission to "douche her up." I seldom remember exact dialogue so I get excited when I have something to contribute in this regard.