I suspect the summer setting is also due in part to how much of a half-assed job they do in trying to pretend that Los Angeles is really Kansas City. No need to fake a Midwestern winter for the rest of this season.

To be fair, the Jace thing is totally in character for Daphne. She has the absolute worst taste in men. (Or, I suppose, the worst taste in boys — the fact that LeClerc is ten years older than her character is getting harder and harder to ignore!)

I think she will get a happy ending, though maybe not what we would consider to be her ideal. The overall series is as much about Peggy as it is about Don, and even this season was her rising as Don fell.  I suspect that even though Weiner keeps punishing Don, he is too attached to Peggy to punish her as well. At…

Aww, only three mentions of my girl Peggy? Oh, well. She's going to rule us all in the end.

ETA: posting from a phone is kind of a pain in the ass.

So many breathtaking moments in this episode, but my favorite was the way Ted went pallid and nauseated as he realized what Don's "very personal reasons" meant. And Peggy calling Don a monster made me want to cry.

Thanks to my X chromosomes and suburban upbringing, I read this as

Damn, those Hare Krishnas are vicious.

Wow, really? I always assumed it was LA because of the vaguely cheesy fakeness of the outdoor shots. (They looked like Wee Britain.)  I wish they'd taken better advantage of the location.

In addition to all the other excellent reasons people have given you, Switched at Birth just won a Peabody Award — if super-prestigious-award-winning is your kind of thing. ;)   I'm rather surprised that ABC Family hasn't hyped the heck out of that; I wouldn't have even known if I weren't a bit of a Peabodys nerd.

Granted, we only saw glimpses of petty, manipulative Ted in S4, so he could've been like this all along. But I suspect that once Weiner came up with the Peggy defection and merger plotline, he retconned Ted Chaough to fit the story objectives. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. I absolutely adore S6 Ted — so much…

When the season was airing, I got a kick out of how many of the AVC commenters were heterosexual men in their 20s who genuinely loved the show (and almost never perved over all the teenaged actresses), thus circumventing all preconceived notions of "typical" Bunheads viewers. 

So pleased to see Top of the Lake get some recognition! I wonder how this bodes for its chances at Emmy nominations.  Sure, the Movie/Mini category is lightweight, but TotL still flew pretty far under the radar with the general public. I hope that Sundance's decision to post it on Netflix right after it finished…

Hooray for the return of Carrie Googles Some Art!  (I swear, this show has taught me more about painting than that art history course I took in college.)

So… Saul Berenson gets killed in a terrorist attack this season? NOOOOOOOOOO!

But I gotta ask, how many people in real life actually have bad sex over and over with someone they actually like?

Holy shit. I don't even want a female Doctor, but Tilda Swinton would be AMAZING.

Jenna-Louise Coleman's surprise appearance in "Asylum of the Daleks" was so marvelous just because of, well, the surprise of it.  I can't imagine that they could even begin to do the same thing with Twelve, thanks to filming schedules.  But I really wish they could.  (Or heck, maybe it is John Hurt after all. Heh.)

I don't really know if he could be dorky enough to play the Doctor.  But I loved the spec on yesterday's AVC post about how Elba would be a *perfect* James Bond.

Remember when nearly everyone (including me) was shouting about how "young and kinda weird-looking" Matt Smith was when the casting was announced? That worked out quite well, indeed. I'm really going to miss him. But I've been watching this since I was a kid and stayed up late to catch the Fifth Doctor on PBS in…