Does she look like Hodor? Cause I'm in like Hodor.

I'm sure I speak for many people here when I say: this season of Mad Men has been worth the long wait, and we all look forward to watching it and discussing it together.

As much as I like Mad Men, I found most of the double episode really boring.

This review somehow makes the episode sound so much more interesting than it was.

How realistic is the show (according to spy a expert)?

The 'walking dead' look in his eyes during the second season said it all. The *character* was successful beyond his dreams, and yet the *actor* looked as if he was clinically depressed or on borrowed time.

I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

The Americans has network tv contrivance all over it. I don't know what's more surprising: the fact that its on cable or that critics have been indulging it as a result.

It's interesting to compare the reactions to Andrea's death: while most people are glad to be rid of her over here, elsewhere there is more anger about what the show did to both the actress and character.

This show does decapitations like no other.

@ Douay-Rheims-Challoner- I think that sums up my general sentiment too. I find it ironical that I'm defending Lexx below though. I was labelled a troll at sadgeezer and repeatedly banned for being critical of the show (final season especially). All said and done, Lexx was a welcome breath of fresh air in a staid…

Farscape is definitely the better show in terms of consistency. It should be stressed, though, that Farscape really only hits its stride very late in season 1 and then becomes superior scifi season 2 onwards. Unlike Farscape, Lexx knew what t wanted to be from the outset: opposed to conventional scifi and even to its…

When are we going to have a farscape and lexx faceoff?

Oh, please. The timing of this 'news' is a dead give away: trying to captialise on previous reports in order to generate free publicity for the new season premiere.

I'm pleased to see this week's episode hasn't been reviewed - unlike last week's, it was fucking terrible.

Todd, I think you've missed the bigger picture about Girls: that this cultural phenenomen of which you speak is another instance of mass media justifying its own existence (claims to social relevance or importance through other instances of media).

I dunno. Vikings seems hamstrung by its fidelity to the past *and* need to entertain through tv drama. Too often it comes across as a pantomime history lesson for people too lazy to read books, and the other times the drama too readilly follows a conventional playbook.  

I must have watched a different episode to Heisler, because I thought this was a great episode anchored by the deferential and good natured performance of Ratzenberger - who has never been put to better use on a tv show. (Cliff was a horrible character on Cheers - typically misused, underused and/or abused for cheap…

I thought that was an ordinary episode of television, predictable from begining to end (well, exceping the bizzare subplot with the kids).

The show is so much better than that :)