Not really, but it feels like one

Right on the cusp, never fit in with the ones who were actually partying in the '70s (unless you count my bar mitzvah)

Born in 1964, too young for a boomer, too old for an Xer, right in between "generations". My kid brother, born just 6 years later, but a whole different "generation". (And yeah, he's the cool one.)

But unlike every other cross-generational scene, the Jewish father was nothing but proud of his son, and hopeful for his future. I didn't recognize the particular bracha he gave, but I didn't get any kind of controlling vibe from it. Just joy.

Re: point #2 - sorry, but I went to temple with guys just like that.

I can see the "Joe Friday" thing a bit there - but unlike Joe Friday, Don Draper's not really "so square he's got corners", as we've seen before. He's seen some shit. He's done some shit. His worry is genuine, because it comes not from ignorance, but from knowledge.

When my New York-native friend first heard Harry Francis working for John Lindsay, he gave me a whole history lesson about how he was a semi-big-time figure in the Rockefeller wing of the GOP.

@avclub-3ceebd97be4d15313b9ffff365b2bec3:disqus The link is to zodiac.avclub.com (I assume there's no relation to zmf), and yeah, asks for username and password.

"Oh, and by the way, -this- is how it felt when Crixus cornered me, thanks to you."

I thought she hit the femoral artery.

I'd hit that.

Yes. Watching a regular horse race is not nearly as beautiful as the way these races were shot. It was immersive. No way a regular race could be shot like that, even with any amount of computer magic. I'm in wonder at how they were able to do it here.

I really detested Escalante before, I think I called him a selfish prick or such-like. But in the last couple episodes he changed quite a bit. He needs to treat Jo better; he needs Jo.

Throw in David Simon and Michael K. Williams and I'm even more in.

I should have read all the posts before making my own up above.

Damn, that's a helluva body count. Given that there's obviously a lot of love and labor, not to mention money, invested in these animals, how do they deal with such a casualty rate? And isn't there anything that can be done to lessen it?

This show, both through its content and through the making of it, has definitely raised some moral conundrums.

I want to add my thanks for your knowledge and wisdom here. It's very easy to make knee-jerk, black-and-white judgments about complex subjects one knows nothing about. The more one learns, the more one realizes how little one really knows.

I also enjoyed the exchange between Ace and Mike:
"You've had a busy day." "Nothing I couldn't handle."

That was some great stuff. Gus Farina has been a hidden badass all season - never actually did anything, but from bits of dialogue and how things were developing, it was obvious from the start that somewhere down the line, he was going to kill someone. And they paid it off marvelously.
But yeah, he's definitely getting…