A couple months ago I heard her interview Mike White from Enlightened.  She said something like, "So you wrote three of this season's episodes—" and White interrupted, sort of laughingly, with, "No, Terry . . .  Terry, I wrote them all." "Oh, you—you did?!!"  "Yes, Terry."  I can't describe it well, but the way he…

@avclub-05726c736277e78fffb7b9546ad0ec6f:disqus  Hey, now, my husband has a beard!  Although I guess I'm okay with it if you don't see him in a sexual way (if, you know, you were ever to see him).

Surely I'm not the only one who doesn't hate late 60s fashion—and I don't mean in an ironic "so hideous it's fascinating!" way.  Pucci prints, maxi skirts, miniskirts, a-line dresses and shifts, long, unprocessed hair, and yes, even bell bottoms—all of that stuff is cool and classic to me.  I'm far more offended by…

@avclub-236e42b5af241c85d97910f5c1aa6107:disqus   He spelled it out for Peggy, didn't he?  He gave it a gloss with the Martian stuff, sure, but he told her in as straightforward a way as he's capable of that he was born in a concentration camp and that his mother died there.

Yeah, Stan's reaction was so great because it wasn't derisive laughter at all—he seemed to derive real joy from that guy's demented rambling.

Oh man, I think he's hot too—especially with the mustache.  Which is weird because I've always really hated mustaches, which I always thought was because when I was a kid in the 80s only dads and oldsters had them.  I . . . I don't know what I'm feeling here.

@eric827:disqus  I think it's possible Don hadn't yet starting loving his kids in the first season—and maybe not even until the third or fourth.  He seemed to like them okay, you know, and he certainly wasn't abusive, but holy shit I thought one of his lowest moments was having a snitfit over having to play the…

I'll never forget Betty telling Sally to "GO WATCH TV!" when she was hysterical over her grandfather's death—and she turns it on just in time to see the picture of Thich Quang Duc burning himself alive.

Yeah, I thought the Grown-Ups was great: I can't imagine that the show could have left out the Kennedy assassination, and it did a pretty damn good job illustrating both its historical impact and all the little ways it affected these particular characters.  Don asking "What's going on?" to a near-empty office as the…

But the thing is, Pete has always seemed genuinely disgusted and puzzled by racism.  When the TV company and Sterling Cooper dismissed his idea to market TVs to African Americans, he seemed as outraged by their racism as by their inability to look at the bottom line.  He was one of the few people at Roger's party to…

@avclub-71d02d84e9250a644a3b67f818871eac:disqus It wasn't that Harry didn't know anything about the TV business—it was that he was a department of one and didn't have time to read all the scripts himself.  Everyone, including Joan, understood that Joan was going to do it only until Harry could hire a permanent script…

@avclub-dc606ae470ec8399ccf538a7adc8827a:disqus  Yeah, but it seems as if he wanted her to have a certain type of independence: the kind that meant she still worked in his field.  He loved it when she was good at coming up with ads and selling pitches; he's been pissy ever since she quit to do something he knows…

The 60s are when living together became much more common, though, even if Establishment types still frowned upon it most strenuously.  Like @not_Bridget:disqus, I don't think Peggy's still upset about whether her mother considers the arrangement undignified.  It hurt her at first in the way it hurts most people when…

I don't know if the doctor checking out a woman was any sleazier that anything we've seen from Don, or Roger, or Pete, or every other guy on the show.  I guess I thought it was a detail that said it's still the 60s and, even with more women in positions of power, secretaries are still ogled with the same impunity as…

Heh—I don't mean to sound strident about it.  It was a pretty gross detail, and I had a rather WTF reaction to the scene at first.  But then I remembered the reference to Peggy's apparent, um, issues, and decided it must simply be a rather WTF illustration of their contentment with one another.

I don't know if Peggy is gonna stay with Abe forever, but even if they were married and he was unquestionably the man of her dreams he might still get explosive diarrhea from bad food. I mean, it was an unpleasant enough scene, but I'm not sure still liking him after his stomach ailment means Peggy is settling.  I…

Bobbie Barrett is the only lady-friend I can remember who had a husband, and Don simply didn't like Jimmy—and wouldn't have even if he weren't sleeping with his wife. And I don't see how it's out of character for Don to admire a man whose profession strikes him as nobler or more honest than his own; hasn't he always…

I actually thought she did look old enough in costume—that's why I was so surprised to read that it was her.  She didn't look bad, just rather more "mature" than she does in every other role.  Further proof that those 60s bubble haircuts were a terrible idea.

Is the consensus that there's no statute of limitations on spoilers?  I'm just curious, because that seems kind of unfair and unrealistic to me—yet lots of people around here seem to feel that way. I think that Breaking Bad episode aired last summer, so . . . I mean, I'm just saying . . . if it's so important that you…

I've just watched the whole series to date in the past week.  Now, after reading some of the comments on previous episode reviews, I'm so glad to see that I'm not the only one who has more than once been moved to tears by this show.  I thought perhaps there was something wrong with me, because I can't think of any…