Sally was always a little too young to become a proper hippie.

Regarding the dry cleaning bag bit, I believe Matthew Weiner once brought that up in the context of being asked about Betty's skill as a mother, and said that his intent with that scene was the opposite of what many people take from it: he thinks modern child safety parenting is way over the top, and the scene shows…

"Patience" doesn't really enter into whether you find a film scary. If anything, children are more likely to be scared by something than adults.

What, are we supposed to pretend that this film doesn't look silly from a modern perspective? I saw this in a fairly full theatre, and it was quite clearly not scaring anyone.

This film is influential, but it really does not hold up at all. It's not remotely scary, and the acting is pretty comical in many stretches.

Joe Wright is a terrific director, so I'm always interested to see new films from him.

While this show has comedy, I think one of the most effective things about it is how straight the actors play everything. They don't wink at the camera or anything like that. Mison, in particular, is working overtime to give Ichabod's every pronouncement Shakespearean gravity.

Precisely.

Yeah, I thought the final shot was great (you could sort of imagine him screaming in rage, if he had a head). I was a bit unsure of how they were going to wrap things up, but they gave a great transition for next week.

Though his primary concern was apparently Jefferson's fidelity, so I guess he take comfort that Martha Jefferson was several years in the grave by the time he took up with Sally (Ichabod went MIA in 1781, about a year before Martha died).

Also, I thought in the pilot that the Irving character might be connected to one of the covens or something like that, but based on his solo scenes in this episode I think he's probably exactly what he appears to be.

THIS WEEK ON MYTHBUSTERS:
ABBIE: Well, Ichabod, lots of people have been writing in to ask if it's true you can destroy the skull of the Headless Horseman.
ICHABOD: I don't know, Abbie, but let's find out.

Barney "drawing a blank" on guys he could set The Mother up with was an obvious joke, but it was still very effective.

I got Stevens' autograph (along with Jessica Chastain's) when I saw The Heiress on Broadway last January. He'll always get a few points from me based on how he signed the front of the show's playbill with an arrow pointing at his character's silhouette on the cover image, which was creative.

It's a pretty fascinating read, kind of compiled oral history of the gulag system, as well as a detailed account of his own time there. He goes on at length about how the supposed tyranny of the tsars wasn't remotely close to the brutality of the Soviet prison system.

That was a joke.

On the music front, I'd heard Kacey Musgraves' "Merry Go 'Round" a few months ago, but I got around to checking out the rest of her album after the CMAs. I have to say, I'm very impressed. She's a real talent, both as a singer and songwriter. I'm from Atlantic Canada, so country, being a cousin to folk, is a genre…

I rewatched Shawshank about a month ago, with a classmate who remarkably had never seen it before (and also didn't know about the ending, so she got the best possible experience).

I'd take the opposite position with the Thor property. Asgard is far more interesting than Earth, and most of the character's best stories focus on it; Sif, for instance, is a far more compelling love interest than Jane.

I think Gravity is my favourite film of the year so far (it or Blue Jasmine). A movie that really makes the case not just for 3D, but for the big screen in general.