TACOMA LEM!
Back so soon and looking like he could become a regular down the road. I like where this is going.

Star Wars and Final Fantasy VII
Two "franchises" whose creators seem completely hellbent on exploiting for every last dollar they can, but at the same time remain equally hellbent on actually giving fans what they really want.

Calvin Klein
Conveniently, they just reaired The Pez Dispenser today and I hadn't seen it in forever. I completely forget just how big of an asshole that Calvin Klein rep is to Kramer. I remembered the scene in the office—"That's why people take showers after going to the beach"—but completely forgot that the same…

See, feckless I've heard this argument from multiple people and I really think it's just your own wish fulfillment you're seeing.

Ugh Don
Up to this point, I wasn't fully onboard the "Don has lost his game with women" theory. I think you could make excuses for many of his rejections this season that didn't necessarily reflect on him. You could say Jane's friend in the first episode was just sticking by her principle not to fuck on a first date…

Agree about the motorcycle thing. I understand that they did it the way they did because that makes for better storytelling, but it seems very odd that the guy took the whole bike apart looking for clues but missed the giant piece of duct tape staring him in the face.

So What Happened?
I know next to nothing about the workings of television networks, so you will have to excuse my ignorance. Does this mean that the show is taking extra long to film or does it mean that filming is to be finished much easier and AMC is just going to sit on the show for a while?

In Defense of Betty Draper
Though I'm certainly no Betty Draper superfan, I've never understood the utter hatred so many have for her and I think I've at least found a partial reason for it: a lot of Mad Men fans have an almost perverse love of Don Draper and that, by extension, forces them to have a hatred of Betty.

As Keith pointed out in the review, I think it's mainly that women can sense the desperation in his flirting and that's a major turnoff. The big benefit of Don being married was that he wasn't desperate and had no problem letting things build up slowly. With the school teacher last season, she made it clear that…

I know people who love Glenn and get giddy whenever he shows up. I am not one of those people. In fact, I'm pretty much the opposite of those people.

The Taxi Cab Scene
So were they implying that the shady organization tried to kill Will by having a taxi hit him or was that just a completely separate event?

I Don't Know What To Make Of It
It's not that it's slow moving, that's actually something I really like about the show, and I love the workplace stuff because this is a workplace unlike anything we've seen on TV before, but I guess my big concern is that it seems really inconsistent in its (at least perceived)…

Touche. That's what I get for reading half the review and then skipping to the comment section.

Best Part About Skipping Ahead
Was not having to watch the scene where Joan broke the news of her joining SCDP to that Army bound rapist asshole of a husband she has. That scene would have been excruciating to watch.

So What Was With That Whole Jantzen Thing?
I must have missed a scene because I didn't really get it. First Don basically rejects them, then they come in, then Don proceeds to give them a campaign that's clearly and completely the opposite of what they wanted, and then he gets furious when they predictably reject it.

So When's that January Jones Movie Career Supposed to Start?
I have nothing against her and I actually think she's done a good job as Betty Draper, but I had a hard time staying focused whenever they focused on Betty and the kids last season and with the exciting developments of the new SCDP, I'm finding it even…

A Fresh Start
I'm loving what they have done with the new company. Like Weiner claimed, the new Sterling Cooper doesn't feel like the old Sterling Cooper in a different office, it feels like a completely different place. I'm going to miss Sal and Ken and all those office parties, but this episode showed me just how…

What does that have to do with anything? Nothing is relevant after November 2008 when it is to determine why voters voted for a particular candidate in November 2008. Unless I missed something on election day, we all weren't granted time machines and then told to pick what future Presidency we liked better.

Nick's Argument
I hate to get all political here, but I think Obama being elected had less to do with him being black and more to do with the fact that he wasn't a member of the party of the last President who had us in the middle of a trillion dollar war no one wanted, caused the worst economic collapse since the…

See, I guess this is just different strokes for different folks, but I actually love the things others hate about the Gaslight Anthem, namely the somewhat embarrassing lyrical borrowing. Brian Fallon could have searched through the lectures of some 18th Century philosopher, but that wouldn't speak to him, a Counting…