Iannuci and the writers are more than capable of pulling off an eleventh-hour gambit that would allow Selina to keep the position for at least one full term. I have complete faith in whatever their game plan might be.

Both Sim and Groth are iconoclasts and truth-tellers and have butted heads over numerous issues. You will get strong opinions out of either one on any subject you care to mention. Groth has mellowed over the years as the industry has gained cache' and use of the medium for artistic means has become more than a fart…

This also calls to the problem of telling a (supposedly) single story over three plus decades, starting from when you're more or less completely inexperienced. Most artists wait until their "mature period" before they attempt a magnum opus.

To be fair to Sim, I don't think it's quite as cut and dried as all that. Sim obviously knows that Rick at that stage of his life is delusional and immature and a liability - he wrote him that way. By my interpretation, Jaka's wrongdoing was lying to her husband instead of letting the chips fall where they may. In…

Missing the diary of Mary Hemingway (or Ernestway) sequence is a crime against comics. He's got extensive endnotes that show what a clear raving lunatic he's become by then, but his mastery of sheer comics storytelling is awe-inspiring. Nobody is making comics like Sim these days, and I've never read any comics that…

How do you think mummification worked?

Nah, Apatow's not the point. He fills a niche in a time where comedy is at a low ebb, but he's hardly a breakthrough voice. He's a lot more Neil Simon than Steve Martin. The edge in comedy these days is definitely not in theatrical films.

Ah, for the days when the word "rubber" was shocking (or even used).

Dude, Martin's stand up and the subsequent movies formed the funny bone for an entire generation. This material paved the way for Letterman to hit big during our college years. It was what pulled our attention away from canned sit-com pap. watch Freaks and Geeks. Apatow totally got it.

I remain amused, all these years later, that King Tut was the number 100 song on the year-end countdown of popular music.

After swallowing a sword, no less.

I don't disagree with a thing you say, but will only counter that if Weiner had decided to push Don to the kind of "throw it all overboard" story direction you imply, it would have been the wrong choice. It would have been out of character for Don, out of step from the whole arc of the program and an historical and…

I'm down with what you're saying except, "There's nothing wrong with that." There's all kinds of things wrong with that, and I think Weiner and Mad Men are aware of it. Don (or whoever really made the ad), took the spiritual/historical crisis of a nation reeling from decades of corruption and repression after…

I'm really glad Weiner decided not to be coy about it. I would hate for it to become a long-running "debate" like the end of the Sopranos, because that's so trite as a legacy for the show.

I really hope that weiner talks about his intention with that cutaway without being coy. I would hate for it to become a long-running "debate" like the end of the Sopranos, because that's so trite as a legacy for the show.

Last week Captain America got the most wicked bone bruise. I hate those.

Makes sense. They've soft-pedaled the Sin Rostro story all season, keeping it off the center stage and letting it disappear entirely for weeks at a time. I'm so thrilled it was all a setup for Season two rather than preparing us for 22 hours of tiresome breast-feeding and spit-up dramedy. I couldn't imagine how…

The Avengers has an "official" status roster? Is there a 401K?

In a shocking turn of events, The Avengers dressed up in silly outfits and got into a punching match with a bunch of other guys dressed in silly outfits.

Y'all are missing the comedy in this. I spent the duration of this mix visualizing the look on a woman's face taking it doggie style while a man makes these noises behind her. Her expression traveled from amusement in the pleasure of free-wheeling coitus, to concern to mounting terror. Each new sound sent me…