"There’s a poetic sort of tragedy in the fact that Joe and Cameron’s different trajectories intersect as they do here, their mutual embrace of a pragmatic idealism making them a better match than they’ve been at any time before. " This is beautifully said, and very perceptive. I'll admit, I'm a sucker for tragic…

I thought it was kind of poetic that she leveraged the chaos of Gordon's Sonaris, which had formerly taken down Mutiny, to then take down Wheeler and WestNet.

It's unclear if you're making a point about Lee Pace the actor, or Joe the character. I personally think that Joe and Don Draper are very different characters (just as Lee Pace and Jon Hamm are very different, very talented actors), and that the HACF v. Mad Men comparisons are pretty worn. What I was attempting to…

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Hear hear. I follow a lot of the commentary on this show on many different platforms, and it consistently follows a pattern - in recap the reviewers are generally "eh" or "that was ok," but then when they get into describing the episode, out flows the litany of things they admired about it. There's a very real…

It was definitely affecting, and the fact that we don't know definitively whether it was truth or lies underlies the incredible power of Joe's manipulative talent: when it comes down to it, does it actually matter if his story is fiction, if he's able to make his point so persuasively? This scene is a perfect Season…