The seeming plowing ahead on the contestant's part post-hesitation was actually probably odd editing on the show's part — if there's any question over a contestant's answer, they actually stop the game, make the contestants turn around so they can't see the board, consult the panel of researchers, and only after the…

OR BOTH.

It was really frustrating, and you summed up why perfectly so I don't need to rant.

Except that the other side characters' moments, including Howard's, did not last two act breaks, did not take over the story, and did not result in sidelining Peggy and turning her into a supporting character, something both this and other reviewers have noted. Especially not in the season finale, where one might…

Yeah, I think that's a necessarily evil of involving Howard Stark, I felt the same way about his scenes in the first CA movie. And I do agree with @RWGibson13:disqus that writers love writing for Howard, so even if the intent isn't for the balance to be overwhelming tipped in favor of Howard, it ends up that way. I…

I'm also really pleased that they didn't go the root of having Peggy develop a love interest with Souza or Thompson or anyone else. I was steeling myself for it (I'd just watched CA2 when this started and remembered the mention of "my husband"), and I was happily relieved it didn't happen.

Thank you for implicitly acknowledging that I was right when I said that Howard Stark got a much larger chunk of the season finale than the lead character did.

Jarvis got a moment. Angie got a moment. Souza and Thompson got a moment each. Howard Stark got two acts before the plane. If you don't see that, we didn't watch the same episode of TV.

I didn't mind the part where he was in the plane, but as the review pointed out, he took up the majority of the first half of the show, too, when that time could have been spent on checking in with Peggy. We get it, Howard feels guilty and wants to atone and blah blah blah. He's not the reason I spent seven episodes…

This also bugged me! Even as just a ceremonial position, appointing himself mayor would have played very poorly. (Also, pretty sure he wouldn't be allowed to appear on Johnny Karate's show as a Congressional candidate, not without giving his opponent some equal-access time.) I know, it's just a TV show, but the…

Which is why I never click on links that send me to Slate and NYMag. Win-win!

I like how you completely ignored the fact that the *rate* of smoking has gone down dramatically since the packaging has changed. And by like, I mean, tedious, try trolling harder.

I am angry at Holt this week by not telling his husband he'd been stabbed. Lightly stabbed, but still.

Thanks for clarifying, I was in error!

Thanks for the clarification — it's always been described to me like a regularly-used option, but I'd never seen numbers.

A terrible cheating ex-boyfriend is strongly associated with/ruined/severely tainted the Barenaked Ladies, Newsradio, several episodes of Buffy (the Willow/Xander cheating plot in season 3, I can't rewatch any of those episodes), and the punchline "I've made a huge mistake" on Arrested Development. Also, he was really…

So, Israel's system is the same thing that they inherited from the British and the Ottomon empire: there is no civil marriage, there is only a religious marriage. Jewish marriages must be performed by the rabbinate, Christian marriages by the various church sects, Muslim marriages by mosques, Druze marriages by the…

You're right, he's 62. Falsettos is actually coming back to Broadway (with James Lapine as director) in 2016!

I was thinking of "Elegies", a song cycle that came out in 2003 (and references several of the other songwriters you mentioned), but yeah, he is a generation older.

Yeah, I think you're right — FOLLIES as a movie would be something new and different, whereeas with the other Sondheim musicals, I'd be just as fine or better having a filmed version of the play.