Given that this was never announced as a final season, but everyone involved seemed to be moving on, I was worried we'd never get a legit series finale for this show. I'm pleased.

Jesus, if that's not the absolute most perfect way to shut this series down, I don't know what is.

My biggest problem with Season 6 was that the show had finally started to climb too far up its own ass for me. Yes, I'm aware that my threshold for that was way higher than most people's.

There really needs to be a third category at this point.

Gary weeping "WHEN I GET EXCITED MY! NOSE! BLEEDS!" is the highlight of the series for me.

She is literally the only reason I stuck with that show. I don't even like the rest of the show. She's that fucking good.

Yael Stone and Samira Wiley were definitely the breakouts last season. I was really hoping they would get the kind of wave Uzo did after S1.

The fact that she remained terrific in Coven despite everything that was terrible in that season is damn near inspiring.

Will someone please give Lily Rabe something awesome to do? Bryan Fuller, Joe Weisberg, anyone besides Ryan Murphy?

It would be super-weird, but if we only ever heard Alison's mother's voice on the phone, Maria Bamford's impression of her own mother would be perfect.

The one thing that I'll miss about the death of censored television (which will obviously happen sooner than later) is episodes like The Contest. It circumvented so much bullshit so cleverly and so effortlessly. I really, truly, fully believe that it's balls-to-the-wall punk rock in 90s sitcom form, and I'm almost…

Mudon is the MVP a thousand times over. She doesn't just nail JLD's speech patterns— she nails Elaine's comic timing, which is an act of Goddamn witchcraft. Respect.

Peggy never got the full Dick Whitman download. Which always frustrated me to the point that that was really the #1 thing I wanted to see in the finale (at this point, what else would be seismic enough to close the show with?), but the more I thought about it… Betty got the full story and bolted. Faye got the full…

I never paid much attention to List until Season Five, where all of the sudden she was crushing every one of her episodes. Rewatching, though, it really dawned on me how great she was all along.

Yes and no for me? The imaginary version where Glen is played by a competent actor is an all-time great (non-existent) storyline for me. Really, on paper, I love that subplot. But when Weiner insisted on pretending like his son could not only act, but also come off as a total badass… I can't.

"Crack cocaine in their stockings, BLEH"

Ho-Ho was one of the founding partners of HoHo-Herzog, Holloway-Harris' chief rival in the production game in the early 70s. Check the deleted scenes.

BLEH

I would have loved to see Catherine again. I'm pretty sure I still have nightmares I can't remember about this scene:

Ah Caroline. All of my favorite spinoff ideas involve at least one of the secretaries. Or hell, if we're wishing for impossible things anyway, I would love to see a wholesale retelling of the show from the secretaries' point of view.