Great acting as always from Lange and Sarandon. But my sympathy for Crawford just plumets further with each episode. The scene in which she staggers down the theatre aisle weilding a rubber axe is certainly the greatest degradation of this episode, but she's entirely complicit in it. When she got news of her brother's…

Infant mortality indexed against maternal age stabilises at around 16-17 years. There's a slow decline from that point until the early '30s.

What I want to know is: If this is the first generation, shouldn't they be busy making sure there's a second? Why are none of these teenage girls in their prime child-bearing years pregnant? If we believe what we're told, none of these kids has a career in their future.

I thought Heat was a masterpiece the first time I saw it, and its staure has only grown over the years.

The contrast between Joan and Peggy is one of the great dichotomies at the heart of Mad Men. Joan's central flaw was that she believed that she would get success by
playing by the system's overt rules, and didn't recognise that these were designed to induce failure. Peggy's upbringing meant she had ample experience…

Oh, I think her character is quite consistent. Too much so, if anything. She degrades and humiliates herself repeatedly (marrying the man who raped her), and it culminates towards the end of season five. As atari2600 noted, the only person who really did her a favour was Lane, who advised her to hold out for ownership…

What always bugged me about Joan was linked to a line of hers from the very first episode, where she counsels Peggy about using her sexuality: "Go home, take a paper bag, and cut some eyeholes out of it. Put it over your head, get undressed, and look at yourself in the mirror. Really evaluate where your strengths and…

Wotcher guv o'right? Crikey!

I had to laugh at the image of Pete, The Executive, getting out of a limo with his glamorous wife and cute little kid to step onboard his private Executive Jet. He's in heaven, and you can see it. Despite his speech to Peggy I'm not convinced that he's really moved on from being a slimy little lizard, but I did feel…

If anything, one aspect of the books that I found slightly odd was that Sansa and Arya manage to make their way through some highly perilous situations _without_ being raped. While I was happy to see that, it did seem out-of-keeping with the overall nature of the environment they're in.

Oh for heavens' sake! Jesse Pinkman is depressed again! Poor old Jesse, doesn't know what to do with his $5m of blood money, boo hoo hoo. I am so deeply sick of Jesse and his intellectual/emotional inadequacies that I almost switched off right there. Five years down the line and Jesse is **still** struggling with the…