With degrees from Harvard Law and Columbia and experience as a civil rights attorney and as a lecturer of constitutional law at one of the best law schools in the country (Chicago) for 12 years, but whatever. Let's just focus on what he did for three years in his twenties before he had his law degree.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus refers to that as a "thist."

I don't know what the exact meaning of the paper is, but it fits in with the general motif of the episode (and the season) of characters looking back at the past decade or two (Don saying 1955 was a good year, Peggy saying the same about 1965, lots of other stuff I noticed but have since forgotten) and saying, "What…

It was JFK, not RFK. The headline said something about a sniper.

Yeah, let's not focus on the obvious symbol that the camera lingers on for half the episode. After all, Mad Men is all about plot plot plot!

Not enough characters for that. You'd need at least a couple dozen superheroes on each side, and that's just never gonna happen practically speaking, especially without Spider-Man, the FF, and the X-Men.

Of course he could carry a drama. He's been doing it for seven years now. Sure, there's a great ensemble too, but if he wasn't so good as Draper the show wouldn't work since it all revolves around him.

I just want to say that I'm loving the Mountain Goats subheaders. Tallahassee is a fantastic album and thematically perfect for this show.

That was kind of the point. She spends the whole time talking about how her husband died and how she scattered his ashes in California, and then Don turns her down and opens the window. Pretty clearly meant to suggest that Don is trying to move beyond those types of women and his old way of life in general.

I think you've got that backwards. It always seemed to me like they're the ones who got the Whedons involved, and it looks like it's ABC/Marvel/Disney that's holding it back.

They had different reviewers, and most of them seem to grade on a curve. You can't really compare grades like that.

I would doubt that Sal was written out for any other reason than that that's the direction his story's always been heading. It's the natural end of the arc of his character, and I'm glad they didn't try to drag it out over the entire series or reach a conclusion to it in season 3 and then be stuck with nothing for Sal…

I wouldn't say Enlightened is dark at all. Its characters are all deeply troubled, and it deals with some unhappy subject matter, but it was never anything less than hopeful and bright. After all, every episode begins with a fade in from white and ends with a fade (or cut? I don't remember) to white.

Sure, but they'd never have the budget.

It also helps to remove a bit of accountability. A comedian can say something in true and just pass it off as "I'm only a comedian!" A "public intellectual" could not.

Well, it's not like pretty much any American actresses have been in the military, so it's pretty unique for an American film.