Yup, a couple of more Avengers movies and the next Spiderman reboot and it'll be the golden age

An unusually weak decade

The Breaking Bad finale was a cop-out. Great show, terrible ending.

Citizen Kane is wall to wall special effects.

I fully admit it's a form of elitism, and every great era of pop culture ends when we start thinking of everything as equal. Let me put it this way:

It's very good, but has no personality. Everything is well-planned, clever, interesting and so on, but there are no quirks, no gallery of stand-out characters, no surprising episode structures, no really weird moments outside the gross-out ones, not much feeling of themes outside the series-long ones. I admire it, I'm…

I know. Even by going online and arguing about the merits of a show I'm doing that. And in a way, with this episode, Saul tomorrow, the close-to-great Americans later in the week, Louie premiering, this week is in some ways a high point in TV, so a review undervaluing this thing is OK

That's basically what I usually do, but when this whole period of great TV started, reviewers were advocates. Same when the great period in cinema was happening. Now it looks like the so-called golden age is ending, and part of it is because people don't distinguish between the greatest shows and just regular TV. We…

Exactly. A perfectly executed romp with no ambitions gets rewarded more by critics than an original, ambitious film/series/whatever that falls slightly short of genius.

It says so much about how much critics take the unimaginable quality of Mad Men's writing for granted, and everything about why The Golden Age is ending on May 17, that this profound episode gets a B+ while shows routinely get A's for routinely killing off important characters or doing something "shocking". This time…

If you really think about it, though, this was the most depressing fate imaginable for Ken. He should have taken the money and been a writer, but his pride got the better of him

Liam is funnier. 1:09 here is perfect
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Good point, I just expected someone to bring it up.

You should allow people with thoughts that take more than 140 characters to express the use of the platform, even if it's created for people for whom none more is needed

No phone call from Sally, she says "I love you" as she leaves the car when he's driven her to school

I was looking forward to this season of the Americans, and wasn't disappointed per se, but after four episodes I completely forgot that it existed, and I remember once in a while and think to myself, oh good, now I can binge-watch, but then I forget about it again. I don't know what it is, but I just don't care what…

But her pitch was lousy while Don's was brilliant.

Until they shot Kenny in the face the following week

Whenever a critic accuses Mad Men of lacking subtlety, I wonder where all these "subtle" American TV dramas are. The Wire, I guess, but that's from another era, as is Deadwood. When I hear "Mad Men is not the most subtle show" I don't know that I agree.

Stop bringing things back. New stuff is better