I would actually say they're counterpoints to one another. The VW ads have periodically been mentioned on the show as being ahead of their time - the half page buy on a full page, the one that says "lemon", etc. Juxtaposed against that are the candy bars - it doesn't get more classic than an iconic candy bar logo. …

Yes, but there's nothing supernatural about it. It goes back to something Roger said to Don at the end of season 3: "you're not good at relationships because you don't value them". Don didn't value his relationship with Betty nor with Megan, which is why he's alone at the end of this episode. The way I read his…

We haven't found out much about what's happened to Ted in the time jump, have we? I'm curious about whether he's still married. He said he had an apartment right around the corner and that everyone could meet there for drinks, which makes me think he's not married any more, but who knows. And why is he now…

I disagree 100%.

It's a song about a moment in time when your world changes, and that's what Don was feeling. At that moment, he's realizing it's all gone - the life he hoped to have there with Megan, all of the good times he had with her and the kids there - and it hits him in the gut. It's not exactly the same - the song is about…

I read it more as his own existential crisis - that he's searching for what his own future is. Don's restless and looking for something that will give his life meaning. When he hears Peggy say her goal is to be the creative director, he's thinking: "Wait, I have that, but I'm not content". Well, what's after that? …

I thought having Glenn back was a really effective way to visually denote just how far we've come in the series. When you think back to Martin Weiner back in season 1 and see a full grown man standing there now, it really makes you appreciate the passage of time. I didn't feel like it had anything to do with his old…

I took something different from that last shot. I didn't feel like Don wanted to learn something about the people who bought the place. I saw a man who finally felt the reality of moving on. He's so used to being the man who lives in that penthouse, it's a reflex action to go in. And then he catches himself and…

I have to disagree. Monty Python was always what it was. There wasn't a point where there were ongoing characters and plot lines and then they went to something else. Community has been different. Character relationships matter. Troy and Abed's friendship was one of the linchpins of the show. Jeff and Annie's…

This season has been almost a complete dumpster fire for me, but I'm having trouble figuring out why.

I disagree for several reasons.

I believe they're suggesting a system wherein they can take down infringing content themselves rather than report and wait for the streaming service to take action.

Not surprisingly, the DMCA is already being outpaced by technology. The DMCA was written in a world where you download and then listen/watch. Netflix was still sending DVDs by snail mail. In that world, safe harbor as long as you process takedown requests in a timely fashion makes sense. It never accounted for a…

It was a fun episode, but parts were definitely bordering on the ridiculous. Romero's shooting a guy in the hospital parking lot, in his hospital gown, and he's not going to be immediately arrested for murder? There have to be cameras all over that place.

I read the one item about Scott Hornbacher teasing a "controversial" ending, although that was more of him saying "you can't please everyone". I don't think moving to California has to be the only thing, it's just always seemed like the place where he's re-centered himself when his life gets out of whack. In season…

I felt like it was the place where he was Dick, and not Don, and it wasn't just about Anna. It was about the pace of life and how that place influenced him. Remember him out there when he was walking around and finding those guys souping up their hot rods, drinking beer, and just enjoying a sunny day? He could just…

But I think that's sort of the point. "The work" may make people like Don money, but it's empty. At the end of the day, Don aches for the family he never had growing up, and he's never going to solve that with a pitch to a client. The creative baton has been passed to Peggy, figuratively if not literally. It's…

It's nothing new. Back in season 1 he slept with Hilde after the Kennedy/Nixon party. In season 4 (I think) when he and Don went to try and see the Rolling Stones, Harry sat outside in the car eating all of the hamburgers and bemoaned how he had to eat them all because otherwise his wife and children would get them.…

I enjoyed the brief mention of the Manson Family (erroneously noted by Merideth, I believe, as "the Manson Brothers"). There was so much talk about Megan and the Sharon Tate comparisons that I didn't realize the show's timeline had already passed the Tate murder. I think perhaps they threw that in there as a nod to…

What's interesting about Chuck's decision is that we know he ends up being right. Jimmy becomes Saul and does tons of things that would get a lawyer disbarred. I'm interested to see how this plays into Jimmy's decision to veer back to less ethical behavior. My guess is that Jimmy's going to blame that on Chuck -…