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I think it was pretty strongly implied that Don went back to McCann's. Aside from, as the reviewer pointed out, the similarities between the hippie retreat and the Coke ad, we are conspicuously reminded by Peggy that the Coke account is waiting for Don when he comes back.

I don't think Glen's going to last too long in Vietnam.

I understand the distaste for the rape scene, but at the same time I have to imagine that (other than the presence of Theon in the bedroom) this is how the wedding night of many arranged marriages has gone down. I think this is a large part of the Game of Thrones' success. It unmasks the brutal historic realities

I think you're probably right. There will likely come a moment of truth when the Boltons are fighting off Stannis Baratheon where Theon will have the opportunity to choose between Ramsay, Sansa, and possibly his own escape. If that pans out, I think he will step up for Sansa to atone for past betrayal of the Starks.

Ramsay is effectively using Sansa to torture Theon and Theon to torture Sansa. He's remarkably efficient when it comes to causing misery.

Jaime andBronn in Dorne always feels weirdly non-Game of Thrones to me. A little too swash-buckley, with set piece fights, semi-clever one-liners, and fortuitous timing. I half expect Kevin Sorbo to show up.

"Does hugging feel honest?"

Overall a happy ending, where most of the characters get what they want: Roger, Peggy, and Stan all get to keep doing work they love and find someone who's right for them. Joan gets her independence. But I had a much darker interpretation of Don's ending. The dark void that has been growing in Don, as his heartfelt

Mereen mirrors the story of the American Reconstruction in microcosm. You have this massive liberation of slaves followed by a hooded (or masked, in this case) resistance by the former slave owners, which you end by letting them keep many of the institutions and inequities of the old system.

Mereen is classic Hegel at work. You start with a slavery-based economy, then this radical comes out of nowhere and liberates all the slaves. And what you end up with are free men fighting in the pits and tutoring the children of the hyper-wealthy elite.

Yeah, but in the meantime she'd be a little girl alone and at the mercy of these creatures. Unless they're actually pretty cool and fatherly when it comes to the infected, it'd be more humane to kill her in her sleep.

I'm hoping we haven't seen the last of robotic monkey arms.

The two most brilliant jokes of the series are dick-centric.

My Dinner with Ramsay is a movie I'd watch.

The fact that the Stone Men not only suffer from greyscale but act as homicidal zombies gives cruel gravity to whoever suggested sending Shireen to go live with them.

"Kill the Boy" is a double entendre suggesting the fate of Ramsay's little brother, or I miss my guess.

Eventually the Sons of the Harpy will give up on bringing back slavery and settle for police violence and mass incarceration of the former slaves.

I like how Mace Tyrell is stuck in the wrong show, and all the other characters seem to realize it, too.

"Okay, so what am I supposed to do with this guy, and I should forgive you why?"

They went from working at a farmer's market to working at Applebee's.