I was wondering this, too. I'm probably way off base, but in trying to come up with *something* she might do, maybe she gets into politics somehow herself? But then she just moves over from Will's turf to Peter's turf.

I agree more with you than with Sonia, but I will say that I feel that the jabs at prestige television seem to have ever diminishing returns. They started smart and funny and hovering around plots on "The Good Wife" like Will's death and the NSA, generating a sort of meta self-critique. They are starting to just…

We don't have a canonical age, but I'm pretty certain it was mentioned that Alicia graduated from Georgetown in 1994, so if one assumes she was 25 at the time, she'd be 45 now. I know that's still hardly "canonical," though.

How did you choose which Liz from the writer's room to make Feldman and which to make Astrof? I'm laughing just thinking about how you chose the "other" Liz.

I think the Hobbit calendar is exactly today's real-life calendar in Ethiopia. The Egyptian calendar from which that's derived is even tidier. I dig it.

I got that, too. I got my sophomoric stage out of the way as a high school sophomore rather than a college sophomore.

It's mine as well. It has such an elegiac quality — there are vignettes in which Anne makes an observation that Austen would've described as silly had it been made by Marianne from "Sense & Sensibility" — that I've always (perhaps reductively) associated with the fact that Austen knew how ill she was while she was…

Whoa, you and I are on the same (loathed) page here. Cheers!

Have you read the new Danticat yet? "Claire of the Sea Light" — I was on the fence about how much I liked her work until I read it.

Ooo, my "Sandman" pick might've been "Brief Lives," but that's a tough one.

I still have a "Star Wreck" book! It's lame, but boy was I a Trekkie in middle school.

"The Autobiography of My Mother" by Jamaica Kincaid
"Beloved" by Toni Morrison
"As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner
"A Passage to India" by E.M. Forster
"No Telephone to Heaven" by Michelle Cliff

The stereotyped image actually contains a trilby, not a fedora, but people don't know that and now the reputation of the fedora has been tragically maligned. Alas.

Famously, Jane Austen's works never feature a scene in which two men talk to each other without a woman present because Austen herself had never seen two men interact without a woman (herself) present, so you sort of have a point here.

Yeah, no, you're awful — I don't care about "Mad Men," but why would you randomly post anything about the newest episode on the forum for "The Good Wife" (even if they were thematically related)? Just shitty decorum.

You're awesome.

It isn't double-jeopardy because it never went to trial, but it's totally hearsay. The larger question is that I thought the hearing in the episode easily met the bare minimum of proof such a hearing would require, and then the show decided it didn't. Sigh. And in a Jane Alexander episode!!

No, he totally killed the first wife. That was the whole tiresome Lecter-esque element of the first season: he kills his first wife, everyone knows it, but he's gotten off — though he confesses to Alicia for fun — and then he defends himself against a stalker and goes to prison for that. He definitely killed the…

It's great to see him come with us again.

This was an epic breakdown. Thank you.