1) I’m ok with Joel being the endgame love interest here. On GG, the male characters tended to be a bit more one-dimensional than the female ones, and Joel has depth and growth that I’m interested in watching.

What was the song they were singing in the nightclub? I am going crazy trying to find it.

I feel like the ungrounded nature of the cabaret scene comes up in a lot of ASP’s work, particularly the GG revival, and also later in this season of MMM (a new acronym I want to be a thing). She just writes these scenes in which her main characters are the only thing that matters and the world literally revolves…

Which season premiere of Mad Men was it that opened with Don swimming, writing in his journal, and drinking beer instead of liquor? This episode feels a lot like that one.

Loved the moment with the family in McDonald’s that mirrored their own happy-family-eats-ice-cream scene from the pilot. Such a subtle callback.

Lol, like the government still has money to fund science.

Does anybody know what this joke was about: “The fork and knife, the Duchess of Fife, but they turtle-dove her, know what I mean?”

Since they haven’t quite figured out the tone of this show yet (is it a spoof or an homage? Pick a lane, people), it mostly feels like watching MacFarlane & co. playing a sloppily written game of Star Trek dress-up. Everybody’s ideas are there but it doesn’t feel cohesive yet, and it also feels very juvenile. See:…