I've never seen anything approaching that, and I've been in a professional corporate environment for a decade. I can't speak to the 70s because I wasn't born yet.

Kim and Howard got Jimmy that job offer. The show told us that rather explicitly. I certainly agree that, with a modicum of support from Chuck, Jimmy could have been a fine, upstanding lawyer. Jimmy is ultimately in charge of his own life, of course, but without the deep betrayal by Chuck he never would have gone down…

Let's stop treating Mad Men like it's a documentary account of men's treatment of women in the 1960s.

The dirty alley sex with the half prostitute, half waitress who begrudgingly screws him because she mistakenly thought he left an overly generous tip the night prior, followed by the sweaty, hair-combing realization that his life is a vast empty hole is not my definition of fun.

I thought that scene was way overdone. We get it: men are pigs. How many times, in how many ways, does Mad Men need to tell us that? Perhaps men were that brazenly sexist in 1970, but I doubt it, and that scene fell flat on its face for me.

Meh. Maybe he'll figure out a way to screw SC from his new post, and then exit Dow with a future as a writer. You may be right that Ken's future will not be a fulfilling one, but Ken may be SC's undoing. The big theme I got from this episode is that there's nothing good happening at SC. They've been entirely corrupted…

It's not about the money for him. He's going to screw with them, and I'm guessing that'll come back to bite Sterling Cooper.

Yeah I agree. Seems to me that, at worst for Jimmy, Chuck's share of the settlement goes to HHM. Jimmy doesn't work for HHM, and he's the one who has the clients, figured out the fraud, and got the evidence to prove it. I don't see how he gets screwed out of a significant share of the pie entirely, but it'll be…

There are many things Deanna could have done short of execution or exile that could have helped to solve the problem. She decided to ignore it entirely. I guess that's understandable, given that domestic violence is way down the list of priorities in the zompac, but why did she hire Rick as town sheriff if she didn't…

I've never seen BSG. Sounds like I would like it.

True! So, Rick was even less violent than a cop in today's world, even though TWD world is hopelessly more violent than ours. Which makes Alexandria's collective reaction to the fight a whole lot stranger.

I'm not sure they are pursuing them. They saw a flame in the woods, which could have been any human group, good, bad, or ugly. When they investigated the camp, they discovered the mutilated bodies and the woman tied to a tree. At this point, it's not clear what Daryl and Aaron are going to do with this information,…

Yeah, Rick offered a pretty reasonable solution of moving him out. Deanna offered no explanation why she was not amenable to that type of punishment, which is far less harsh than sending someone out to fend for himself in the zombie wilds.

If you were watching the show, Rick made a reasonable request of a violent man to leave his home and stop abusing his family, and he was attacked in response. Everything Rick did thereafter was in self-defense. Rick acted as a police officer would have in our world.

I also think there was a concern that the drip drip reporting, especially when you doubt know where you're going, could lead to troubles. Like being primarily driven by the concern to tell an audience friendly narrative. Not sure that really manifested itself in any newly troubling ways, but her getting the pay phone…

You're right, it was the story of her reporting the story as much as anything. And that's why it was new and great, even though its subject matter is trite. But, it's not the way things are done, and I can understand the qualm. You go to air when you're done, and that minimizes error.

That she went to air before completing her reporting was the most serious potential ethical breach. I'd characterize the other things as criticism, but it's ethically troublesome to go to the public with a story before you've collected all the facts. What if you uncover something in the midst of your reporting that…

Does anyone have more details on the self-defense theory? (I could google it, but since this seems a well-worn topic, maybe there's a good article on it.)

Last I checked, this was a TV review, not a law review article. There's been endless discussion and criticism of Koenig's reporting. The primary criticisms are that she didn't complete her reporting before starting to air Serial, that she spent WAY too much time on rabbit holes (like the Best Buy pay phone that…

I also knew, almost immediately, that it was a hallucination. But I had a visceral negative reaction to the scene. Obviously, the writers wanted you to think for a second that maybe he wasn't hung and was hiding out in Pakistan as some kind of long-con. Which is manipulative of the viewers in a stupid way for the…