I thought that there were additional caches of wildfire leftover from Aerys' reign that just haven't been found yet (or that Qyburn has found but is keeping in reserve).

Does anyone know how to properly describe the violins in the first 18 seconds of the episode when it's showing the Battle of Winterfell? It almost sounds like someone's playing a violin sample in reverse because of the sweeping but jarring crests and peaks in the motif. I've rewound it at least twenty times now just…

And Yara's version of Dany's "are you with me" speech was a lot more emotionally resonant too.

It makes me wonder if the show deliberately played up McCann-Erickson's repulsiveness as a foil to show us how the original Sterling-Cooper could have been/was. There were definitely scenes in the old S-C that made it an old boys' club (Ken chasing one of the secretaries to find out the color of her underwear, all the…

Pete and Trudy's first apartment was $30,000, so even adjusted for inflation, I think $250,000 would be more than enough (1.5 million in today's dollars!). I really hope that's not the last we see of her though.

She was taking everything he told her in the previous date to the extreme to show him how absurd his expectations were. "My kids are all grown. My plans are having no plans. I don't want to be tied down." Joan was absolutely being sarcastic when she said that she'd dump Kevin to call him out on his behavior and his…

The part where Joan says that she would send her son away was sarcasm, and the guy took it as such.

I've just realized that this is also episode 8 of the season, and episodes 7 or 8 have historically taken on a more experimental or dreamlike quality to them. It's interesting to see how much things have or haven't changed since the last dream episode when Cutler got everyone high on greenies.

Peggy's date reminded me of Ken's promise to her a few years ago that he would take her to Paris. I'm still miffed that their friendship just sort of dissolved or wasn't mentioned soon after that.

The last bit of Mei's interview was incredibly sweet.

The judges' vacillation on Dougie's escamole was pretty odd. Tom went from "okay but flawed" during the dinner to "worst dish" to "good" during the final feedback at judges' table.

After tonight, I would watch a spin-off featuring Dougie and Katsuji.

There was a recent season of Top Chef that also opened with a mise en place or knife skills challenge, and one of the chefs' butchering skills were so poor that Tom sent him home on the spot.

Given what (little) we know about her character, I think that Michaela's reaction to her fiance's sexuality wasn't the right way to show her pettiness as the flip side to her ambition. Or maybe it could have been had she been called out on it, because there were a lot of ugly and spurious assumptions implied in her…

I added up all of Roger's bribes that season and the total came out to be about $230K in today's dollars.

I think they hinted at Harry's odiousness back in season one or season two when he came to Joan for help with reading TV scripts, and once she essentially did his job for him, he completely cut her out and had another employee work with him.

It hindsight, I really should have realized that Don was pitching through Freddy a lot quicker than I did. Freddy was dressed like Don in the opening scene—dark, crisp suit instead of his usual olive green one, hair slicked back—and he even spoke with that sort of clipped intonation that Don uses when he gives big…