Yeah, Don's always got a bottle of Seagram's Seven around.  And Peggy had one on her desk when she was working late this season.  **Edit: Canadian Club. Sorry, Dude.

So why watch?

"I was pretty bummed out when she didn't have cancer."

"Are you gonna make yourself cry?" was the best line of the ep for me.  Ouch.

I was going to post that, too.  I think they met Anna's niece(?). 

Not sure how to reply to Uncle Skeleton below, so I'll do it here.  The whole movie is a series of hallucinations, so the last scene could be one, too.  Not saying it is - just that I don't think it's as cut and dried as you say.

I'm not sure I agree - I think the last scene is completely open to interpretation.

False.

I guess you're entitled to your opinion, but I don't see it that way.  If it's homophobic then I guess it's also ageist for including a hideous old woman as the only elderly character.  I think you have to let the artist use whatever colors are in his palate to tell his story.

"Every time Field Of Dreams is on, forces I don’t completely understand compel me to sit down and watch the whole thing."

I don't think that's fair to accuse King of straight-up homophobia.  I think it's just a metaphor for the fact that the hotel is holding a lot of secrets.

Jacobs Ladder:

Correct.  I made the same comment above (below?).  John sells King's book extremely short.

I love Kubrick, but I think you're giving Stephen King's novel extremely short shrift here (particularly because dismiss him as "pulpy").  Simply put, it's easily the scariest novel I've ever read, and definitely his masterpiece.  It also answers a lot of the questions that you're intrigued by, including the costumed…

That's fair, but for whatever it's worth, Pitchfork ranked it behind only "A Day in the Life."  http://pitchfork.com/featur…

To be fair, the title of that episode is a reference to Columbus, not Moltisanti.

Can I nominate the character of Darien (Darryl Hannah) from Wall Street?  I wish Stone would release a director's cut where she's digitally erased from the movie.

Tomorrow Never Knows is generally acknowledged as one of the best 3 or 4 songs they ever recorded.  Not saying you have to like it, of course.  Also the tie-in between the Timothy Leary-inspired lyrics and Roger's LSD experience a few weeks ago make it a logical choice.

I thought Don said he GREW UP in the 30's, not that he was born in the '30s.

I like the contrast between what the client thought was Beatles-esque song, and an ACTUAL Beatles song at that time.  I wonder if that's part of the reason Don snaps off Revolver so abruptly.