The Outstanding Lead Actress category feels like heartbreak waiting to happen for me. There are two correct answers there: Moss, who really should get it on the strength of her entire run as Peggy moreso than her performance this half-season (which was great, but there wasn't enough of it, and it wasn't her best work…

I think Emmy voters still have that TV inferiority complex, where they view nominating anyone who's gotten acclaim in film as validation for TV as a medium. Someone needs to tell them that TV has matched or bettered film creatively on just about every level, and that they no longer need to drop their trousers every…

I have a hard time with the concept that anyone who watched and liked Breaking Bad (not the most widely-watched show for most of its run, but one that got its fair share of Emmy love and pop-culture respect) isn't watching The Americans. Anti-heroics isn't everyone's thing, but if you're into pulpy antiheroes there…

If only this had actually happened (the rapes putting his career in jeopardy…you know, back when he had a career worth jeopardizing).

I hear it in a quavering Jimmy Stewart voice, "Hey, they're taking our wholesome recreational pharmaceutical and making it out like it's some sort of tool for rapists!"

You know that ring ain't on a finger, neither,

"Another thing they fucked up: in real life, Megan and Marie would not speak French in front of Don or anyone else who doesn't speak French unless they were trying really hard to be extremely fucking rude."

Man, the idea that the movies can/do detract from the books is something that died for me after X3 crapped the bed trying to portray the Dark Phoenix Saga.

Don't let facts get in the way of the straw man arguments.

Oh, man. Reminding me of the scene where they move the department to another building, and Pembleton can't get used to the new box, which used to be a bank vault.

Lieutenant fits Don Draper, wealthy guy traveling around America, better than Private. The best thing about that scene is that you see Don making that calculation just before he announces it: better to claim to be an officer or a private? He's walking around with Don Draper's ID and Don's birthdate, so keeping that…

Duck Phillips - 1977 (survives two years in prison after accidentally killing Rumsen, gets shivved by dog-loving cellmate after he brags about abandoning Chauncey on the streets of New York)

I think we have to chalk it up to, "Betty's still Betty, even when she's dying." It would be a betrayal of the character if her illness suddenly made her warm and maternal. That letter to Sally is a stunning piece of writing, because it's perfectly in character. She's not just going to write to tell her daughter (much…

I know it's hard, but just hold on a few days until you can get the next exciting episode of CSI: Cyber. I hear this one's about someone using the IP addresses to breach the firewall!

Yeah, I really thought Don needed to give the kid some hobo wisdom to go along with the car. "If she has a rash on the palm of her hand that's syphillis. Don't make a big deal of it, just ask the woman running the brothel for someone else."

Line of the week. Made me love Betty again. That hadn't happened since she took aim at those pigeons in S1.

"Look at me, I'm having a threesome!"

From now on, anybody who quits their job by just walking out without a word is submitting a "Don Draper resignation."

Nah, they gotta go. I think the job in Wichita is more contingent on his proposal to Trudy than vice-versa. The LearJet guys are expecting a happily married man to come to Wichita, not a sad divorced guy. Cos Cob's dead for Trudy because of her divorce, and New York's a dead end for Pete because he's now a cog in the…

In S1, random guys were recognizing him on the Metro-North train, as the Dick Whitman who was with them in basic training. I doubt the concern was really the legionnaires calling the MPs on him as much as it was the possibility that a bunch of angry drunk vets in the middle of nowhere might kick the ass of a deserter.