I just can't handle musicals.

Three hours? Too short.

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me makes me hate bookish liberals, even though I'm a bookish liberal.

I'm also a dedicated fan of Bob Dylan but I agree it is odd that Blonde on Blonde is considered the masterpiece, when Highway 61 Revisited, released nine months earlier, is clearly superior. B-on-B has three songs longer than 7 minutes, which I suppose accounts for the awestruck response to the album; Dylan's longer…

I continually get the idea that Peggy is just not that great an ad person. Don had a quickie brainstorm ("what if we did the ad from the standpoint of the kid?", which is brilliant, seeing as how fast food and cereal marketing was headed that way in the 70s and has remained so ever since), and immediately Peggy's…

I don't think SCP was going to get Buick business. Roger seems to have some scheme in his head to attempt to get that business — like putting the screws to Bob and make him feel guilty for using his position to get inside GM — but there doesn't seem to be any guarantee of it.

I really felt bad for Don. Megan is totally asking him to please not visit her in LA, thanks.

Yeah, I watched it live and they censored it.

I know several people who believe The Walking Dead is "the best show on television" who clearly are wrong. Not a dealbreaker but it does make me wonder why they think that.

My brother-in-law told us a few weeks ago that he loved Dunham, and my wife and I just looked at him like he was a Martian.

Don lost Hershey Chocolate because he decided to have a whorehouse flashback during a crucial meeting. Based on that, Don is dead to Burt.

I thought Harry was going to try to provide clients with some more sophisticated analysis of consumer data. Right now the best he can do is suggest a client run a spot on "Bewitched" because its a hot show.

Good point.

I agree. Peggy was dreadfully petty, almost out of character, but then again her character has nearly as much self-pity as Betty. Joan was chilly, and I didn't even understand that; was there a Don-Joan dust-up that I don't remember? Bert's always been an oligarchical prick, so he was at least consistent.

Peggy is annoying as hell.

That's what creative directors and copy chiefs do. If they pass along a copywriter's text unchanged too often, people wonder if they are even working.

Yes. I always thought it was weirdly cruel for an adult child to say to a parent, "I forgive you for these things you haven't asked forgiveness for, and probably aren't aware of, and which are mostly my Mommy-Daddy issues anyway." Plus, Roger's daughter has always been dreadful.

There was a brief period in the middle seasons of Mad Men where Pete and Trudy had by far the healthiest marriage on the show. So they seem to float in and out of this idea of Pete as insecure lunatic, then they show him as grounded and sensible and sympathetic. He seems to have two-year cycles.

As soon as I yelled "Vampire Board Room!" I thought what a cool band name that would be.

You are correct that all the details were red herrings. And the other people are correct in assering that a work of fiction which relies on a string of red herrings to move the plot along is ultimately unsatisfying.