This is '82, not '81. And I have my doubts that Reagan knew nothing about the dirty business going on in Central America. I was right there with Elizabeth, nodding my head in agreement at everything she said.

What I can't quite figure is how he was going to present it to her, as "Clark". Maybe the writers didn't quite know either, but didn't have to deal with it because they had her change her tune instead.

I don't think the accurate tape was quite as kind to Martha as you are saying.

Huh, it only showed up on iTunes yesterday.
Do you have a comments section somewhere for that podcast?

All good points.
I do have Netflix. I have tried watching the Mad Men pilot three times over the years, and never felt interested in watching a second episode. It is the only one, really, of the modern "premium" shows (Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Enlightened, Boardwalk Empire, etc.) that has…

Interesting point about that hairstyle. I also think they don't want to gross us out (to the max!) with some of the more egregious styles, even if it would be accurate. In the pilot, they had Elizabeth wearing really high-waisted jeans (Guess?); since then, though, not so much. They haven't reduced them to…

Agreed. But they are never going to be able to get all the street signs, street lights, etc. right—they just don't have the budget.

For certain values of "have to", that is. Depends on what lifestyle you want to live.

Romania, though, was one of the few non-Slavic countries behind the Iron Curtain. (Theirs is actually a Romance language, descended from Latin, like French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.)

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I would consider this one a legit complaint, because they could have prevented it with a little research. There are lots of anachronisms in their outdoor scenes, OTOH, that I think we all have to forgive just because they don't have the budget to avoid them.

I think too that we may have gotten some insight into his real feelings when he talked about his concern that using her body in that dishonest way might be trouble for Nina's soul. I can't see really how that would be working an angle.

Yes! That was so tense. Maybe we are projecting, but I felt like you could, as you say, see the wheels turning while simultaneously feeling that he (the character) was doing a great job of acting like "Philip the travel agent" "really" would in that situation. Which, if it is not projecting, is incredibly subtle…

But weaving yourself into the social fabric is a lot easier with church. (And I say this as an atheist raised by non-religious parents who went to Unitarian church but didn't make me go.)

I agree—the ranks of "nones" were much smaller then.

Yeah, I would buy the idea, (from Libby, is it?) that she has changed her attitude about sex due to being more committed to her marriage, more if not for that threesome. Anything from before she asked Philip to "come home" in the first season finale is one thing, but that was *recent*.

I wondered why they weren't already members of some mainline Protestant denomination, as part of their cover.

My wife and I are just checking out this show now on Amazon Prime after hearing all the buzz. (She watched the first season; I waited to start with S2 as I had heard that was when it really started to get good.) I am with you*—I absolutely loved this episode. The military court was so weird—what was up with that…

Ah, Lindsey, right. I see now on another board someone from her town saying "if you guys think she is hot, you should see her sister". Colour me intrigued!

There were some pathetic rounds in the IC by the Brains tribe; but the last pour that got their bucket full was quite substantial. I wish they had shown that round as it is hard to picture how they got so much water through on that pass.