I don't think Don is intended to be any kind of hero, anti or pro. Sometimes he is on the side leading the revolution and other times he is the establishment. He can be the rigid old guard afraid of change, as you point out, then he embraces change (like bringing Peggy up to begin with) and even sacrificing his…

I think she didn't go because she would be subject to Bob's decisions and would have lost her power. I think she would prefer to live and die with the power she has and honestly, she may never get remarried. Joan has a chance at being what she once scoffed at Peggy for trying for. The fact that Don stood in her way by…

I think Matt Weiner and his team really touched on one of the most realistic portrayals of sex, which is a sad reality of life. Lust is fleeting, love does not come from lust, though it doesn't have to stand in the way, it often does. Sex can be awkward, even with great experience in both or more participants. The…

Very true, but they are substantially better than the press of Teddy's era, the Yellow Journalism period, which I have also read a substantial portion of, especially on the Philippine-American War. So if the press also goes through ebbs and flows, it is not a constant.

FDR was not superhuman. He got a lot done in his first two years and spent the rest of his terms defending it. He was predicted to be unelectable to a third term and if the world wasn't going into chaos and parties could nominate people to be their candidate without the candidate having to run in primaries, FDR would…

My grandfather served in the CCC as well and it put food on the table and gave him discipline and toughness that he would later use employed in the US 8th Army Air Corps over Germany.

Yeah isn't that amazing?! Conservative intellectuals in academia even build careers on misusing the facts.

It was on almost 24 hours a day on PBS stations, was available for streaming in its entirety before the show had aired on TV and is still available for free streaming on the PBS station. If you don't want to help pay for the programming, you don't have to, but it's not like they are raping you over a barrel the way…

So many comments here are  focused on how liberal snobs are such snobs because they like to save the planet and stuff. Yet isn't the unrelenting judgement of people the very reason we dislike Hipsters and the like? In your hatred, you have become the very thing you hate the most.

Even your sarcasm is bad for 'Merica.

Even your sarcasm is bad for 'Merica.

I cannot disagree too much with your assessments, however Ken is a far better judge of character than Joan. While Joan has repeatedly shown her judgement in men to be her Achilles Heal, Ken has been so spot on he could practically be the shows narrator.

It's totally true that the stereotypes used in The Big Bang Theory were long outdated by the time the show hit the air. It's almost like the show's ideas were born during a screening of Revenge of the Nerds II, Nerds in Paradise. This may be that co-creator Bill Prady worked as a programmer for The Small Computer…

I have nothing against a little escapism, hell, I could write a novel about escapism. I might even be escaping right now!

I have nothing against a little escapism, hell, I could write a novel about escapism. I might even be escaping right now!

While Sid Ceasar's "Your Show of Shows" and "Ceasar's Hour" are not
lesser in quality than Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade and the
many other tubes that feed SNL, yet they are lesser known these days,
sadly, and therefore it deserves to be mentioned because Sid Ceasar's
team looks to be one of the best writing…

I agree, while it is frankly too important for this list, Your Show of Shows and Ceasar's Hour should be on it since it wasn't even remotely mentioned. SNL may seem like the gold-standard for counter-culture comedy, though Sid Ceasar's team was doing it through the Red Scare and spawned the guys who would not only…

Not on this list is the very short lived Uncle Buck sitcom and the bizarre Harry and the Hendersons series. Both sitcoms that reboot the whole premise of the films, which end with everyone wiser, smarter and a sad departure scene that teaches us all the values of… I dunno, something. The point is, Uncle Buck's…