Yeah, I just feel that he's outlived his usefulness. I didn't mind him as much in season 1, but I'm ready to jettison him now.

He's dealt with it as well as you could reasonably expect someone of his background to. But he pales in comparison to the real Larry, who was practically superhuman in how well he dealt with it.

The problem, though, is that at this point it isn't really clear why the show is devoting so much time to him. He's unpleasant AND pointless.

The book was fairly interesting, but Kerman does point out a few times how special everyone thought she was. Although the last three weeks, which were spent in a different prison in Chicago, did seem to bring her down a peg or two.

Can't we agree that Larry Smith (the real person) is awesome and Larry Bloom (the character) is a blight on humanity?

I have a friend who's read a review copy and she says it's brilliant.

David Copperfield is just wonderful. I love that book.

The piece about Chaz is just beautiful.

The North review is one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/wat….

Is this a bad time to point out that Siskel was also really cranky?

Well, that test would be a pretty good judge of who is most famous. But not a great judge of who is best.

I think they're trying to push him into quitting, or into violating the rules they laid out so they will have cause to get rid of him. Which, if so, nearly succeeded.

I think the issue for Don was that Ted's feelings for Peggy were affecting the way he saw her work. I don't think he was judging the adultery per se.

I'm talking about the telephone conversation between Don and Dawn at the very beginning of the episode — I was under the impression that when Dawn was talking about how busy she was, Don was already aware of her promotion (that he had been made aware between the end of last week's episode and the beginning of this…

Me too! That would be perfect for her. But I feel so bad for Peggy at this point that I just want her to leave SC&P even if it means she's off the show.

I worked for a Lou once and it was a nightmare.

I think that in addition to the woman problem, Peggy may also have been tainted as Don's protege. They wanted someone completely different, not someone who'd been mentored by the trouble-maker.

At the beginning of the episode I felt like he'd been told about Dawn's promotion but wasn't processing the information somehow. I don't remember why I thought he knew, though.

You have to wonder where he got that sunny worldview. Have we seen anyone in either Don's or Betty's family with that kind of positive spirit?

Also, he gave it to a little girl who didn't have her lunch! What adult would want to let a kid go hungry so they could eat? (I realize she had a bag of gumdrops, which I can't quite figure out, but still.)