"Overweening ambition."

Hank wouldn't consciously leave a job undone because of personal ties elsewhere.

Plus this episode's title.

This episode cemented, for me, what I started thinking about Ed and Peggy last week. They are both equally detached from reality, both "crazy" representations of the two sides of the American dream at this time. Peggy imagines herself as a Modern Woman/Beauty Queen; Ed imagines himself as a Family Man/Entrepreneur. I…

It doesn't work like that. Someone rapes you as a little kid, you don't end up in their lightbulb shack praying with them. No matter how Christian you are.

She might be thinking it's her fault. That's what Lens about, after all.

I think Tommy thinks it's real and Laurie thinks she made it up.

Laurie was awfully vague about what happened. And the show doesn't do unambiguous. I'm guessing there's more to Tommy's gift than they let on in this episode.

I honestly didn't think the ending was as much of a cliffhanger as the reviewer seemed to think it was. When Virgil pulled out the syringe, I thought "Oh, he's not going to give it to him. He has to let him really die." And when Virgil took out the gun I thought "Oh yeah that's right, he said Kevin would need a…

It's just as stupid not to trust people in some contexts as it is to trust everyone.

I don't use CC but I remember a lot of you guys saying that it said "Rick" when a voice was yelling to open the gates a couple of weeks ago. So if it just said "Man's voice" for the walkie talkie voice this week, what does that tell us?

Every comment: "I know something you probably don't."

Yes. The cops may be all kinds of bad things but it's we the people who hire them and our policies they enforce. It was PC Principal who called Officer Barbrady in to begin with.

This episode wasn't pro or anti cop. It was showing how we project things onto cops, defining the same action as "heroic" in one context and "outrageous" in another context. The cops in this episode weren't any more racist than the townspeople. They are basically the people the townspeople hire to be their scapegoats.

The whole point of political correctness to begin with was to take morality — good and bad — out of public discourse. The idea was good and evil are relative, subjective, we aren't supposed to judge people on that. So instead we agree on a discourse that is "politically correct". There is no real PC and fake PC; it is…

I've gone from thinking Peggy is a sociopath and Ed is a normal guy to seeing them both as slightly unhinged representations of the two flipsides of the American dream. Peggy is all about personal fulfillment, beauty magazines, going to California. Ed is all about owning your own business, family, staying in place.…

Haven't the magazines already done their work? Weren't they distracting her when she hit Rye?

She hadn't gotten to that part yet in the essay.

Technically, Hanzee did lie in that kitchen scene. When Floyd asked him to verify what Dodd said he didn't just nod; he embellished on it.

He would certainly not be that open after Reagan basically shitting over his combat service with that pathetic joke. I thought that scene misread quite a lot of things.