Too funny the other prostitute saying she loved "House of the Rising Son" (a song about a woman ruined by prostitution).

That was a heartbreaking episode. Don's one safe haven gone. It's interesting how last season ended on such a note of triumph and renewal and the story so far has been of Don being down so low. It's smart because it lets them build to a more hopeful arc again. At least I hope so.

Who is Don Draper going to be now that he can't be Dick Whitman with Anna?

But good on him and Lane. Godzilla was such a genius choice.

Really just a tight focus on Don, Lane and Joan in this episode. No Betty, Peggy, Pete, Roger etc, except for a line or two.

Nice to see Joan having something good with Dr. Rapist. Who is not going to be just a two dimensional creep.

He really should have married her!

Anna would never have him. She knows him too damned well on all levels. Which is, perversely, why she's always been so perfect for him. It really is the most tragic of love stories.

I wanted someone to make a snarky comment about Eliot knowing the sounds of different types of guns.

It's a very distinctive sound!

I liked last night's ep but Comcast is making it very hard for me. Recorded the wrong version and, I swear, they don't want me to watch this show. So I need a rewatch. Either OnDemand or when the HD re-airs, whichever I find first.

Loved Skerrit and how really unlikable he was.

And then I waved hi at the train station. Because they tend to hide Portland pretty well but it's a very distinctive train station.

I think Eliot "I'm Gonna Punch Somebody" Spencer is the least fucked-up of the whole crew.

I don't think Hardison is fucked up at all. Wacky and nerdy, but not fucked up. Eliot has some anger issues.

I watch The Closer out of reflex. But I find I don't much like the lead character. The rest of the cast is good though--however they're right crap on female representation.

Yeah. The Closer is popcorn. Sometimes I think the character is canonically supposed to be appalling. But I think that is my reading: I think the show thinks she is great cause she gets the bad guys. I think the old mad magazine joke about Colombo applies to her, where 90% of the people Colombo put in jail were innocent people who confessed because they just couldn't take his nagging any more. Like Colombo she is charming, though in a less schlumpy way. Unlike Colombo her character is unlikeable.

I like the Closer - but I'm a procedural ho. What I like about "The Closer" is that for every ep that is pretty predictable, there's another that kind of surprises me.

Yeah well written. Well acted. Well directed. Appalling politics. Of course fictionally everyone she tricks/emotionally blackmails/lies into confessing is guilty. But in real life a high percentage of people who turned out to be innocent confessed. There are all sorts of things cops can legally do that put on powerful enough pressure to cause innocent people to confess. But you don't have to like a character or agree with writers viewpoint to enjoy the show. And of course because of the actress and the writing, a lot of the time I can't help but like her. And then I get appalled again.

One of the things that I don't like about procedurals is the way that they broadcast the villain with casting. Tonight, when I saw Bruno Campos, I knew that he had to be the villan because they wouldn't waste a throwaway part on a good actor. Maybe I watch too much TV.

Lifetime thrillers are worse. I was visiting a friend, she had one on and paused it. I said "the blond lady did it."

"Have you seen it?, cause if you have that is not cool". my friend said.

"Oh no", I replied, never see it. "But one of the characters is the viewpoint heroine. One is the sensitive love interest with the rough-hewn exterior who can't be the bad guy. From body language, the three other women are supporting characters. So the blond is the only one left who could be the murderer. "

I don't think Hardison is fucked up at all. Wacky and nerdy, but not fucked up. Eliot has some anger issues.

Of course, that's true. I don't think Hardison is fucked-up at all. (Though given his tendency to choose crime and irresistible attraction to attractive criminals, Sterling might disagree! Hell, Nate might disagree.) But while Eliot has anger issues, he's managing them, which in my book means, "not fucked-up". Fucked-up would be not managing them and letting them fuck up his life, which likely is what happened to him to set him on this particular path. But yeah, still more fucked-up than Hardison.

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