Well, there is so much bleed through.

I have caught up with "Covert Affairs." For some reason this is a show I enjoy watching in 3-4 episode chunks as opposed to every week. I think it is because there is too much tv on and I need to narrow down my weekly commitments. This is also true of "Lie to Me!"

Are others watching CA here? I find the show to expect very little of the viewer, oftentimes implausible and its constant rehashing of Annie's relationship (that was a 2 month fling occurring TWO YEARS AGO) is incredibly irritating. Years ago, I was in a 4 year relationship that brought up less angst. I mean damn.

I find the show entertaining, but I check my brain at the door and then start watching. Am I just being a crank?

Not at all. I enjoy CA as mindless fun.

Wow, no Mad Men posts at all?

I was a bit meh on this ep myself - the Joan & Peggy stuff was interesting from a social commentary perspective, but didn't move the plot forward. Betty/Henry = yawn.

Good to see Don trying to get his act together, though. Show of hands everyone who thinks this means he's headed for a HUGE relapse a couple of eps down the line?

No doubt.

Joan is really hurting, isn't she -- now she's the one falling apart. Her whole conversation with Peggy on the elevator was pure projection as to her real feeling about her position/life now.

It's a lot to unpack. I'm actually kind of into the Betty/Henry stuff. And it's good to see Francine again.

the Joan & Peggy stuff was interesting from a social commentary perspective, but didn't move the plot forward.

I think I disagree. Once again, Peggy and Joan are both right. Peggy broke with Joan's way of being a woman at work way back with "you think you're helping", but she still has to figure out what will work for her, and any kind of authority is new for her. It didn't resolve anything, but it moved.

I'm still pondering Don. I'm glad he wen to Gene's party, but everything else I'm not sure about.

I like how it was shot sort of like a horror movie, very deadpan and with almost no musical cues. I find Betty Draper a drag on any story, though.

I can't articulate what I want to say - just that I find Betty Draper irritating, clueless and v. Dog in the Mangerish re: Don.

She's going to be a really bad political wife for Henry, isn't she.

The behavior of the 3 Stooges was just so irritating. I was appalled at what they were allowed to get away with and didn't know how to take Joan's reaction to Peggy at the end. But what you said makes sense Theodosia.

I'm glad that Don is trying to remake himself (again). I hope that at least some of it sticks.

didn't know how to take Joan's reaction to Peggy at the end

Joan's position in the firm is very much wrapped up in her gender presentation - she's the Woman in charge of The Girls, and she deals with the non-secretaries as Men. Peggy throws a big fat wrench into that.