Ditto both of you. Leo's still awesome, though.

Ditto all three of you on Fairly Legal.

Should I watch/read Lace? Sounds like something I might like.

As in "which one of you bitches is my mother?" ?

I thought it was terrible.

The miniseries probably looks pretty dated by now, but the book was actually fun, with a lot of period detail about London in the '60s and stuff. And the four women they follow are actually interesting, and all very different. It might seem a little dated now, too, but not in the same way the movie would.

See, I could get behind a third Sex and the City movie if it also turned out to be a remake of Lace.

Did Fairly Legal do the same plot as Ringer? Weird.

I really liked that episode of Mad Men. Are people still hating Megan? Because she was pretty badass tonight. I also love that Peggy was happy for her rather than being jealous of her, which is what I expected.

Poor Sally. That kid is so scarred. Also, those boots were great.

Some belated thoughts on Justified.

Boyd and Ava are not just likeable. They are super likeable. The writers have us cheering for them. But they are have very real dark sides. Boyd is a crime lord. He heads an empire of drug dealing, prostitution, extortion. They have both sides - caring often heroic, but bad guys as well - and I don't just mean law breakers. That he often ends up in alliance with Raylan and likes Raylan enough to take risks to save his ass does not change that.

Boyd is not above using threats of violence (I'll bet not bluffs) to get people to work for him - like threatening the mother of that doctor who wanted no part of the Oxy business. That is not an "honorable outlaw" schtick - but straight out bad guy action.

Ava, aside from sitting still for murder, crossed the line when she decided to become a Madam. Note that in the election, pineapple juice was being handed out, which implied that blowjobs were being given without condoms. Further in the season finale, she descended to slapping around one of her prostitutes.

Ava and Boyd are multi-layerd characters. Ava especially tends to be awesome a lot, though Boyd is not slouch at that. But their darks sides are real and not going away. (BTW Raylan has his own dark side. We have seen him deliberately maneuver things at least twice to legally kill someone he believes deserves killing (and of course we agree with him). In the first episode of the first season, and when he killed Dickie. That is murder too. In this fictional world Raylan only murders people who deserve it, but in the real world murdering cops are seldom as perfect judges of "needs killin" as Raylan is.

I'm pretty sure that is one of the strengths of the show - how the good guys and the bad guys kind of blend into one another. Even Raylan's semi-by-the-book boss was willing to torture a suspect and threaten (again not bluffing) to kill that suspect while he was tied up - to save someone's life and get revenge for his friend. All the simple codes don't work. Raylan fails his own test if he ever looked at it too closely, and Boyd's quest for a simple set of rules lead him into huge trouble. I'm pretty sure that in the end, "getting paid and blowing shit up" won't be enough for him either.

Yeah, I really dug tonight's Mad Men. Peggy and Megan, and Joan and Peggy especially. And that sad tableau at the table, everyone disillusioned with their prizes.