I would argue in a similar vein that the Doug thread was the best one, but took WAY too long to actually get momentum. Oh well. I'm not suggesting that the season was "bad", it just left me wanting almost throughout.
I'm still going through HoC S3. I agree I am having trouble understanding how I could have found the first 2 seasons so addicting if they were much like this one. however, I am absolutely gobsmacked to realize that Claire is also Buttercup from that famous film, Princess Bride.
I laugh in your general youthful direction for not recognizing the ex Mrs. Penn. I remain stuck 3 episodes into Season 1 of Mad Men and 5 episodes into S1 of HoC but fuckin' Broadchurch is the shit and so is The Killing. We're currently splitting time between Archer and The Unflappable Erin from The Office.
Yay Archer! Yay Erin! I dunno if I've told this story, but I'll tell it anyways because I do what I want. I remember a buddy of mine's dad walked into the room and Mad Men was on TV. No one was watching it, it was just on. He looked at us and was like "why do you have that shit on?" We explained it was just white noise to us, and he looked at the screen and scoffed. Then he explained how Mad Men doesn't mean shit to him. He talked about how, when he was alive during the Mad Men era, when people in skyscrapers were debating cigerette ads, he was on the streets, neck-deep in the civil rights movement. "I couldn't use the same sink as everyone else at the time," he said. "So Mad Men doesn't say much for me." Couldn't get into the show ever since. Felt like it'd be a betrayal. Edit: in retrospect, that 'white noise' pun was not intended.
Fuckin' white noise tho It does have a real "remember back before we let women into the workplace and blacks into the country clubs? Wasn't that shit great?" kinda vibe. I think the only thing that attracts me to it is that it reminds me of Swingtown, which granted started six months later but was actually about "oh shit the women they be working and this birth control thing is makin' shit awkward." It also had Molly Parker in it and I've always been a sucker for her. .jpg)
you gotta finish.... but I dunno - I'm probably being overly critical. No spoilers here... but even in the first episodes of season 3 - I just kept waiting for SOMETHING to happen. oh well. I'm not upset that I watched it. Just a little more "meh" than I was hoping for.