This week’s descent into narrative madness was one of the worst episodes of Mad Men yet produced.

There was a moment in “The Arrangements” that made my heart sink. It wasn’t the hard-nosed way Gene passed along his last wishes to Betty, and it wasn’t Gene failing to pick up Sally and Bobby from school. No, my heart sank when Gene told Sally that their ice cream was supposed to be chocolate, but instead smelled like oranges.

This third episode of the season is very much about home, or the pale imitations of it that we content ourselves with.

Don Draper is not necessarily a bad guy, but he’s not much of a good guy either. In short, Don Draper has sold his soul, and there’s no getting it back. He’s lost. He’s not the hero.

It is with satisfaction but not surprise that I say unto you that “Out of Town”, the premiere episode of the third season of Mad Men, is a wonderful, fitting start to the new year.

While “Epitaph One” is gripping and thematically rich, it could take a lot of mystery out of future season of the series if we’re meant to treat it as canonical.

The Cubs have famously not won a World Series since 1908, a mere 101 years ago. And if you talk to Cubs fans, you’ll discover that they intensely feel each of those 101 years. I do not.

Lost does season finales very well, and I’ve always enjoyed that the finales seem to change the entire premise of the series. That’s certainly the case with this thrilling finale too.