YOU CAN'T TRIPLE-STAMP A DOUBLE STAMP!

The S3 finale of Mad Men was finally the show I have hoped and expected it to be over the last three seasons, the creation of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce being a wonderful capper/setter-upper, and it will be interesting to see if the series can maintain the sense of drive, inspiration and excitement those scenes possessed. My guess is no, because I have rarely found these characters' home lives engaging, but we shall see. I did an actual fist-pump when Roger got up to call Joan, and oh I do hope Salvatore will get a look-in somehow.

Meanwhile the second episode of Friday Night Lights S4 has some scenes that rank among the shows' best, most especially Tami charmingly confronting Joe Fucking McCoy and calling him on his bullshit, and the (proper) intro to the Luke boy, which was quite heartbreaking. Even when it leans towards cheese, as at the end of this episode, there is something so deeply emotionally engaging in this easy, almost languid-seeming show about mostly decent people trying to do mostly decent things in quite heartbreaking but everyday circumstance, the stakes minuscule on a macro level but so desperately high to the individual. The intro of the Merriweather character was a bit meet-cute for my taste and I don't like the daughter of Riggins's new landlord (when are we going to get a female character who's not introduced as a corollary to a male character?) but with Riggins having found something fulfilling to connect with and Wallace (it may take a while to transfer names over...) being challenged in a leadership role in East Dillon it seems that all the pieces are in place for a really great season.

Oh my god, so I just got finished -- like, I am still blinking through tears here -- watching the first season of Friday Night Lights and it is unbelievable, I mean, I cannot think of another show, especially a teen melodrama, especially a sports thing, that comes by its emotion so honestly, and shit, it piles it on, I am about 30% water these days from watching this show, but I cannot get enough, it is so fucking awesome, even with the storylines you've seen a hundred times before, even with the twenty-nine year old teenagers, it ain't Deadwood or The Wire but shit it is good, it does that exact same thing as those two shows where you are so completely in the world these amazing actors -- and I mean amazing, Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler, I am looking at you -- and production team create where you come away consumed by it and talking (sometimes, embarrassingly, out loud) like Al Swearengen and Kima Greggs and Tami Taylor and just, I never expected to go beyond the first episode and perhaps you're kinda eying it doubtfully but boys and girls, make room in your download limit for this one.

But seriously, where is all the good fic hiding? And why are there not more Supernatural crossovers?

Also, Taylor Kitsch and Adrianne Palicki are freaking HOT, and I would put like five hundred extra Ts on the end of that but seeing as it's a universal truth it would be kind of redundant.

Also, American football is CON. FUS. ING.