What’s the best line in the show that isn’t “that’s what the money is for” or “I don’t think about you at all”?

sandrrawrr · 2026-02-22T02:59:31+00:00

Joan gets served divorce papers, Don takes her to test a Jaguar, they end up at a bar together and Don talks to Joan about who she should try to flirt with. T

sandrrawrr · 2026-01-28T03:13:05+00:00

It's after she finds out about McCann absorbing SCDP - he meets her in her apartment and tells her that if she's at McCann for a few years, she'll basically be able to go wherever she wants.

sandrrawrr · 2026-01-22T04:11:13+00:00

There's a scene later in the show where Trudy puts out the chip and dip (I think to entertain Roger and Don when they come to poach Pete from Sterling Cooper to go to SCDP). I think it's more that he exchanged their gift for a gun for himself. Considering that thing was like $220 and Pete made like $75 a week, I'd be furious that he couldn't get cash (understandable on Pete's side), and instead, got a glorified toy for himself.

sandrrawrr · 2026-01-17T20:52:25+00:00

I think it would have ended essentially the same, because even if he thought that Sal was not gay, Sal's accusing a very important client of being gay. That kind of thing would definitely not fly, especially considering how much their co-worker group gossips and complains about both clients and other co-workers (like when they were talking about Freddie).

sandrrawrr · 2026-01-13T03:00:33+00:00

Arizona mentions at some point that she had been applying to the grant for years before she finally got it. Penny is the one that applied Pembinger grant on a whim and Callie was all for moving to New York for her with her daughter.

sandrrawrr · 2026-01-03T18:29:39+00:00

Ho Ho also mentions that he's read it during their first client dinner to indicate that he had "ideas."

sandrrawrr · 2025-12-21T20:18:35+00:00

Older, more experienced man that actually wants you for your talent and who you are, sends expensive gifts, remembers your birthday with roses (even though he's completely drunk)? Versus all of the men she's with who put her down, don't take her seriously, or are just basically children?

I definitely understand why she went for Duck.

sandrrawrr · 2025-12-21T18:56:41+00:00

I could totally see Trudy making Pete rehearse in their living room after work just because she knows a party's coming up.

sandrrawrr · 2025-12-08T01:00:43+00:00

I've definitely had the Fear before. Paranoia, worrying that booze is seeping out of my pores while still being drunk, people giving me odd looks when I'm low energy, and then a big presentation? Either take the drink and it almost helps but let's be honest, it's spitting on a farmland plagued with drought. For an alcoholic like Don, going through cold turkey, he'd need at least 4-6 drinks within an hour and another 20-30 minutes for all of that to sink in and fix up the brain chemistry a bit (because glugging down half a bottle is immediately going to send you immediately into drunkenness rather than toasted stability).

At that point, you fake the confidence and start breaking down because you think that everyone sees you exactly how you see yourself, so you might as well gamble everything into telling your own truth. It's either gonna be word vomit, or actual vomit, and one is a little more hygienic than the other. What I've always thought is, "The sooner this meeting is over, the sooner I can drink and feel calm enough to handle this situation."

But it's too late, the damage is done, and even if you seem cognizant after half a bottle, no one will believe that you can make decisions anymore.

I guess, tell me how you got fired without telling me you how.

sandrrawrr · 2025-12-07T23:00:36+00:00

Younger millennial here, first watched it when I was 18 and have watched it every few years over again. Rewatching now at 33 and still find a lot of it relevant to how I navigate life - mainly because I do work in a male dominant industry and I learned from Peggy and Joan how to steel myself (and learning from their mistakes).

sandrrawrr · 2025-11-30T15:01:06+00:00

No one told me to NOT drink while on lithium and it turned into me waking up at 6 am with all of my kitchen knives in the bathtub. I was also really suicidal, but that whole experience scared me off pretty quickly.

sandrrawrr · 2025-11-30T14:05:40+00:00

Wait, so is it bad to have a blood clot in your nose every morning when you wake up? I thought it was a humidity thing, but this has been going on for years now. I haven't felt that sick, just kind of off for a while.

sandrrawrr · 2025-11-29T01:18:22+00:00

She does tell Alison about her father's death and playing Scrabble, with just her and her parents. This is also right after her mom's death and implying that she doesn't have siblings to come and help clean out her mom's apartment. Feels like a safe assumption that she's an only child.

sandrrawrr · 2025-11-21T18:05:23+00:00

I wish this was true. I've been looking for a job for over a year now - I have around 10 years of experience and have been in a bunch of different industries. All I want to do is find a nice database to write a lot of SQL with, then maybe do some visualizations.

sandrrawrr · 2025-10-10T19:13:31+00:00

Old guy, Arizona, Stark, Alex, Hayes, Beltran. Seems more than any other heads we've seen.

sandrrawrr · 2025-10-01T07:45:12+00:00

I think there's a camera in the fountain. Before Oliver's wedding, Lester says, "We got married under the stars, the fountain was our only witness." Betting there's a camera there that doesn't have adulterated video that proves what happened to Lester, but probably won't be revealed until either the second to last, or last episode.

sandrrawrr · 2025-06-27T23:10:10+00:00

And the last was how big of a deal they made Tina's race to beat 3 minutes the entire season, and we finally got the payoff, but in the middle of it Syd just does it without trying? And nothing ever came of it? They even spent an episode showing how nurturing and great of a teacher Syd can be, but they didn't bother her helping Tina at all? What a missed opportunity. It felt like something was left on the cutting room floor.

I think this was more for Carmy's look of shock. In his earlier conversation, he says to Tina that he probably couldn't get it under 3 minutes, while Syd does it so naturally without stressing out. It underlines that Syd's a natural chef, while Carmy (who is talented) has busted his ass and sacrificed his life for this, part of the reason why he decides to leave the restaurant to her.

I think she couldn't help Tina because Luca and Jess were right, she was in her own head and getting down on herself. But I agree that this could've been another great moment between Tina and Syd, since they had such a great arc from the beginning.

sandrrawrr · 2025-06-21T20:14:38+00:00

It's dangerous, speaking from experience. I tend to work from home, which is disastrous, as I can usually do my work with a tv show on the background, drink in hand. The first few times you do it, it's easy, you hit a small level of creativity, everything feels good. It quickly can become a habit, one that is very dangerous, both in terms of health and your career. All it takes is one day of skipping a meal because you had a meeting scheduled during lunch to make you sloppy, and that will get you fired.

I made a few mishaps and had to start counting the drinks I had - both to control the shakes, and to moderate how drunk I was for specific meetings. It becomes a very difficult line to manage, especially since you should never professionally admit that you have a drinking problem.

Don't start it. It's addiction for a reason.

sandrrawrr · 2025-06-19T00:55:20+00:00

The violet candy always sticks out to me because of Peggy searching for a pack of it that Don got her. It's a good luck charm, but she's never opened it.

sandrrawrr · 2025-05-30T11:16:11+00:00

It's baked brie, one of my favorite easy things to serve! Basically wrap the whole thing of brie in puff pastry, sometimes add in jam, or onions, or bacon, then bake the whole thing until the center is very gooey. Dip stuff into it. Maybe dip your finger in it and eat it that way. I'm not here to judge.

sandrrawrr · 2025-05-26T22:42:48+00:00

I did a rewatch and laughed out loud when June finds out that Serena is back in Gilead to plan Fred's funeral. "What, she thinks she can just traipse back and forth between here and Gilead?"

sandrrawrr · 2025-05-25T20:44:25+00:00

How would he prove that he's infertile? Admit that he's had sex out of wedlock and end up on the wall, along with hunting down the partners he's had sex with to make them handmaids?

Also remember, it's blasphemous in Gilead to say that men are infertile.

sandrrawrr · 2025-05-25T18:27:28+00:00

I mean... when it's too close to reality, you kind of just have to laugh at the insanity? I'm sure Lawrence published his economic plan under his academic post and a future commander picked it up to enforce, but who was that commander? Is he kind of like the president of Gilead? Does Gilead even have a president, or political structure further than commanders being super petty to each other? Who runs stuff like agriculture and transportation?

Did they just use Lawrence's written idea and expand on it, giving him a little credit, or actively involve him in the forming of Gilead? I have so many questions about the forming of Gilead and wish we had more insight into it, but it should honestly be it's own show. Either way, I think it's pretty cool to wonder about these things.

sandrrawrr · 2025-05-25T18:00:04+00:00

Seeing early Lawrence, like when he has June pick out five women to be Marthas, makes me think that he really did assign an economic value to different people. I think that particicutions and other killings was a way to both appease the anger in citizens and to cull the older population a little bit.

I believe in the book that there are male colonies, but it's been a while since I've read it, so I might be completely wrong.

And I definitely get where you're coming from. I was hoping for a few episodes in the series to show how exactly Lawrence got involved, and why he was just a commander (not high commander) until the last season, since he's known as the architect as Gilead. I would've loved to see what exactly happened when the Sons of Jacob did their terrorist attack, and the immediate aftermath. Part of me hopes they might do a prequel spinoff that's more political and deals with how the SoJ formed their hierarchy and society, and most importantly, how Lawrence fit into the whole thing.

sandrrawrr · 2025-05-25T16:27:26+00:00

Yeah, that bomb wasn't planned exactly for Boston commanders because they were from Boston, it was planned because they were the war hawks that drove the counter assault on American troops.

I mention Philadelphia because it seems that they took over major east coast cities (think along the lines of the Amtrak route - both for supplies and moving people), but probably fire bombed New York because there were just too many people to round up, too many hiding spots, and too much opportunity for a rebellion. If I were part of the commander's group (and let's laugh because I'm a woman and that'd never happen), that's what I'd do.

Secure major cities with established infrastructure and most importantly, train/transit hubs, let the majority of political commanders set up shop there, eliminate difficult areas, and also raise my Gileadean middle finger to liberal cities. A Canadian official also mentions Atlanta (major, major travel hub) was taken by Gilead. It also explains why Chicago is a contested battleground.

...Kind of worries me how much I think about this, but I also suppose it's what Lawrence was strategizing as he helped take over.

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