Finally, an episode of Medium where Allison’s story intrigues me. I do love what they’ve been doing with the girls, seeing how their abilities are coming into play in their lives, but they can’t keep showing up their mom or they’re going to have to get their own show.

While I was watching I thought it was all very bizarre, yet amusing. The way the microwave started glowing like the Virgin Mary, and later all that stuff at the grocery store, and Allison’s face as she became transfixed with these things. It just couldn’t work on any other show.

At first I really didn’t get why Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida” kept playing throughout these sequences. It’s a catchy tune, and damn if it isn’t stuck in my head for good now, but it didn’t seem like Medium to use such a current hit song, even if it was only the music and not the lyrics.

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Like many people, I usually have a song stuck in my head. For some reason these songs, more often than not, come from television commercials. It probably has more than a little to do with the fact that I watch a lot of TV.

I swear, though, advertisers have some mad scientists writing these songs. I’m convinced there are subliminal messages in them to make sure they get burned into your memory cells. It’s evil, and sometimes I am afraid I’m going to get triggered and enter Machurian Candidate mode and try to kill someone. That’s probably just me, though, right?

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NBC

(Season 34, Episode 6)

Going into this episode I was a little skeptical. I wasn’t sure how Jon Hamm would be in a comedic setting. Mad Men may have some laughs in it, but Don Draper is in no way a funny character. Add to that concern the fact that Amy Poehler was absent from the episode because she was having her baby, and it should have been a terrible episode. Perhaps it was because my expectations were lowered, but I thought this was the strongest SNL episode this season. Not every skit hit it out of the park, but there was at least one solid laugh in every one, and Jon Hamm really came through.

Join me as I break the episode down, sketch by sketch.

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