Well. Enterprise finally wraps up its third season, with "The Council," "Countdown," and "Zero Hour." Will Archer and company save Earth from certain doom at the hands of the Xindi? Of course they do, what's the matter with you. But things get...complicated from there, as you can tell from the way J. can't stop giggling while they talk about it. Elsewhere, we talk Mad Men, as Roger has a few flashbacks, Don has way too many drinks, and Peggy strips down in "Waldorf Stories."

Enterprise gets dark as we head toward the end of season three, and in "Damage," "The Forgotten," and "E^2," it actually kinda works! I mean, with conditions -- this is Enterprise, after all -- but two of these three episodes are pretty solid, and one of them is probably in the top five episodes of the entire series. (One of them is...not. But it's heart is in the right place.) Afterwards, we turn to Mad Men, as Pete gets good news, Peggy makes new friends, and Don has to duck to avoid being mauled by "The Rejected."

Season four of Battlestar Galactica begins, with the Cylon business kind of breaking down and the writers struggling to make any sense out of anything. It doesn't entirely work. We watch "He That Believeth in Me," "Six of One," and "The Ties That Bind" and try to sort everything out of the soup. Afterwards, we continue our trip through the fourth year of Mad Men, as the gang rings in the New Year by spreading out and getting kind bummed out. Lane fires his secretary, Joan looks to the future, and Don tries to handle a great big helping of "The Good News."

Season four of Battlestar Galactica begins, with the Cylon business kind of breaking down and the writers struggling to make any sense out of anything. It doesn't entirely work. We watch "He That Believeth in Me," "Six of One," and "The Ties That Bind" and try to sort everything out of the soup. Afterwards, we continue our trip through the fourth year of Mad Men, as the gang rings in the New Year by spreading out and getting kind bummed out. Lane fires his secretary, Joan looks to the future, and Don tries to handle a great big helping of "The Good News."

It's not often that we point to Voyager as a positive example of anything, but when Enterprise straight-up copies an episode of its older brother, we have to give credit where credit is due. We talk about "Doctor's Orders," "Hatchery," and "Azati Prime," all of which give us plenty to grumble about. Then, we continue our look at Mad Men's fourth season, as Don gets grabby, Glen stays creepy, Lee Garner gets whiny, and Roger Sterling is probably glad that "Christmas Comes But Once a Year."

Battlestar Galactica finally goes flying off the deep end with its WTF-errific third season finale, "Crossroads," in which Ron Moore (again) blows his show up on a whim, characters fall apart (physically, emotionally, and psychologically), the dead return to the living, Tory neglects to comb her hair, and everybody gets an old song stuck in their heads. It's pretty much crazytown. Elsewhere, for the third year in a row we turn to Mad Men to get through the summer. We kick off the fourth season with awkward divorce holidays, on-the-nose prostitutes, worked-shoot grocery store fistfights, and Don getting a tough lesson in managing his "Public Relations."

Battlestar Galactica finally goes flying off the deep end with its WTF-errific third season finale, "Crossroads," in which Ron Moore (again) blows his show up on a whim, characters fall apart (physically, emotionally, and psychologically), the dead return to the living, Tory neglects to comb her hair, and everybody gets an old song stuck in their heads. It's pretty much crazytown. Elsewhere, for the third year in a row we turn to Mad Men to get through the summer. We kick off the fourth season with awkward divorce holidays, on-the-nose prostitutes, worked-shoot grocery store fistfights, and Don getting a tough lesson in managing his "Public Relations."

Or is it HYDRA? SPECTRE? MASK? CHAOS? COBRA? The shadowy gang of international criminals we learn about in the Elementary season finale is never actually given a name, but we make a few suggestions while discussing how everything turns out. Elsewhere, Enterprise returns to the warm bosom of mediocrity with a trio of passable-I-guess third season episodes, "Proving Ground," "Strategem," and "Harbinger." Yes, they're going to try make the Temporal Cold War business all make sense. Riiiight.

J.'s having a day of jubilee -- "Burn the Witch" is a great song -- and it can't be ruined! Though Battlestar Galactica is gonna try pretty hard, with three episodes -- "Dirty Hands," "Maelstrom," and "The Son Also Rises" -- that deal with the three constants of life: death, lawers, and labor relations. Watch Adama threaten to murder Cally as the writers kind of forget out to write characters in the rush to make a (confusing) political point! In the meantime, we talk about Elementary's latest, "The Invisible Hand," in which Moriarty is replaced by...Moriarty?

Holy hell, Enterprise actually gets one right. Like, super right. We talk about "Similitude," "Carpenter Street," and "Chosen Realm," and actually have good things to say. In fact, we have no issues declaring one of these episodes to be the best Enterprise episode to date. And one of us actually enjoyed all three episodes! (The other says that the other two were garbage, but hey.) We also talk about the plot-thickening going on on Elementary in "Turn It Upside Down," as they downshift for the season finale.