DID KATHERINE FALL TO THE BOTTOM?

Mark Lashley, 05/15/12

Writer and Ph.D. candidate

In many ways, "The Magician's Code" is the quintessential HIMYM episode, as funny as almost any show on television when it's willing to put in the effort, but more often than not falling into unnecessary plot twists,

Sarah Roberts, 05/15/12

18-year-old high school student and mother

Sixteen and pregnant. It wasn't exactly the dream I'd had while I was in my junior year of high school. I dreamt of moving away to college and living in a dorm. But when I got the news that I was pregnant, everything changed.

Marlo Thomas, 05/15/12

Award-winning actress, author, and activist

I couldn't get away from it. My girlfriends were talking about it; columnists were writing about it; Saturday Night Live was spoofing it. It was all I heard about.

Maryjane Fahey, 05/15/12

Co-author of 'Dumped', a breakup bible for women

My maternal instincts were outed yet again as I watched another episode of Girls. I know these girls. I am surrounded by them in real life. I want to save them all.

Mary Phillips-Sandy, 05/15/12

Editorial producer, Comedy Central's Indecision

Writing a 3,000-word feature on campaign spending is hard. Writing ten funny jokes about campaign spending is also hard. Some people are good at the former, some people are good at the latter and some people are good at both, but those people are unicorns.

William Bradley, 05/15/12

Political Analyst, NewWestNotes.com

If there's one thing we know for sure about the latest episode of Mad Men, it's this: All this soapiness can mean only one thing. People are about to die.

Pasha Adam, 05/15/12

Writer

I'm presenting my nomination for a show Netflix should consider giving a second chance... Terriers. The show didn't try to reinvent the wheel. It wasn't high concept. But it did what it did exceptionally well.

Christopher Rosen, 05/14/12

Entertainment editor, Huffington Post

Presented without commentary, the most absurd, comical, self-serious and/or humorless moments from episode 15, "Bombshell," in chronological order.

Denette Wilford, 05/15/12

Blogger

The broadcaster will continue to do what it's always done -- support 100 per cent Canadian content while entertaining its loyal fans; just in a less extravagant way (unlike this year's season preview, which was the biggest I've ever seen from the network).

Joey DeAngelis, 05/14/12

Pop culture blogger, Writer

It's almost like a car wreck. A wonderfully written, nicely shot, and superbly acted car wreck. No matter how bad it gets on screen, you're only the more intrigued and somehow, it's liberating.

Yolanda Reid Chassiakos, 05/14/12

Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Every spring, I'm forced to say good-bye to welcome visitors who've graced my home week after week. Yup, I'm talking about my favorite TV series that somehow find themselves on the chopping block even though millions of viewers enjoy them.

Maureen Ryan, 05/14/12

TV critic, The Huffington Post

Any episode that prominently features Betty is a lesser episode of "Mad Men." She just isn't as interesting as the show thinks she is, and when she turns up, "Mad Men's" ability to tell stories about bitterness and dissatisfaction becomes noticeably unsubtle.

Hulu.com, 05/14/12

Online video service

Will Ferrell's been gone from "SNL" for 10 years now. I don't know how we've kept it together since then, as Americans.

Sylvia E. Meléndez-Klinger, 05/14/12

Registered dietitian, certified personal trainer, nutritional consultant and founder of Hispanic Food Communications

And when HBO airs its documentary this week, it will be clear that obesity does not only weigh on the hearts of mainstream America - but it also tips the scales as the Latino community's most daunting health problem.

Molly Fosco, 05/14/12

Entertainment enthusiast

Girls may not be realistic on the whole, and I agree lacks in certain areas, but I will keep watching every week, and I know without a doubt that I'll be entertained.

Laura Stepp, 05/11/12

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Once upon a time, Fox's musical take on a high school show choir was funny and poignant. Now, as its third season winds up, it has evolved into a string of Sunday sermons accompanied by the voices of Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga and others.

Cesar Millan, 05/12/12

Dog Whisperer and CEO of CesarsWay.com

I try to talk to my mother every day (and if I don't, she calls me!). She has taught me tolerance, patience, caregiving, and unconditional love. She was the original calm and assertive person in my life.

Ester Bloom, 05/11/12

Writer; Full of Pith and Vinegar

This is not about Lena Dunham; this is about our culture, and how much more we will all benefit from color-blind casting in our media and, hopefully, in our lives.

Ilana Teitelbaum, 05/11/12

Writer

Or should that be "old plots and new?" This episode deviates so sharply from George R. R. Martin's books that fans were reeling, with some upset by this turn of events.