He described some of Clinton's more calculated political moves, such as his criticism of the rapper Sister Souljah, as "clumsy and transparent," and he called the campaign-season execution of a mentally damaged man on Arkansas's death row "frighteningly coldhearted".
Hopefully this will be the season when execution levels rise and a fear of failure dissolves the moment the first whistle blows in Gloucester and Newcastle on Friday night.
On everyone's once-favorite CIA show, the writers were as ill-prepared for the third season's execution as the American Airlines shoe-bomber.
The papery-shelled crab crunched appealingly and thin ribbons of jicama salad were perfectly seasoned; the quality of ingredients was excellent and so was the execution.
("But we never went to Russia as planned," she added, "as by the time we got visas the theatres had closed and the snow started to melt, not to mention the opening of the season for executions").
Throughout the study period practices experienced a variety of changes including key staff members changing jobs or retiring, seasonal increases in work loads such as "flu jab season" and the execution of necessary building work to premises.
In an interview, Mr. Menda described the excruciating uncertainty he felt each time execution season rolled around.
Mr. Draper has been shown making his preferred drink, step by step, only once, in Season 3. His execution wasn't the daintiest, but it was probably period-correct.
But season five's execution of Adriana (Drea de Matteo) – a long-standing character as close to clean as The Sopranos got and someone who had only started talking to the FBI through a misplaced sense of love – was upsettingly callous, even in a show that felt burdened with fatalism.
And Saturday's season premiere of Hell On Wheels, in the truest wild west fashion, ended last season with a brutal execution of a major character whose Vegas odds to stay alive in a seemingly traditional story-arc had to be pretty favorable.
