MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

"I smell creativity in here"

Betty's weirdo rapey chat with Henry notwithstanding, I thought the creepiest bit was Harry perving on Roger's daughter.

roger in analysis is a gold mine for lols this season

it made me wonder why Roger would even begin analysis in the first place, absent somebody browbeating him into it

but yeah it does bring the lolz

otm to daria way upthread -- totally getting major Don vibes from Peggy's input with the creatives

yes I love Rog in analysis

a gif of Peggy's underlings doing their "Three Ideas" needs to happen.

lol

this bob fellow

what is his deal

can't decide if he's just a sad kiss-ass or if his ambition will make him do something really nasty to someone

thought it was interesting that, after Ken browbeats him in front of the secretary, he doesn't lash out at her to try and regain his dominance like, say, Pete might have back in the day.

I spent most of the episode thinking that Bob was pretending to work for SCDP

loved betty in the big city.

i know it's way premature, but this is feeling a bit off - not as confident in itself or something.

Agreed, the writing didn't seem as sharp as usual.

also yeah I could not get over Betty's insane rape comment, she just kept going and going with it! look forward to someone trying to do a thorough analysis of it as it relates to the rest of Betty's plotline this ep.

i know it's way premature, but this is feeling a bit off - not as confident in itself or something.

Agreed, the writing didn't seem as sharp as usual.
― DavidM, Monday, April 8, 2013

And a real paucity of new ideas; lotta retread miles now. I imagine quality is gonna veer from meh to wow as it did last season.

Yeah, a lot of the scenes in this opener seemed very familiar; they're just spinning the wheels at this point. I did like the Hawaiian prologue, though.

the doc skiing through the streets of Manhattan was a nice little weird scene

I thought it was weird that they'd introduce all these new characters...like there weren't already enough that could be developed? I kept yelling "I don't care about sally's violin playing friend, isn't there more growing sally needs to do?"

sally was on fire though, love her whole surly teen thing

well they can't have Sally running away in the first episode of the season

what year is it?

Presumably xmas 1967.

Yes.

That was Linda Cardellini. I'm always happy to see her in anything.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, April 7, 2013 11:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Looking forward to Don singing Styx' "Lady" to her.

lolol

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1967-Royal-Hawaiian-Hotel-A-Sheraton-Hotel-Waikiki-HI-Honolulu-Co-Postcard-/200719212104

Don takes Linda Cardellini down to the basement to show her his amazing Neal Peart drumkit

loved the scene where they asked the SCDP creative guy (Stan?) whether the Hawaii ad made him think of death: "Yeah man, that's why it was so AWESOME."

Stan is becoming my favorite character.

Stan and Ginsberg are so good, I love them

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1967-Sheraton-Hotels-Hawaii-Bikini-Girl-on-Beach-Ad-/400456845355?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d3d16882b

curious about the new woman in the creative room tbh

I spent most of the episode thinking that Bob was pretending to work for SCDP

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, April 8, 2013 10:09 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I never legitimately thought this was what was going on, but I sure thought it would be hilarious if it were.

Sally on fire otm. Did she have any spotlight time in s1 that suggested she'd become a central character, or did it all just grow out of Kiernan Shipka being pretty great at this?

Surprised nobody's complained about how "on the nose" using the opening lines of Inferno was.

Roger in therapy was brilliant and fits his character arc.

Betty rape thing was wtf but pretty funny too. I felt it was a bit of a stretch that Betty's new man would fancy such a young looking person, maybe badly cast if she was meant to be at the cusp of adulthood.

And agree about Glen. Really funny.

The whole pitch Don made was funny too.

Good return IMO, I don't expect much to happen and it didn't.

Is there some gay subplot coming with Don's doctor buddy?

the bobby swapping in this series is becoming hilarious

I hope they start doing it mid-episode

Jew doctor basically looks like Matt Weiner, wonder if he wanted to cast himself

I felt it was a bit of a stretch that Betty's new man would fancy such a young looking person

this is a guy who perved out on pregnant Betty so I dunno, him being into it seemed more natural than Betty being into some rape-play

the bobby swapping in this series is becoming hilarious

I hope they start doing it mid-episode

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, April 8, 2013 2:52 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They should do it mid-shot. Have another actor tap "Bobby" on the shoulder and switch places.

I mostly felt Betty's rape thing was an ill-advised joke, but I suppose they were trying to tell us she's insane.

Betty in the city had a bit of a fanciful cartoonish element to it, like a kind of unlikely and brief subplot.

I guess that storyline is reminding us that Betty is a child herself and needs children as friends, yet again!

the bobby swapping in this series is becoming hilarious

?? Mason Vale Cotton is still Bobby:
http://instagram.com/p/X01y1_HrCy

The dialogue in this episode may have been the most stilted and heavy-handed since the pilot.
Don's reactions during his failing pitch were also out of character.

I hope the rest of the season isn't like this.

idk, Don didn't seem out of character inamuch as Hawaii and the soldier really threw him for a loop, I mean, he seemed very much like that vaguely haunted Don of the first season reading his Frank O Hara and going to movies by himself

Yeah I agree, plus his shitty pitch was evidence of further decline. Puking at a funeral was out of character too but this is Don as of now.

agree about the heavy-handedness and clunkiness - Roger going to a shrink for no reason but MONOLOGUES!, Peggy's bearded boyfriend saying, "It's about time commerce was interrupted by this unjust war!" just in case you didn't get it yet. Or Betty's visit to the hippie squat from "Go Ask Alice". Half-expected someone to jump out the window high on acid thinking they could fly in that joint.

guy carrying a stolen tv down the street was a little much

At first I thought she'd stumbled onto the East Village Motherfuckers, but they were far too placid.

Still holding out hope that one of the characters will run into John & Yoko on Bank St.

Yeah! It should have ended with Betty jamming with the Fugs.