MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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.

what if violin girl was a lost shagg

She sold her violin, but became...PATTY WATERS!

Roger going to a shrink for no reason but MONOLOGUES!

roger going to a shrink is perfectly in line with how things have been going for him. it's the same reason he did acid and was doing yoga naked at the end of s5, cos he's trying anything and everything to get a new perspective on his spoiled and increasingly boring existence.

sure but it's also perfectly in line with the Sopranos already did that

it's the same reason he did acid and was doing yoga naked

p sure that was him doing acid naked

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

oh this got a lol from me

it's the same reason he did acid

he's not married to Jane anymore

xp me too, Shakey.

Mad Men: Nothing happens, twice eighty times

the other thing Betty-in-the-city reminded me of was Fritz the Cat lol

they shoulda gone all Bakshi live+animation combo for that haha

sure but it's also perfectly in line with the Sopranos already did that

yeah i mean it's true, roger sterling and tony soprano are almost identical as characters.

btw couldn't help thinking peggy's bf is now like steve coogan with a tash

I was thinking Zappa

Ditto re: Zappa

yeah i mean it's true, roger sterling and tony soprano are almost identical as characters.

mommy issues, serially infidelities, near psychopathic commitment to materialism/acquisition of wealth eh I can see some parallels

They're not at all identical - but they are both amoral, id-driven, selfish leaders who seem completely self-assured and acting on instinct, so it's the same premise to put them in a shrink's office and force them to give introspective monologues...

Besides it just feels familiar - especially as Weiner worked on The Sopranos. I can totally imagine the "you open doors and cross bridges there's nothing but more doors and bridges" coming from Tony's mouth.

Sterling doesn't have a psychopathic commitment to materialism! He already had plenty to begin with. As he remarks at some point (s3e13?) he acted his whole career like he started a business, when really he inherited it. The Grey buyout and then the Lucky crisis were the things that made him hungry.

and the hostility/attempts to personally engage the shrink

(which just made me think, why is he there if he doesn't want to be?)

xp

anyway Sopranos and Mad Men both have magical realist tendencies, which is where I think stuff like Betty visiting the hippie squat comes in. Have long thought that the oft-cited attention to detail/accuracy in Mad Men is a red herring that distracts from the show's more hyper-real stylistic efforts.

what I mean is the show will end with baby Gene getting eaten by ants.

Was wondering when people were going to find out that Don choked that woman to death in his own bedroom last season.