MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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.

roger's shrink is the guy who hosted the lsd party. roger loves acid now, this is well-established

It's so easy to get acid now, you can get it anywhere.

what year would coke have hit Madison Avenue?

roger's shrink is the guy who hosted the lsd party

ah

totally did not make this connection but makes sense

For me the tone of Roger's shrink trip is totally different to Tony Soprano's. I guess I just disagree it's out of character or tacked on, his dissatisfaction has been a theme for a good while now, but it's very different to Tony's.

I think Tony is painted as someone with genuine mental problems, whereas Roger is unhappy but also rambling narcissistically cos that's part of the appeal of the shrink for him.

Roger is enjoying the session as far as I see, Tony didn't seem to.

what year are we at, '68/'69? definite subtle 70s vibes beginning to seep into the clothes and hair (lengthening sideburns eg)

the therapy sessions in the sopranos were a main structuring element and the therapist a major character. this isn't the case in mad men. plus psychotherapy in '67 was a very different beast.

I presumed it was New Year's Eve going into 1969.

At the turn from 67 into 68 right now. xp

literally no one cares about this but they neglected to CGI-out a big movie screen frame in the background on Waikiki beach that did not exist in 1967.

yeah it's NYE '67

funny that they skipped "the summer of love"

Premier started in mid-Dec 1968. Skipped ahead 18 months or so from end of last season

it is NOT mid-Dec 1968 wtf guys

ugh, nope sorry - 1967

"world bids adieu to a violent year, city gets snowfall" was times headline new years day 1968. show skipped ahead just a few months.

i got a vague nostalgic enjoyment seeing the Hawaii slideshow replete with upside down slide

also Don clicking past the wedding and the question without comment was classic Draper

he's such a douche but I think I love him kind of

~carousel~

betty going to st. marks totally reminded me of the xmas episode of my so called life w/ juliana hatfield

Glad to hear it. Seems there's so much more terrible IRL shit for the show to ignore for them to have skipped totally past '68.

series finale will heavily feature moon landing, ilx will complain it is "on the nose"

Linda Cardellini's character will run off to follow the Dead.

lol silby

For me the Sopranos reminder was in the Hawaii section, how it was reminiscent of the surreal experiences whenever Tony left the Northeast. Also reminiscent of the Tony-coma season opener and all its trippy travel dreams.

Thought the late-night drinks was going to turn into a key party.

xpost They bring back Alexis Bledel so she can leave Pete again and get a job following McGovern on the campaign trail.

Thought the late-night drinks was going to turn into a key party.

― cougars and sneezers (Eazy), Monday, April 8, 2013 4:35 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha I definitely thought that's where that was going myself, the third couple seemed into it.

yeah I was hoping! especially the flirty non-Linda wife

Don's not into sharing

He's just generous with his cock.

key parties weren't a thing until the 70s right?

Not a "thing", no, but they existed in the '60s - Malcolm X wrote about 'em in his autiobio

roger sterling still my spirit animal

Joan is still mine. We've both faded off into the background despite our ginormous breasts.

http://www.thingx.tv/articles/mad-men-poetry-recap-season-6-premiere-2335/

WHY ARE YOU IDIOTS EVER SURPRISED
WHEN IT TURNS OUT I'M CHEATING
WITH A LUSCIOUS OLD BRUNETTE???

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

She reminded me a bit of Ollie, as in Oliver J. Dragon.