MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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.

I wasn't quite following the timescales with the doorman collapsing, was he literally back at work the next day or had they chopped up the narrative in some way? When Don arrived back at work they made it sound like he'd just got off the flight but there was that whole episode with the doctor and the doorman in the middle of all that.

I guess the lighter thing will tie in in some way to the kid who got married on the beach who I would imagine is not long for this world and that may precede some kind of major Don breakdown. The worse it gets in Vietnam the more unlikely it seems that it wouldn't be having some kind of effect on Don, given what we know. It seemed to take about five minutes for Don to say anything and they kept us guessing as to what he was actually thinking for the entire episode.

I'm not sure why Don would go for the doctor's wife other than through some kind of grim compulsion at this point.

Betty/violinist storyline was pretty enjoyable in that it gave that character some sort of purpose other than wallowing in constant sour self-preoccupation.

No idea where they're going with the try-hard accountant type. Enjoyed Peggy laying into her creative team like Don in his prime - I hope she beats him on a pitch at some point soon.

That said this was a bit of a slog in its entirety, don't think it really needed to be two episodes back to back.

I wasn't quite following the timescales with the doorman collapsing, was he literally back at work the next day or had they chopped up the narrative in some way? When Don arrived back at work they made it sound like he'd just got off the flight but there was that whole episode with the doctor and the doorman in the middle of all that.

i was just going to bring this up. it was very strange.

they make it very clear that don is going back to work the day after he gets home from hawaii.

and yet... it seems that when they arrive home, the doorman has the heart attack, then there's a cut to him all better and thankful and giving don a present.

so was his heart attack a flashback to something that happened before they went to hawaii? iirc megan says something about not being glad to be back in the cold weather right before he has his heart attack though.

so what exactly happened there?

It seemed incredibly sloppy to me.

naw, that would be sloppiness on a level i can't imagine m-weinz, or... anyone else... really allowing to happen on a major show. or any tv show. it was WEIRD.

It was elliptical for window dressings' sake.

don is now in the multiverse, experiencing all things at all times

pretty cool having your season premiere be all about death

what do u mean by window dressing?

wiki - Megan and Don return home from their trip and Megan asks their doorman, "Jonesy," (Ray Abruzzo) how he's feeling. In a sudden flashback to a few weeks earlier in the same location, Don and Megan watch Jonesy collapse from an apparent heart attack. Another building tenant, a doctor, begins applying chest compressions, as is shown in the opening shot of the episode. Flashing forward again to the present, Jonesy is apparently healthy and back at work, joking that his wife "couldn't wait to get [him] out of the house."

what signified the flashback?

The confusing thing, then, is that Megan is constantly going out to California to shoot her scenes, I presume. It made it seem like they came back from the same vacation in parallel universes.

So, yeah, not sloppy but needlessly confusing.

maybe they did. that poster for the season looks like it's Don passing Don on the sidewalk, right?

spooky

i loved the technique they used with the jolting flashback

what signified the flashback?

― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, April 9, 2013 4:39 AM (2 minutes ago)

different clothes, for one