MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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

it does feel like the pt of it was how close u are 2 dying at any instant i guess

i like her violin case; it looks like a coffin

I wouldn't rule out Don having a heart attack or some other kind of major health collapse this season, there seemed to be a lot of foreshadowing.

Like we were meant to think the very opening scene was through the doorman's eyes but... why would they shoot an opening scene through the eyes of a character we've never seen before? Could well be misdirection.

i read it as don's preoccupation with death/everything falling apart at a moment's notice

the scene when they're dragging him in drunk later in the ep reveals he's been curious as to what the doorman's experience was like

I feel like they really portrayed awkward drunk questioning pretty well, there

jon hamm is consistently v good at looking v drunk.

Also drunk on looking good.

i love don when he's a sloshed mess, so childlike

weird episode, pleasing to watch but yeah unusually sloppy and none of the themes seemed to quite work right. was sort of annoyed in advance at all the thousand word blog posts i imagined were being written disagreeing with this and doing the show's thinking for it

don's suicide pitch was hilarious, roger piping up with the film the dude was trying to remember killed me

became really obsessed with the number of times don got away with totally blanking questions people asked him. i guess that was a big contributor to the dream sequency feel

betty i dont even know what she's supposed to be any more

where do you think they're going with this creepy bootlickin bob dude

he's going to go postal on the office

until cosgrove shot him down i was half expecting bob to be a running figment of don's imagination

cosgrove going hard on that guy was awesome

I remember him as the guy from Lone Star, that got cancelled way too soon.

My favorite bit with that guy is that Pete took his other cup of coffee without a word.

Being shot down by Kenny, who's seemingly consistently chipper with everyone, really cemented that dude's place on the pecking order. Only a slapdown from Harry would be worse.

I like Bob.

He was born 10 years too late.