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Roger says it to his daughter but I'm not sure who he's referring to (her husband Brooks? her new stepdad?)

four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link

Her son

Jaq, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 23:30 (eleven years ago) link

boy print ads sure used a lot of words then

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link

here let me tell you for a really long time about this oven cleaner zzzz

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link

wait Sterling is a grandfather? I forgot that somewhere along the line evidently

four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link

Wow y'all thanks for the tip, i had always wondered where he got that.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link

I don't think they ever addressed his daughter having a kid before. I mean, when was the last time she was onscreen? S3 or something?

Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 23:41 (eleven years ago) link

anyone get a Lindsay Lohan vibe off her?

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 23:41 (eleven years ago) link

Yes, I did!

Just saw this. Awesome. I suppose it was a bit sloppy, but I'm not bothered by that.

Roger was killing it this episode. Seeing a shrink seems so perfectly normal for him I wonder now why he didn't see one in the previous seasons. He'd pay anyone to listen to his stories all day, it's perfect Roger self-indulgence and narcisism. He's probably just trying it for the sake of it, because he doesn't have a single clue when it comes to emotions and feelings (as he admitted freely).

I do agree with whoever up here said that by now, there seems little reason for Betty to be in the series at all. She's not 'connected' to Don anymore. She doesn't hold a big secret hanging over his head, they barely interact. I find it difficult to engage in her story line by now, when it mostly, and only, about Sally anyway (who was awesome).

Don: I loved how vulnerable he was this episode. He really was caught off guard when everyone clearly saw his add referenced death and suicide, he did *not* see that coming. And knows that Pete and the others did see this sudden flaw or weakness in him. Just like they had to drag him home after the funeral. I've not seen him so vulnerable. And we can leave it to Pete to exploit that, I think.

Tl;dr: great episode.

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 00:40 (eleven years ago) link

great episode. don's pitch was next level hilarious, loved seeing stan stifling laughter.

balls, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 05:16 (eleven years ago) link

i really am fond of ennui-Don. he feels more Draper walking around in a daze pondering the big questions in life & blowing off the world, lol

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 05:24 (eleven years ago) link

yeah, it's funny that w/ the end of last season some ppl (just dudes dudes i guess) going 'yeah, we're finally gonna get the old don back!' and it should be clear to everyone we're not getting the old don back, we're just getting old don. loved pete not even bothering to humor don's 'cancel the meeting'. loved the hair also though w/ the short gap between seasons wonder if there was a week where first ginsberg comes in w/ the stache, then stan grows the beard, then slowly all of sales grow sideburns, until one day harry comes in w/ that hair and everyone in the office dies laughing.

balls, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 05:44 (eleven years ago) link

The funny thing abut Harry was that back in the early SCDP days, he was the first to stop slicking his hair and he had a shaggy natural thing going for a while.

Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 06:01 (eleven years ago) link

so weird to remember that in season one he's the nice decent guy at the office. also, probably way too specific and obscure for a general audience but the next time jon hamm hosts snl those ridiculously vague and meaningless 'next week on mad men' spots would be a good thing to parody.

balls, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 06:05 (eleven years ago) link

yeah i love how Harry's now the default office pervert. And the way he barged up the stairs during Joan's photo shoot :)

Pete's receding hairline with the 'burns is such an A+ look. A lot of my friends are complaining that they don't like the look this season, idk I think they find it all tacky or whatever but I am FEELING it

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 06:29 (eleven years ago) link

I hope we get to see Pete get punched in the face sometime soon.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 08:46 (eleven years ago) link

A lot of my friends are complaining that they don't like the look this season, idk I think they find it all tacky or whatever but I am FEELING it

That seems like such an odd thing to gripe about, it's accurate to the period! We're out of the stylish part of the sixties and into the ugly earth tones Brady Bunch part of the sixties.

The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 10:44 (eleven years ago) link

also, this ep was @ christmas, so extra garish against that backdrop

johnny crunch, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 11:38 (eleven years ago) link

re Don's preoccupation with dying etc - how much time has passed since Lane's death?

a similar stunt failed to work with a cow (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 11:56 (eleven years ago) link

One season.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 11:59 (eleven years ago) link

One episode, actually.

cacao nibs (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 12:06 (eleven years ago) link

(Y)

a similar stunt failed to work with a cow (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 12:08 (eleven years ago) link

loved the hair also though w/ the short gap between seasons wonder if there was a week where first ginsberg comes in w/ the stache, then stan grows the beard, then slowly all of sales grow sideburns, until one day harry comes in w/ that hair and everyone in the office dies laughing.

Terry Valentine: Did you ever dream about a place you never really recall being to before? A place that maybe only exists in your imagination? Some place far away, half remembered when you wake up. When you were there, though, you knew the language. You knew your way around. *That* was the sixties.
(pause)
Terry Valentine: No. It wasn't that either. It was just '66 and early '67. That's all there was.

(As a young man he’d briefly studied medicine.) (discreet), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:17 (eleven years ago) link

I feel Betty may have a redemptive arc this season. I actually quite liked her in the episode, she appears to have started treating Sally with some degree of respect.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:26 (eleven years ago) link

Brunette = not evil anymore.

cacao nibs (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:27 (eleven years ago) link

She looked so much like Henry's mother with her hair dark.

Jaq, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:30 (eleven years ago) link

By the way, my housemate who's never seen it before watched the first half hour with me and thought it was the most boring show ever. I was hard pressed to explain to him why it's not (I didn't find the episode boring in the slightest).

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link

i think it's pretty invested in subtle nuances of character that only really seem meaningful after you've spent a lot of time with them. i feel like i'd be content to watch these characters do all kind of normally banal things.

ryan, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:33 (eleven years ago) link

Well yeah, I often am.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:35 (eleven years ago) link

enough with fucking fat betty already unless the actress is gonna gain the weight; that prosthetic chin is ridic

gr8 tr∞lls i have known (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:57 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah, Betty is becoming her mother-in-law.

I feel like part of the time bump between seasons has been to take advantage of the cyclical nature of style trends re: men's suits, hairstyles, etc. Not that some things ever change, but with the exception of some of the garish formalwear, Don's creative team wouldn't look that out of place if I saw them at the bar.

I, rrational (mh), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link

"mother-in-law" transformation is, like most of this stuff, so blatant a motif/metaphor as to be text not subtext, i am just stunned by the bad sfx makeup choices for jones. she doesn't look heavy, she looks like she has gout

gr8 tr∞lls i have known (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:14 (eleven years ago) link

with the exception of some of the garish formalwear, Don's creative team wouldn't look that out of place if I saw them at the bar.

Was just thinking that some of them would totally pass for today's hipster.

cacao nibs (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:23 (eleven years ago) link

how long have you concentrated on this woman's neck

I, rrational (mh), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:23 (eleven years ago) link

those ridiculously vague and meaningless 'next week on mad men' spots would be a good thing to parody.

― balls, Tuesday, April 9, 2013 11:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its kind of comforting how this hasn't changed over all the seasons

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link

i don't see the brunette thing as betty turning into her mother in law. she has been rebelling in petty ways against her immediate family situation since the early seasons, this feels more like another instance of that. anyway, betty's whole corny hobo odyssey started with her rejecting the mother in law's claim of privilege to the cop.

discreet, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago) link

ok re the confusion over the heart attack flashback:

don & megan (wearing a leopard print coat) enter the building, greet jonesy and megan says how sorry she is to be back in the cold. then, cut, jonesy falls and megan (wearing an orangish jacket) runs panicked toward him. so the time cut is meant to indicate don's flashing back on jonesy's near death immediately after returning from hawaii.

discreet, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link

That was either clunky as hell or its misdirection of some sort.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link

well yeah it was supposed to be a shocking open that made you think Don was dying

not sure how effective it was, though

I, rrational (mh), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link

i thought it was very creative and executed skillfully

jokestoldforu (gr8080), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link

i thought that new hairdo was a small gesture towards betty turning into violinist tearaway girl, the don draper to her dick whitman

r|t|c, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link

this episode does cohere nicely thinking about it in retrospect tbf

r|t|c, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link

how long have you concentrated on this woman's neck
― I, rrational (mh)

more than the makeup team apparently

gr8 tr∞lls i have known (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link

january jones was pregnant last season and they decided to treat it as 'betty fat', continued this season (though she's lost weight) cuz it's not that long after last season (lane killed himself in february, it's december here) and nobody's invented jogging plus 'betty fat' fun way for writers to humiliate and torture betty. thought betty came off well here (even the bizarro wtf 'why doncha just rape her' line was meant teasingly, past few seasons she would've meant it), enjoyed her dealing w/ mother francis. somewhat wondering if she went brunette cuz she somehow was a bottle blonde like that hippie asshole accused her of or if cuz liz taylor is the role model for thick women at this point or just going to st marks made her want a change and token breaking free (sally - 'what happened to you?') and for betty that means hair and there was no way the writers were gonna leave 'she looks like his mom now' on the table. contrary to ppl above i actually liked heart attack misdirection and flashback, puts you in the mind of don death obsessed but doesn't dilly dally around for long w/ some 'who had the heart attack' twist.

balls, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link

re my friends whining about the look this season -- I think it's not so much the way Mad Men is executing the look as much as they're all mid-century modern spazzes and so the late 60's for them is just too much tastelessness to bear apparently

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rmde

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link

Roger says it to his daughter but I'm not sure who he's referring to (her husband Brooks? her new stepdad?)

yeah, Roger's talking about his grandson, and his daughter continues the reference by calling her husband Walt, the name of Skeezix's adoptive father in the comic strip.

GM, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link

i thought it was very creative and executed skillfully

the cold opening making you think it was Don having the heart attack worked fine but the time difference between them getting back from Hawaii and when the heart attack actually happened was weird.

dmr, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link

agreed, but weird in an effective way imo

jokestoldforu (gr8080), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link

we have to skip it back a couple of times to figure out exactly what was going on. on reflection, it was really good.

also, initially we had a version with the last 7 minutes missing. those seven minutes proved kind of essential.

media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link

I enjoyed this but I've recently gotten into Battlestar Gallactica and the thrill of waiting to see what happens next on Mad Men kind of pales atm. Then again it's sort of a slow burn show, so two or three more eps and I'll be back on the edge of my seat. The second half was WAY better than the 1st.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link


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