MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

from that intro they saw room 237

why would anyone spend that much time creating something that bad? like 1/8 of the way though wouldn't you realize how terrible the idea was and just like... stop?

fake facebook walls of big tv shows are pretty popular

that's no excuse.

There were a few old ones for entire tv shows, but I saw one for Game of Thrones last week, so I guess the fake FB episode recap is becoming a thing?

I don't need that in my life

It ws something you could definitely do a lot better, but it's a shit idea.

I liked it.

was not really into this episode at all--maybe there's a decent directors cut where weiner can freely ignore the limitations of programmed television

i thought it was a good episode. the scenes with betty were really grim. it's interesting that her and don are both spiraling, but like, they inhabit different genres (horror and tragedy, respectively).

also i thought roger's reaction to his mother's death -- his repression of his sadness, eventual breakdown, as well as the pithy existentialist remarks he made to the psychologist -- was really compelling.

"It's my funeral!"

funny, I was just thinking after this ep how Betty seems remotely happy for the first time in a while, in general.

Really, what made you think that? I thought the whole tenor of her scenes - both in that dark suburban mansion and in that st marks place dive - was really ominous, not to mention her left field rape comment.

she was totally enjoying her little rape joke

it was still a bleak joke, told within a bleak marriage, in a bleak and dreary mansion, idk

a crushing bore so far

trudy bitches

and eggplant stromboli or whatever

rollatini

another thing i don't care about - besides whether anyone else finds out don draper's former identity - is why don draper is always stepping out on his wife
really don't care why, not interested.

what is eggplant stromboli? that doesn't sound appealing

era infamous for dressing up dishes to give them an erotic veneer

does this season in general feel more heavy-handed than it was previously? or do I deliberately forget these things from previous seasons because I adore all the supposedly minor stuff? like jaguar guy being gross, low class and skeevy.. plus very entertaining & probably a better businessman than the owners of the company right now

era infamous for dressing up dishes to give them an erotic veneer

like Don Draper

this bob benson guy, he works on k street right now, doesn't he. i know this guy. he used to work on the hill and then he went to law school, spent some more time working in big law for a while, joined a lobbying firm. he's training for a half marathon this fall and is a nationals season ticket holder, he just sold his condo and bought a house near H St.

i like those colored glass partition things in pete's apartment.

I remember my uncle's house used to have those type of glass partitions, I thought they were very stylish as a kid.

they're really neat. i'm a sucker for colored glass though.

Occasionally I forget what a low low low person Peter Campbell can be. Then I get reminded.

"What did you say to him?"

Really, Pete? That was your primary concern?

Anyway, Trudy wins.

Loved Don's downmarket pitch.

pete's a slimeball, it's true. glad trudy is getting herself out of that marriage.

daaaaamn Joan zinging Herb tho

otm

very very very soap opera-y this week; watched it with someone who had never seen the show before but works in theater (go figure). her first reaction was "i thought the acting on this show was supposed to be good"

Good acting is never an accusation one could make about Mad Men in general. From time to time, a particular character will turn in a riveting performance (often that character is Joan), but it's always been stiff.

kinda agree with that, but i'd say often that character is peggy

Peggy too, yes. Roger as well, though I think most of that is just John Slattery being John Slattery.

i always thought january jones brought a unique pathos to the character of betty.

we all have to readjust every season to the show being soapy, melodramatic, "on the nose", etc

Maybe, yeah. I'd like to have better reasons to force that stuff down than "theres likely gonna be a good ep near midseason"

I keep thinking "Oh, [that detail] will probably mean something later on in the season" even though that's almost never the case. This show has so many dangling, never revisited, threads that it's almost comical.

Pete just can't win at infidelity. Even Harry is pwning his ass.

HARRY I SAID!

pete's terrible sexing preamble. god.

food?
drinks?
music?
...
are you...*waggles eyebrows*...hot enough?

i have no idea how he gets play ever.

It's the business cards, and the free "Hair" tickets.

Plus I think him having an apartment in NYC makes him seem very glamorous to the ladies in the suburbs.

a sideburn for each domicile

Pete Campbell's bachelor pad reminded me of Greg Brady's attic room

Don bringin the lolz in the jaguar meeting too

I was really confused by those flashbacks. so he was born in a brothel — mother died in childbirth — dropped off at his father's house — father dies, and he's raised by father's wife and her new husband... then what? where does this scene of tween don in the other brothel come from?

or rather tween dick