MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

if anything i'm more skeptical of cosgrove's success, guy is way too centered and decent to succeed on his own wits (luckily he's got the dow account thru marriage). this bob benson guy looks to have what it takes though.

yeah feel like that scene of Don giving her money after sex would have worked better without the brothel flashbacks

I thought the brothel scenes were there mostly to shed light on Don's weird conflicted horror about what they'd done to Joan.

yeah that was my thinking

Still trying to get a handle on who Bob is. In the first episode it looked like he worked for some other company in the building but now he's in on the client meeting?

Stan is totally going to get fired by the end of the season.

Still trying to get a handle on who Bob is. In the first episode it looked like he worked for some other company in the building but now he's in on the client meeting?

He's in finance or accounting or something. Desperately wants to find a way into creative.

Bob is a jr-level accounts striver.

it looked like he worked for some other company in the building

His office is on the second floor of SCDP.

Pete is so lame

also not believable

if we're to trust the "next week..." clip, there's some serious Stan action in the next episode.

Would be awesome if Bob works for Ted Chaough

Just about to say, Bob seems like a spy.

It's like he's read How to Succeed in Business by trying much much too hard. Maybe he'll take the fall for the ketchup thing in the end.

jaguar meeting was amazing.

Don sandbagging like a champion

xpost interesting speculation about bob. something is going to happen with him later in the season... something bad. this show telegraphs things like that too directly.

omg yes Don waxing lyrical about farmers driving jaguars as the britishers almost vomited in their teacups

A+++

Pete is so lame

― Dr. Adorbius (mh), Monday, April 15, 2013 7:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha he is such a baby

gonna love it if every episode this season has don horrifying a client in a meeting

his patheticness is his ultimate bargaining tool - so often he gets what he wants because it's the only way to get him to leave, lol

pete's

don draper just takes out his dick and starts smacking clients with it

sweet

kinda sad if that's the last or next to last time we see alison brie, good for trudy though obv. don's 'here's what's going to happen, i'm going to fuck you and you're going to like it' pitch also not as smooth as it once was (and it wasn't that smooth then). not much w/ ginsberg yet either.

xpost lol

It's like he's read How to Succeed in Business by trying much much too hard.

Not really trying certainly worked for Burt.

http://tikiloungetalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/robert-morse-succeed-in-biz.jpg

the interesting thing about this thread is how so many ppl can be so many different flavours of rong about the same thing

haha okay s1ocki what's your take

what am i wrong about s1ocki you sonuvabitch

because of threads like this and twitter etc i am at the point where w/ every episode of mad men i think 'ok so this week we get the nothing happened complaints' or 'this week we get the soap opera complaints'. i can get the 'nothing happened' complaint, i know some weirdos watch this show for plot apparently, but the ppl who complain 'soap opera' should watch revenge or downton abbey sometime to see what soap opera looks like.

they have an urgent need to feel like their expenditure on 'quality tv' isn't for nothing tho

'why don't i feel as sophisticated as i wanted to??'

lol, the reason i don't watch soap operas is because i don't like them
and i am so fucking sophisticated that's why i argue on the internet

don't worry forks nobody was talking about you

*scratches balls*

*(in a sophisticated manner)*

s1ocki does his Amityville horror disembodied voice shouting "YOU ARE ALL RONG" and then bails

i love it

because of threads like this and twitter etc i am at the point where w/ every episode of mad men i think 'ok so this week we get the nothing happened complaints' or 'this week we get the soap opera complaints'. i can get the 'nothing happened' complaint, i know some weirdos watch this show for plot apparently, but the ppl who complain 'soap opera' should watch revenge or downton abbey sometime to see what soap opera looks like.

― balls, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 1:40 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

yes it is the worst complaint ever

that said the best joke this episode was when the cardster thought megan was still talking about her show when she brought up her miscarriage - "ok, ok, i'll watch it!"

This show is still really well shot, i love the costumes, the actors are all great (and some of them genuinely stunning people to look at), classic editing, cool music choices, etc. I'm at the point now where I'm interested in the plot but it really is like 4th or 5th in line for things that keep me watching the show. Last episode I spent more time noting every time someone was framed in a doorway or walking through a door and what that meant thematically than thinking how the plot could be better.

omg yes Don waxing lyrical about farmers driving jaguars as the britishers almost vomited in their teacups

A+++

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:12 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My favorite moment of the whole episode was Roger's knowing smirk during Don's "pitch."

Pete was bound to get caught cos in that tryst we see he and the woman are both "framed" with the doorway directly behind them (for a good 30 seconds or so) in the shot. Every time it looks like Don may be getting dangerously close to getting caught, he's behind closed doors, so you know he's safe. And at the end he's sitting down in front of closed doors, indicating dude is kind of getting tired of the philandering ways.

Last episode I spent more time noting every time someone was framed in a doorway or walking through a door and what that meant thematically than thinking how the plot could be better.

*scratches balls philosophically *

^^As will Harry in next week's ep.

yes don's pitch was great

when he started going into how it would help sell OTHER brands of cars oh man

When that woman asked him "Are you alone?" at the end of last season, that wasn't Linda Cardellini was it?

no

friend of mine had this to say about last ep

great piece

balls otm as ever

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

― Pat Finn, Monday, April 15, 2013 4:16 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my childhood home had amber glass sliding doors between the living room & the entry, with the same circle pattern