MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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

omg maybe pete is rly your dad

btw lol @ people in this thread thinking pete's being a rich jerk means he wouldn't have women throwing themselves at him. HE IS A RICH JERK. historically, rich jerks attract women.

remember the sideburns-less days

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5py2pbJqX1qakzr4.gif

oh shit was that the episode where pete had the mumps?

my dad had sideburns too!

omg s1ocki

miss you lane :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM_88FfHcIo

grimy little pimp

i'm not even going to try to articulate this that well but...

there's something about this season, and much of last season, that rubs me the wrong way. i think the show (or its "creator") seems to have been infected by a sense of self-importance (no doubt due to its enshrinement as the cardinal example of contemporary "quality TV"). the result is that too many scenes feel either/both ponderous or/and portentous. too many sequences, lines of dialogue, odd shot combinations feel like they are too obviously angling for exegesis. i wonder what someone coming into the show fresh (although weiner has all but said he's not making the show for such folks) would make of it.

minor note: was surprised that the pete thing came to a head in a single episode.

what is creator in scare quotes?

JHVH

what what what

TBF the portentous quality of some scenes made part of the season premiere very hard to watch.

re. jon hamm's directorial effort: there were a LOT of mismatched shots and continuity errors. watch people's facial expressions, hand positions, etc. between shots. it was distracting. reminds you it ain't easy to direct.

what is creator in scare quotes?

― balls, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weiner is the "creator" of mad men in most accounts. i put it in scare quotes b/c given all the other input this show has, that job description sometimes feels a bit grandiose.

ARTIST: Any performer, of whatever ability.

weiner's said a few times that one of the things the show is about is the coarsening of american life and that any on the noseness or whatever is deliberate, whether that excuses or not is another question but change in tone toward less subtlety is deliberate.

I liked most of last season's episodes: the good ones were quick and trashy. But I'm either bored of Don Draper's schtick or Weiner is. As for these first two episodes, amateurist is right about muddled the scenes and writing are.

i'm assuming affair w/ lindsey weir will end esp disastrously but do find myself hoping it doesn't take til the end of the season.

leaving his job to follow Grateful Dead on tour?

lol just realised lindsey weir's daughter goes to michigan, i wonder if that's deliberate

"coarsening of american life"

what does he mean by this

foreigners, women in positions of power swearing

"coarsening of american life"

what does he mean by this

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist)

The fallacy of cutting NPR funding.

boy if you don't know what he means by that maybe the show is too subtle