MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

tempted to start a draper victims of love poll but suspect midge would run away w/ it

lol at amateurist scoffing at auteurism w/ regards to showrunner but doubling down on it w/ regards to episode director

???

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you really have to explain that. it's snarky but i'm not sure where you find the inconsistency.

if a show that normally does not include mismatched shots that often suddenly includes a burst of them in a single episode, isn't it more likely that it's due to a new element than the same element that has existed since the show began?

or maybe there are new editors

i mean, i know nobody cares about this stuff, i'm just sort of plagued by noticing mismatches.

i never ever ever notice that stuff myself

but maybe the continuity guy or gal had a cold that day or something

ballsplaining weiners

no matter how cinematic a TV show gets I will always think about the writing 8000 times more than the editing, especially on a Cable Drama

I wasn't impressed with this episode either. For some reason halfway I found myself not being engaged the way I normally am with the show. It all seemed so 'flat', two dimensional. I don't know if that's to do with the editing (didn't notice any mismatches myself), it just didn't pull me in like MM normally does. And I really had no complaints about last week whatsoever.

It just wasn't very good. The brothel stuff coming through twice, and a for his standards poorly acting Pete in the scene where his mistress was beaten up... I don't know, it seemed sloppy to me.

I don't like how this Bob guy has been sneaked into the series either. Last week he was getting on everyone's nerves hanging around, and now he's already taking notes for them? Come now.

mad men babies photos accompanying this writeup are hilarious

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/74169/mad-men-episode-2-the-medium-is-the-message-and-the-message-is-cheating-on-his-wife

That is awesome, and a fantastic writeup

to be clear my problems with the latest episodes isn't really related to the editing, that's just something minorly irritating that i picked up on in the last ep.

the previous Hamm-directed episode had a lot of really "on the nose" match-cuts iirc

mad men: the story of one man traveling further and further onto his own nose

the previous Hamm-directed episode had a lot of really "on the nose" match-cuts iirc

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YOU MIGHT EVEN CALL IT HAMM-HANDED

whatever you do, stop staying on the nose pls

am going hamm

xxpost lulz.

Betty at the squatter house - what the fuck was that

off to a good start. love don's palpable disdain for pete.

which we could have said in 2007.

so far so brisk though

what's with this office?! it's so stuffy. bizarre that his office & sterling's are in the same company

There we see the oddness of Don. In exactly the same circumstances the "we should order lunch" would have elicited disdain or a curt rejoinder.

http://cdn-images.hollywood.com/site/all-about-eve.jpg

guys, we're watching the devolution of fashion from 1968-1981.

yeah i hate to see meghan in this charmless fuschia turtleneck

those big bows on woman's fashion we'll see in 9 to 5.

pussy bows

"women don't like football"

maybe they just hate the J.E.T.S.

O_O

lol, i was just about to post "jesus."

ah so Joan is a partner but is still office manager

she's basically an office manager with a considerable promotion

yeah, but as we saw since ppl know how she secured the partnership her authority is likely to be undermined at every turn... i feel like she was seen as more indispensible -- commanded more respect -- before the partnership thing

i suppose she would have to be office manager? what other job would she do?

(also if harry knows what's up re: joan becoming a partner, how many other people know, at the office & at other agencies)

if harry knows, and he is angry with her (and so likely not to keep her secret) it won't be long before everyone knows. i suspect something is going to go wrong and she is going to be made uncomfortable and have to leave. which sucks, because she was always among the most competent people at the office, it seemed

i feel like the phrase "i need a drink" was more common in the 60s than it is now

not at my place

the look on don's face

BONNIE AND CLYDE

gainsbourg! <3<3<3

I wish Dean Wareham + Sadler had sung this version

that would be cool i guess. dean warehem is like the anti-gainsbourg

cooper's socks are pretty kewl

god I've missed these Sterling-Cooper exchanges.

i've always been jealous of cooper. i wish i had a rothko in my office/ had an office.

Jefferson Darcy, swinger.

harry is the only person so far who seems to be diving headfirst into the worst tendencies of late 60s fashion. stan looks kind of amazing with the beard/turtleneck/contented grin