MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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

whereas Pete and Kenny look like Nixon aides.

lol. sideburns aren't for everyone

i love the word "catsup". did the copyright on "ketchup" run out in the 90s at some point? i seem to remember catsup being a part of my childhood.

don sucks. meghan should have never gotten mixed up with a dark, brooding guy like that. i feel like of all the main characters on the show, she had the best shot of finding actual happiness in life.

god harry is such a perfectly portrayed measly cowardly worm of man

i love it, and hate it

bob benson just kills me

this guy

are there any industries in 2013 where you are allowed to smoke weed in the office?

the awkwardness w/ don and megan at dinner was fantastic.

Stan giving Peggy the finger was so perfect.

"should we fire him before he cashes that check"

i liked Don listening to Peggy's pitch

the look on don's face during that dinner was very funny

don gasface is the best

so is joan going to be extra nasty to the secretaries now

hoping dawn becomes a copy writer and makes $$$$

i mean copy writer and then runs a department and gets a partnership, etc. i assume the writers are setting up something what with actually giving her more screen time

that would be cool. i wish joan would be nice to the secretaries... or more understanding of their predicament as women in a super-sexist office environment, but i guess she needs to do what she needs to do to stay on top, in a position of authority.

I dunno, what was she supposed to do? Harry's assistant defrauded the company for five hours worth of pay (which, granted, was probably only $20-30 in 1968) and Dawn aided in the fraud. I would've fired Scarlett too, on the spot, and I think the turnabout with Dawn's new responsibility/punishment is fairly clever.

hm, idk. i've never been on the management side of things, but what i probably would have done is give dawn a stern warning and a second chance.

there's no way it doesn't cost them far far more than 5 hours work to find and hire a reasonably competent secretary, doesn't seem worth firing one for one screwup.

although i kind of get why joan is that way - for the secretaries it's like.. the job is a limited amount of skills plus punching the timecard plus looking good - what's she going to do as a partner who manages the secretaries other than enforce this stuff extra.

there's no way it doesn't cost them far far more than 5 hours work to find and hire a reasonably competent secretary, doesn't seem worth firing one for one screwup.

That's true, but y'know...television.

i've been fired from jobs for waaayyyyyyyyyy less than that

are there any industries in 2013 where you are allowed to smoke weed in the office?

― Pat Finn, Sunday, April 21, 2013 8:14 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

by at least one account, advertising

want to wear Stan's fringe jacket

elmo to thread for thrifting advice

Don's such an emotionally fragile fuckwit

yeah i kind of hate don. when he implied that meghan's job was comparable to a "prostitue" because she had a love scene, i wanted to punch him in his stupid, squinty-eyed, misogynistic face

This season is pretty dull so far.

quality tv

this ep was kind of boring

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, July 26, 2010 11:53 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kind of a boring episode. was afraid there was going to be a Mother's Little Helper montage for a second. also lol fat betty

― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, April 2, 2012 11:25 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just fuck the dicks in advertising and dull 'period' TV shows about them

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:26 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah super enjoyed tonight's episode. don really is such a monster now but i did like seeing everyone in the bar after the ketchup pitches (btw i totally get why peggy's pitch won but i think i liked don's better, which definitely wasn't the case w/ draper v ginsburg last year), peggy enjoying teddy busting pete's balls and enjoying draper getting the last word over teddy even more. relieved stan isn't getting any fallout from the leak apparently, love that dude. joan's been that queen bee since episode one and firing someone, esp someone as replaceable as a secretary, over an offense like that would hardly be ott imo. kinda annoyed that they undermined her tbh. i'm assuming that she's assumed lane's responsibilities. good to see joan have a girl's night out. between that club scene and stan's jacket i was getting midnight cowboy vibes. christina hendricks on screen and serge gainsbourg on screen, my goodness.

I kind of thought, with the Joan as office manager thing, was that it's not her job anymore, she has all her partner duties to do, etc. And so she shouldn't be going around firing secretaries (why Harry's "this is my department" thing). She's got her new job, but she still wants to rule over the secretaries, when someone else should be doing that job.

I might just still be kind of a sucker but Don still doesn't scan as monstrous to me. He's compulsive and toxic and an adulterer but I would reserve "monstrous" for Pete the serial rapist.

xp

I think Don is less monstrous than he is just kind of sad and gross at this point.

Maybe it's too obvious, but Joan is practically powerless at the partner's meetings, and is essentially working as their secretary, so she wants to use some power to fire secretaries.

haha well there are degrees. just when he was being such an asshole to meghan in the dressing room (and then the cut to him bedding lindsey weir ugh what a sleaze) i thought he was much less likeable to me now than he was even when he was getting slapped around by whores. i know ppl are going to always hate betty but she is in such a better marriage now and the little bit we've seen of her this season at least she seemed actually happy.

Was I the only one to see Dawn & friend meeting in that all-black club & immediately assume "aha, MLK assassination episode"?

yes, I just saw them meeting in the all-black restaurant and thought "oh my god, Matt Weiner put a scene entirely full of black folks on the show"

slightly too early for mlk assasination i think, my guess is weiner wanting to develop dawn character more to setup that episode. was kinda thinking that maybe that's what meghan was crying over in the 'next week on mad men' promo and then thought better of trying to glean any kind of info from those things.

(btw i totally get why peggy's pitch won but i think i liked don's better,

peggy's pitch didn't win, a bigger agency won it.

hoping dawn becomes a copy writer and makes $$$$

hoping she become Angela Davis

Pete's pronunciation of "Negroes" might be more offensive than his serial raping.

J Walter Thompson won the pitch. JWT still had Heinz I think.

Yeah, I thought Peggy didn't win that one either.

I swear I've seen both Heinz ads, though...were those pitches actual campaigns at some point?

by at least one account, advertising

def advertising. film industry. probably some tech startups too, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

I swear I've seen both Heinz ads, though...were those pitches actual campaigns at some point?

the photography on don's pitch looked like contemporary carl's jr. ads (extreme CU of burger against white).

loved the fontwork on peggy's. v. period.