MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

When I get home I will work on it.

except gaaaah I can't think what the thread was called, I'll see if I can find it

aha! found it:

Completely disgusting foods our parents ate

ahahhahahhaha Corporal punishment, yeah. Very stuffy head today, this is the closest I'll get to thinking tonight.

Both my uncles had blond heinies and wore Oxford shirts with chinos straight through until '70; they're to the left of my mom's politics now. Her older peer group were like the kids in Hairspray who wanted to dance to rhythm and blues by black artistes, not Pat Boone covers of same. She believes James Brown, Tina Turner and The Supremes had more to do with desegregating America than various social-justice leaders. The situ with my mom and 'the counterculture' reminds me of the denouement of Absolute Beginners when the Notting Hill ted/mod-era types return to the jazz club, see hippies, and know in their bones that culture is moving along to the next thing.

yeah i've heard 'sam cunningham did more to desegregate alabama than mlk or thurgood marshall'. which is bullshit obv but true enough in a certain way.

http://www.thingx.tv/articles/mad-men-poetry-recap-to-have-and-to-hold-2352/

From Slate's episode review, a well written conclusion I think:

Television is eating Don’s world. He wants to sell white space above some french fries so that people will live with ketchup all day long. The man from Heinz wants the bottle. Both are selling something hollow, but it’s Don who believes. And the people around him just aren’t buying it any longer. Peggy is gone. Megan is furious. Dawn, a relative stranger, knows that the whole business is rotten; she sees the fear that holds the place together. And Sylvia does as well. She doesn’t pray for Don to visit. She prays for him to find peace.

Oh, and there is, indeed, this:

As for Sylvia going up in the elevator? Well, I don’t know. I want her to have pigeons on the roof.

What was that anyway?

Full disclosure: I thought SCDP's ketchup pitch was far superior to Peggy's, which seemed way too unimaginative. Disregarding Don selling absence, I really liked it as a campaign.

And from Vulture's review, this is indeed something that is recurring lately:

Yes, I’m growing a bit impatient with my beloved Mad Men — with Don, at least. Granted, this is a slow-burn show in the mode of the last big drama that creator Matthew Weiner worked on, The Sopranos, so I still hold out hope that the writers are arranging pieces that’ll all come together in the season’s back-half — something to do with abortion or a Don Draper health crisis, I’m betting. (During Megan and Don’s dinner with the swingers, Don was warned off cigarettes yet again; they’re averaging one anti-tobacco reference per episode now.

I liked how the swinger wife advised Megan not to smoke, which was immediately followed by Don sparking her cig. Classic dick move.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKIK8B0MjVc

yeah i'd thought the anti-smoking thing in the first episode was just a sign of changing times and then after that just what you'd expect from a doctor but it coming up at the swingers dinner seems to mean there's something deliberate to it.

Not relevant, but best Great Shakes ad: http://youtu.be/b3qbUQ9oPYw

Don tried to watch those Great Shakes ads, but turned them off because he didn't "get" it.

Then Stan got him high.

wondering what the results of a sal vs stan poll would be

that would be a good poll. i love them both. poor sal.

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2013/04/22/stanfinger.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg

A+

yeeeeeessssss

Great episode, things are really shaking up for everyone. Good for Peggy! Out-selling the Big Guys.

This was like the first episode where I sort of hoped everything just came crashing down for Don.

It is coming crashing down for Don. His adulteress tells him she prays he will find peace...

*smash cut to summer of love*

First decent joke for a season and a half.

And it's pretty obvious she's step-step-stepping out on him.

I will never understand ILX's hatred of Harry. all the scumbags on this show and Harry's the monster?

he's just a schmuck.

yeah i could see why rog and bert tried to assuage him but i wish they had just called his bluff, he's always seemed a lightweight who got his position by sheer circumstance and whose job could almost certainly be done as well if not better by someone else (by joan for example).

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khozde8d2zI

sneak preview of new daft punk track at 1:55

Posting this again in higher quality...because it deserves it.

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daaaamh Tilda Swinton lost weight!

Totally didn't get that Ted & Peggy also didn't get the Heinz Ketchup account. Thank u for clarifying, blogs!

thought there'd be a big deal that Stan leaked it and there'd be reckoning. He lucked out there.

Totally didn't get that Ted & Peggy also didn't get the Heinz Ketchup account

Really?

Seems like that was a common misconception. J.Walter Thompson got the account.

Didn't Peggy say "they bought it in the room" or something? Or was the JWT bombshell later?

Didn't Peggy say "they bought it in the room" or something?

Yeah - I thought that meant the Heinz had bought Peggy's concept in the room, without even waiting to weigh up the two options (didn't even know there was a third company going after the tender, which I thought was secret, which surely was why it was awwwwwkward when Peggy bumped into the Don Draper gang.)

It is possible there was a missing bit to our dl - I also didn't get that Don was schtupping the doctor's wife in the first episode thanks to seven phantom minutes.

I thought the line was "J. Walter Thompson bought it in the room."

Yeah - I should also add that I mistakenly assumed 'J Walter Thompson' was the name of Ted & Peggy's company...

I interviewed for an internship at J Walter Thompson when I was still in college, but they called me unexpectedly for a second phone interview and I was way too hungover to give any sort of coherent answer; when I heard J Walter Thompson it gave the scene a smidge more pathos.

thought there'd be a big deal that Stan leaked it and there'd be reckoning. He lucked out there.

kind of a moot point since ketchup guy was shopping around anyway.

that was marginally better but nothing this season has gotten all four wheels off the ground just yet

Yeah it seems to be cruising so far. Nothing particularly defineable, just something's missing. Maybe a weightiness or tension.

TNC on his waning enthusiasm.

Don not changing while the world changes around him has kind of always been the story....?

was interesting that he just out and said he was against the war this episode. Liked this episode a lot more the second time around, noticed a lot of little details - recurrence of penny motif, matching b&w whore/mother/crone outfits, anti-tobacco undertones etc

also it wasn't clear to me before but I guess they have the Dow Chemical account now thx to Don's scenery-chewing in the last season? nutty.

cosgrove

also lol @ kenny not even acknowledging Peggy at the diner

they mentioned landing Dow in the premiere. the ad mockups w/the couple Don said "didn't exist" were for them.

was interesting that he just out and said he was against the war this episode.

That threw me a bit, but it actually makes sense.

re: pennies

Roger in the last ep: "Turns out the experiences are nothing. They’re just pennies you pick up off the floor, stick in your pocket, and you’re just going in a straight line to you-know-where"

Madchen Amick called Don her "bad penny" when she ran into him in the elevator last season

Don tells the whore at the whorehouse he "dropped a penny" when he was really watching Uncle Mack bone his stepmom through a keyhole

"I'll tell you the same thing I told my daughter, if you put a penny in a jar everytime you make love in the first year of marriage, and then you take a penny out the jar everytime you make love in the second year, you know what you'll have? A jar full of pennies."