MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

I keep expecting Sal to show up.

posted this to the other thread too but what the hell, henry francis dropped rockefeller in season 4 for john lindsay & don has mentioned a couple times that he doesn't vote (as seems to be true of most fake people with fake names trying to stay just off the grid).

he doesn't want to vote because he doesn't want to give ammunition to the 21st century GOP in their war on voting rights

discussion i had last night w/ a few ppl where there wasn't immediate consensus -- does don sincerely like his doctor friend or is the fact that he's shtupping his wife an indication that he does not? i feel like the two are separate - he legit likes the doctor, considers him a friend and an interesting person. also he doesn't mind cuckolding him bc don is pretty morally vacuous. other ppl thought he was only using the doctor to get to the wife, or some variation on that, idk.

Answer actually is: Don Draper is very compartmentalised.

that's my theory

It's no different from the guy who's all smiles on social occasions and you'd never guess he was beating his wife, because he's convinced himself what a bro he is.

Oh I'm absolutely convinced he likes Doc Whatsit. He seems to feel more guilt about this particular tryst than usual, part of the reason may be that he's betraying two people he cares for.

Don Draper is very compartmentalised

^^^^

Don Draper:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hdnFN9Lfv2U/TDVc7SsyuRI/AAAAAAAABDs/X4QVgxRxNEU/s400/Apothecary.jpg

Women still like to go into his drawers.

They wanna get all dewey on his decimals.

I'll show myself out.

Tracey Wigfield @TraceyWigfield
Best thing ever: on MadMen last night Ted ordered an Old Spanish, a made-up drink from 30 Rock. Red wine, tonic water & olives for everyone!

haha what

was wondering wtf an Old Spanish was tbh

http://www.vice.com/en_au/read/the-mad-men-writers-are-working-on-a-show-about-nasa-in-the-60s

YES!

omg omg omg please please please be awesome

Could be cool, as long as it doesn't ape the Mad Men aesthetic too much.

yeah they better be testflying rockets and driving fast casrs and not sighing and staring out of windows

"Mad Men writers" is p vague, can't be referring to Weiner, but if it turns out to be the Jacquemettons this could be some good shit

Mad Style is always great, but TLo really outdid themselves this week: http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2013/04/mad-style-to-have-and-to-hold.html

If mad men nasa show is lame I'll just watch the Right Stuff another hundred times.

true :)

what's ppl's take on from earth to the moon? i LOVED it but at the same time suspect it wasn't actually that great.

IT IS GREAT

GREAT

It's been forever since I watched it, but I remember thinking it was really well done.

i watch it every couple of years but also i may be crazy biased

haha, i've known ppl that found it both corny and boring and i find the subject too ridiculously awesome and interesting to make any reasonable judgment. i could tell it wasn't as good as the right stuff or band of brothers but beyond that i had no idea. have to admit if this nasa show happens and it matches my hopes it will provoke charges of boring that mad men could only dream of of approaching. i want entire episodes of engineers staring at a bunch of stuff on a table trying to figure out how to solve a problem and then at the end of that story arc - they figure it out and do the math and it works!

although i guess the possibility exists they would focus more on the astronauts lol

i want entire episodes of engineers staring at a bunch of stuff on a table trying to figure out how to solve a problem and then at the end of that story arc - they figure it out and do the math and it works!

God yes! I would watch the heck out of this show. Give me it!

The two articles I've read (one from Vice and the original from Florida Today) make it sound like it will focus on the astronauts and press covering the space program, though.

Even though it's still in just its idea stage, I can't imagine a network passing on something with Mad Men ties and about the race to the moon unless it's just completely unwatchable...and even then NBC might go for it.

i couldn't imagine hbo passing on something w/ sopranos ties and yet mad men on AMC

That worked out in my favor, though, having never subscribed to HBO except for the three years I had a roommate who paid for it.

once in a while this show reminds you what th majority of pop culture was like in that era and its so brutal

"How about John Wayne in a sketch version of Camelot?"

oh look MLK is dead

O_O

this mark e. smith looking guy is something else

once in a while this show reminds you what th majority of pop culture was like in that era and its so brutal

"How about John Wayne in a sketch version of Camelot?"

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yeah all those huge blockbuster musicals in that era. although those nearly died out after some brutal flops in the late 60s.

This episode felt like all onboard sitting down for a rest.

So I was a week early on the MLK-death pool

ginsberg MVP of this episode

jeez i know i'm sorta just hanging out in here going tsk tsk tsk but what the hell with this season.

Remember what Tecumseh said.

i guffawed at the second avenue line gag
and creepy guy from lost was enjoyably, if pointlessly odd
also larry hamlin has bad breath
other than that, nothin'

i agree this episode was kind of a nonentity, though i enjoyed the planet of the apes inclusion.

i guffawed at the second avenue line gag

the way they deliver those jokes is kind of weird. I immediately assumed that was some subway line that was never finished. I remember some other ny real estate jokes like that where they somehow make the joke obvious to outsiders. I was wondering if that made it still funny to new yorkers or if they laid it on too thick.

the wacko insurance dude must be one of roger's acid buddies right?

I also loled at megan's marxist dad's line

I really liked this one. Enjoyed the callback to the JFK ep (one of their absolute best imho) when Betty wouldn't let the kids watch the news. And "Love Is Blue"!

also: "Henry isn't that important."

also 2: I can't be the only one getting serious Rob Reiner/Meathead vibes off Abe?

The JFK episode was one of the worst episodes of this series, and honestly (I get the show via Amazon and will be watching it tonight) I'm kinda dreading seeing this one. I may put it off for a night and just watch Vikings on Hulu instead.