MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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?"

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, April 27, 2013 4:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

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

that was my thinking

Roger did say weirdo Mapother had stopped him from jumping off of a roof, so almost definitely.

Stan's "I am soooooo hiiiigh right now" stifled laughter was one of the highlights for me (along with Joan awkwardly hugging Dawn).

I don't think you had to be high to be trying not to laugh at that guy! I think Ginsberg was trying not to laugh as well.

highlights:

1) awkward white people hugs
2) headfake w/RFK re: the assassination
3) "Henry isn't that important"
4) Ginsberg
5) Peggy wants kids now, isn't that cute

6) Pete, Harry and Cooper

omg yes def

Bert Cooper is too much of a gentleman. I'd have let Harry and Pete punch each other out cold.

definitely felt like they were trying to make something out of the various "business-minded" / cold / calculated responses to the tragedy (ad awards show went on as planned, Harry grousing about lost airtime, Peggy's realtor)

trying, yes.

Mad Men, this season, was in dire need of a dramatic occurance like MLK's assasination. This was the best episode of the season. Not because of development, but because of the sense of 'urgency' it brought to every single character. I mean, blimey, even Pete was moved and lashed out at Harry!

Other than that, it is still pretty much going nowhere this season. Ginsberg is an odd distraction, doesn't make sense and the scenes with his dad are way too amateuristic, they give me nothing. Same goes for Betty: she's there, but she's not there. It's so thin.
There was at least some more depth to Don this episode, being confronted with the troubles of his offspring, but his role this season is still very thin.

And yet, this was the best episode this season (apart from the opener). If they can keep this up and further develop these lines I am hopeful. I think the assasination of MLK, how the reactions of everyone were scripted, was really well done.

I could've sworn Don had made that "heart about to burst" speech before... but about something else

Joan "trying" to hug Dawn was so so painful to watch though

From Slate:

Later we see that Megan won; the award is on the sofa. Mid-riots Don, drunk, has to fetch the kids. Betty is her annoying best. “I guarantee you’d go to Canada on your knees to pick up your girlfriend,” she says. But she’s right! Hasn’t Don been trying to get through to Sylvia in Washington, D.C.? And more importantly, doesn’t he have a girlfriend? And what the hell is wrong with him that he forgets his kids? We get his soliloquy (which Seth pointed out has Larkinesque overtones). I transcribed it for posterity:

"I only ever wanted to be the man who loves children. But from the moment they’re born, that baby comes out and you act proud and excited, hand out cigars. But you don’t feel anything. Especially if you had a difficult childhood. You want to love them but you don’t. And the fact that you’re faking that feeling makes you wonder if your own father had the same problem. [Sigh.] Then one day they get older, and you see them do something and you feel that feeling that you were pretending to have. And it feels like your heart is going to explode."

Don, exploding with love at his son’s innocent expression of sadness. Don, at the movie theater—where the world has literally ended in Planet of the Apes. Staying to watch the world end again. Don sneaking into a bedroom—but it’s his son’s room. “I just keep thinking, what if somebody shoots Henry?”

Can you see him, here, slowly being erased from the picture? Rubbed out. The award is not his. The mistress is gone. His son’s most primal fears—the loss of the father—are about another man. Riots in the street; Charlton Heston railing at the deluged and empty earth. And yet Don Draper’s drunken heart bursts with love. Another kind of flood. The strange property-insurance man who shows up to amuse the staff, with his cosmic ranting, says: “But there is a tear and in that tear are all the tears in the world. All the animals crying.” All the animals, two by two.

You, you gonna get on the ark with your father?

Remember what Tecumseh said.

― Young Boy Befriends Orange, Tangy Larvae in Luxs' Early (zero of the signified), Monday, April 29, 2013 6:16 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i LOLd

I mean, blimey, even Pete was moved and lashed out at Harry!

it's a funny touch that Pete's always been the lefty of SCDP. Those Democrats, buch of wronguns.

I know right!

Well, this phenomenon is part of what gives the show its complexity, I suppose: the serial rapist also possesses the only semblance of a social conscience, which is probably affected too.

Simon's review of Straw Dogs from the same site, which respectfully disagrees with Kael's conclusions.

wrong thread!

Geez, Alf, the least you could do was keep that high-minded, antiquated & misogynist claptrap out of THIS THREAD.

;-)

First half was kind of overwrought and obvious, second half was pretty great actually, especially Planet of the Apes and that lovely scene with Peggy and Abe (which reinforced my hunch that Elizabeth Moss is secretly the best actor on the show).

haha felt like don was channeling the audience w/ 'yknow bobby was just there before but when he sighed at the end of planet of the apes and said 'jesus' i actually started to love the lil dude'. never had huge probs w/ the jfk episode but agree that this handled living thru history much better. loved peggy on the couch so much. 'next week on mad men' offered me something to chew on for once: joan w/ her hair down.

oh god that "hug".

ug this was pretty terrible except for the Don-and-son sequence, Peggy/Abe and babies, and a few of the gags.

scene with the kids in the car was appropriately striking.

5) Peggy wants kids now, isn't that cute

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, April 29, 2013 8:35 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought it was cute! :D <3

helps that Abe has p. much the same look my Dad had when he graduated from Oberlin in 1973

yeah abe's alright, gonna suck when peggy cheats on him w/ ted

lol yeah, they're telegraphing that one p hard, wonder if it'll actually pan out that way