MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

when joan and bob were in the hospital my first worry was 'omg joan's gonna end up w/ bob' and a very distant second was joan might have cancer or something. the stuff w/ pete and his mom on paper should make me groan but ended up being surprisingly rewarding - pete using his mother's senility to try to trick her in not leaving the apartment by telling her it's st patrick's day, "my mother can go to hell" (on mother's day no less), and then my fave moment of the episode and the payoff - THAT being how they reveal the rfk assassination. loved peggy telling don what's what, loved don's shit not working as well as it used to anymore in general. i wonder how many mad style readers either gasped, screamed, or laughed their ass off when lindsey weir opened that box. loved roger firing burt again. teddy's kinda don's johnny sack huh?

I THINK IT'S SO GROOVY NOW/THAT PEOPLE ARE FINALLY GETTIN' TOGETHER...

like a boss

http://24.media.tumblr.com/540637b469eaaf4fb3de1ec1ae89ed46/tumblr_mmq2caLrsV1qf4vnko1_400.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mznsEcZlM2I

i listened to the jon hamm episode of WTF earlier today and he talked about how his first tv gig was a cop series on lifetime where they didn't have enough money in the budget to fire their guns... and this was the first thing i thought of when i saw how corny and cheap that scene looked, oof.

anyway i hope pete's mom punches him in the face soon

I would date Bob just so I would never run out of coffee again, I know where Joan's mom is coming from.

Drunk Ted was one of my favorite parts of the episode.

The Don-Sylvia thing seemed like sort of a shot at 50 Shades -- like, this is sort of fun for a day, but real grown-ups will get tired of it quick.

the bob thing was a great twist, "joan love interest" is totally not where anyone thought he was leading

ted is really likeable but he's going to get fucking irritating after a while

The Don-Sylvia thing seemed like sort of a shot at 50 Shades -- like, this is sort of fun for a day, but real grown-ups will get tired of it quick.

Exactly.

I like the comparison to Girls. Like, Don is messed up, but it's just some stupid power game, where is Adam is MESSED UP.

last 5 minutes of this ep were great

Roger firing Burt was all time Roger.

I loved that.

it's funny how that guy only shows up to get fired - he's been in what, four scenes total or so?

that was such a great joke

the bob thing was a great twist, "joan love interest" is totally not where anyone thought he was leading

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, May 13, 2013 8:31 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno man, i think he just hit another level of office scheming/brown nosing. and it paid off!

i think he's a man with feelings jeez guy

feelings...for the finest coffee around!

All that I really ask of someone is that they have coffee.

goddamn bob spends so much money sucking up to people: coffee, funeral catering, footballs, prostitutes.

the bob thing was a great twist, "joan love interest" is totally not where anyone thought he was leading

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, May 13, 2013 2:31 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

can't really see Joan finding sycophancy all that attractive in the long run tbh, no way is she going to fall for someone less powerful than her

women right

kinda

ew

Roger firing Burt was awesome tbh

Thought Don's sudden dominance was a bit out of character, but I liked how he seemingly had this fantasy all of a sudden and the bubble got thorougly burst in the end. What a lost soul, lost character. They did well in showing this, but they need to step it up for Don now, plotwise, otherwise he will be swallowed whole by way more interesting plotlines. This was not bad though.

I did think that was a little bit of an odd turnabout, since we were shown his desire to be on the receiving end of abuse before, rather than doling it out

I think (hope) this was him truly hitting rock bottom. For me, as a viewer, it definitely was. Can only hope the writers feel the same though.

surely bottom was season 3s blackout boozing bachelor-dom?

the bit where he was watching Meghan talking and the sound gradually faded away was amazing

his rapid switch between reactions to her walking out I think really highlighted his whole awful emotional situation. He says "It's easy to walk out when you're satisfied" in his familiar fallback entitled male approach, and then moments later this utterly desperate-sounding "Please". Kinda devastating.

eh, i don't really have a lot of sympathy for don at this point.

I don't either but it is sort of pathetic/sad to see this guy trying so hard to keep the facade up

I loved the elevator scene at the beginning. "Door close! Door close!"

I feel like I was the last person on earth to have sympathy for Don, especially on this thread, and even I am losing it now! Which I interpret as some very good writing. They sent him off the rails good this episode. Something needs to happen now, seriously.

yeah exactly! it's interesting the show has pushed don to the point where he doesn't even evoke pity. he is so smug and just disdainful of the interests of other people that i have a hard time not wanting him to just lose everything.

let's face it the only loss that would really destroy Don is the loss of his identity as super-important advertising man (which seems pretty secure at this point). and maybe Sally.

hm. i predict he is going to lose his career somehow, by the end of the season. his decline seems to have been a consistent trend across seasons.

sorry not season... series

my prediction is that he is going to lose his advertising man identity and face himself, dick whitman/don draper, in all his naked humanity. this might be lame, i don't know if it will be the best thing to do, but it's what i predict is going to happen

Weiner's repeatedly talked about how the series is about Don getting overrun by the changing times but that doesn't seem to have happened a whole lot yet (record-skipping of TMM aside). he's blown a few client relationships but not because he wasn't "with it" or lost his mojo or whatever. but I would assume this is inevitable.

hm. yeah, i don't see his downfall coming from "the times" really, as much as just the fact that his lifestyle is stressful -- drinking, cheating, being an asshole -- and the mask is started to slip. i would have burned out already if i was him. also, maybe it's just me, but he doesn't seem to be as "into" his work these days as he once was... leaving work early to meet his mistress on the day the new ppl are moving in, idk, work doesn't seem to be a priority to him anymore.

he's engaged with work sporadically - Jaguar, napalm. you know, the important stuff. feel like that's been the pattern for the last couple seasons tho.

If he loses adman dominance it's because people like Ted are the future. Loved the Gilligans island bit.

I agree with Treeship. Don's downfall will be the one putting him out of business, I think. He is so far removed and detached from his work, he doesn't have a clue what is going on any more (cue the bewilderment seeing the merger happen in reality). In the first 3 seasons Don was already quite terrible but had this hero-esque "I will deal with this client" superiority. That is totally gone now. All he wants to do is wait for a phone call to have a shag.

Seeing how booze will not send him spiralling down, Megan not posing a big threat, I can only think that him losing his expertise of work will truly sink him. The way things are going, that won't be long from now.

the bit where he was watching Meghan talking and the sound gradually faded away was amazing

that was moment where he finally realizes "omg, look at those fucking chompers. she's going to swallow me whole"

I was trying to figure out if Don was really into the whole power-play thing or if he was trying to wear through this thing with Sylvia as quickly as possible while also feeling like he was in control of a part of his life. It kind of ended faster than he expected?

omg Pete's mom, "they're shooting everybody"

To me the whole power-play thing seemed like Don grasping at straws and reaching a new low

yeah, that too