MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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

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

I know people on here love her but jesus she is just Freddie Mercury in drag people

psssh

"just"

I mean freddy mercury in drag is a pretty amazing look!

Thought Don was going to make Sylvia slap him, thought they were going to get a lot darker with that. The end gave me chills.

xpost meghan is gorgeous as was freddy mercury you people are insane

why do people keep insisting on adding an 'h' to the character's name

To make it more like "mh"

<3

The end gave me chills.

Yeah, I keep thinking about it. It captured the poignance of the end of a relationship, when someone decides to stop believing in the shared illusion. And it also obviously underscores how fragile Don's sense of himself really is. His fear that people will stop believing in him goes a lot deeper than his fake name. He himself thinks he's a phony.

Second pretty good episode in a row, though unless they pull something astounding out of the bag this is shaping up to be the least good season.

Big exception is Campbell, that's one character who gets better with every episode.