MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

hahahaha

but that whole thing with Ted, I mean I still see sales people do that now. Get the weak guy suuuuuuuuuuuper drunk, and then blind him with your amazingness the next day when he's hungover and he'll forever be your bitch etc etc

am rooting for ted

'80s Don Draper ‏@80sDonDraper 12 May

Simon isn't about remembering a bunch of colors and sounds. It's about remembering who we are.

okay I'll stop now

yeah don is really reaching new lows. no doubt some weird protective daddy freakout is coming when peggy and ted's romance kicks off too.

i for one welcome our broken down Don Draper

Ted has probably flown a plane through a storm with a hangover before.

Don's becoming the Vega!

Dude's gonna fall apart on the test track.

Actually, the whole season's just leading up to a montage set to "Hey Jude."

as they pan over the streets of baltimore

so here's where i'm a fool for trying to glean something from 'next week on mad men' but has don ever had his dick whitman face on at work before? also apparently stan and rog will have a scene together - maybe they go on the road!

also kinda wondering if/when sally's gonna get something to do this season or if she's just gonna be on the sidelines dishing out sass.

ty balls

seems like we're due another Betty/Sally plot soon

so far they've depicted ted as a pure mensch (sure, he's in love w/ peggy, but in the terms of the film I don't think we're supposed to judge him for that) -- I wonder when he'll do something awful

it could be that the child actress playing sally is focusing on school or something, it happens.

also yeah when a character is missing and it's not a major part of the plot i usually assume it's a budget issue. although they managed to bring back the same actress playing pete's secretary after many episodes.

although i'm never quite sure how they film these things. i guess for most shows they do one integral episode at a time. which is interesting, because when you are making nearly the entire season at once (as is the case w/ mad men), you could easily shoot all or most of, say, dawn's office scenes for the whole season in a day or two. but i guess shooting like that would wreak havoc on the lead actors.

i bet they are still writing as they shoot

that's true. i get the sense they are maybe writing back half of season while shooting 1st half.

yeah I saw Christina Hendricks on Daily Show a while ago and she said she used to call up Matthew Weiner and he would go over her character's arc for that season when she got her first script...but this season she made it sound like he didn't really know.

so yeah, the writing on the fly thing sounds plausible

We're seven episodes in already (my, how fast is it going after the long wait?) and I have to say I do miss Betty/Sally's role in the story by now. Don is a father, someone who recently divorced his wife, and has children growing up. This is virtually invisible. If you'd tune in now you would barely know this.

We had the episode with his son at the cinema, of course, but in a way I thought the situation of divorce and kids growing up would be incorporated in Don's ways and thinking a bit more. Now it's almost as if he only carries that weight when the writers confront him with a scene here and there about it.

i kind of get the feeling that don as a father is something that just gets put on the back burner not only b/c he's not the most devoted father but because the writers can only keep so many balls in the air at once

all in all i wish this was _more_ of a workplace drama/comedy than it already is.

I agree, the writers have some tough choices to make. I think in essence I would like it to be more of a workplace series too. But it's kind of too late now for the family part of it has always played a centre role

yes

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Also, there was a whole thing with Sally and Glen last season; hope they don't just drop that.

^^ OTM

so yeah, the writing on the fly thing sounds plausible

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 5:50 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

all shows do this iirc

even if they have arcs plotted out in advance

one reason being a showrunner is really hard, even if you do get to take all the credit afterward

have to say i'm kind of rooting for bob benson - he's gone from weird bit part to wide-eyed prospective joan lover. it's an inspiration to us all.

― ... (LocalGarda), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:19 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm!

Loved the plane bit, loved that the production 'went there' immediately after raising it as a possibility. Loved seeing Don squirm.

Also: go Bob. You da man no matter what your intentions may be.

that thing about drinking the furniture polish... bob knows how to game the system!

Emily Nussbaum's take on this season.

bob kinda reminds me of breaking bad introducing "todd"/jesse plemons, both are really undefined and their arc could go p much anywhere

'80s Don Draper ‏@80sDonDraper 10m

Pac Man teaches that pills are the only thing keeping the ghosts away.

some quality vintage advertising in here
My grandfather just sent me a program to a 1959 Knicks/Celtics game

i know my life has got a bit boring when I actually start anticipating a new episode of this show soon before it begins

I see a grim future for this show: the ad staff spending the early seventies on drugs, Aaron Stanton still flaunting the tap skills he should have unveiled earlier, and boring, reductive Draper flashbacks.

last 2 eps; the best back2back eps since some time in Season 4 definitely.

is it me or is it really Teal and Orange-y this season?

Peggy kissing beardo = new Daft Punk album sleeve art

everything is off this whole ep. so strange

but if there's never another flashback to don's childhood I am totally ok with that

What did I just watch?

I liked the sense of everything sort of breaking open and apart. I have thought before that that's what the late '60s must have felt like, and not just for the longhairs.

the sound production in this episode is great. all echoey with typewriters and drones and telephones.

this was a good episode. i don't know how "realistic" it is for an adverising agency to hire a doctor to administer speed to employees, but it worked well as a plot device... for most of this episode, don looked like a walking heart attack and i was legitimately worried for him. everything about this episode worked to reinforce the viewers' sense of a general "loss of control" and i think that was neat and, as tipsy said, resonant with how i have always imagined the late 60s

i also liked how the speed didn't help their productivity at all. they basically wasted the weekend and produced only incoherent gibberish