MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

are we sure that grandma ida wasn't roger in blackface

The opening scene gave me a scare - I was having LA Noir flashbacks.

FWIW I have a relative who worked in advertising in the 60s/70s and she has always griped about the heavy amphetamine use since it made people burn out after a year or two / could only come up with half-formed ideas that they thought were brilliant. She has used the word "gibberish" in the past; happy to finally see it in MM!

A couple doctors made B-12&speed their whole practice. The Beatles even have a song about one of them - Dr. Robert.

tense, unsettling episode, feel like the season has really picked up the past few weeks

dunno what I want from "Mad Men" anymore but I'm not getting it. Again the show proves it's sharpest when sticking to bullshitting around the office (Peggy and her crew) while being gory about it (the dart in the arm) or just goofy (Ken's tap routine). I'm bored with the continued attempts to "deepen" Draper with portent-filled flashbacks – who gives a damn?

would a shot like that really last 48 hours? that seemed ridiculous to me. otherwise, good ep

glad we didn't hear "Dr. Robert" play on Sally's hi-fi.

I'm bored with the continued attempts to "deepen" Draper with portent-filled flashbacks – who gives a damn?

At this point I don't really care what happened to him in the past, I'm so tired of the flashbacks.

I don't think they were meant to "deepen" him necessarily; I saw them as a ham-fisted means of shoehorning his relationship issues (with his significant others, and with his kids) into a certain context.

Also, the flashbacks finally solved the long-running mystery of the origin of Don's mole fetish.

http://www.nysun.com/out-and-about/dr-feelgood/20251/

He did business at all hours: When Alan Jay Lerner was working around the clock on a musical, he might see Miracle Max five times daily, sometimes as late as 11 p.m. Truman Capote found Jacobson's shots caused "instant euphoria. You feel like Superman. You're flying. Ideas come at the speed of light. You go 72 hours straight without so much as a coffee break."

hahahaha "Truman Captoe" hahahaha

this was a great episode, felt very off-balance the whole way through. for a split second when she appeared I was afraid that Ida was actually old/fat Carla.

we appear to have somehow seen the end of fat betty thank god; the prosthesis is almost off
awesome that pills and dieting are so completely effective, i should totally try that. also amps

I saw them as a ham-fisted means of shoehorning his relationship issues (with his significant others, and with his kids) into a certain context.

Oh sure. But this is so glib, you know? It's fitting that the writers use the most reductive kind of psychology to explain characters maturing in an era when the most reductive kind of psychology was most fashionable.

there must be an anigif of all the frontal elevator shots in this series right

Don's last moment with what's her name on the elevator was ice-cold.

I like how he didn't let her out first.

I also liked how this episode underscored how Don has essentially lost his gift creatively - in previous all-nighter stressfests he's always pulled something out from deep within himself, and this time he couldn't do it, his realization (that he's trapped in a whorehouse of his own making) was of no use.

Would have liked to have seen Bob's reaction to the guys getting B12.

"Hey fellas, slow down! You don't need that stuff! I've got two cups of coffee right here, and believe you me, there's more on the way!"

Coffee > speed

Just Say BOB

waiting for them to go full Twin Peaks tie-in with BOB tbh

i have been completely rapt watching this season (and lurking on this thread), but STILL i was unprepared for the depth/darkness/quality of last night.

1. ken dancing lynchian
2. don recognizing the secretary from where? and all attention is drawn to it, and we have no idea. i love the comment tipsy mothra made about things unraveling for the characters as an effective late-60s thing
3. xacto in the arm!
4. home invasion!
5. i really hope don dies, and the final season is some kind of dark bizarre magical realism shit
6. maybe not that last one

xp haha yeah BOB

don recognizing the secretary from where? and all attention is drawn to it, and we have no idea.

She had a lot of the same features as the prostitute, she just wasn't made up like her or had the bleached blond hair. That was the only thing I could think of.

yeah, thats what i figured too -- im glad it wasnt made TOO clear to us, though. and i kind of hope we dont hear anything more about it.

I was really expecting someone to die this episode

the sixties

this is a pretty good piece: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/05/out-loud-emily-nussbaum-mad-men.html

Cutler inviting Peggy to join him watch Rizzo bang Gleason's hippie waif daughter.

At this point I don't really care what happened to him in the past, I'm so tired of the flashbacks.

― ...also i'm awesome (Nicole), Monday, May 20, 2013 7:49 AM

This. I'm sorry, person who plays young Don, but please never come back.

flashbacks don't bother me, I assume they're leading up to something - a little mini story-arc within the larger narrative

some better get me a gif of tapdancing ken cosgrove or this is all for naught

sally & the intruder lady genuinely stressful. i was half wondering if don really HAD given her they in his wacked out amphetamine haze

they? *the key* I meant

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cosgrove-dance.gif

as soon as I thought "c'mon Sally is too smart for this", Sally called the cops

xp

sally rules

broken heart line was also lol

awesome that pills and dieting are so completely effective, i should totally try that. also amps

I'm pretty sure amphetamine "diet pills" were available otc at the time so yeah, they probably would have worked. I guess betty's a speed freak too?

iirc betty asked for speed diet pills many seasons ago & her doctor turned her down?

oh wait that was an abortion nm

loved the banter between Sally and Betty over the skirt

betty vocally reinforcing don's unspoken view of megan

Betty wanted diet pills last seasn, but the dc turned her down because he thought her weight issues were due to tyroid problems, possibly even cancer. They later showed her going to Weight Watchers.

speed doesn't make you hallucinate does it? maybe in crazy high doses?

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist),

Not intensely, but sleep deprivation sure does.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulant_psychosis

didn't seem like anyone was hallucinating, strictly speaking

just don