MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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

re grandma ida -- for a show that has been criticized widely for its handling of race, i was a little smdh about them making their next black character A CRIMINAL.

more of a walk-on role than a "next black character" but yeah that occurred to me too

was half-expecting a "white people are CRAZY" speech from Dawn at some point tbh

were you now

i laughed at "are we negroes?" though.

yeah that was funny

it was definitely not a good look

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.

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 20, 2013 11:19 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you mean the 1940s?

pop-freudianism was at its height during 1940s and 1950s.

though truth be told various brands of reductive pop-psychology have been with us since 1920s at least and they're not going away

stimulant psychosis is totally real come on people

also i don't think they are being that meta. i do think we are to take the flashbacks as somehow revealing. i don't think we're supposed to question them.

it'd be funny if later they were all revealed as false flashbacks (a la hitchcock's stage fright) and don's "origin story" was actually growing up in suburban connecticut in a nuclear family with a lot of funny sisters.

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haha, that would be amazing.

all of his flashbacks are an elaborate ad campaign for soup

or oatmeal