MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

only two parts i liked of this ep:
bob's pregnant pause where it's not clear if he's gonna let slip that joan and the silverhaired fox have a thing
emt shrugging when peggy says "he'll be fine, right?"

it's always disappointing when they follow up a good episode with a silly one. EVERYBODY BE FUCKIN

ah now i get the 'too much time' comment, just got the ad for that acura ILX

i'm waiting for the acura ILNFL

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Truth be told, if I was still in shape enough to wear those shorts, I would.

My Grandpa wore shorts like that a lot, heh. Love them.

Christ, what a deeply unpleasant episode!

yeah. so i guess henry thinks it's hot for betty to sleep with other dudes? was that clearly inferred?

or he thought it was hot that she was desirable by other dudes but refused them

ted cheough (sp?) just kind of turned the page like a ... boss. no pun intended. they still haven't really given this guy any bad traits.

xp hm, it's one of those two things. i thought his presence at breakfast the next day... the fact that he came that morning, and so betty's indiscretion was reckless... hinted that it might be like a game she is playing with henry. we'll see.

did she figure that after abe left that he'd be waiting for her? he made it kind of clear that this wouldn't happen.

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yeah i think peggy did expect that. she ignored what he was saying and assumed that abe was the only thing standing in their way. a kind of parallel to don's disappointment with his mistress in the last episode.

I'm still not entirely sure why Peggy got so knocked off base with the merger. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the organizational flowchart at the new firm, but why is she letting Don get under her skin? It's contaminating all the other parts of her life too, though I think Abe's days were clearly numbered regardless.

because the merger interfered with her sense of autonomy. the decision to change firms was a big deal for her, and the merger undermined this, and she is struggling to stay independent, which was a skill she had to learn because she was an unambitious follower when she first came to Sterling Cooper

but yeah -- sorry if what i said was too obvious -- peggy needs to deal with this stuff in a less reactive, more clear-headed manner if she is going to succeed in the new environment.

Oh yeah, I get the contributing factors to her unease. I just expect more from her after six years, I guess.

It was my suspicion a long time ago that the show's focus would slowly shift from Don to Peggy over its run, but with only one season left I'm not sure that's going to happen. Weiner should've consulted me.

i would like that, actually. don has gotten tiresome, although on the other hand i do think it is brave of the show to allow him to become so profoundly unlikable.

*to have allowed him

i was kind of disappointed megan wasn't into that woman from the show. it would be cool for her to have her own romantic subplot. being in a relationship with don seems like the grimmest thing imaginable.

Megan still believes in true love. GET A BRAIN MORAN

it's true. she's so hot and stylish but she just goes home to that huge empty apartment after work and waits for don to get home and make grumpy, sarcastic facial expressions at her. it doesn't seem right.

This show needs more stabbings!

I know, only 3 stabbings so far this season. wtf?

Finale episode, Bob Benson stabs half the people in the office.

megan's soap made me realize first of all that I would totally watch that show, but more importantly that I wish mad men were more like an actual soap and that it could just stay on the air for the next 40 years, never leaving 1968.

what exactly is bob's deal?

Roger doesn't know who he is, for one.

Also: coffee addiction.

Bob Bunsen

Loved seeing Roger as World's Greatest Grandpa

or world's greatest pa

megan's soap made me realize first of all that I would totally watch that show, but more importantly that I wish mad men were more like an actual soap and that it could just stay on the air for the next 40 years, never leaving 1968.

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they kind of lowered the target on that soap so their own very soap-opera-y episode wouldn't seem like the same thing

Roger's daughter really really hates Planet of the Apes, huh.

is the margarine campaign going to end with Peggy finally unshackling herself from Don by inventing I Can't Believe It's Not Butter?

I am imagining a very exasperated Peggy just shouting "WHY DON'T YOU JUST FUCKING CALL IT 'WOW! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTER!!!'" and all these light bulbs going off and it being one of the greatest scenes of the whole show

Isn't it crazy that we have never heard Don Draper or anyone on the show say "fuck" or "shit"

Roger said fuck once, when Pete "lost" the government account.

Pretty sure I've heard Don say "bullshit", or maybe it was "horseshit". I could be wrong, though.

I think there have been a couple of blanked out shits.

I haven't watched the new Arrested Developments yet but I'm assuming that Roger referring to himself as 'pop pop' spells CROSSOVER FUN.

the fbombs are rare tho.

haha haven't seen this episode yet but considering just how much john slattery is in the new arrested developments and that i saw a few other shows do subtle (or not so subtle in modern family's case) shoutouts to arrested development in the past couple of weeks i'd imagine that's deliberate.

Abe had a bleeped "fuck" last night.

And several people have used variations of shit over the seasons.

I liked last night's ep but the end of Abe and Peggy was bizarre layered on bizarre.

Great episode all around. Don't see why the complaints. Loved betty being savvy again. Also sort of hope they ramp up bob being up in everyone else's lives with no twist or payoff at all.

Bob filling in as an increasingly senile Cooper's dead wife, Bob playing surrogate grandson to Roger, Bob having a fling with Don.

I think there have been a couple of blanked out shits.

Didn't Peggy call their apartment a shithole just this week? Not blanked out.

Peggy stabbing Abe was dumb. They should have let the bursts of unexpected gore start and end with the lawnmower. As a recurring motif it gets stilly.

but it lead to a great breakup scene though!

ambulance ride played like a dream sequence