MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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.

― wk, Monday, May 27, 2013 3:02 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

and there have been shits all over the place for many seasons now, y'all not hearing them got some wonky torrents

(stilly?)

Yeah the ambulance scene was good. I just wish they'd found a different way to get there.

Also, I've been watching Top of the Lake the last few weeks. It's funny to bounce back and forth between Elisabeth Moss in those two roles. I keep wanting Peggy to be a little more Robin.

remember the good times:

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ivl7H5m81r6869ro1_r1_500.gif

kinda bummed that Peg & Abe went down the toilet

loled HARD at Roger Sterling's Dr Zeus, and at Megan getting hit on by the swinging Mrs Cougarton

The ambient sounds seem really high in the mix this season - or is it just me? Loud footsteps of people moving about the offices, the ringing of distant phones, typewriters clacking, hubbub.

season 7 soundtrack will be pure musique concrète

The sirens were so loud in this episode that I thought they were going to make it a plot point, like riots going on somewhere in the city, or some disaster or something.

I think the first time don was talking to megan and there were loud sirens was just to draw our attention to the sirens, and then the second time it happened they were hearing abe's ambulance in the background right?

no i think it was just a sound bridge. don's apartment is very far from the upper west side

how sweet! Don and Betty's last kid is queer.

Thought "first a lesbian daughter, now this." But Bobby's the middle kid. Gene is going to grow up to be the Drapers' Alexis Arquette.

Man this was a great episode! The bed scene of Betty and Don made this episode. Complete roll reversal: it was Betty seducing Don, by leaving he door open etc. She was in charge. It showed how she did learn from her relationship with Don. That two can play his game. Key shot was after sex Betty lit up a cigarette, all cool like Don used to do when after sex with his 'conquests'.

Betty knows, better than ever, what Don is about, how hollow he is. More than Don himself knows. Betty about Megan was so true: "That poor girl, she doesn't know that loving you is the worst way to get to you" The writing of that scene, and the way it was filmed, was magnificent.

Other points:
- “Bob Bunson” lol. Roger was ace this episode
- Poor Peggy. They really tried hard to make it look like she hit rock bottom, and it worked. The stabbing scene was hilarious, but add Abe breaking up to her to her diminished role in office, and one can only think she will reach boiling point soon

Betty about Megan was so true: "That poor girl, she doesn't know that loving you is the worst way to get to you"

Yeah, this was the key moment of the entire season imo.

Bob really reminds me of the sidler from Seinfeld. He's just always... There. With his coffee.

It was for me as well, JF. And very poignant that it got delivered by Betty imho

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.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, May 27, 2013 1:21 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

offtm

stabbings are some of my fav parts of this show

it felt like a really silly way to break up Abe and Peggy. I mean, of all the things.

but what is life if not punctuated by bursts of unexpected gore?

I don't understand hating on the stabbing. I was dying laughing at the broomstick w/ knife spear as soon as I saw it.

I guess I just don't buy Peggy as being quite the hapless wreck she's become in that apartment. She's an outer borough girl, she's not some shrinking violet.

was the stabbing thing a shout out to "side effects"?

j/k

spoilers and shit

was curious about the historical background for peggy's new apartment and the gentrification of the upper west side, and i found this article from 1969. a pretty interesting read: http://nymag.com/news/features/47182/

if she didn't stab him, he couldn't have explained that he wasn't breaking up with her because she stabbed him. that was what made it work.

was curious about the historical background for peggy's new apartment and the gentrification of the upper west side, and i found this article from 1969. a pretty interesting read: http://nymag.com/news/features/47182/

― ryan, Monday, May 27, 2013 9:37 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you! will read. did you notice this was written by the guy who wrote goodfellas?

It is an area in which Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis sends her son to a school that is within a block and a half of a Japanese supermarket, an Israeli coffee house with a floor show, a gypsy palmist, a hardware store specializing in "Bueno Bargains," an excellent Jewish delicatessen (Gitlitz), a pizzeria, a Lebanese restaurant (Uncle Tonoose) and a religious-articles store that sells evil-eye repellents, love potions and numerology books.

i want to live in that sentence.

reveal of silent Harry Crane in the first meeting was so good

re: outer borough girls...parts of the outer boroughs were, and still are, essentially the suburbs.