MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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.

first few paragraphs of that article feature a bit of gay-baiting too, ouch.

it was published literally TWO DAYS AFTER STONEWALL. whoa.

Befitting this most recent episode's maladroit lesbian subplot.

i thought that was a great but excruciating episode. i have such foreboding about everything that happened, from betty and don, to the stabbing of abe, to peggy and ted, to the continued misery of meghan. poor, poor meghan.

Speaking of Stonewall...you think Sal may make an appearance before the finale? Midge, Duck, Freddy and Paul were all resurrected for an episode or two, after all.

I don't think he will but I hope he will. Who would he show up to interact with?

Don runs out of women, seeks Sal out after seeing Midnight Cowboy.

Awesome to see Duck again btw

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

― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:00 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"i have strong feelings both ways"

Speaking of Stonewall...you think Sal may make an appearance before the finale? Midge, Duck, Freddy and Paul were all resurrected for an episode or two, after all.

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, May 28, 2013 2:00 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sal wasn't really the type of frequent a place like stonewall. more of a working-class bar AFAIK.

You know the only place he's frequenting c. 1968 is an early grave.

so what's up with Bob lying about his dad

huh?

yeah, he said his dad was dead in the first ep of the season

and then this episode Bob told Pete this doctor/nurse he was recommending had nursed his dad to health

BACK to health

also: Peggy hasn't hit bottom yet imho, she still has to get the "I told you so" speech from her mother

His father is a Bunn coffeemaker. xp