MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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

Surely someone can be nursed back to health and then die at a later date.

But wasn't it suggested that the nurse had just nursed Bob's dad back from the brink, thus he was available? It's possible though that Bob was just fibbing to save Pete's blushes over offering him help on the nursing front.

nah, there's something wrong with that dude.

the whole point of that character is for him to eventually drop the other shoe

it's possible that the other shoe is SURPRISE he's a good guy and he's gonna make joan happy forever but i am inclined to doubt it

Peggy's mom will also, I'm sure, mention her daughter's age age in one of those discussions where her middle name also gets an airing.

it's possible that the other shoe is SURPRISE he's a good guy and he's gonna make joan happy forever but i am inclined to doubt it

I've been thinking of Bob as a sort of male version of Meghan - a wide-eyed, essentially good-hearted naif who is being set up to be swallowed whole by the soul-sucking joylessness of the advertising world

except the actor plays him as way more ingratiating and obseqious

I think he's the anti-Draper in the sense that he's working under an alias for nefarious purposes. Don't know which nefarious purposes yet, but...

it's possible that the other shoe is SURPRISE there's a funny smell coming from Bob's basement

bob

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