MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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okay does anyone really buy this Megan-is-going-to-get-murdered/Sharon Tate amalgam theory

You could spin a lot of theories about what seems like the impending murder of Megan Draper, from it being another break-in (foreshadowed by Grandma Ida), to a case of mistaken identity (foreshadowed by Peggy’s stabbing of Abe), to Don being the murderer (there is a Draper walking to and from the crime scene in the poster), to BOB BENSON because OF COURSE BOB BENSON

BOB Benson in a left-field Twin Peaks crossover.

death by coffee

a murder seems a bit out of character for the show but on the other hand the soap opera subplot does seem to portend a big plot twist.

Bob gets away with killing Joan when no one else on the show can pick him out of a lineup

lol forks

what seems like the impending murder of Megan Draper

where are they getting this from? someone catch me up

http://www.vulture.com/2013/05/mad-mens-megan-draper-is-actually-sharon-tate.html?mid=twitter_vulture

based entirely off of Janie Bryant confirming the star t-shirt was cribbed from Tate afaict (ie this is mostly bullshit)

In the next episode Don learns that Dick Whitman was actually Roman Polanski, who took on the name Whitman because he had raped a girl. Think abt it

haha it's is weirdly intriguing tho--those police sirens in the last episode seem foreboding.

There's that, but it's also around the time Manhattan was really sinking into decay, wasn't it? Late 60s? I think the sirens will probably be a constant for the rest of the series.

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interesting. the sirens were definitely a thing, although I took it for more of a free-floating "their relationship is in danger" symbol.

Sally Draper was reading Rosemary's Baby in bed right before the break-in.

well 1968 was a scary year! assassinations, riots, escalating war, etc. lot of death. but the Tate thing seems really stretching it, and would be out of character for the show. This show obviously takes place in the real world, so we Tate murders are still going to happen - the idea that Megan will be murdered AND Tate will be murdered seems sort of stupid. seems more likely that Megan will know someone connected to the murders, which are due to take place in August and is probably what Megan is gasping about on TV in the "next week" clip

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Yeah, weird to interpret "No coincidence!" as suggesting that Megan is literally Sharon Tate or will suffer the same fate. Seems like the show just wanted to exploit some resonances.

yeah if anything the shirt seems to simply foreshadow the actual historical event about to take place rather than anything that will happen to her (except maybe metaphorically or whatever).

With the sirens and the stabbings I'd been wondering if Weiner was leading up to something more violent, but I think Megan getting murdered would be too on the nose.

megan looked RIDICULOUSLY hot in that t-shirt and panties btw

i watched last season over the course of a few nights right before this season started and there was an enormous amount of hints towards a suicide by hanging.

yeah i think everyone knew there was definitely gonna be a suicide last season, the question was would it be lane or pete. lane 'won'.

seems more likely that Megan will know someone connected to the murders, which are due to take place in August and is probably what Megan is gasping about on TV in the "next week"

AUGUST 1969.

I've seen the Sharon Tate photo before, but Meghan in that star tee and panties coded to me as more 90s than 60s. "Hi Don, I've landed a role in a Weezer video."

d'oh correct you are Grisso, I transposed some numbers sorry

star tee made me think of Macy's tbh

http://wakingupto.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/rem-2-pg.jpg

it does remind me of this r.e.m. t-shirt i used to wear back in the 90s

http://991.com/NewGallery/REM-Monster-Tour-445915.jpg

knowing stipe's hollywood obsessions (esp around this time) i could totally see the tate t-shirt being inspiration

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jinx!

i owe you an orange crush

rock t-shirts you have worn and loved

I was wondering why that shirt looked familiar when I watched Mad Men, I was probably thinking of the Stipe t-shirt.

Don't forget

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31XCu8bLG%2BL.jpg

I was totally reading "90s" and "Macy's" too

been wondering about the likelihood of a prospective Campbell Crane and Olsen

pete and harry will never forge out on their own, their whole raison-d-etre will disappear! ie complaining about everyone else above them

Campbell, Crane, Cooper, & Price? They could have their logo printed on that red star shirt.

Would they be keeping Lane's body around Bernie-style?

Ashes in the lobby.

Pryce, Gleason, & Blankenship.

hitting it out of the park with a campaign for Bobby Kennedy's presidential run.

Would they be keeping Lane's body around Bernie-style?

preserved Mao style of course

http://i.imgur.com/H7eFilY.gif
Seven Bobbys, seven Bobbys!

love that song

getting real cabaret 'tomorrow belongs to me' vibe off that gif.

http://i52.tinypic.com/15nojso.jpg

The comic timing of Megan's friend leaning in for the second kiss was A++++

so i was reading the Manson wikipedia entry to avoid writing and discovered this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson

"Kasabian thwarted this murder by deliberately knocking on the wrong apartment door and waking a stranger. As the group abandoned the murder plan and left, Susan Atkins defecated in the stairwell."

also, i had forgotten the '27 Yankees were known as "murderers row."

they're really piling it on!

perhaps the first historically documented evocation of the atkins diet