MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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

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

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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

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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

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Seven Bobbys, seven Bobbys!

love that song

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

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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

An unfortunate offshoot of the see-food diet.

"Why are you always down here? Go back upstairs!"

moment of appreciation for roger sterling's double breasted jackets

i think this is one they can chalk up in the win column

Man, I was so eager for tonight's episode hoping that shit would hit the fan *hard* and of course it didn't. Felt bad for Joan since her duplicity was initially framed as a triumph and then p immediately went to shit; it feels really unpleasant to see her fuck up.

i really thought joan was in a position to push back harder.

the last 4 episodes have been an incredible run IMO. has Matt Weiner written/co-written every epsiode this season? seems so.

We need a Pete on weed gif stat!

Also: what were the party songs (aside from "Harper Valley PTA")?

hmm feel like they got so caught up with danny looking like paul simon in annie hall they forgot the scene's supposed to be about a woman worth fighting for

"Tell me the truth. Are you a homo?"

based on nothing but commentaries & interviews, i gather most show runners rewrite a fair amount of each episode, but wiener takes credit more often than most

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201206/roundtable-discussion-matthew-weiner-vince-gilligan-david-milch?currentPage=4

GQ: Do you other guys put your names on scripts you've done extensive rewrites on?
Vince Gilligan: Not typically.

David Milch: Not typically.

Matthew Weiner: They're classier than me.

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