MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

don can go weeks at a time without smiling. they used to have circus performers who would do that, kind of like a variation on hunger artists.

just can't stop fuckin' tho

what happened to peggy's boyfriend?

He broke up with her in the ambulance after she stabbed him.

ted has been a real breath of fresh air this season, he manages to be compelling and likable even though he spends 75% of his screentime yelling and complaining. loved the ginger rogers line.

bob benson reveal felt hackneyed, even though i can recognize they put in the effort to make it plausible in previous episodes. kinda feel like pete having a gay fling would too soap-y for the show, but at the same time i wouldn't mind seeing it? loved pete and peggy drunk and reminiscing about old times, although while the scene was playing out i was nervous that one of them would make a misstep and it would get weird and uncomfortable again.

next week: pete's rifle is still around, being portentous.

pete likes whorehouses, i don't think he's gay.

drunk Pete was likeable! Anything is possible.

Sally loses her innocence walking in on Roger then loses it some more walking in on Don, not looking forward to her encounter with Burt.

But but but...Bert doesn't have testicles!

looking fwd to cat lady spinster peggy spinoff

Maybe gay pete will be this awesome, likeable guy

It's what gay means iirc

So Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders lived with Terry Melcher in the house where the Tate murders took place.

They're just having fun with this.

wtf @ Moshe Dayan poster

loved this episode, felt like every scene had something interesting to it

i liked the episode but was kinda disappointed in a few things. Silly conspiracy wise the fact that Megan didn't die and Bob's just a homosexual feels like a letdown. Explains why Bob and Joan didn't work out though. And going back the affair feels like a step backwards, like I thought we were done with that. Although it served a good purpose obviously if it brings us back to his relationship to Sally.

What I did love is Ted. He's become the most interesting character for me. His problems, other than the flirting with Peggy, are like real work work/family issues. And I love the way he talks down Don even while still being intimidated by him. That thing about "I assume you don't have many friends"

Ted rules, he's a fucking animal

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2013/05/13/13-dealwithit.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg

eh after a half dozen episodes Ted feels like the guy whom I'm still getting acquainted with; I have to remind myself who he is.

He's one of the partners.

He made out with Peggy once.

He wants to be Don.

Maybe you should stop updating your blog while you watch MM and concentrate on MM so you know who everyone is.

It's not that hard, Cupcake.

Maybe you should step on a rake.

He's been in 17 episodes

Mad Men" (17 episodes)
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (22 August 2010)
Waldorf Stories (29 August 2010)
Chinese Wall (3 October 2010)
Blowing Smoke (10 October 2010)
The Other Woman (27 May 2012)
The Phantom (10 June 2012)
The Doorway, Part 2 (7 April 2013)
The Doorway, Part 1 (7 April 2013)
Collaborators (14 April 2013)
To Have and to Hold (21 April 2013)
The Flood (28 April 2013)
For Immediate Release (5 May 2013)
Man with a Plan (12 May 2013)
The Crash (19 May 2013)
The Better Half (26 May 2013)
A Tale of Two Cities (2 June 2013)
Favors (9 June 2013)

how'd you learn to use the internet like that! From a blog?

I thought this guy was permabanned

At least I know who Ted is.

Ted's wife knows what's up

^^worst post-episode thread updates all season

Matt Zoller Seitz.

the Pete / Bob scene was very confusing. if the reveal was just supposed to be "Bob is gay and likes Pete" they sre did it in an odd way.

yeah, also y is petes mom credible to pete on that shes being sexed by manolo when shes clearly outwardly demented as to most other interpretations of her reality

xp I though so too - Bob decides that the right moment to make his move is right after Pete says that homosexuality is degenerate? And then leaves still with his look of cheerful contentment?

Bob decides that the right moment to make his move is right after Pete says that homosexuality is degenerate?

yeah exactly

I thought Bob was supposed to be a good salesman

Like i said before, this is part of a larger scheme on Bob's part.

Maybe.

Bob is actually Sal's boyfriend and is out to get revenge on the company that ruined his lover

Agreed. Something weird is up with Bob.

"How To Get Ahead In Business By Pretending You're A Homo"--Not a successful paperback.

would be surprised if there isn't a shoe to drop since they seemed to go out of their way to make it seem like a bad/inopportune time? Right on the heels of Pete's disgust and all.

i think something else is gonna happen with bob guys

YOU HEARD IT FROM ME FIRST

after the "crazy old black lady breaks into don's house to steal his watch/pretend she's sally's grandma" throwaway C-plot (i would bet you a dollar weiner has a newspaper clipping stashed that he can point to and say NO IT REALLY HAPPENED), I'm thoroughly convinced they'll try any and every cockamamie thing on this show, so i won't be surprised at whatever bob is, including bert's son trying to root out secret homosexuals among the staff, because his real secret identity is awkwardly introduced third act device to keep the viewer hoping something meaningful's gonna happen

I think Bob is a scientologist

Forks otm. I'm still glad Bob is there though; the show needed fresh blood.

Bert can't have kids his balls are gone

(Btw i am a writer on mad men. "Fresh blood" may/may not be a clue...)

maybe bob is from ork

I actually think the whole thing with Mitchell was kind of great in the way it tangled together several plot elements and contradictory motivations

why is don going out of his way to help this kid? is it really a humanitarian impulse? b/c he knows the horrors of war? because he feels horrible guilt toward dr. rosen? probably a little of all those things. but to me it felt an awful lot like when you have a crush on someday and you'll kind of embarrass yourself and bend over backwards to help them out. i'm not convinced that don actually _knew_ that he was doing this in order to get back to schtupping mrs. rosen but as soon as she "opened the door" that motivation just came right to the surface and his face shifted to the same smug look he had when he was playing power games with her in the hotel room. it's like getting mitchell out of service in vietnam was the ultimate play in whatever game they were playing. but that doesn't completely negate that there had been other motivations for the act. and then to tie it all into sally, who is now a (sort of) willing participant in her dad's elaborate conspiracy-that-seems-like-a-marriage.... my guess is that this won't stick, and don's marriage--not to mention his relationship with his kids--will blow up in the next two episodes. i mean establishing a "bond" b/t father and daughter (she becomes conspirator to his affairs only b/c by telling anyone else she'd destroy his marriage etc.) would be a kind of deeply cynical, almost bunuelian note, but it's also a little pat and out of character for sally, who has spent much of her childhood benefitting from pitting one parent against the other.

if i were teaching screenwriting and talk about how to properly set up an outrageous coincidence (sally walking in on dad/mrs. rosen) in a way that doesn't feel too overly manipulative, I'd show them this episode.

i actually did think bob was a scientologist at one point. didn't they reference scientology many episodes ago?