MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

trying to become a character, that should say

lol u r young

Ha, not that young. Just never watched LA Law/British.

yeah Hamlin's amazing.

Accidentally stumbled upon the episode from last season, which Lane Price hangs himself, on telly tonight... My oh my.

It's almost as if it is an entirely different series this season round. It was electric to watch. Don hungry and eager for Dow, the incredible scenes of Lane getting busted on the cheque, being fired by Don, trying to off himself in his new car but failing so resorts to hanging himself. Sally going to the museum with Glenn and having her first period...

I suppose I don't really have a point to make with this. But I was struck by how very different lots of these characters where just one season ago. Don in particular: he was eager for business, he let Glenn drive the car back home... Juxtaposed with this season it made me feel more how utterly empty, shallow and without direction he is now. He's not living for anything any more; he derives no pride from his work any more, his home situation is a mess. The paradoxical thing is right now even his secret past isn't of any importance at the moment. He's become the man without qualities this season. Seeing the Lane episode tonight only made that more clear. Don right now is invisible. He might as well not be on the show any more. Something's got to give.

Just reminiscing.

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2013/06/10/juggle.o.jpg/a_560x0.jpg

idly wondering if Dr. Rosen making a pass at Don would be slightly more believable than Bob's pass at Pete

There have been how many failed AC/DC passes this season? Three?

wait what were the other ones?

I guess the other two might only count as one ... the co-stars of Megan's soap opera.

Oh right!

i'm guessing most of you have discredited the "megan is dead" theory at this point (just catching up on this thread after watching the last 4 episodes yday), but it just doesnt wash with me. the main reason being that there are many scenes of megan on her own, or on set, without don there to observe her. if it's really a 6th sense thing, her appearances would have to be entirely subjective, right?

yeah. and what would the scene be where the woman from the soap opera comes to the apartment? she was just there drinking by herself, thinkin baout Megan?

hahaha totally

"megan is dead" theory was always ridiculous on its face

for most sane conspiracy types, the idea was she was dead after the start of that episode. While Don was on the trip. Everything else was foreshadowing. Not some sixth sense nonsense. THERE WAS NEVER A MEGAN!

the "zou bisou bisoudio" defense

Don realizes he's been married to Peggy since season 2.

I need to dust off my old theory about cooper's balls being reincarnated into two supernatural beings named Bob and Mike. I think I wrote about that before Bob even appeared!

stealing this idea

this thread is almost as good as the show itself

If I would have known that people would be getting paid to blog about insane "megan is dead" theories I might have developed this into a blog. it's only marginally dumber.

On the battlefield in WWI, Gene's body was inhabited by a demonic entity called FRANK. Another entity named DON overtook the body of a G.I. named Dick during the Korean war. DON is of the white lodge, FRANK the black lodge. On Gene's death, FRANK took form inside Betty as "little Gene". In future episodes we'll see DON enter the red room where he will speak with two small men who are in fact BERT's lost testicles.

― wk, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 19:04 (2 years ago)

a demonic entity called FRANK

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100316231636/borderlands/images/b/b3/Tvsfrank.jpg

ha!

I need to dust off my old theory about cooper's balls being reincarnated into two supernatural beings named Bob and Mike.

So Benson and Ginsberg, then? Already been established that the latter is a Martian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwwHmAF2iR8

ok fucking hilarious that a guy as ott anti-spoilers at weiner letting this fly - http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-mad-men-megan-draper-matthew-weiner-20130614,0,373942.story

Are you relieved that Megan Draper will survive this season?
YesNo

"The show must go on" - Freddie Mercury

weiner's been known to dispel some fan rumors while the season's in-progress. last season when don stared down the empty SCDP elevator shaft, i was convinced someone was going to end up plunging to their death until weiner did an interview saying "ffs you guys it was meant to be symbolic."

i like how this show's unpredictability has people scrambling to try and divine signs like that... "if megan isn't going to die then why is she wearing that t-shirt" is pretty ridic on the face of it

pretty amazing that t shirts were still in their infancy in 1968!

yeah it's funny, before this season tom and lorenzo did a post basically saying 'yes we've seen room 237. no we don't think that's what we do. (plz god don't let that be what we do).' and then this season is when the internet pretends this show is lost all of a sudden (even w/ lane's suicide last year it was normal foreshadowing, not some pop tarot card reading). do think that the increased violence and playing w/ heavy imagery (i mean they even namedropped mark lindsay last week, what next is megan gonna have an ex-bf who's a hairdresser?) is pretty clearly a way to obliquely address that fucked up shit going on at large w/o having a character for some reason die in vietnam or get murdered by a band of wandering hippies. plus if you're janie bryant (whose profile is kinda crazy huge right? can you name another tv costume designer?) and weiner's haggling you for a t-shirt and you come across one and it's from a sharon tate photoshoot OF COURSE you're going to go w/ that right? crazy that t-shirts are apparently something that comes in really w/ the 70s, no wonder they went so nuts for iron-ons, shit must've blown their minds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shirt

that is a truly great wikipedia entry

A Taiwanese's T-shirt

unusual wikipedia articles in details

The political and social statements that T-shirts often display have become, since the first decade of the 21st century, one of the reasons that they have so deeply permeated different levels of culture and society.[citation needed]

the world record for "most t-shirts worn at the same time" is less than 300

there is a lot that is preposterous about that sentence

http://mlblogssnapshots.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/drive_scenes20686620500px.jpg

i am overheating just looking at that

well that looks the opposite of erotic

mr staypuft? is that you?

LOL @ "T-SHIRT PUT-ER ON-ER"

well that looks the opposite of erotic

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oh, i'm sure a little googling around will discover folks who think otherwise...

Why the fuck would he need a sweatband

to keep the sweat out of his eyes?

Why the fuck would he need a sweatband

Because here in America putting on T-shirts counts as athleticism?

haha i was skimming and i thought it meant people gathered wearing tshirts, at the same time, together. i was like, surely this is topped at most concerts on earth.

ive been rewatching madmen season 1. anyone else done this lately? ken cosgrove was such a sleaze back then.

also don otm in episode 1, to pete: “Advertising is a very small world and when you do something like malign the girl from the steno pool on her first day, you make it even smaller. Keep it up, and even if you do get my job, you’ll never run this place. You’ll die in that corner office, a mid-level executive with little hair who women go home with out of pity. Want to know why? Because no one will like you.”

i was just watching season 1 and 2 as well! ken WAS a sleaze, they really reversed course on him, or perhaps he just finds confidence, since his sleaziness seems especially fratty and trying to impress early on.

noticed how often don calls betty "birdie" in the first two seasons and then the "bye bye birdie" start of season 3. pretty clever. it becomes even more clear as the show goes on how carefully constructed as a "season" the show is sometimes. it really hits its stride when watching it all at once like this. week to week it sometimes feels halting and repetitive rather than (as it does when it watch them back to back) rhythmic and cohesive.

which is why im not really sure what to think of this season until it's all over and i can watch it all at once.

thought the bit about the rothko painting in season 2 was interesting ("maybe it doesn't mean anything, maybe you're just supposed to experience it") since the show often seems like the exact opposite--or maybe its just that the particular kind of dramatic inertness they seem to favor simply invites hyper-active interpretation.

“Advertising is a very small world and when you do something like malign the girl from the steno pool on her first day, you make it even smaller. Keep it up, and even if you do get my job, you’ll never run this place. You’ll die in that corner office, a mid-level executive with little hair who women go home with out of pity. Want to know why? Because no one will like you.”

remember when don was hot?