MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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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

― j., Saturday, June 15, 2013 11:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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?

i mean, i seriously don't mind having bob and ted as eye candy these days...

and Stan don't forget Stan

so the cops on the poster from March were a red herring too? or are we still expecting something huge is gonna transpire in the next 2 weeks?

stan has his bearish charms, it's true.

starting to find ken cosgrove hot, honestly, in addition to those mentioned above

otm

Yeah looking back at that poster, you wonder who the woman Don's holding hands with. I guess it's Megan. He seems pretty distracted at the moment. It sort of looks like he just passed by his old self, briefcase in hand, so maybe we are gearing up for him leaving the company or something. He's pretty much gone in his mind already.

He and Mrs. Rosen will run off together, change their names to Bob Mathews & Betty Cantor, and follow the Dead on tour, eventually becoming part of their organization.

i think re: the imagery of the show, including these posters, theyre usually trying to broadcast something a lot less complicated than what viewership ends up reading into it

tonight's is the first non-Weiner-written/co-written show since episode 2.

starting to find ken cosgrove hot, honestly, in addition to those mentioned above

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, June 16, 2013 5:59 PM

I always did! The blander the better for me.

uncharacteristically flabby acting from Hamm in that Betty phone conversation.

omg bob benson is don draper

"Are you suicidal? I'm your ride home!"

Ok. What happened between Campbell and the cryptoqueer?

sally's beginning to resemble ariel pink.

I was going to ask what happened w/r/t Bob Benson in that scene too, because I can't figure it out

Porpoise Song!

Aw!!! Future lung cancee casualty!

On the next Mad Men: all these scenes of things that happened on previous episodes.

I was going to ask what happened w/r/t Bob Benson in that scene too, because I can't figure it out

I think Pete wants his own personal Don Draper.

gotta love how embarrassing it is to be from West Virginia huh

Creepy Glen! I <3 Creepy Glen.

yeah that scene between Pete and Bob was....complex. i know what the upshot is but there was a lot of speaking in code.

very "All About Eve"

lee garner junior made me hold his balls.

omg they killed kenny

this was... badly filmed? like, lots of reaction shots where none were necessary? And they missed easy and crucial decisions. Hold the beat after slattery says he held the marlboro guys balls to see the room register. hold the camera on peggy's face when she realizes don is selling them out at the meeting and no clio for her. split screen on the megan/don and sally/betty shots with equal focus instead of awkwardly switching a/b shots. the show is often dopey and wildly conceived but they're almost always on point with the camerawork. was this a first time director?
props on the douglas sirk autumn backdrops while driving to the boarding school though. i imagine that took a few meetings.

Hold the beat after slattery says he held the marlboro guys balls to see the room register.

In reality, Roger probably drops this anecdote every week for one reason or another.

yeah, but it would've worked as a solid laugh line for the home audience! Like, I _wanted_ that laugh and they threw it away.

I was watching Peggy's face the entire time Don was selling her out. They cut to Ted's faltering explanation that it was in fact Frank's last work and Peggy's face was amazing.

pete needs some kind of emmy for best douchebag

okay was the Pete/Bob conversation about saying -> fine, you can go ahead and BS everyone else at the office to get ahead but not me?

so what happens if/when this particular ad is a massive success and peggy doesn't get any credit at all

Pete was the one who busted Don and no one cared, and Pete knows that no one will care about Bob either, but Bob doesn't know that. Pete really wants Bob to feel like he's got him under his thumb, because he knows everybody likes Bob and his advancement—especially since he's now on the GM account—is inevitable.

Peggy will swallow her anger just like she always does. She's so disappointing.

That's probably the right read on it but Pete's choice of words is odd. "I surrender" and "I've learned not to tangle with men like you" etc.

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sally's beginning to resemble ariel pink.

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