MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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.

!!!

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.

i KNOW that logo is gonna be everywhere tomorrow.

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Sorta.

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Not sure how old Kiernan Shipka is now, but every kid surely wants to get paid for saying dirty words

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ok so can someone interpret the bob/pete scene for me?

the simplest way to read it seems to be: pete agrees to keep bob's secrets as long as he (a) does his job and (b) keeps away from pete and doesn't fuck w/ his life.

is pete being generous here? or are his motives complex?

maybe he just likes the idea of having this guy in the office whose career he can cut off like a switch.

also LOL betty knows what's up

I thought that bob and pete scene was at least a little redemptive for Pete. It seemed like he wasn't just keeping the secret because it would be good for him strategically, but because he knew had been wrong to try to expose Don previously (or at least that it had been shitty of him). He leaves Bob's office, kind of sighs contentedly and nods pleasantly at his secretary, pleased that he had squelched his weaselly instincts and was in a better position for having done it.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it

Bob shouting in Spanish!

Also: lol Harry looking for a hooker that takes traveler's checks.

"I never should have told him that"

harry's wife appear a few times in first few seasons, no? do we assume they're still married?

but what is Bob's secret -- that he's gay?

harry's wife appear a few times in first few seasons, no? do we assume they're still married?

i think so, wasn't he complaining last season that his wife put him on a diet? and then he got high and ate all those white castle sliders he was supposed to be bringing home to his family?

i can't believe how fly creepy glen looks now! his shared history with sally is one of my favorite recurring parts of the show.

i don't know what to make of don's mental state. in a way he seems worse off than when he was supposedly at "rock bottom" a few seasons ago, with the heavy alcoholism and prostitutes. his marriage is a sham, his daughter hates him, no mistress, no creative satisfaction in his job. his only happiness seems to come from being cruel to ted.

xp that he's lying abt his past & education, etc?

Bob's past work as a 'servant' - was there some sexual innuendo implied in that?

uh, yeah.

Man this show is so badass

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