MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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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Don sonning everyone in the conference room during the tylenol pitch was amazing. the best scenes in this show always seem to take place in the boardroom.

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?

“You know what? Let them get their own. You bring home a bag of food and they go at it and there’s nothing left for you? Eat first. That’s my recommendation to people who say they’re getting married and having kids: Eat first.”

i like Dan's take on the pete & bob scene, i'd like for that to be it because it'd be an interesting turn for pete, to be decent even when he's nearly hit bottom, but i don't quite see how he got there. i mean, he suffered real consequences for continuing to cover for don (losing the aerospace account), and could still suffer if gm somehow ends up objecting to bob's shenanigans

oh yeah i think if this show has "taught" us anything it's that pete will suffer for this act of (quasi-) generosity.

either that or he'll become like the smoking exec's son, blackmailing bob into sex in a detroit hotel.

def like that Bob turned out to be the gay-Don Draper, was gonna be disappointed if all there was to him was the gay angle. not sure where there going with him exactly and not expecting fireworks in the finale but who knows... Bob n Don bro-down?

to be decent even when he's nearly hit bottom

I didn't take Pete's action as being decent, more self-preservative. he remembers it didn't go so well for him when he tried to "out" Don, and doesn't want to get in the middle of it with Bob the way he did with Don. Hence the "I'm off limits". altho how that will work out in practice in terms of Chevy I dunno.

I loved that Bob's reply was "can you give me a day's head start"? It's amazing how prepared he was to start running.

not as savvy/self-confident as Don there

pete & bob are so gonna hook up

but there's a huge difference between the two which everybody knows: Don, at the time Pete tried to out him to Cooper, was abslutely essential to the agency, Bob isn't. Pete tried to get rid of Don to clear a path for himself upwards. Getting rid of Bob wouldn't do anything for him. So now he can use his knowledge to control Bob.

Hey Gals & Guys maybe you should just enjoy the mystery of BB

yeah there's that. altho it was weird how hard the other execs threw in for Bob, I thought.

xp

well Bob has made a very good show of being johnny-on-the-spot all the time, he's ingratiated himself to all of them. appearance is everything

i thought "i'm off limits" was "stop hitting on me"

in fact my whole original takeaway from that scene was that pete was just negotiating not to be the target of a "pervert" who'd be "capable of anything" -- real gay panic. but that seems maybe too narrow and petty even for pete

I think there was definitely that to it, but that was compounded by Bob's similarity to Don

have don and bob actually had any interaction yet? i don't remember any scenes with them talking to each other.

in the elevator. bob had coffee

Bob's Spanish-language freakout on the phone + Bob's sudden ability to stop smiling and get dark and threatening + the angelic gay gaze = ominous portents