MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

"i thought you were going to pee"

The appearance of "Porpoise Song" reminds me about the similarities between the opening of HEAD and the MM credits. Mickey Dolenz IS the 'falling man'.

xxp ahhh right

no rizzo this week

the thing about rosemary's baby is, yes it's unsettling, but the ending is also kind of hilarious

it's all kind of hilarious!

yeah, but the ending in partic

so what precisely is the deal w/ pete's mom and manolo?

also love joan's "jewish mother" accent

the acted out scenario was hilarious. Joan and Don-the-baby especially

The moment I find out anyone is gay, I lose interest. Bob Benson is no exception.

https://mlkshk.com/r/RVO5

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Srsly, what a fucking great episode.

"THE GREATEST TV DRAMA OF ALL TIME" at the end had me in stitches

I agree with JF (?) that Pete likes to keep Bob under his thumb. Knowing of his secret past and being able to hold it against him, as a threat. Which he wasn't able to do with Don.

Anyone I've known named Manolo is libidinous as hell.

"THE GREATEST TV DRAMA OF ALL TIME"

Rob Sheffield is a cool guy, but when I first saw this pullquote from what is presumably some kind of review he'd written I flipped out. WHAT.THE.HELL.

I almost hope the manolo thing remains an enduring mystery a la the Russian on the sopranos.

"THE GREATEST TV DRAMA OF ALL TIME" at the end had me in stitches

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, June 17, 2013 6:31 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i read it w/ an implied ellipse, à la muhammad ali

"the greatest TV drama... OF ALL TIIIME!"

Otm. The 'next week on the season finale of Mad Men'-trailer was all sorts of shite too.

Massive love for Sally. And for Glen, who resisted peer pressure and is truly ~devoted~ to her well-being.

For some reason I really loved Don this episode. He was bad ass and mean, but he knew it: he at least had "qualities" again. In the previous episodes he'd been an empty vessel, the man without qualities. At least he's got something of his streak back; even if it's mean, still very much favourable to watch compared to a Don that is just falling, helplessly (hi dere title sequence).

For some reason though Bob's schtick - I am a conman, and possibly gay - still doesn't seem satisfying to me. Must be more to him. Pete's "Who hired you?" I thought was really supposed to mean "Who hired you to infiltrate here?". But then Bob, rightfully, got to say it was in fact Pete that had hired him and it faded. But a smiley guy with a secret past, can that really be what Bob is all about? Surely not.

don hasn't seemed to contribute anything in the creative dep't all season -- that's still his job title

I had thought for a second that maybe the baby stuff and fetal position represented some sort of "bottom" in the AA sense but that feels unlikely now.

Don clicking away from Megan on the telly was brutal. Just brutal.

The 'next week on the season finale of Mad Men'-trailer was all sorts of shite too.

Yeah, my first post after this week's ep was basically the same thing. NEXT WEEK ON MAD MEN: A BUNCH OF CLIPS FROM PAST EPISODES!

Don clicking away from Megan on the telly was brutal. Just brutal.

to a different TV show about twins/doppelgangers no less

don hasn't seemed to contribute anything in the creative dep't all season -- that's still his job title

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:45 AM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, at least he's made calls this episode. On the juice, and "rescuing" the account for which the casting went well above the cost. It's nearly nothing. But it's something. Before this episode he was absent completely of his job and all entails, entirely.

uh he got Chevy

and tried his damnedest to get Heinz

you guys have no memories

Johnny Fever OTM, saw you said that too. It was all sorts of rubbish.

Don clicking away from Megan on the telly was brutal. Just brutal.

to a different TV show about twins/doppelgangers no less

― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:48 AM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM. Megan's line before Don - utterly unimpressed - clicked away, was "Don't you dare ignore me!"

Megan's Frenchy villain accent was lolz.

you guys have no memories

― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:50 AM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is true for me tbh

But still.

Don-the-baby should've been used in previous week's "next week on Mad Men." Woulda confused the fuck out of people.

Haha totally. It was an awkward moment to watch. Just when they asked Don to act as the baby, I really thought him being stiff and all that he wouldn't do shit.

I'm not saying Don did the best of baby-impressions, but he did something, which was already more than I expected him to do.

i dont think he was unimpressed, i think it was hitting too close to home for someone who was just caught by his daughter cheating on the woman now on his tv talking about someone being a loathesome cheater

xp yeah i expected him to dodge that. although "father abraham"

ok so in a few years we'll get a Sally-based spin off a la A Different World meets GIRLS.

ok so in a few years we'll get a Sally-based spin off a la A Different World

sally attends a historically black college?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0hu934IF41r6q0fko1_400.png
sally draper, circa 1987

midge was a snooze bore #season1

i don't want this season to end.

me either it rules!! but i am excited for the finale

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

Cooper's reaction to this was amazing btw.

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.

This is all true, but Bob's also the crucial continuity guy who the Chevy dudes like (plus everyone in the meeting knew they would hate Pete), which means he's pretty important to the agency, although not indispensable. Plus, Joan's got his back.

I got the feeling that Pete and Bob were partly talking at cross-purposes, and that Pete still only knows half the story, while Bob thinks he knows everything, whatever 'everything' is.

Also this:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/17/solution_to_the_bob_benson_mystery_is_on_those_coffee_cups.html

"you want me to go get some?" from bob re: the coffee p much made my life

lol otm

now that pete's on chevy, there's only one thing bob has that pete doesn't: people like him. i think hes just hoping to leverage that

also the execs weren't going to bat for bob per se, they were going to bat for the account. they were right that changing up everyone managing the account would look weird. just changing one guy keeps up the appearance that everything is ok

Pete's secretary was weirdly foregrounded this week, bit of bonding with him over the gun etc. Reminds me of how they introduced Megan. I get the sense that nothing good is going to happen to her.

I love the emergence of psychotic Bob; I would love to see Draper die of cirrhosis in the finale, and then have Season 7 basically be Profit '69 starring Bob Benson.

Mad style has Bob down.

pre-faker reveal:

http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2013/06/mad-style-favors.html

and post:

http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2013/06/mad-men-the-quality-of-mercy.html