MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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

what became of Bob's Joan crush? come to think of it there hasn't been much of Joan at all of late.

it wasn't a crush, it was his usual sucking up. she did end up saving his job, after all (not that he knows about that)

Better to have a desperate, lying Golden Boy who feels like he’s forever in your debt for keeping his secret than to have one who never quite trusted you because you didn’t. Pete knows that the Bobs and Dons of the world can charm their way through almost anything and that he’d do well to hitch himself to a rising star (EVERYBODY in Bert’s office defended Bob to Pete) rather than trying to shoot it out of the sky.

this seems otm to me (with the caveat that the senior partners were defending continuity on the account rather than bob himself, but hey 80% of success is showing up i guess)

in hindsight, bob-as-young-don was telegraphed pretty clearly wasn't it?

Saying it won't wash now, but that first scene in the elevator with Don made me recall (maybe unconsciously) the flashback Don/Roger scene.

Bob has yet to demonstrate Don's flair for creative problem-solving but we'll see

He has potential for creative problem-starting, though.

Misread as problem-staring. But he's got that, too.

me too

His goofy smile in the elevator reminded me of the flashback of don in the elevator with roger.

― mizzell, Tuesday, April 9, 2013 12:19 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xp

So Pete is going to be Bob's Roger?

He'll certainly be cupping more balls than Roger did.

I just noticed that James Wolk, who plays Bob, was the star of the very short-lived but critically acclaimed Lone Star, where he played a guy who secretly had two families.

I wonder if we're going to get a Bob flashback (has any other character had one of those, besides Don?)

i liked lone star for the one episode it ran

xpost Roger had a flashback involving Don, as did Peggy.

the flashback that explained how don came to work at sterling cooper included a scene between joan and roger that don wasn't in

ah yeah I couldn't remember if it was Don or Roger having that one

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

― dan selzer, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:19 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thanks for posting, these are amazing.

their commentary has been uniformly great

altho tbf they tagged Bob as gay, but not as an out-and-out fraud (which they admit)

their reasoning was A+ tho

haha god i forgot this episode where pete has to say "chip and dip" 1000 times

new loopy theory could be if last week was "fraud" as the 8th circle of hell maybe next we're looking at "treachery." Or maybe that already applies to Don with Ted and Peggy. In any case maybe this does map on to Don hitting "bottom."

Rescreening Rosemary's Baby in honor of this ep and found another MM connection: At xmas time, Rosemary is supposed to meet Hutch in front of the Time/Life buillding, the fictional home of SCDP.

for those who would like to selectively review old episodes, season 1 episode 7 is joan's cutest look EVER