Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

well, i live that, so... :S

not heard of the Pitch tho, will check 'er out.

It's not started yet. They just had a preview episode on a few weeks back. Reality series about ad agencies (or teams of ad men or whatever) pitching.

it's no fun if it's real
i want good scripting

"the two of us in the same room, looking at each other every once in a while"

would hang out with sally draper and roger sterling

lmao at homegirl pretending to like fish rite there

this ep owns

Hope all these Twin Peaks homages (at least in terms of casting) lead to something...

loljewham

smh @ roger

who all was on twin peaks?

lol'd p hard @ 'interesting bowls' in the heinz pitch

Ken's dad & the girl Don strangled a few eps back

I was happy to see creepy Glen! Telling her to check out the Loving Spoonful! Answering the phone naked, with his winter coat on!

I love creepy Glen!

"How's the city?"
"Dirty."

oh that's the weird kid from the suburbs? i didn't realize that. hahaha

what was megan's original ambition? to act?

never really been revealed

yes "acting" but that's probably a metaphor or some shit

pls let it be "lead québécois uprising"

goddamn autocorrect actually helping me look fancy

She moved to ny to act.

Great episode. Tableau at the end of the awards dinner was awesome.

Just realized that was Julia Ormond.

!!!

when megan first explains her idea for the heinz thing she really acts like peggy (in season 1)

I couldn't get a read on how Megan felt during Peggy's congratulations. It sort of felt like "uh, thanks."

I figured it was her feeling a little unsure how to take it, as though maybe she felt semi-guilty for accomplishing something via Don even if it really was all her. Maybe I'm just reading into her dad's speech though.

peggy: "this is as good as this job gets!"

could be that megan is thinking, really? this is as good as it gets? get me the hell out of here!

i mean, maybe she doesn't actually want to work in advertising

Yeah, that's what I got out of it. "ok, we landed a pitch for beans. great. why does everybody even care."

new Bobby looks *younger* than previous Bobby. Eventually Bobby Draper will just be played by a muppet and voiced by Frank Oz.

they've got to be setting roger up for a hard fall, economically speaking -- the first few episodes see him paying off everybody for favors, and tonight we hear he's still financially supporting his first family, and didn't jane say something last week about how the divorce was going to be difficult/contentious, money-wise?

hard fall onto the pavement from the window u mean

Megan's commie dad is gonna kill Roger c'mon

i wonder if matthew weiner has someone on staff who combs through social media every week and says "now they're all saying it'll be roger who jumps out the window!" and matthew weiner laughs and gets out the show bible and changes it to, like, harry or something

INT: DON AND MEGAN'S APARTMENT

BOBBY runs towards the balcony and slips on his own toy, falling to his death. DON looks on, unconcerned.

new Bobby looks *younger* than previous Bobby. Eventually Bobby Draper will just be played by a muppet and voiced by Frank Oz.

There was an author on The Daily Show the other night named Robert Draper, who was probably roughly the age fictional "Bobby Draper" would've been now. I pretended it was him the whole interview.

That was an understatedly masterful episode. Roger and Sally were just delightful together.

Just realized that was Julia Ormond.

Hah, I thought it was the same actress who plays Lane's wife at first.

post-LSD Roger is a hoot. I was wondering if he was going to go back to Mona, seems like that was kind of a "thing" for that generation, marrying the same person multiple times (cf Liz Taylor etc)

"They make dishes. and napalm"

would watch the Roger Sally show.

It never occurred to me that Roger would be really good with kids, but of course he would.

he is one.

Roger's awesome. Also, Leland Palmer!

Ray Wise was great. Totally deflated Don. Seems to be becoming more and more apparent that Don's been coasting professionally for the last couple of years.

Didn't Bert make a similar comment re: biting the hand that feeds...? can't remember

Yeah, I thought at the time that Bert actually quit the company because of that ad.

yeah but it's the WHY exactly Bert was pissed that I can't remember (something about Don putting his own name on it, rather than the firm's?)

think it may have been the opposite, he put the firm's name on it and published it but didn't run it by anyone else?

i sort of want to attack Ray Wise and i have no idea why.