perhaps Kinsey will refine his script
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Shakey did the research I thought I was going to have to do :) I vaguely remembered this episode and wondered if it ad a similar storyline.
― *tera, Monday, 21 May 2012 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
one of my favorite OST episodes, not least because of the ridiculously heavy-handed metaphor, which even so is less clunky than Kinsey's "Negron Complex" concept
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think it's only happened a couple other times, but when Don and Joan are together just being Don and Joan it's one of the best parts of the series.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, May 21, 2012 5:28 AM (18 hours ago)
Oh yes, so nice that the two massively attractive TV characters can just talk, with barely a smidgen of will they/won't they (barely. And they won't).
it occurs to me that christina hendricks is a good actress.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf
This occurred to me in the first season.
So many hearty laughs from the return of Kinsey - he's a Hari Krishna! He's written a spec episode for fucking Star Trek!
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm still a bit narky about the absolute ludicrousness of all English accents that pop up in this show.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
hendricks has taken a turn for the much better on the acting front this season
― phooey and nuts and phooey (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
she's always been good. she's probably the best actor on the show with anything do do.
― jed_, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
there are other good actors, like robert morse/bert cooper, but we don't see much of them.
― jed_, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
btw i couldn't make out the note on joan's flowers.
― jed_, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
They were from Don - "Your mother trained you well" or some such.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
signed, Ali khan
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 01:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, at the bar she said something like "My mother trained me to be irresistible" or something like that.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty great episode! everything about harry and kinsey was hilarious and sad.
kind of dreading any financial shenanigans plot bullshit going forward tho
― goole, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
why so? seems pretty well motivated given what we know of lane's situation and character.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
So ARE they setting us up for Don and Joan having a thing? Or was this episode as far as they'll take it?
― America's Mobile, Monday, May 21, 2012 11:37 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i didnt get the impression they were implying this at all. the dialogue was more about don having a fight of self-determination v. fate iirc, & ends w him driving a car really really fast
i rewound that convo she & he had to rewatch to try to better understand their diff perspectives on the cheating spouse
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 09:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is staying with the Hare Krishnas necessarily any better than heading off to LA and facing almost certain failure at being a scriptwriter? Dude seemed in a pretty vulnerable state and that's hardly going to help from what I can see. Peggy was probably OTM earlier in the episode.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 09:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
LA in the mid-late 60s -- so many more fun cults he could join!
― sarahell, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 09:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is staying with the Hare Krishnas necessarily any better than heading off to LA and facing almost certain failure at being a scriptwriter?
yeah i can easily see kinsey panhandling on the streets of hollywood in a few years (or months). when his "screenwriting" ambitions turn up nothing, does he seem grounded enough to like get a job as a waiter or something?
he'll probably end up hanging out with charles manson and dennis wilson.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 09:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
peggy was great!
― goole, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
That could be her in three years, so the smugness about Kinsey's downfall was nagl I thought.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
I just realized - he was the best Krishna recruiter ever because of his advertizing background!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
What was it Peggy said? "If it doesn't come easy for him, then he shouldn't bother"? I thought that said a lot about her own attitude about work and her career.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
well the implication was if a script that bad didn't come easy then maybe he should try something else
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
i saw hare krishnas at the airport today for the first time in years! pretty cool.
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 23:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
aside from the really charming joan and don love-in i found p. much everything else in this episode unconvincing. esp the hare krishna thing.
― jed_, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 23:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
what does that mean 'unconvincing'
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 23:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
what it always means!
― jed_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
the jaguar salesman was convincing
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
then why you smell of british sterling?
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
why are you being so condescending? oh wait, it's you. care to provide your flaky thoughts on the french cultural theorist du jour?
i love the world of intrigue this line effortlessly invokes
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
talk about condensing.
― jed_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
um, condescending
i'm just a pulpist
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
jed-I agree...
― *tera, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
i find that unconvincing
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Hare Krishna storyline seemed a bit sloppy. Liked seeing Kinsey but...meh. I could see how he would be the type to go exploring cults and how subcultures appeal to that character but the show seems to try and incorporate too much pop culture at once this season. Or was I just annoyed with this episode.
― *tera, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
given that the mid-60s was when pop culture REALLY went into overdrive, this seems entirely appropriate
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
They could've just found Kinsey in some storefront "cool" xtian church, but then we wouldn't have had the pleasure of his Krishna haircut.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
the theater and post-play argument between Don & Megan was awesome
― sarahell, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
I guess my main question coming out of the episode was whether Don is throwing himself back into his work for good reasons (he really has been slacking, needs to focus) or bad reasons (Megan is too hard for him to deal with so he's gonna live at the office for six weeks). The fact that Megan was pushing him to try harder at work makes it a complicated question.
― dmr, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think the joan dinner reminded him that there's more to live for than megan
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
also tooling around in a jag and megan freaking out with the spaghettihe likes domesticity but is trying to determine how to balance his life now that megan isn't the constant.tried making everything a playground, now will try to make his life a battlefielddude has trouble with half measures
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
given that the mid-60s was when pop culture REALLY went into overdrive, this seems entirely appropriateYeah, this is true.....
― *tera, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
megan is awesome you goon
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost
I like Megan a whole lot more, her charm is diminishing.
― *tera, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Kinsey is such a pathetic Krishna lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
i liked the joke about him working at A&P.
― tim machine (get bent), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
still cracking up every time I think of "there's an airplane here to see you."
― s.clover, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, laughed so hard at that
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink