Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

i like that there will be a yearlong break (or more). this kind of takes up a lot of time, watching and thinking about etc. moving on to other things.

Lady Lazarus closing montage w/ other songs from Revolver:

http://vimeo.com/44437420

i give that another half hour of existence

Eleanor Rigby works a little too well.

A college professor of mine had a 1968 XKE, and told me about how he once defiantly stormed out of a faculty meeting only for his Jag to hilariously not start. As soon as Lane connected the hose I thought, yep, not gonna start.

Plus, didn't Roger have some line about how they never start in the previous episode?

My mom still has her '67 XKE she bought new and the electrical problems are indeed legendary. By the early 70s, the faults with the Lucas-built electrics were so bad that Lucas became better known as "The Prince Of Darkness" - striking down innocent cars without warning. Lucas Electrics jokes are everywhere among gearheads from the basic "Q. Why do the English drink warm beer? A. Because they have Lucas refrigerators." to complicated eBay auctions for Lucas magic smoke. There's a page of this stuff: http://www.mez.co.uk/lucas.html

lmao those are great

nice to see jared harris get an emmy nom on his way out! also lol for days @ jon hamm being nominated for both don draper and his racist caricature "abner" from the 30 rock live episode

Jon Hamm: able to offend EVERYONE, remain sexy whilst doing so

his first 30 Rock Live show was better imo but either way, the man deserves some credit for his comedy chops! He's consistent gold on 30 Rock.

jon hamm stole both of those 30 rock episodes, either way.

BANJO

Peggy to remain as central character

phew!

feel like the "what is happiness? it's just the moment before you want more happiness" line is kind of a major signpost for where Don is going next season

to lots more happiness!!!

lol

Season 6 is happening next spring/summer right?

I don't think they've said yet, but hopefully they'll keep going with the spring season so I don't have to wait over a year for new eps.

I think AMC is sticking w/spring rollouts for this show from here on out. I just hope they don't split the last season into halves like Breaking Bad.

It's not as plot intensive/obsessed with tying up loose ends as BB, so you'd think a thirteen ep final season should be fine.

I thought there were two more seasons planned

yeah there are 7 total seasons planned iirc

yum spring rolls

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o man

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/mar/11/mad-men-new-series-new-hire

MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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ugh, fat betty

fat betty was amazing. i think the scene where she goes to sneak a little whipped cream from the fridge, aerosols it into her mouth, gets disgusted with herself and spits it out in the sink is maybe the best scene in the entire series

best scene of the series tbh vv

http://oi34.tinypic.com/11w6ck2.jpg

otm

Fat Betty was solid, I thought. Better than hiding the pregnancy by holding bags and pots of flowers or what have you.

^^it also allowed them into an early Weight Watcher's meeting.

Bob Benson - Cuban refugee?

Wrong thread. Damn.

Accidentally posted some stuff about the first few episodes on the Season 4 thread...Finished last night. The last three episodes were very dark--convincingly so. (Peggy quitting, Joan's partnership, Lane.) Arguments between Don and Megan aren't as interesting as arguments between Don and Betty. Kinsey's return was less than what I'd hoped for. Sally and Greg continue to be compelling. There was a scene that I thought might have been the worst yet: Don's meeting with Dow chemical, where he tries to rah-rah them into wanting 100%. (I would think any client would have laughed him out of the room, yet even Leland Palmer seemed impressed.) Loved Peggy's little smile at the elevator as "You Really Got Me" started up at the end of the one episode--resurrected the song for me. The Lovin' Spoonful were great too; didn't know "Butchie's Tune" at all, had to look it up.

"Tomorrow Never Knows" was, of course, spectacular. I really regret not following the show when that first aired. (Hearing about it was possibly the first thing that made me decide I had to watch the show eventually.) I'd looked briefly at a YouTube clip already, but the sound was low, and I didn't know any of the context. "When did music suddenly become so important?"--that set everything up. I think Don meant the question purely in an advertising context, but the Beatles answered it in a much deeper way.

And Roger. If I could have chosen anybody to drop acid, he would have been my first choice by far. The way he asked Megan's mom "Would you take LSD with me?", he was like a little kid on Christmas morning. And the final shot of him naked at the window was brilliant.

Kinsey's return was less than what I'd hoped for.

aw c'mon this episode was incredible. the star trek script! Harry unable to resist the sexual wiles of hippie chick!

I don't know, I just didn't care for him in that guise. I liked the woman, and I thought Harry's gesture of sending him off to California with $500 was one of his better moments.

Kinsey being a Hare Krishna is one of the best jokes the series has ever done.

Buried in one of the episodes was one of my favorite lines yet (Roger, of course): "Joan wanted to have baby...I figured, why do that to anybody?"

(Jane, I meant, not Joan.)

Harry's gesture of sending him off to California with $500 was one of his better moments

I generally hate Harry, such a schmuck, but agree about this bit

harry's an interested character, like you can see him morph over the seasons from this somewhat put-upon nice guy to this careerist slickster who at his core remains a nice guy, but he's covering it up with this strained douchebaggery, like this effort at being a don or a roger but only copying their worst surface qualities that he's learned from their nights out or something, but never developing as he's aged their genuinely decent qualities. and i like how his success is happening in the background and everyone is missing the boat he seems to have caught. he's basically the type of guy who runs listicle sites in the 21st century.

he's not a nice guy

well he started off as one but the thing is that core of a nice guy is shrinking rapidly with every season and now he's becoming more and more this empty douchebag, but in the first season or two he was a "nice guy" but in the way we talk about those creepy indie rock nice guys who end up being assholes. seems to me he wasn't exactly a natural asshole, he has decided to become one.

creepy indie rock nice guys who end up being assholes

haha yeah this sounds about right

Shakey's rabidly anti-Harry stance still bemuses and delights me

it's true, I want to see him run over by a bus full of hippies or something

just recalling that Wire-style montage at the end of Season 5; that was great. actually i wonder if it's fair to say The Wire 'invented' that particular style of montage at the end of seasons of TV, sorta feels like they did.

"Butchie's Tune" is an old favorite that I didn't realize anyone else cared about, it put that episode over the top for me, totally devastating.