Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

yeah I mean I don't hateee mad men...I like the *idea*, I like the lol60s shit...but it's just toooooo slowwwww and repetitive for me and I realized I was pretty much forcing myself to sit through every new episode.

anyway I have no interest in trolling this thread.

Season three is the worst one IMO. Loved season four.

But to any newbies: When I started watching I thought it was merely interesting until about halfway through the first season, then I realised I love it. Persevere, watch it in order, it's a slow burner.

i find myself thinking of that NYRB crit of it whenever i think of this recently, maybe because it charged the show with being soap opera-ish & i have reduced don draper to being a moody, glowering, tall dark handsome soap opera figure

i like this show but i kind of dont miss it

good riddance to agreeable television drama

Man, Sally is going to look like she's 20 when it comes on again.

Well, they've already had her masturbating, so she is growing up. S5 is shooting now, right?

yep.

Since season 4 was 1964-65, I would think season 5 should be around 1967-68...?

i would've thought they'd try to go a little slower than that, but that's not based on/might be contrary to whatever's been customary until now. like i woulda thought 66/67. it depends how long the guy envisions it living on for i guess?

I missed one episode last season, the one where don and peggy get drunk together. My gf summed it up for me at the time so I was able to watch the rest of the eps during the season, and when I watched it for the first time a few days ago, it was alright, like I could see that the only reason I really watched all the eps was momentum

I met weiner once at the beverly hills hotel, kinda surreal because I was lost and out on the pool deck area when it happened

Season three is the worst one IMO. Loved season four.

wth

xp feel free to post that in the posts w/o context thread

this show is pretty great when you can watch 2-3 eps at a time and pretty excruciating on a week to week basis. like, the story arc to season 4 is pretty good (if maddening and depressing) but also pretty annoying when its coming in drips and drabs.

I missed one episode last season, the one where don and peggy get drunk together. My gf summed it up for me at the time so I was able to watch the rest of the eps during the season, and when I watched it for the first time a few days ago, it was alright, like I could see that the only reason I really watched all the eps was momentum

I know what you mean about momentum, but I also think "The Suitcase" was the best episode of the season!

^ yeah, all-time ep right there

it was a really good episode compared to other eps, and I liked it somewhat, and thought there were brilliant parts with brilliant bits of acting, but a lot of the episode, perhaps more than others, I don't know at this point because I haven't seen the show in a while, was don yelling at peggy for work related reasons, and when I was watching it, I guess, because I was removed from the mad men world, I couldn't help but think that I was glad I wasn't exposed to its world as much

i saw a little girl out to dinner with her family at a mexican restaurant last week that was a dead-ringer for sally. it was so uncanny i almost said something to the parents but i told myself to forget it and finish my nachos.

"hey uh I dunno if you know this but your daughter looks a lot like a child star that some nerds on the internet really can't wait to see grow up into a teenager!"

yeah nachos was probably the better move

FYI I recommend that everyone into this show watch the movie version of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" with Robert Morse

LOL

hahahahaha

hahaha burn

FYI I recommend that everyone into this show watch the movie version of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" with Robert Morse

Yeah, the parallels are pretty funny. Morse is great in The Loved One too. Mad Men also reminds me of The Sweet Smell of Success.

predictions on the degree to which dialogue this season will be "on the nose"?

I loved it when Mad Men referenced The Apartment (season and episode escapes me). In season four Roger is on the phone speaking to a Louise about a Larry...the Tate's no doubt, finally acknowledging the comparison's to Bewitched.

Sorry about that pesky apostrophe.....blush.

The Apartment ref was in the first season, near the end I think. Joan was chewing Roger out about using women and told him he should see the movie and change his tune.

...and to complete the circle, David White played both Mr. Tate on "Bewitched" and Mr. Eichelberger in The Apartment.

But to any newbies: When I started watching I thought it was merely interesting until about halfway through the first season, then I realised I love it. Persevere, watch it in order, it's a slow burner.

Yeah, this is pretty much my experience too. Basically I was watching it to bask in the glory of Joan and gradually got into the surrounding plotlines.

R u one of those ppl who sits around watching AMC dramas all nite, tweeting abt how AMAZEBALLS they are?

Walked by a Banana Republic tonight. The big poster in the window asked me if I am a Betty.

Well?

I don't really think there's an answer. I think the significance is in asking the question.

uch, you're such a Betty.

Keep getting BR MM collection ads in my FB feed ATM.

That's a lot of abbreviations.

Do they have a "Are You A Pete?" poster

Banana republic really on the cutting edge with this mad men collection

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=66393

So when does this actually start?

via wiki: "The fifth season is scheduled to premiere on March 16, 2012."

crap, I was hoping it was sooner :(

can't wait! i don't remember exactly when it's supposed to start, but sometime this Spring, right? if only there was an internet to help determine the answer!

march 2012, sez some place on the internet

I can wait. I think.

SPOILER i hear don draper broods a lot next season SPOILER

read "breeds" at first

It has been off the air so long that I barely remember what even happened last season. It's hard to get excited about it.

^^^

I assume this season will begin in 1975, it feels like they've been gone so long

im sorta not looking forward to this. so sick of don and his bullshit. would be really excited if the next season was peggy-only

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.

I go back and forth on Harry. He's been rotten at times, other times an okay guy just trying to do his job.

I was playing "Butchie's Tune" in class, found the whole scene posted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IUyhEr8dFk

Glen really deserves a spin-off show. Once an episode at a key moment, he'll turn to the camera, smile, and deliver his beloved "See? It all turns to crap" catchphrase.

ugh I hate that recap montage style - surely other cop shows did that before the Wire?

"Butchie's Tune" previous fit of exposure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ArHxmELYg

Antonioni had some English session guys do these two Spoonful covers.

Didn't Sopranos do a similar style of montage at the beginning/end of a coupla seasons?

def

this thread is really funny

like I was just scanning it because I've been rewatching s5 and there are a lot of genuine lolz

my posting style 6 years ago is kinda setting my teeth on edge

I saw a post from 15 years ago saying I loved potlucks. I fucking hate potlucks.

so, is it me or does this show skip almost the entirety of 1967?

Season 5 ends a few months after Christmas 1966 - Lane forges the check around Xmas and then a couple episodes later he's dead. The last episode seems to take place in maybe spring of '67?

And then when season 6 starts I think we're already in 1968?

Yeah. IIRC, they completely skip over the Summer of Love. Cagey.

The way the finale drew Don into real-life events, they could have started that in 1967: Don goes back to see Anna's niece, she drags him to Monterey, clip of Janis Joplin singing "Ball and Chain," and instead of a stunned Mama Cass, you instead cut to a stunned Don Draper.

...and then he hooks up with her.

Lol

Won't try to open this whole thread to see if there's a similar post, but beautiful images near the end of "Tea Leaves" where the kids chase fireflies on the front lawn.

https://mindlessones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/fireflies1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iw0euc4qDk