For me the Sopranos reminder was in the Hawaii section, how it was reminiscent of the surreal experiences whenever Tony left the Northeast. Also reminiscent of the Tony-coma season opener and all its trippy travel dreams.
Thought the late-night drinks was going to turn into a key party.
― cougars and sneezers (Eazy), Monday, 8 April 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
xpost They bring back Alexis Bledel so she can leave Pete again and get a job following McGovern on the campaign trail.
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 April 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
― cougars and sneezers (Eazy), Monday, April 8, 2013 4:35 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha I definitely thought that's where that was going myself, the third couple seemed into it.
― HIGH-FIVES TO ALL MY COWORKERS AT THE QBERT SEX SWING (silby), Monday, 8 April 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I was hoping! especially the flirty non-Linda wife
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 April 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
Don's not into sharing
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 April 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
He's just generous with his cock.
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 April 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
key parties weren't a thing until the 70s right?
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
Not a "thing", no, but they existed in the '60s - Malcolm X wrote about 'em in his autiobio
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
roger sterling still my spirit animal
― I, rrational (mh), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
Joan is still mine. We've both faded off into the background despite our ginormous breasts.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.thingx.tv/articles/mad-men-poetry-recap-season-6-premiere-2335/
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
WHY ARE YOU IDIOTS EVER SURPRISEDWHEN IT TURNS OUT I'M CHEATING WITH A LUSCIOUS OLD BRUNETTE???
― HIGH-FIVES TO ALL MY COWORKERS AT THE QBERT SEX SWING (silby), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
Was wondering when people were going to find out that Don choked that woman to death in his own bedroom last season.Ha!
She reminded me a bit of Ollie, as in Oliver J. Dragon.
― *tera, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't quite following the timescales with the doorman collapsing, was he literally back at work the next day or had they chopped up the narrative in some way? When Don arrived back at work they made it sound like he'd just got off the flight but there was that whole episode with the doctor and the doorman in the middle of all that.
I guess the lighter thing will tie in in some way to the kid who got married on the beach who I would imagine is not long for this world and that may precede some kind of major Don breakdown. The worse it gets in Vietnam the more unlikely it seems that it wouldn't be having some kind of effect on Don, given what we know. It seemed to take about five minutes for Don to say anything and they kept us guessing as to what he was actually thinking for the entire episode.
I'm not sure why Don would go for the doctor's wife other than through some kind of grim compulsion at this point.
Betty/violinist storyline was pretty enjoyable in that it gave that character some sort of purpose other than wallowing in constant sour self-preoccupation.
No idea where they're going with the try-hard accountant type. Enjoyed Peggy laying into her creative team like Don in his prime - I hope she beats him on a pitch at some point soon.
That said this was a bit of a slog in its entirety, don't think it really needed to be two episodes back to back.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
i was just going to bring this up. it was very strange.
they make it very clear that don is going back to work the day after he gets home from hawaii.
and yet... it seems that when they arrive home, the doorman has the heart attack, then there's a cut to him all better and thankful and giving don a present.
so was his heart attack a flashback to something that happened before they went to hawaii? iirc megan says something about not being glad to be back in the cold weather right before he has his heart attack though.
so what exactly happened there?
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
It seemed incredibly sloppy to me.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
naw, that would be sloppiness on a level i can't imagine m-weinz, or... anyone else... really allowing to happen on a major show. or any tv show. it was WEIRD.
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
It was elliptical for window dressings' sake.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
don is now in the multiverse, experiencing all things at all times
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
pretty cool having your season premiere be all about death
― I, rrational (mh), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
what do u mean by window dressing?
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
wiki - Megan and Don return home from their trip and Megan asks their doorman, "Jonesy," (Ray Abruzzo) how he's feeling. In a sudden flashback to a few weeks earlier in the same location, Don and Megan watch Jonesy collapse from an apparent heart attack. Another building tenant, a doctor, begins applying chest compressions, as is shown in the opening shot of the episode. Flashing forward again to the present, Jonesy is apparently healthy and back at work, joking that his wife "couldn't wait to get [him] out of the house."
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
what signified the flashback?
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
The confusing thing, then, is that Megan is constantly going out to California to shoot her scenes, I presume. It made it seem like they came back from the same vacation in parallel universes.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
So, yeah, not sloppy but needlessly confusing.
maybe they did. that poster for the season looks like it's Don passing Don on the sidewalk, right?
spooky
― I, rrational (mh), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
i loved the technique they used with the jolting flashback
what signified the flashback?― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, April 9, 2013 4:39 AM (2 minutes ago)
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, April 9, 2013 4:39 AM (2 minutes ago)
different clothes, for one
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
it does feel like the pt of it was how close u are 2 dying at any instant i guess
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
i like her violin case; it looks like a coffin
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
I wouldn't rule out Don having a heart attack or some other kind of major health collapse this season, there seemed to be a lot of foreshadowing.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
Like we were meant to think the very opening scene was through the doorman's eyes but... why would they shoot an opening scene through the eyes of a character we've never seen before? Could well be misdirection.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
i read it as don's preoccupation with death/everything falling apart at a moment's notice
the scene when they're dragging him in drunk later in the ep reveals he's been curious as to what the doorman's experience was like
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like they really portrayed awkward drunk questioning pretty well, there
― I, rrational (mh), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
jon hamm is consistently v good at looking v drunk.
― a similar stunt failed to work with a cow (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
Also drunk on looking good.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
i love don when he's a sloshed mess, so childlike
weird episode, pleasing to watch but yeah unusually sloppy and none of the themes seemed to quite work right. was sort of annoyed in advance at all the thousand word blog posts i imagined were being written disagreeing with this and doing the show's thinking for it
don's suicide pitch was hilarious, roger piping up with the film the dude was trying to remember killed me
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
became really obsessed with the number of times don got away with totally blanking questions people asked him. i guess that was a big contributor to the dream sequency feel
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
betty i dont even know what she's supposed to be any more
where do you think they're going with this creepy bootlickin bob dude
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
he's going to go postal on the office
― I, rrational (mh), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
until cosgrove shot him down i was half expecting bob to be a running figment of don's imagination
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
cosgrove going hard on that guy was awesome
― I, rrational (mh), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
I remember him as the guy from Lone Star, that got cancelled way too soon.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
My favorite bit with that guy is that Pete took his other cup of coffee without a word.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
Being shot down by Kenny, who's seemingly consistently chipper with everyone, really cemented that dude's place on the pecking order. Only a slapdown from Harry would be worse.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
I like Bob.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
He was born 10 years too late.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
His goofy smile in the elevator reminded me of the flashback of don in the elevator with roger.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://i45.tinypic.com/25psh80.png
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
• Daytime TV Star• French Canadian• Did not get mad when theh milkshake spill.• Runs out to get weed for Weird husband Don
<3
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― ω (carne asada), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link