haha what
― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
was wondering wtf an Old Spanish was tbh
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.vice.com/en_au/read/the-mad-men-writers-are-working-on-a-show-about-nasa-in-the-60s
YES!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 25 April 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
omg omg omg please please please be awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 April 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
Could be cool, as long as it doesn't ape the Mad Men aesthetic too much.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 25 April 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
yeah they better be testflying rockets and driving fast casrs and not sighing and staring out of windows
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 April 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
"Mad Men writers" is p vague, can't be referring to Weiner, but if it turns out to be the Jacquemettons this could be some good shit
― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Thursday, 25 April 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
Mad Style is always great, but TLo really outdid themselves this week: http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2013/04/mad-style-to-have-and-to-hold.html
― Roz, Friday, 26 April 2013 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
If mad men nasa show is lame I'll just watch the Right Stuff another hundred times.
― dan selzer, Friday, 26 April 2013 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
true :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 26 April 2013 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
what's ppl's take on from earth to the moon? i LOVED it but at the same time suspect it wasn't actually that great.
― balls, Friday, 26 April 2013 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
IT IS GREAT
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 26 April 2013 06:01 (eleven years ago) link
GREAT
It's been forever since I watched it, but I remember thinking it was really well done.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 26 April 2013 06:04 (eleven years ago) link
i watch it every couple of years but also i may be crazy biased
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 26 April 2013 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
haha, i've known ppl that found it both corny and boring and i find the subject too ridiculously awesome and interesting to make any reasonable judgment. i could tell it wasn't as good as the right stuff or band of brothers but beyond that i had no idea. have to admit if this nasa show happens and it matches my hopes it will provoke charges of boring that mad men could only dream of of approaching. i want entire episodes of engineers staring at a bunch of stuff on a table trying to figure out how to solve a problem and then at the end of that story arc - they figure it out and do the math and it works!
― balls, Friday, 26 April 2013 06:08 (eleven years ago) link
although i guess the possibility exists they would focus more on the astronauts lol
― balls, Friday, 26 April 2013 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
i want entire episodes of engineers staring at a bunch of stuff on a table trying to figure out how to solve a problem and then at the end of that story arc - they figure it out and do the math and it works!
God yes! I would watch the heck out of this show. Give me it!
The two articles I've read (one from Vice and the original from Florida Today) make it sound like it will focus on the astronauts and press covering the space program, though.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 26 April 2013 06:11 (eleven years ago) link
Even though it's still in just its idea stage, I can't imagine a network passing on something with Mad Men ties and about the race to the moon unless it's just completely unwatchable...and even then NBC might go for it.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 26 April 2013 06:13 (eleven years ago) link
i couldn't imagine hbo passing on something w/ sopranos ties and yet mad men on AMC
― balls, Friday, 26 April 2013 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
That worked out in my favor, though, having never subscribed to HBO except for the three years I had a roommate who paid for it.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 26 April 2013 06:18 (eleven years ago) link
once in a while this show reminds you what th majority of pop culture was like in that era and its so brutal
"How about John Wayne in a sketch version of Camelot?"
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 27 April 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
oh look MLK is dead
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 April 2013 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
O_O
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Monday, 29 April 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
this mark e. smith looking guy is something else
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Monday, 29 April 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, April 27, 2013 4:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah all those huge blockbuster musicals in that era. although those nearly died out after some brutal flops in the late 60s.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 29 April 2013 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
This episode felt like all onboard sitting down for a rest.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 April 2013 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
So I was a week early on the MLK-death pool
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 29 April 2013 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
ginsberg MVP of this episode
― a sentimental knife (reddening), Monday, 29 April 2013 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
jeez i know i'm sorta just hanging out in here going tsk tsk tsk but what the hell with this season.
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 April 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
Remember what Tecumseh said.
― Young Boy Befriends Orange, Tangy Larvae in Luxs' Early (zero of the signified), Monday, 29 April 2013 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
i guffawed at the second avenue line gagand creepy guy from lost was enjoyably, if pointlessly oddalso larry hamlin has bad breathother than that, nothin'
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 April 2013 06:17 (eleven years ago) link
i agree this episode was kind of a nonentity, though i enjoyed the planet of the apes inclusion.
― Paddy Findle (Treeship), Monday, 29 April 2013 06:30 (eleven years ago) link
i guffawed at the second avenue line gag
the way they deliver those jokes is kind of weird. I immediately assumed that was some subway line that was never finished. I remember some other ny real estate jokes like that where they somehow make the joke obvious to outsiders. I was wondering if that made it still funny to new yorkers or if they laid it on too thick.
the wacko insurance dude must be one of roger's acid buddies right?
― wk, Monday, 29 April 2013 07:23 (eleven years ago) link
I also loled at megan's marxist dad's line
― wk, Monday, 29 April 2013 07:24 (eleven years ago) link
I really liked this one. Enjoyed the callback to the JFK ep (one of their absolute best imho) when Betty wouldn't let the kids watch the news. And "Love Is Blue"!
also: "Henry isn't that important."
also 2: I can't be the only one getting serious Rob Reiner/Meathead vibes off Abe?
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 April 2013 09:11 (eleven years ago) link
The JFK episode was one of the worst episodes of this series, and honestly (I get the show via Amazon and will be watching it tonight) I'm kinda dreading seeing this one. I may put it off for a night and just watch Vikings on Hulu instead.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 29 April 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
that was my thinking
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 April 2013 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
Roger did say weirdo Mapother had stopped him from jumping off of a roof, so almost definitely.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Monday, 29 April 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
Stan's "I am soooooo hiiiigh right now" stifled laughter was one of the highlights for me (along with Joan awkwardly hugging Dawn).
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 29 April 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think you had to be high to be trying not to laugh at that guy! I think Ginsberg was trying not to laugh as well.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Monday, 29 April 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
highlights:
1) awkward white people hugs2) headfake w/RFK re: the assassination3) "Henry isn't that important"4) Ginsberg5) Peggy wants kids now, isn't that cute
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 April 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
6) Pete, Harry and Cooper
― Roz, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
omg yes def
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 April 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
Bert Cooper is too much of a gentleman. I'd have let Harry and Pete punch each other out cold.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
definitely felt like they were trying to make something out of the various "business-minded" / cold / calculated responses to the tragedy (ad awards show went on as planned, Harry grousing about lost airtime, Peggy's realtor)
― dmr, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
trying, yes.
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
Mad Men, this season, was in dire need of a dramatic occurance like MLK's assasination. This was the best episode of the season. Not because of development, but because of the sense of 'urgency' it brought to every single character. I mean, blimey, even Pete was moved and lashed out at Harry!
Other than that, it is still pretty much going nowhere this season. Ginsberg is an odd distraction, doesn't make sense and the scenes with his dad are way too amateuristic, they give me nothing. Same goes for Betty: she's there, but she's not there. It's so thin.There was at least some more depth to Don this episode, being confronted with the troubles of his offspring, but his role this season is still very thin.
And yet, this was the best episode this season (apart from the opener). If they can keep this up and further develop these lines I am hopeful. I think the assasination of MLK, how the reactions of everyone were scripted, was really well done.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 April 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
I could've sworn Don had made that "heart about to burst" speech before... but about something else
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 April 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
Joan "trying" to hug Dawn was so so painful to watch though
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 April 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link