Don's last moment with what's her name on the elevator was ice-cold.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 May 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
I like how he didn't let her out first.
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 May 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
I also liked how this episode underscored how Don has essentially lost his gift creatively - in previous all-nighter stressfests he's always pulled something out from deep within himself, and this time he couldn't do it, his realization (that he's trapped in a whorehouse of his own making) was of no use.
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 May 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Would have liked to have seen Bob's reaction to the guys getting B12.
"Hey fellas, slow down! You don't need that stuff! I've got two cups of coffee right here, and believe you me, there's more on the way!"
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 May 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Coffee > speed
― ...also i'm awesome (Nicole), Monday, 20 May 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
Just Say BOB
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 May 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
waiting for them to go full Twin Peaks tie-in with BOB tbh
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 May 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
i have been completely rapt watching this season (and lurking on this thread), but STILL i was unprepared for the depth/darkness/quality of last night.
1. ken dancing lynchian2. don recognizing the secretary from where? and all attention is drawn to it, and we have no idea. i love the comment tipsy mothra made about things unraveling for the characters as an effective late-60s thing3. xacto in the arm!4. home invasion! 5. i really hope don dies, and the final season is some kind of dark bizarre magical realism shit6. maybe not that last one
― 69, Monday, 20 May 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
xp haha yeah BOB
― 69, Monday, 20 May 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
don recognizing the secretary from where? and all attention is drawn to it, and we have no idea.
She had a lot of the same features as the prostitute, she just wasn't made up like her or had the bleached blond hair. That was the only thing I could think of.
― ...also i'm awesome (Nicole), Monday, 20 May 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, thats what i figured too -- im glad it wasnt made TOO clear to us, though. and i kind of hope we dont hear anything more about it.
― 69, Monday, 20 May 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
I was really expecting someone to die this episode
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 20 May 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
the sixties
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 May 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
this is a pretty good piece: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/05/out-loud-emily-nussbaum-mad-men.html
― 69, Monday, 20 May 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
Cutler inviting Peggy to join him watch Rizzo bang Gleason's hippie waif daughter.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 May 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
At this point I don't really care what happened to him in the past, I'm so tired of the flashbacks.― ...also i'm awesome (Nicole), Monday, May 20, 2013 7:49 AM
― ...also i'm awesome (Nicole), Monday, May 20, 2013 7:49 AM
This. I'm sorry, person who plays young Don, but please never come back.
― Jaq, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
flashbacks don't bother me, I assume they're leading up to something - a little mini story-arc within the larger narrative
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 May 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
some better get me a gif of tapdancing ken cosgrove or this is all for naught
sally & the intruder lady genuinely stressful. i was half wondering if don really HAD given her they in his wacked out amphetamine haze
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 May 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
they? *the key* I meant
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 May 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cosgrove-dance.gif
― waterface, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
as soon as I thought "c'mon Sally is too smart for this", Sally called the cops
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 May 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
xp
sally rules
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 May 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
broken heart line was also lol
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 May 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
awesome that pills and dieting are so completely effective, i should totally try that. also amps
I'm pretty sure amphetamine "diet pills" were available otc at the time so yeah, they probably would have worked. I guess betty's a speed freak too?
― wk, Monday, 20 May 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
iirc betty asked for speed diet pills many seasons ago & her doctor turned her down?
― discreet, Monday, 20 May 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
oh wait that was an abortion nm
― discreet, Monday, 20 May 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
loved the banter between Sally and Betty over the skirt
― balls, Monday, 20 May 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
betty vocally reinforcing don's unspoken view of megan
― discreet, Monday, 20 May 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
Betty wanted diet pills last seasn, but the dc turned her down because he thought her weight issues were due to tyroid problems, possibly even cancer. They later showed her going to Weight Watchers.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 May 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
speed doesn't make you hallucinate does it? maybe in crazy high doses?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist),
Not intensely, but sleep deprivation sure does.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 20 May 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulant_psychosis
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 May 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
didn't seem like anyone was hallucinating, strictly speaking
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 May 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
just don
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 May 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
re grandma ida -- for a show that has been criticized widely for its handling of race, i was a little smdh about them making their next black character A CRIMINAL.
― leno dunham (get bent), Monday, 20 May 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
more of a walk-on role than a "next black character" but yeah that occurred to me too
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
was half-expecting a "white people are CRAZY" speech from Dawn at some point tbh
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
were you now
― balls, Monday, 20 May 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
i laughed at "are we negroes?" though.
― leno dunham (get bent), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that was funny
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
it was definitely not a good look
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
I saw them as a ham-fisted means of shoehorning his relationship issues (with his significant others, and with his kids) into a certain context.
Oh sure. But this is so glib, you know? It's fitting that the writers use the most reductive kind of psychology to explain characters maturing in an era when the most reductive kind of psychology was most fashionable.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 20, 2013 11:19 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you mean the 1940s?
pop-freudianism was at its height during 1940s and 1950s.
though truth be told various brands of reductive pop-psychology have been with us since 1920s at least and they're not going away
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
stimulant psychosis is totally real come on people
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
also i don't think they are being that meta. i do think we are to take the flashbacks as somehow revealing. i don't think we're supposed to question them.
it'd be funny if later they were all revealed as false flashbacks (a la hitchcock's stage fright) and don's "origin story" was actually growing up in suburban connecticut in a nuclear family with a lot of funny sisters.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 20 May 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
xpost
haha, that would be amazing.
― wk, Monday, 20 May 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
all of his flashbacks are an elaborate ad campaign for soup
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 May 2013 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
or oatmeal
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 May 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
are we ever going to see that girl who dated jewboy again... or was the whole point of that subplot "here is ginsburg's unlikely chance at happiness and it was fucked over by MLK being assassinated"?
which is hilarious btw in a very grim way
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 20 May 2013 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
i thought ginsberg's dad setting him up with that girl was sweet... he wants his son to be happy, even though pragmatically it is in his interest for him to stay single, and keep living with him and helping out.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Monday, 20 May 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link