MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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I think Pete's mad about the realization that the easiest way for him to get laid and not pay for it is w/guys. On top of that, the fact that it was BOB, whom he had gotten along with and had no real rivalry with (aside from the Chevy thing, which hasn't been addressed yet). He has no friends.

xpost: haha, speaking of homoerotic themes...

first person who has ever really wanted him and pursued him tbh

great episode, loved that juice scene.

the music after sally finds don and silvia is kinda ridiculous - obv it's traumatic but it is like as if she just found him beside a pile of bodies with a knife.

I have so much less respect for Bob Benson after all that, months of Mr Perfect and after all that he's hot for Pete? Literally any other person in the agency would be preferable, including Bert Cooper and he has no balls.

i like that don knows so little about sally these days that he thinks the old "she was very sad, so i was comforting her (in the vagina)" play would work.

jim cutler looks like the old man from up when he was youngeer

"she was very sad, so i was comforting her (in the vagina)"

and Don is silver-tongued enough to know how to insert the parentheses.

Don't think Don really expected to convince Sally, more like he just wanted to give her an alternate theory they could both pretend to believe. "You won't believe how much this never happened" all over again.

Surely he and Megan will be through by the end of the season though, right? Either Sally will tell, it will come up in an uncomfortable dining scene or something?

Megan hopelessly hoping for a better connection can only last so long I'd say. Her trying to kiss him when Don was going after Sally and found Megan home was painful to watch.

Don is going to convince Sally to murder Megan for him to end his sham of a marriage

it will be his best sales pitch ever

berry good

this was the first ep of the season that I liked

has someone done a 3 hour supercut of all the previously on mad mens yet

I obv mean on the next ep of mad men

first person who has ever really wanted him and pursued him tbh
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the most recent time got him separated from his wife about five eps ago.

yeah that girl literally threw herself at him

or else she just REALLY liked "Hair"

if anything, I think Pete's shown a consistent willingness to ignore or desert people who show him love in favor of his own self-interest

tbh ive always liked pete in spite of his bad actions -- feel like his candor w peggy in this ep was a nice reminder that this dude is basically just FLAWED MAN WALKING through all the seasons, not a villain, per se.

he's the longtime regular who feels most like a type to me, like his primary role on the show is to be an indicator of a particular kind of old wasp. even when he raped the au pair it felt more like, this is just what guys like him feel entitled to rather than a particular personal failing (and how the au pair's boss responded reinforced that).

roger is obv from that same world but his big personality helps him break out of type, gives him some verve.

I forgot about the au pair

I've maintained for a while now that the whole appeal of this show isn't really plot so much as allowing these really rich and interesting characters to inhabit the screen. It's really pleasurable in that way. Perhaps that's its debt to the sopranos.

Hence the central irony of don being such a flat character in some ways? But I dunno. Whenever any "depth" is added to his character it only serves to make him that much more of some american archetype.

Pete's a total shit. Massive insecurity time bomb waiting to go off.

tho sometimes I wonder if the strangeness of don's past, particularly in how increasingly distant it feels in time and history, is part of the point.

don's trying really hard to be an american archetype!

True. I guess the irony for me is that (intentionally or not) his past is so archetypical too! phony on both sides.

the rural son of a prostitute Horatio Alger self-made slick con man advertising genius philanderer.

reminds me that this show often puts me in mind of Nathaniel West.

I said this upthread but after this episode Pete looks more than ever like a Haldeman aide – and just the sort whom H.R. would recruit.

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Haldeman would never recruit a Kennedy supporter

Sure he would. Dick loved recruiting Dems.

"A Kennedy voter! Working for me!"

don's character is the only thing that often doesn't make sense to me on this show!

I love that Don almost sunk Chevy for a chance to get with Sylvia again.

i think don had convinced himself he was doing it for other reasons, though that came apart quickly when he talked to sylvia

Bob is a mysterious wizard

Mitchell is like 2 years older than my dad. Don't think my dad had those pants ever.

is this in reference to Pete? Because he's been the object of desire multiple times on the show and the most recent time got him separated from his wife about five eps ago.
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really? the instance you named there is the only time i could think of, and it seemed like she was flirting with him but he still was the...idk, pursuer, enactor. she seems stiff and afraid and unsure of why she's there when they hook up. i can't remember anyone else desiring him but tbh i remember like 5% of what happens on this damn show so that means nothing

sally otm with "....ok" - really the only possible response to don's through-the-door excuse-making

xp Rory Gilmore was quite active wasn't she? I can't quite remember?

Bob's affection for Pete may have disappointed me but I think his short shorts are acting on me the way the Clown College billboard acted on Homer.

do you think bob is really wild about pete or just like, i want to hook up with someone and hey this guy seems pretty gay

i think don had convinced himself he was doing it for other reasons, though that came apart quickly when he talked to sylvia

i think he probably was doing it out of guilt towards arnold too, which is kinda twisted. "i'll do you this favour that allows me to resume sleeping with your wife."

agreed. i think his relationship with arnold is what was guiding that, at least in the beginning. obv he hopped on sylvia as soon as poss tho

He really really likes Arnold is the sad thing.

yeah he kind of looks up to him actually

The only other actual friend he's had is Anna, thinking about it. Maybe Roger counts, I dunno.