MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

I wish Pryce had lived long enough to have another New Year's debauch with Don! Such laughter they had.

Yeah, Lane and Don could bro down.

rewatching some old eps, so much stuff i forgot about. ken making fun of peggy for gaining weight, and pete clocking him.

I can finally articulate why this season has failed for me. When Peggy left last season it was one of the most real and consequential moments of the entire series. For the writers to simply undo this event on a whim (over a drink) really undermines the gravity of... everything! It's like the show isn't grounded anymore, because we know major plot points can simply be reversed.

Plus, these CGC agency folks are rather bland, compared to supporting characters from earlier seasons. The cultural commentary has become more overt, while the style is less refined.

I don't know if I agree with that. I think Peggy being unable to escape and getting sucked back into Don's vortex is a lot more interesting and satisfyingly realistic than giving her some kind of happy ending where she gains her independence.

Really? I like Harry Hamlin and the pilot guy. I can't remember their characters' names, but still.

Hamlin's great

pretty weird to see him because just before season 6 started we finished watching season 1 of Veronica Mars, where Hamlin plays a very different character. As someone who grew up watching Clash of the Titans on HBO, i'm a fan.

Shit, that old guy is Perseus! Literally no idea till just now.

lol u r young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIQxvUsIMvk

DOOOOOOO DOOOOOOO DOO DA DOOOOOOOOOOOOO (HELICOPTER SHOT OF SHINY BUILDING)

Roger Sterling s a much better realized example of a person who's an advertisement of himself, which Draper fails at being, alas. We should all be so lucky.

love the scene from a few seasons back where roger's ex-flame says something like, "you were galivanting about in your uniform, trying to be a character in someone's novel" -- think that really nails him.

trying to become a character, that should say

lol u r young

Ha, not that young. Just never watched LA Law/British.

yeah Hamlin's amazing.

Accidentally stumbled upon the episode from last season, which Lane Price hangs himself, on telly tonight... My oh my.

It's almost as if it is an entirely different series this season round. It was electric to watch. Don hungry and eager for Dow, the incredible scenes of Lane getting busted on the cheque, being fired by Don, trying to off himself in his new car but failing so resorts to hanging himself. Sally going to the museum with Glenn and having her first period...

I suppose I don't really have a point to make with this. But I was struck by how very different lots of these characters where just one season ago. Don in particular: he was eager for business, he let Glenn drive the car back home... Juxtaposed with this season it made me feel more how utterly empty, shallow and without direction he is now. He's not living for anything any more; he derives no pride from his work any more, his home situation is a mess. The paradoxical thing is right now even his secret past isn't of any importance at the moment. He's become the man without qualities this season. Seeing the Lane episode tonight only made that more clear. Don right now is invisible. He might as well not be on the show any more. Something's got to give.

Just reminiscing.

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idly wondering if Dr. Rosen making a pass at Don would be slightly more believable than Bob's pass at Pete

There have been how many failed AC/DC passes this season? Three?

wait what were the other ones?

I guess the other two might only count as one ... the co-stars of Megan's soap opera.

Oh right!

i'm guessing most of you have discredited the "megan is dead" theory at this point (just catching up on this thread after watching the last 4 episodes yday), but it just doesnt wash with me. the main reason being that there are many scenes of megan on her own, or on set, without don there to observe her. if it's really a 6th sense thing, her appearances would have to be entirely subjective, right?

yeah. and what would the scene be where the woman from the soap opera comes to the apartment? she was just there drinking by herself, thinkin baout Megan?

hahaha totally

"megan is dead" theory was always ridiculous on its face

for most sane conspiracy types, the idea was she was dead after the start of that episode. While Don was on the trip. Everything else was foreshadowing. Not some sixth sense nonsense. THERE WAS NEVER A MEGAN!

the "zou bisou bisoudio" defense

Don realizes he's been married to Peggy since season 2.

I need to dust off my old theory about cooper's balls being reincarnated into two supernatural beings named Bob and Mike. I think I wrote about that before Bob even appeared!

stealing this idea

this thread is almost as good as the show itself

If I would have known that people would be getting paid to blog about insane "megan is dead" theories I might have developed this into a blog. it's only marginally dumber.

On the battlefield in WWI, Gene's body was inhabited by a demonic entity called FRANK. Another entity named DON overtook the body of a G.I. named Dick during the Korean war. DON is of the white lodge, FRANK the black lodge. On Gene's death, FRANK took form inside Betty as "little Gene". In future episodes we'll see DON enter the red room where he will speak with two small men who are in fact BERT's lost testicles.

― wk, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 19:04 (2 years ago)

a demonic entity called FRANK

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100316231636/borderlands/images/b/b3/Tvsfrank.jpg

ha!

I need to dust off my old theory about cooper's balls being reincarnated into two supernatural beings named Bob and Mike.

So Benson and Ginsberg, then? Already been established that the latter is a Martian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwwHmAF2iR8

ok fucking hilarious that a guy as ott anti-spoilers at weiner letting this fly - http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-mad-men-megan-draper-matthew-weiner-20130614,0,373942.story

Are you relieved that Megan Draper will survive this season?
YesNo

"The show must go on" - Freddie Mercury

weiner's been known to dispel some fan rumors while the season's in-progress. last season when don stared down the empty SCDP elevator shaft, i was convinced someone was going to end up plunging to their death until weiner did an interview saying "ffs you guys it was meant to be symbolic."

i like how this show's unpredictability has people scrambling to try and divine signs like that... "if megan isn't going to die then why is she wearing that t-shirt" is pretty ridic on the face of it

pretty amazing that t shirts were still in their infancy in 1968!

yeah it's funny, before this season tom and lorenzo did a post basically saying 'yes we've seen room 237. no we don't think that's what we do. (plz god don't let that be what we do).' and then this season is when the internet pretends this show is lost all of a sudden (even w/ lane's suicide last year it was normal foreshadowing, not some pop tarot card reading). do think that the increased violence and playing w/ heavy imagery (i mean they even namedropped mark lindsay last week, what next is megan gonna have an ex-bf who's a hairdresser?) is pretty clearly a way to obliquely address that fucked up shit going on at large w/o having a character for some reason die in vietnam or get murdered by a band of wandering hippies. plus if you're janie bryant (whose profile is kinda crazy huge right? can you name another tv costume designer?) and weiner's haggling you for a t-shirt and you come across one and it's from a sharon tate photoshoot OF COURSE you're going to go w/ that right? crazy that t-shirts are apparently something that comes in really w/ the 70s, no wonder they went so nuts for iron-ons, shit must've blown their minds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shirt

that is a truly great wikipedia entry

A Taiwanese's T-shirt

unusual wikipedia articles in details

The political and social statements that T-shirts often display have become, since the first decade of the 21st century, one of the reasons that they have so deeply permeated different levels of culture and society.[citation needed]

the world record for "most t-shirts worn at the same time" is less than 300

there is a lot that is preposterous about that sentence

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