MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

like, with his kids i mean, and in the ad industry. i am an atheist.

Smiley Bob reminds me of those Enzyte commercials

lol totally. when he let the mask slip, briefly, two episodes ago it was the best thing. "you should be careful what you say to people, pete."

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100901222316/muppet/images/7/79/GuySmiley-2009.jpg

nice.

Haha, Bob really reminds me of The Sidler from Seinfeld

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=NKx2Ko6HJc0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNKx2Ko6HJc0

The best episode of the worst season. Maybe second best, I enjoyed the amphetamines one a lot.

I will rank the seasons so far: 1>4>5>2>3>6

This is where I came from, Sally Draper, and if you don't straighten up you're going to end up back here.

Don's Bill Hicks moment was was fine.

maybe that is the finale: don looks in the mirror and realizes that he looks like bill hicks, and what we have been seeing is his idealized self-concept. he has to reconsider his ugly behavior with the new knowledge that he is also physically unremarkable.

that was the judy collins recording of from both sides now, wasn't it? I wouldn't know since I hate that song

yep

that song is good. it's very shallow lyrically, but i sort of like that about it for a reason i can't explain.

they should have gone with the hole version from pretty on the inside.

Electric Circus/ Gainsbourg moment could well be the best ever music bit on MM which is really saying something.

i liked when found love by the fly bi nights played when don was at that LA party and almost drowned

"I'd tell you to go to hell, but I don't want to see you again."

ginsberg is on some show called major crimes on tnt right now

wish they'd had more of ginsberg this season

great episode

loved how the weird don flashbacks totally slid into place with the hershey meeting and the last scene

I do this show's patience often really pays off in episodes like this.

so the last we see of Ginsberg is Bob talking him out of his breakdown right? Such a weird arc for his character.

Cutler's been angling to get Ginzo out of the picture.

so the last we see of Ginsberg is Bob talking him out of his breakdown right? Such a weird arc for his character.

― ryan, Monday, June 24, 2013 9:11 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Actually, Ginsberg was back last week with the Ocean Spray meeting trying to get Ted to respond to an idea "that wasn't (Peggy's)."

oh yes. Totally forgot about that.

i know this won't hold up to scrutiny but since

a) nobody mentioned pete going to california

b) pete told trudy he was going to california

c) pete is basically at rock bottom

i kinda thought maybe pete was going to off himself? that would be too easy i suppose

...

do we think don was about to come clean about his infidelity when megan decided to bail? probably not. even the post-sobriety truth-telling has its limits.

also his "megan, i love you" was kind of half-assed. she's gone.

i like this show.

Weiner has sort of hinted that Megan will still be around, although perhaps not as Don's wife.

I think Pete's going to Cali w/Ted. He's the only free accounts man (Bob's w/Chevy, Ken's fixing to be a dad, Roger ain't going anywhere), and also his move could be another facet of Cutler's plan to phase out any SCDP stalwarts (Don's fired, Ginsberg's a pussy hair away from getting fired without Ted's veto power around, Ken has one eye).

On an unrelated note, I hope Ken buys some Hathaway shirts next season...

http://boozeblogger.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/cherry-heering-shirt-ad-1969-SM.jpg

some show called major crimes

that is the spinoff of the closer, or not exactly spinoff, since it's the same cast w/o sedgwick, and mary mcdonnell taking the lead

does don even still want megan at this point?

Megan gets a day job as a creative w/Ted

Don now has two pissed-off ex-wives who know his secret, plus an off-the-rails Pete Campbell (who probably doesn't give enough of a shit at this point), plus Sterling and Cooper who are maybe cutting the strings now. It's as precarious a situation as he's been in regarding the whole desertion + forged identity thing. If Sally finds out he's probably fucked.

I thought Pete (and by extention Bert & Rog) misinterpreted the infomation as a mere desertion case. They don't know who Dick Whitman is, or what really happened.

What his wives or Pete or Bert or Roger or anyone's incentive for revealing this? It also doesn't need to be anything more than desertion in a time of war.

Do we not think Don is on the verge of telling his kids "the truth" or some variation thereof by taking them to the house where he grew up?

He totally is! I don't see how he's fucked if Sally learns, unless Sally and Roger have gossip sessions on the phone every day, and Roger doesn't know. At this point he's more fucked if Sally doesn't know.

Sally is kinda fucked regardless isn't she? What a messed up set of parents to have.

He's fine if he tells her, he's fucked if he keeps it to himself and Sally finds out by some other means.

It was just pointed out to me (I didn't pick up on it last night) that Sally had changed her last name. I dunno if she just did it, or if Henry has adopted the kids. I would think I full adoption would've played into the series, though.

I don't think she's changed it. IIRC, the subpoena is addressed to Sally Beth Draper. "Beth Francis" is just the name on her fake ID (so Betty says).

I think Sally is grounded enough to handle the Dick Whitman story, however it's told to her.

nyt has like three madmen stories in the arts section today

http://franklinavenue.blogspot.com/2013/06/we-found-it-actual-la-location-of-don_25.html

Apparently, another house on the same street is the one featured in the "Thriller" video.

Did they intentionally find a house that looked like an Edward Hopper painting?

I think, if anything, Don's going to seem a lot more sympathetic to Sally if he actually shows her who he is. As a father, he's the mostly-absent cipher who goes off to work and does the normal family time activities but hasn't ever really related to his kids except for the rare occasion.

Actually seeming like a human being with a backstory that's more than white collar breadwinner father is going to make him seem a lot more relatable, even if he does keep fucking up. Sally's seen just enough to think that he's a liar, an idea her mother fostered.

I don't really have a big problem with the flashbacks but at times I do think Don's trauma has suffered from over-explication. but of course at the same time uncovering that trauma (and neutralizing it?) seems more and more the guiding theme of the show. So maybe making it explicit (even if it sometimes feels like a dark fable of some sort) is the point.

That's a hopeful and humanizing way to take on that trauma that makes Don who and what he is--I'll be fascinated to see if they continue down that road and still make it compelling.

guys peggy was wearing chanel no 5 to signify that she's now a marilyn instead of an irene dunn

http://i.imgur.com/webGMb3.jpg
in Echo park

the wide shot of the house looked really weird.