MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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.

the wide shot of the house looked really weird.

I think it was just bad digital paint to age the house.

wide establishing exterior shots are not really a thing this show does v often

A better version of this priceless treasure

http://25.media.tumblr.com/1683f4de47f228a23c75a4ade26ab978/tumblr_mowgbcZKA91r3s62po1_500.gif

bless you, Johnny Fever

it's technically angelino heights, not echo park.

http://video.vulture.com/video/Epic-Rant-By-Pete-Campbell-Of-M

So great: http://madmenwiththingsdrawnonthem.tumblr.com/

https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/c4965f674e7e734f67baa24a9bde5784/tumblr_mor5v2nRJi1qdbluio1_500.jpg

otm

Slate has a theory that the Chevy account is an extended metaphor for Vietnam. I don't totally buy it, but it's rather compellingly argued:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/25/mad_men_vietnam_video_essay_how_season_6_s_chevy_storyline_reflected_a_violent.html

I just re-watched seasons 1-4 and I think one thing that became clear to me was that the show is almost always, in one way or another, addressing its historical context but very rarely is there any kind of direct or 1-to-1 relationship between the lives/business of the characters and the historical events around them. It's not even a typical kind of dramatic irony where we know more than they do. Instead, it's almost like the relationship between history and the show's "present" is more oblique and impressionistic, rather than causal. They keep enough verisimilitude to make sure that characters are aware of and respond to major events (as in the episodes with the assignations) but more often history is this amorphous thing going on outside their walls and then refracted into their lives. The episode with the fog of pollution seems interesting in retrospect because it's a moment where those two approaches (the surreal/oblique and the factual) seem to meet.

So I sorta DO buy the Chevy = Vietnam thing, since it's exactly the way the show seems to operate. Excerpt that the "=" is a lot less direction than a simple equation.

assassinations, I meant! Though for once auto-correct is strangely appropriate.

I like this one:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/3afa2bd31b2fe92e5bb853016a31592b/tumblr_mnvg1oGtCE1qdbluio1_500.jpg

Clues to the ending of ‘Mad Men’ have been embedded within the show since its very beginning

https://medium.com/sterling-cooper-draper-pryce/e96804523838

thats good

the more I think about this the more I think that yeah it doesn't end with Don's death (too trite and too pat) but with his abandonment of the Draper persona entirely

I hope it ends well.

don kills skyler

Making Ad.

'80s Don Draper

Not all of us were raised in a cushy cabbage patch. Some of us had to crawl our way out of a garbage pail.

From Mad Men Screenshots with Things Drawn On Them:

http://31.media.tumblr.com/837eefc1274b67aad7b9096104b38b07/tumblr_mowvjlR8HW1rkdtsao1_500.gif

lol

bob benson's on that robin williams sitcom about advertising. i think if i pretend he's the same character, like orlando or something, that show won't be completely fucking unbearable.

They're doing a Breaking Bad (only with fewer episodes):

http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/2013/09/mad-men-serves-seven-and-seven/

Seems a little stingy to only give us one extra episode out of the deal, but there you go.