Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

Don't really understand how this level of ennui has set in really. Still looking forward to this.

i don't think the ennui is entirely from the gap between seasons but more from how lethargic + disappointing the last season was

Perhaps we're due for another good one (1, 3, 5...)

S4 > S3.

I really liked the last season. Certainly better than 3.

It was probably the funniest season, for a start.

Which had the lawnmower and which had the dead assistant?

The breakdown of Don & Betty's marriage was kind of necessary but until it actually happened it was making for some pretty slow, dull and miserable TV. S3 only really hit its stride in the last two or three episodes, before that there didn't seem to be much actually happening.

S4 had some badly-cast characters but was way better paced plotwise, and had that amazing Don and Peggy episode. Also it brought the lols.

Maybe I'm confusing the whole of S3 with the very end of S3 (which was great). I agree that S4 was enjoyable for the most part, but I'm a nerd and look for number-related trends. :)

i think S3 had the marriage ending and the lawn mower and the JFK assassination and the gang getting back together to start the new company right? that was jampacked with goodness. S4 had... Betty's new husband? Don dating that secretary? Uh - lots of Don being depressed? And the one suitcase episode w/ Peggy. (Oh, and also Peggy peeking over the wall.)

Yeah, I remember S3 with much more fondness than S4.

i think S3 had the marriage ending and the lawn mower and the JFK assassination and the gang getting back together to start the new company right?

Pretty much all in the last two episodes.

Sal also got fired in S3.

S3 was also when Joan left to get married, and Pete found her working at a department store.

Also: Peggy fucks Duck.

The last episode of S3 is terrific.

Also Re:Sal & S3-The episode where he and Don go to Baltimore and Don discovers Sal's secret.

This episode also pretty much invented "Pan Am" on ABC.

Also, um, Don finally comes clean to Betty about Dick Whitman.

Imma have to watch S3 again.

^^ I don't think there has been a series before that I have loved but that I keep forgetting the plotlines of. Feel like I have to rewatch the whole series

starting next week i am rewatching all four seasons with my housemate (who has never seen it). interesting times.

lotta first world problems itt

well, the show's about ad execs

"Saturday Review Whites"-Whiney's Grandpa

don sucks

more joan and peggy getting along

^^^^

Slightly weirded out to realise that Pete and Peggy will only be in their early-to-mid-40s by the time the 80s kick in, conceivably still working in agencies with Reagan in the White House.

(And amoral dicks like Don Draper running the world by that point obviously)

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that is perfect

S3 > S4 for sure, the workplace/home-life balance was way out of whack for a lot of the latter for me.

love the phone both!

*booth

there are still phone booths?

they're mainly hobo porty-pottys these days, but yes.

*porto

can't wait for don to jump off that roof xD

nah it's gonna be Roger who jumps off the roof, still think Don has a chance to get right with the tao.

We all obviously want Don Draper to die and the series to end, because we all hate it, and that's we post on this thread.

stfu.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyob7sa99v1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg

hah!

hahaha

i sent that pic to a coworker who is a fan of the show. his reply:

What a great picture!

I wonder what the significance of the whale shooting the mad man out of the water is about?

A fish out of water?? Maybe the culture change of the late 60’s is coming around…

LOL

s4 finally came back on On Demand, I had forgotten most of this

i finally bought s4 -- found it for dirt cheap at a blockbuster liquidation sale.

rewatching Season 4... Honda scooter episode is so perfect.

^^the shot of Peggy riding around the empty studio is one of my fave images from the show.

also her peeking over the partition at Don

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I've also been rewatching S4 - the episode where Don goes down to California and no one has told Anna that she's dying is heartbreaking. And then you get Don and Laine going out and getting slaughtered as well. Genuinely don't understand why anyone thinks that series was a drop-off in quality.

yeah I am noticing lots of little things, foreshadowing/nuances. Like there's a bit in the episode where Pete finds out Trudy is pregnant and Laine's telling him he has to ditch his father-in-law's account - Laine is kind of a dick to Pete re: fatherhood and "manning up", as it were, which is laden with irony given Laine's relationship with his own father as revealed in a later episode.

oh man, "the cure for the common ____" episode