Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

this struck me as very odd tbh. suddenly the place is a meritocracy?

i think stan said something at first, when he came back to his office. besides that, did we see anyone talking about it when don wasn't around?

well, Peggy and Megan

and in that case it's clear Peggy knew it would be a total dick-move to be less than enthusiastic

tbf Joan knew it'd be a dick move to be less than enthusiastic about Peggy shacking up, too

yeah there were obvious parallels there

srsly the way some of you come running to bat for this show the moment someone says something even half-critical about it makes community fanboys look reasonable

― Mordy, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 7:14 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

asking that a multi-dimensional character (is this really hyperbole or something to you??) be allowed to not represent all women isnt 'being a fanboy'

i realized while watching this that they've made stan way more likable than he was when he was first introduced. i like that dude now!

people are reading a lot more into how peggy congratulated megan than i did. i just thought her mind was elsewhere. it's easy to be nice when you're putting your competitiveness on the back burner while you deal with other stuff.

peggy puts too much stock into how events that should be personally significant will be perceived at large. it goes back to her obsession with being a modern, worldly city girl, and it's the same stuff with her looking to joan to tell her how to feel about moving in with abe.

Stan has definitely become much more appealing

Yeah he's funny.

i love glen. he's like the loaded gun you see go in to the desk drawer in the 1st act.

I wonder if there will ever be a Stan episode. Ginsberg has already had more character dev.

I quite like him in a comic relief position, a bit like a more knowing Kinsey.

hmm yeah he does kinda have a similar role to Kinsey (who was also one-half of a "team" with Peggy)

gr8080 otm about Glen

glen and sally being phone pals is pretty great

LOVE Sally's "she tripped over one of Gene's toys"

that was totally a Betty Draper move! only Sally is even sneakier

loved the roger/sally stuff. thought this was a brilliant episode, they're just mining this surreal banality thing really fucking hard now and it's paying off bigtime.

what's the age difference between sally/glen?

3 or 4 years i think?

creepily large

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he talked about taking trig, so he's probably either a junior or senior in high school.

he's probably 16, she's probably... 12?

re-watched this episode lol'd at Peggy's "I do" answer when asked if they should eat, irony escaped me the first time around

He's not known as Creepy Glen for nothing.

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Just watched the last episode-new fave!

Thought the whole Megan & Don bean pitch was very Samantha & Darren Stevens though.

Loved Pete!

The cast is on Inside the Actors Studio in a few weeks. Pretty stoked.

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Hate that show but I'd probably watch that.

who is the blonde on the right, january jones?

I guess, though I can't imagine her actually laughing.

oh my god it's a gilmore girl??

fb update from a friend: "Rory Gilmore you get back to Star's Hollow right this instant! You'll always be too young for Pete Campbell."

i don't think i love the beatles montage

Well, there goes the budget for the rest of the season...

ginsberg bringing the lols.

campbell was incredible this ep

It's incredible that he was able to seduce a gilmore girl, yes.

Also, Mr. Belding really let himself go.

I think she was in a headspace to fuck anyone who didn't have two heads. Pete was lucky. And now he's a stalker. Except, wtf was that heart in the foggy glass? This has disaster written all over it, except this is Mad Men...so we'll probably never see anything about it ever again.

Peggy failing at the banter slayed me.

The Beatles montage at the end was a bit on the nose but I thought it worked pretty well.

pete in the hotel room also great.

Also "on the nose" endings are awesome and adorable. I like it when shows aren't afraid of artifice. That's always been a mad men strength.

Also, Mr. Belding really let himself go.

― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, May 7, 2012 3:13 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was it really Mr. Belding?

i saw "mr. belding" references on twitter and not having seen much saved by the bell i thought it might be a reference to the ad agency foote, cone & belding.

also, i'm drunk right now; been gulping manhattans for two hours.

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Hey hey hey, what is going on here?

(The answer is apparently a lot of non-dairy whipped topping)

poor peggy, she really got a lot of shit heaped on her this episode, with the "pizza house" phone calls and don calling her jealous and messing up the tag line with cool whip... the writers just did not want to let her win.

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lolled so hard at "pizza house"