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edited October 2008
I see it as in character. Don is great at his job, but when it comes to tough social issues, he withdraws.
He ran from his adoptive parents, he wanted to run away again when Pete found out a little something of his past, and now when his wife gives him an ultimatum? Run, run, run away from actually having to deal with unpleasant truths about himself.
I see it as in character. Don is great at his job, but when it comes to tough social issues, he withdraws.
He ran from his adoptive parents, he wanted to run away again when Pete found out a little something of his past, and now when his wife gives him an ultimatum? Run, run, run away from actually having to deal with unpleasant truths about himself.
They could probably deliver that a little better. When we went with the girl, it just seems like he went into fuck-everything-mode again.
I was on pins and needles when Peggy was telling Pete about the baby, although I didn't understand a lick of what she was talking about when she was going on about some part of you being there and being gone and blah blah blah...
As soon as Duck mentioned the loyalty clause thing in the beginning of the episode I was waiting for the smackdown moment when Don tells him he doesn't have a contract, and it was spectacular.
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Usually season finales have some crazy ridiculous shit going on. All they did here was a whole bunch of truth telling.
In the context of mad men, though, that's some crazy ridiculous shit.
They did an incredible job at tying that into a larger narrative and dramatic feel given the background. How often do you get to tie catharsis among your leading characters with historic tension and nuclear armageddon?
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While sitting in a reclining chair
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Running around and clawing eyelids
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I was on pins and needles when Peggy was telling Pete about the baby, although I didn't understand a lick of what she was talking about when she was going on about some part of you being there and being gone and blah blah blah...
As soon as Duck mentioned the loyalty clause thing in the beginning of the episode I was waiting for the smackdown moment when Don tells him he doesn't have a contract, and it was spectacular.
I think she was referring to
What it's like to have a baby and give it away. All of the sudden there's a piece of you missing, and you don't know what it's fate is
I watched through my first season blurays, and it was even better the second time around. Can't wait for season 2 to be released. Has anyone heard anything on the progress of season 3? Is it being filmed or what?
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edited August 2009
This is the only show that makes me wish I had real cable.
I watched the first season on Netflix blu-ray, and it was fantastic. Two weeks ago, I went out on a Friday night and got cataclysmic-drunk. Knowing I'd spend the next 48 hours hung-the-fuck-over, I bought season 2 on the way home from lifesaving Vietnamese food. Watched the whole thing in one weekend. And it was good.
Anyway, is there a (LEGAL!) way to watch this online?
Roger was great. I'm glad he's still around. "What did I miss" *awkward silence* "oh.... uh, well, this isn't easy"
other highlights
- Peggy being a hardass!
- don't call him moneypenny. He hates that!
- Sally is getting into your tools like a little lesbian
- Sal getting cockblocked by the fire alarm. Poor guy, the bellhop was pretty fine.
- Don letting sal know, in coded message 'Look I don't care what you do on your own time, but you better stay in the closet.' Limit your exposure!
- Pete is such a god damn wienie
I thought it was a strong premiere. It left me wanting more of just about everything. I like the new british guy and his typi- ahem right arm. My main question, which I hope gets answered tonight, is where's duck? Promoted out of the office, or did he get the axe? There wasn't a single mention of him.
I completely missed this watching (I didn't look that closely at the invitation), but a review of the episode I read pointed out that the date of the wedding of Roger's daughter was the day after JFK's assassination.
Am I the only one around who gets kind of blood-boiling mad about Penn Station?
I mean, old railway stations are awesome. The first time I went to Grand Central I was so giddy with the beauty of it that I wanted to hug all the businessmen headed for Connecticut.
Am I the only one around who gets kind of blood-boiling mad about Penn Station?
I mean, old railway stations are awesome. The first time I went to Grand Central I was so giddy with the beauty of it that I wanted to hug all the businessmen headed for Connecticut.
Am I the only one around who gets kind of blood-boiling mad about Penn Station?
I mean, old railway stations are awesome. The first time I went to Grand Central I was so giddy with the beauty of it that I wanted to hug all the businessmen headed for Connecticut.
Seeing how it happened 50 years ago, no I just get disappointed. That we still haven't learned the lesson and are going to asplode other landmark buildings in the present is far more enraging.
Last night's episode upended a whole bunch of stuff. It wasn't landmark television or anything, but it did what Mad Men seems to do best: very quietly and calmly destroy important things.
There were like 4 moments in the show where I just sorta recoiled at how inappropriate people were being treated. And I hate the word "inappropriate" especially when it's used in the way I just used it. It seems a snotty, stuck-up way of describing things. And yet, there was a lot of shockingly inappropriate moments being thrown at these characters, and they all just sorta sat there and took them.
And I'm coming to loathe/love any moment where Sal is onscreen, because this year he seems to be almost oblivious to how he's carrying himself. I mean, it sucked to watch him be so careful about the lie, to tend to it and care for it like a fastidious gardener, but this season, he's slipping so hard and he doesn't even have a clue.
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He ran from his adoptive parents, he wanted to run away again when Pete found out a little something of his past, and now when his wife gives him an ultimatum? Run, run, run away from actually having to deal with unpleasant truths about himself.
They could probably deliver that a little better. When we went with the girl, it just seems like he went into fuck-everything-mode again.
In the context of mad men, though, that's some crazy ridiculous shit.
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As soon as Duck mentioned the loyalty clause thing in the beginning of the episode I was waiting for the smackdown moment when Don tells him he doesn't have a contract, and it was spectacular.
They did an incredible job at tying that into a larger narrative and dramatic feel given the background. How often do you get to tie catharsis among your leading characters with historic tension and nuclear armageddon?
I think she was referring to
i hope our new cable is set up by then
The season premiere last week was great. Who wants to come over and fix my air conditioning?
I watched the first season on Netflix blu-ray, and it was fantastic. Two weeks ago, I went out on a Friday night and got cataclysmic-drunk. Knowing I'd spend the next 48 hours hung-the-fuck-over, I bought season 2 on the way home from lifesaving Vietnamese food. Watched the whole thing in one weekend. And it was good.
Anyway, is there a (LEGAL!) way to watch this online?
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Roger was great. I'm glad he's still around. "What did I miss" *awkward silence* "oh.... uh, well, this isn't easy"
other highlights
- Peggy being a hardass!
- don't call him moneypenny. He hates that!
- Sally is getting into your tools like a little lesbian
- Sal getting cockblocked by the fire alarm. Poor guy, the bellhop was pretty fine.
- Don letting sal know, in coded message 'Look I don't care what you do on your own time, but you better stay in the closet.' Limit your exposure!
- Pete is such a god damn wienie
I thought it was a strong premiere. It left me wanting more of just about everything. I like the new british guy and his typi- ahem right arm. My main question, which I hope gets answered tonight, is where's duck? Promoted out of the office, or did he get the axe? There wasn't a single mention of him.
I made gin and vodka martinis for the premiere. I don't know how they had 3 martini lunches, 3 martinis made me forget the rest of the evening.
Well, all the smoking they did soak up some of the booze. Has the ABV of liquor changed much in recent history?
also I am guess a life time of alcoholism helps them hold their liquor
Nicotine is a stimulent that helps counteract the depressant effects of alcohol.
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There's only one way to get good at working through 3 martini lunches. Constant practice.
They worked hard, they played hard, and they died at 60 looking like they were 102.
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Oh, and "Patio"? Really, Pepsi?
I mean, old railway stations are awesome. The first time I went to Grand Central I was so giddy with the beauty of it that I wanted to hug all the businessmen headed for Connecticut.
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It apparently was only around for a year, then became Diet Pepsi.
Wonder if Sterling Cooper handled the advertising for Madison Cube Garden too?
You're such a communist
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Seeing how it happened 50 years ago, no I just get disappointed. That we still haven't learned the lesson and are going to asplode other landmark buildings in the present is far more enraging.
It's why I love the show. They aren't afraid to burn through the nostalgia that idealized a time that was really fucked up.
There were like 4 moments in the show where I just sorta recoiled at how inappropriate people were being treated. And I hate the word "inappropriate" especially when it's used in the way I just used it. It seems a snotty, stuck-up way of describing things. And yet, there was a lot of shockingly inappropriate moments being thrown at these characters, and they all just sorta sat there and took them.
And I'm coming to loathe/love any moment where Sal is onscreen, because this year he seems to be almost oblivious to how he's carrying himself. I mean, it sucked to watch him be so careful about the lie, to tend to it and care for it like a fastidious gardener, but this season, he's slipping so hard and he doesn't even have a clue.
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