Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

This brings us back to the dinner/supper thread

lolromney part was funny.

Loved watching Pete burn Roger in front of the whole office.

best: Megan gamely saying "yes" in response to something Mrs. Heinz said in just the same way Don gamely says "yes" when he just needs the conversation to continue.

worst: Betty eating ice cream was too """on the nose"""

Don Draper saying "yes" is like my favorite thing about this show

best: Megan gamely saying "yes" in response to something Mrs. Heinz said in just the same way Don gamely says "yes" when he just needs the conversation to continue.

― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Monday, April 2, 2012 12:28 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I read this as her previously overstepping/being too modern ("well, don was divorced...") and realizing that "yes" is the correct answer, even if she found work talk exciting from a professional pov.

Didn't Betty "Yes" her way through dinners just like that in season 1 or am I not remembering correctly?

Yeah, but I think she had two modes because I remember her asking which kind of wife she should be a dinner they were going to.

bettybot, meet romneybot!

worry about a season long fat-suit tbh.

the fat is a metaphor for america getting sluggish and needing revolution do u c

She said yes to Mrs. Heinz saying soemething like "We're boring hou, aren't we?", which seemed tactless.

better than peggy's fatsuit

totally lolled at don and harry getting white castle

film wonkery : john slattery is (assuming the DP didn't "actually" direct his episode) a better director than Hamm.

The Tradewinds!

peggy eating Bugles !

betty i mean, damn

-do you want the last one?

-there were twenty! I thought you were getting them for your family

Trade Winds = Spector acolytes/songwriting team

so how do we feel about Ginsberg?

kind of irritating so far. a little too young Woody Allen.

felt like Roger's "When is everything going get back to normal?" / clinging to the ledge while the young kids step on my toes monologue was key

yeah Roger's been dropping hints about jumping out the window for like two seasons.

and of course nothing ever gets "back to normal".

kind of a boring episode. was afraid there was going to be a Mother's Little Helper montage for a second. also lol fat betty

you think slattery's gonna kill himself this season? not a bad idea really.

well what does he have to live for, exactly

major role on a hit tv show iirc

Roger's too vain to be suicidal. Even if he hates his job and his wife, he knows he has a natural charm and can get by on it for all his remaining years.

Plus he's not really all that reflective. He just moves on, he's not a dweller like Don.

Yeah, that too. Roger has no mood swings because he's mostly oblivious to what's going on around him.

serious question: has any sympathetic adult character on this show ever been seen taking a bite of food? seems like people only get to eat on the show when the writers want to show them in an unflattering light.

sympathetic?

i mean everyone hates harry, and lolwhitecastle rite?

we're meant to hate betty, and there's the eating from last night, and that one episode where she does it with a stranger in a bar (that whore!) and eats out of the refrigerator when she gets home.

seems like people only get to eat on the show when the writers want to show them in an unflattering light.

grandpa and Sally eating ice cream

what about the chicken kiev on don's date? or when betty orders room service with don.
the new guy's rye bread and farmers cheese?

good one xp

take it from a nut, utz are better than nuts

there are plenty of scenes that I can think of that take place at meals, but I'm not sure about the actually seeing people eat thing

but I'm not sure about the actually seeing people eat thing

the "actually eating" is what i'm talking about. and i know sally has gotten to eat, that's why i was asking about adults.

Didn't they show Don and Roger sucking down oysters prior to their stairway to vomit?

Oh wait, unflattering. Never mind.

this is something Sopranos conscientiously did all the time but tbf it's pretty rare on TV shows, not just Mad Man. It's really hard to shoot scenes of people with their mouths full.

like, I dunno how much I would read into it thematically

i know, it's just something i think about from time to time -- how shows (etc) sometimes use food as a device to help make someone seem more unlikeable.

harry eats the most onscreen, also talks about food the most

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1v2h8T0vG1qaj9lko1_500.gif

yes, his wife is "making" him lose weight and he's obv such a weak person that all he wants to do outside of the house is cheat on his diet.

(and he's already cheated on his wife, speaking of things that harry cheats on)

harry actually told his wife that he cheated (not sure why i always want to stick up for him).

i wanted to stick up for him cuz he's a perennial loser, but the thing last week with megan was... well, him digging his own grave.

And he was very remorseful, which is why when he started getting really creepy with women I felt a bit let down by him. xp