Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

That part was so obvious and fake that I wonder why they bothered with it.

it was really weird because it wasn't like they were showing her hubby her body, it was clearly meant for us the viewers

Hamm director.

Hamm showing Betty "pig out"

Although, who am I to complain about sideboob?

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lol

it was really weird because it wasn't like they were showing her hubby her body, it was clearly meant for us the viewers

yeah I didn't like this. seemed gratuitous.

btw we're trying to imply Betty is FAT don't you see

Waiting for her to have a baby in episode 13 now.

writers seem to enjoy placing Betty opposite wiser, more confident, and more thoroughly emotionally restrained women (Sally's psychologist, Henry's mother). They address hard truths matter-of-factly in soft voices and she does her ice-queen-in-the-headlights routine.

I don't necessarily think that Henry's mother is being presented as wiser.

Certainly fatter.

"Your mother is obese."

I don't necessarily think that Henry's mother is being presented as wiser

yeah dunno if that's the right word. more mature? more in control?

interfering

more manipulative

more worldly and clued in to the way of this man's world methinks
same thing joan's mother was doing; this is all setting us up for generation gap freak out as we hit the summer of '69 methinks

Joan's mother was a PIA!

jealous and manipulative in both cases with these old mothers

Definitely some crazy generational strife with the old guard acting like their daughters were being rebellious when they're just living with a new set of rules

I think Henry's mother borders on a mother in law joke - she's controlling and cold, and Betty is never going to be good enough for her.

She really does.

Have we had any nice/good Moms in this thing?

Carla lol

who was Carla? I'm so bad with names in this show

Roger's first wife seemed okay iirc.

who was Carla? I'm so bad with names in this show

Drapers' maid

agree about Roger's first wife, that's a good one

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/1027/3098sam_carla2.jpg

haha

Granted Trudy's a brand new mom, but she has potential.

yeah Carla was an A+ mom :)

I feel good about Trudy as a Mommy

carla had all those kids with nick tortelli iirc

i picture canks as like being in prison coveralls in some sort of '30s-era juvie institution in that post

talking in yr sleep again dude

wrong thread hahaha

just working through some shit here guys

hee hee

omg @ betty draper dream

that was very sopranos

^^^

but not as good

it wasn't even as good as Betty's first dream sequence, but it was kinda a lackluster episode over all

the whole thing's been pretty lacklustre thus far.

it's been two fucking episodes. sheesh.

feels like more

is betty's cancer going to mean that she is the nude mannequin in the promo artwork?

yes

Was really surprised they picked thyroid cancer for the cancer scare. I guess it was maybe common at the time given the A-bomb blast parties and events in Vegas a decade earlier?

Acne treatments in the 60's ended up causing thyroid cancer later down the road.

Hamm director.

Hamm may not have directed Betty scenes tho

not all of Carla's kids were with N. Tortelli iirc (though she did fear him during separations because he could make her pregnant with a look also iirc)