Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

pete moving to the suburbs is one of the saddest things to happen on this show. i loved his old new yorker-ness

the New Rochelle thing is a line from a "How to Succeed" song - how Bobby Morse's love interest dreams of moving to the burbs

yeah, she's basically set up as 1960s manic pixie dream girl - which is prob why she annoys me.

― sarahell, Wednesday, April 4, 2012 1:53 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bingo!

Like, why are you advertising executives so cynical?

anyway, the part where Betty calls Don about her cancer made me cry - because i could totally relate to the calling-your-ex-when-in-trouble thing.

yeah I thought it was a really honest moment between them

Darewood and Mr Kravitz!

I finally got it -- the thing about the Megan/Don relationship is that she's in the part of her life where she's expecting a partner to adapt and grow with her. It may also be a little bit of a generational thing, since 26 was halfway to old maid territory a scant decade earlier. Don is fairly set in his personal ways -- all the apartment trappings and social bits he can deal with, but he doesn't like anyone else making decisions in his personal life.

Yeah Megan was totally faking agreeing that the conversation was boring - she works at an ad agency, it's been her ambition, she was interested but going along with the other dude's wife.

This week's mad style is so great because it really gets into how the costume designer uses clothes to tell the story.

I finally got it -- the thing about the Megan/Don relationship is that she's in the part of her life where she's expecting a partner to adapt and grow with her. It may also be a little bit of a generational thing, since 26 was halfway to old maid territory a scant decade earlier. Don is fairly set in his personal ways -- all the apartment trappings and social bits he can deal with, but he doesn't like anyone else making decisions in his personal life.

yeah, she's expecting a full and enthusiastic partnership, someone to experience life with, and he's this armor-hulled immovable object who just wants the people around him to keep their shit together.

...and their noses out of his business.

xxp, yeah, good run-down in mad style. hated betty's pink nylon housecoat, ridiculously ott, but good catch on the parallels between peggy and michael.

I would have never noticed how his ties matched her outfits.

yeah, me neither, nor did i notice how similarly his apt was lit to the early scenes of peggy's family (probably should have, but derp)

I think Megan may bend Don some. The scene where she was rushing him to fire island..I expected him to flip but he seemed to acknowledge she was right.

well don bent Megan in front of the fireplace so..

/sorry

you keep talking about that, i seems

thx for the tip nicole!

really wanted a fire island scene

not on board with this "pete is a likable character now" thing

who said he's likeable? he's such a snake!

Pete the character is AWFUL in all ways, but the actor is really good at making him so desperately horrible, it's fantastic

and you can tell he could be a really good dude if he just unwound the crazy spring in his head

thought someone did upthread? i USED to like him. and i still probably like him better than harry who seems almost irredeemably schlubby

Harry is a funny dork, I feel a lot of sympathy for him – he's clearly talanted, but so graceless and socially inept that he just ends up tanking his own career.

in what way is Harry "talented"

we never see him do anything or come up with any ideas

The best idea Harry ever had was to con his bosses into creating a television department. Hasn't done anything since.

Harry is def. a bit good at the creative stuff, I think? Hasn't it been intimated that he's okay at that, but kinda crap at business?

I think you are making that up

he runs the tv dept, also invented it, what more do you want from him

you all just hate him because he's an overweight schlub, admit it

he's not overweight anymore, he's practically svelte

you hate him for his effortless weight loss

I hate him because he invented the television

Yes, without Harry there would be no Mad Men for us to watch.

Mad Men as Doonesbury hmm

I love Pete not because he is likable but because his character is just so delicious to watch, complex.

^^^

Pete is like a multi-layered artisanal sandwich. Harry is like a pile of mashed potatoes.

I always anticipate seeing what kind of weasely thing the character is going to come up with next.

I have always hated Harry and I am really pleased people are now seeing his awful ways. He has done almost zero anything innovative at SDCP. I mean, he's the dude that somehow hangs on and people sorta respect (to a degree) and you wonder what the fuck it is they do. I work at an advertising agency and there are like 15 of these people who have their own offices and vague titles and kinda just dink around and stare at the walls.

Not sure why s1ocki likes him so much!!!!

Roger is also becoming one of these people.

totally hope Harry gets herpes. or takes acid and throws himself out a window.

s1ocki and harry sitting in a tree, watching T E E V E E

Harry Gets Herpes: new Mad Men spinoff coming this fall!

lol

i like harry. he's a confused dork, but seems basically harmless underneath all the boobery. not a good man, not a bad man, just sort of there. holding down the middle.

pete i loathe, but agree that kartheiser does a good job enriching his loathability.

idg why yall hate on harry hes not a rapist like pete yeesh. in the mad men universe, hes a minor lecher

harry is probably the most typical dude on the show