i would've thought they'd try to go a little slower than that, but that's not based on/might be contrary to whatever's been customary until now. like i woulda thought 66/67. it depends how long the guy envisions it living on for i guess?
― sweatpants life trajectory (schlump), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
I missed one episode last season, the one where don and peggy get drunk together. My gf summed it up for me at the time so I was able to watch the rest of the eps during the season, and when I watched it for the first time a few days ago, it was alright, like I could see that the only reason I really watched all the eps was momentum
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
I met weiner once at the beverly hills hotel, kinda surreal because I was lost and out on the pool deck area when it happened
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Season three is the worst one IMO. Loved season four.
wth
― Simon H., Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
xp feel free to post that in the posts w/o context thread
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
this show is pretty great when you can watch 2-3 eps at a time and pretty excruciating on a week to week basis. like, the story arc to season 4 is pretty good (if maddening and depressing) but also pretty annoying when its coming in drips and drabs.
― ryan, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
I know what you mean about momentum, but I also think "The Suitcase" was the best episode of the season!
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
^ yeah, all-time ep right there
― (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ (silby), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
it was a really good episode compared to other eps, and I liked it somewhat, and thought there were brilliant parts with brilliant bits of acting, but a lot of the episode, perhaps more than others, I don't know at this point because I haven't seen the show in a while, was don yelling at peggy for work related reasons, and when I was watching it, I guess, because I was removed from the mad men world, I couldn't help but think that I was glad I wasn't exposed to its world as much
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
i saw a little girl out to dinner with her family at a mexican restaurant last week that was a dead-ringer for sally. it was so uncanny i almost said something to the parents but i told myself to forget it and finish my nachos.
― (gr8080), Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
"hey uh I dunno if you know this but your daughter looks a lot like a child star that some nerds on the internet really can't wait to see grow up into a teenager!"
― (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ (silby), Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah nachos was probably the better move
FYI I recommend that everyone into this show watch the movie version of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" with Robert Morse
― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 August 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
LOL
― ¯\(°_o)/¯ (Nicole), Monday, 22 August 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahaha
― (gr8080), Monday, 22 August 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha burn
― Vaginalogue Bubblebath (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 22 August 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, the parallels are pretty funny. Morse is great in The Loved One too. Mad Men also reminds me of The Sweet Smell of Success.
― the wheelie king (wk), Monday, 22 August 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
predictions on the degree to which dialogue this season will be "on the nose"?
― Do not go gentle into that good frogbs (silby), Saturday, 27 August 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
I loved it when Mad Men referenced The Apartment (season and episode escapes me). In season four Roger is on the phone speaking to a Louise about a Larry...the Tate's no doubt, finally acknowledging the comparison's to Bewitched.
― *tera, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry about that pesky apostrophe.....blush.
― *tera, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
The Apartment ref was in the first season, near the end I think. Joan was chewing Roger out about using women and told him he should see the movie and change his tune.
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
...and to complete the circle, David White played both Mr. Tate on "Bewitched" and Mr. Eichelberger in The Apartment.
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
But to any newbies: When I started watching I thought it was merely interesting until about halfway through the first season, then I realised I love it. Persevere, watch it in order, it's a slow burner.
Yeah, this is pretty much my experience too. Basically I was watching it to bask in the glory of Joan and gradually got into the surrounding plotlines.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
R u one of those ppl who sits around watching AMC dramas all nite, tweeting abt how AMAZEBALLS they are?
― HOOSy woosies (history mayne), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 08:37 (twelve years ago) link
Walked by a Banana Republic tonight. The big poster in the window asked me if I am a Betty.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
Well?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really think there's an answer. I think the significance is in asking the question.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
uch, you're such a Betty.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
Keep getting BR MM collection ads in my FB feed ATM.
That's a lot of abbreviations.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
Do they have a "Are You A Pete?" poster
― Number None, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
Banana republic really on the cutting edge with this mad men collection
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=66393
― Aerosol, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
So when does this actually start?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
via wiki: "The fifth season is scheduled to premiere on March 16, 2012."
crap, I was hoping it was sooner :(
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait! i don't remember exactly when it's supposed to start, but sometime this Spring, right? if only there was an internet to help determine the answer!
― your pain is probably equal (Z S), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
march 2012, sez some place on the internet
― your pain is probably equal (Z S), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
I can wait. I think.
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
SPOILER i hear don draper broods a lot next season SPOILER
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
read "breeds" at first
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
It has been off the air so long that I barely remember what even happened last season. It's hard to get excited about it.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
I assume this season will begin in 1975, it feels like they've been gone so long
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
im sorta not looking forward to this. so sick of don and his bullshit. would be really excited if the next season was peggy-only
― max, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
I'm hoping for a mid-70s setting. I feel like anything 1966-1969 will have inevitable stretches of crushing predictability.
(cue "White Rabbit")
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
it'll be awesome, i'm pretty sure, but yeah, i'm not exactly salivating. it seemed to end on a queasy, foreboding 'happy ending' for don, and i'm not desperate to see the whole miserable second marriage unravel.
― Where Is Reason? (stevie), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
eh when it comes back he'll be divorced again already. and it'll be the year 2030.
― sunn :o))) (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder if he's quit smoking...
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
march 25.
― reconstituted pork offal slurry (get bent), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
Enough time to rewatch S4.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
season premiere will be two hours!
― choucrüt (get bent), Sunday, 15 January 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus. Not sure how I feel about that.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 15 January 2012 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
me neither, but i will watch every last minute of it.
― choucrüt (get bent), Sunday, 15 January 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't Sopranos do a similar style of montage at the beginning/end of a coupla seasons?
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
def
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
this thread is really funny
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 August 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
like I was just scanning it because I've been rewatching s5 and there are a lot of genuine lolz
my posting style 6 years ago is kinda setting my teeth on edge
― devops mom (silby), Monday, 6 August 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
I saw a post from 15 years ago saying I loved potlucks. I fucking hate potlucks.
― Yerac, Monday, 6 August 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
so, is it me or does this show skip almost the entirety of 1967?
Season 5 ends a few months after Christmas 1966 - Lane forges the check around Xmas and then a couple episodes later he's dead. The last episode seems to take place in maybe spring of '67?
And then when season 6 starts I think we're already in 1968?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
Yeah. IIRC, they completely skip over the Summer of Love. Cagey.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
The way the finale drew Don into real-life events, they could have started that in 1967: Don goes back to see Anna's niece, she drags him to Monterey, clip of Janis Joplin singing "Ball and Chain," and instead of a stunned Mama Cass, you instead cut to a stunned Don Draper.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 August 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
...and then he hooks up with her.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 August 2018 02:26 (five years ago) link
Lol
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 August 2018 02:42 (five years ago) link
Won't try to open this whole thread to see if there's a similar post, but beautiful images near the end of "Tea Leaves" where the kids chase fireflies on the front lawn.
https://mindlessones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/fireflies1.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 23:03 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iw0euc4qDk
― clemenza, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link