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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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
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 (thirteen years ago) link
^ yeah, all-time ep right there
― (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ (silby), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:39 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL
― ¯\(°_o)/¯ (Nicole), Monday, 22 August 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahahaha
― (gr8080), Monday, 22 August 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha burn
― Vaginalogue Bubblebath (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 22 August 2011 20:31 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry about that pesky apostrophe.....blush.
― *tera, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:43 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
Well?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 02:30 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
uch, you're such a Betty.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 02:42 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
Do they have a "Are You A Pete?" poster
― Number None, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 12:18 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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
no skip the last minute
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
The last minute will obviously be Don looking out of a window with a deeply furrowed brow.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 15 January 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
It's still my theory that the show's focus will shift from Don to Peggy by the end of its run, so I'm expecting that to really begin happening this season. *crosses fingers*
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
the first 45 minutes will a recap of the last 4 seasons because everyone forgot
― your pain is probably equal (Z S), Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
my posting style 6 years ago is kinda setting my teeth on edge
― devops mom (silby), Monday, 6 August 2018 21:57 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
...and then he hooks up with her.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 August 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
Lol
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 August 2018 02:42 (six 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