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
last time on Mad Men
"wow don congratulations on your wedding. who is your bride?"
"oh uh. i forget her name"
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 January 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:04 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
...I see so little reason for this..??
― NO NUTRITIONAL CONTENT (kelpolaris), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
cos Don is super boring
― Number None, Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
for us, maybe. for so much of the rest of the viewing public that watches this show it almost needs a personal qualifier on my part that he's the main dig.
― NO NUTRITIONAL CONTENT (kelpolaris), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
i love don.
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/crying-draper.jpg
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know. i just find *any* of the characters as continually interesting as don, even if he is predictable. i'm sort of past the point of being fascinated by don's actions and more look to how shit will all end up for him. i know he's gonna continually make some bad choices, and i think the writers here are smart enough - e.g., not 19yr old creative writing class depravists - that they wouldn't end the series on some woefully awful note, like him offing himself or whatevs. i don't know. at least i'd like to think it's beyond that.
― NO NUTRITIONAL CONTENT (kelpolaris), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
the series should end with don faking his death and subsequently wandering the earth helping people out & going on adventures. kinda like the hulk. "you wouldn't like me when i'm...mad"
― Lana Ballantine (latebloomer), Monday, 16 January 2012 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
amc confirmed that s5 is set in may 2003
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 16 January 2012 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
it follows don and peggy's grandchildren as they team up to solve mysteries
― Mordy, Monday, 16 January 2012 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
I think the gap has been too long for me. I tried reading episode summaries of the last series and had to think far too much to remind myself who some of the characters were.
― Sugary pee is not normal (aldo), Monday, 16 January 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
Is there a reason why the gap has been soooo long?
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Monday, 16 January 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
some of the sopranos gaps were this long
― Mordy, Monday, 16 January 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
Don't really understand how this level of ennui has set in really. Still looking forward to this.
― Matt DC, Monday, 16 January 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think the ennui is entirely from the gap between seasons but more from how lethargic + disappointing the last season was
― Mordy, Monday, 16 January 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
Perhaps we're due for another good one (1, 3, 5...)
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 January 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
S4 > S3.
― Matt DC, Monday, 16 January 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
I really liked the last season. Certainly better than 3.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 16 January 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
It was probably the funniest season, for a start.
Which had the lawnmower and which had the dead assistant?
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Monday, 16 January 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
The breakdown of Don & Betty's marriage was kind of necessary but until it actually happened it was making for some pretty slow, dull and miserable TV. S3 only really hit its stride in the last two or three episodes, before that there didn't seem to be much actually happening.
S4 had some badly-cast characters but was way better paced plotwise, and had that amazing Don and Peggy episode. Also it brought the lols.
― Matt DC, Monday, 16 January 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe I'm confusing the whole of S3 with the very end of S3 (which was great). I agree that S4 was enjoyable for the most part, but I'm a nerd and look for number-related trends. :)
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 January 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
i think S3 had the marriage ending and the lawn mower and the JFK assassination and the gang getting back together to start the new company right? that was jampacked with goodness. S4 had... Betty's new husband? Don dating that secretary? Uh - lots of Don being depressed? And the one suitcase episode w/ Peggy. (Oh, and also Peggy peeking over the wall.)
― Mordy, Monday, 16 January 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I remember S3 with much more fondness than S4.
― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Monday, 16 January 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
i think S3 had the marriage ending and the lawn mower and the JFK assassination and the gang getting back together to start the new company right?
Pretty much all in the last two episodes.
― Matt DC, Monday, 16 January 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
Sal also got fired in S3.
― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Monday, 16 January 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
S3 was also when Joan left to get married, and Pete found her working at a department store.
Also: Peggy fucks Duck.
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 January 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
The last episode of S3 is terrific.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 16 January 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Also Re:Sal & S3-The episode where he and Don go to Baltimore and Don discovers Sal's secret.
This episode also pretty much invented "Pan Am" on ABC.
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 January 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Also, um, Don finally comes clean to Betty about Dick Whitman.
― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Monday, 16 January 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
Imma have to watch S3 again.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 January 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
^^ I don't think there has been a series before that I have loved but that I keep forgetting the plotlines of. Feel like I have to rewatch the whole series
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 16 January 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
starting next week i am rewatching all four seasons with my housemate (who has never seen it). interesting times.
― caek, Monday, 16 January 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
lotta first world problems itt
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
well, the show's about ad execs
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
"Saturday Review Whites"-Whiney's Grandpa
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
don sucks
more joan and peggy getting along
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
Slightly weirded out to realise that Pete and Peggy will only be in their early-to-mid-40s by the time the 80s kick in, conceivably still working in agencies with Reagan in the White House.
(And amoral dicks like Don Draper running the world by that point obviously)
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P9dnbByZkw8/TxVzH1gNAKI/AAAAAAAAQZc/TYKIEFgmohM/s1600/MadMenTeaser.jpg
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
that is perfect
― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
S3 > S4 for sure, the workplace/home-life balance was way out of whack for a lot of the latter for me.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link