MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

ah Le Carre, not Ian Fleming, mixing up my spy novels

intentionally or not, that fact that Don is a bit of a nullity (especially to the other characters, and that's something that's brought up a lot i think, he's "Tarzan swinging from vine to vine") is interesting since the rest of the characters are so rich. it's like he's this looming empty figure whose whims and moods they have to cope with. a capital F father, but don isn't really there to himself.

Wasn't he reading "Tropic of Cancer" at some point?

ha i used that tarzan metaphor to describe the tenuous state of my freelancing career last night w/o even realizing where it came from

Don reads Fleming, too.

M: "My father won't care if he finds out you read James Bond."
D: "You know what? It's a good book. You should read it."

considering there are only 13 episodes a season, trotting it out once or twice seems pretty reasonable to me in conveying that he reads from time to time

omg, it's true, we rarely see don read. also I'm not sure I've ever seen him go to the bathroom! think about it. highly suspicious.

Seen him puke enough

with Don everything comes out the same way it went in, the singularity of his being, his internal processes and functions, his drives and motivations, they are forever obscured.

Meditations in an Emergency- Frank O'hara
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword- Ruth Benedict
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold- John Le Carre
Exodus- Leon Uris
The Best of Everything- Ronna Jaffee
The Fixer- Bernard Malamud
The Inferno- Dante
Odds Against- Dick Francis

― mizzell, Tuesday, May 7, 2013 11:33 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dante is kind of the odd man out here.

dante was lindsey weir's doing

Seen him puke enough

exactly! he's a secret bulimic who does all of his reading in the bathroom.

figure most of them were directly inspired by other characters/ plot points. chrysanthemum for Honda, exodus for Isreal tourism/Rachel, O'hara to prove that beatnik wrong

i'm just picturing some kind of book club where you read books mentioned on mad men and discuss their deep relevance to that season's plot.

i'm going to walk off my 2nd-floor porch, brb.

apparently this is Pynchon that Pete is reading
http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/images/crying_of_lot_49.jpg

xp
yes, the New York Library is encouraging that: http://www.nypl.org/blog/2012/02/27/mad-men-reading-list

i'm going to walk off my 2nd-floor porch, brb.

and fly away like superman?

cyring of lot 49 no?

on the one hand that seems totally uncharacteristic of pete, on the other hand he does look pretty befuddled there.

through the 6 seasons there have been a few times where they've tried to suggest a sensitive-intellectual side to pete but they seem to have abandoned those efforts.

hi guys. i like this show a lot, and i'm strongly considering pursuing advertising in the near future. i've been watching more and more episodes with my boyfriend (on sundays, he plays old episodes throughout the day til the new one comes on). i just wanted to step foot in this thread and say i'll probably b posting more. my big observation for today is that Megan looked rly hot in the last episode.

O'hara to prove that beatnik wrong

wasn't o'hara sent to him by the real don draper's wife?

or did he send it to her?

no he sent it to her after reading it. he asked a guy in a bar who was reading it if it was any good, and the dude said, i don't think you'd like it, or something.
xp

this may have been discussed already but since i only recently caught up i was thinking about the MLK episode and i found it really interesting that, in distinction from the JFK one (if memory serves), there seemed a lot more anxiety about "appropriate" responses to the tragedy, and the characters even went so far as to police each other's responses--especially given that that sort of thing is such a predictable part of our discourse around national tragedies now as a result of a radically more diverse set of voices available in the media.

lol joan's hug

You can be a 'sensitive intellectual' and still be a jackass to other people fwiw

if ilx has taught us anything

megan's lurex dress was outstanding, she looked like a super fancy go-go dancer

yeah that thing was ridiculous, wit her frosted makeup

mom knows how to give advice!

when in doubt, listen to juliette binoche

julia ormond goddamnit

listen. in my mind if you have black hair and delicate features and you speak french you're juliette binoche, don't muddy the waters with non-french named actresses

Just watched this week's episode, kind of feel like Sterling turned his shmoozing up to 11. His interactions with his airline friend were great, and somehow it felt like they actually liked each other and he isn't just using her for connections

yeah she seemed kind of happy to be a part of his intrigues

this was a great episode. i kept noticing the direction in a good way. it was jennifer getzinger, who did the suitcase (best episode ever imo).

Oh, that's cool - the suitcase is one of my favourites as well. This was the best episode this season so far for me.

https://twitter.com/80sDonDraper

That's hilarious. And apparently 80's Don Draper is moonlighting as Bryan Ferry in a Roxy Music tribute band.

afaict they shopped his head onto a shot of Michael J. Fox in Doc Hollywood (for some reason)

SOMETHING by Emeraon LOL!

http://f.eed.bz/16-real-facts-about-the-mad-men-that-will-blow-up-your-mind/

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llz5d0HYGe1qdia4g.gif

that's an office character. mad men is in an office but it is not actually the tv show the office. i can see how u would get confused tho

http://25.media.tumblr.com/f18011d05be26557f9f0be74310e6b9f/tumblr_mmewfo47LL1rrfiwuo1_500.gif

lol

thank you so much daria

^^^

Good ol' 'two coffees Bob'...

arthur "two coffees" jackson

i liked this last episode.

poor peggy. she ended up basically writing a memo like the secretary she started out as, which was a nice materialization of her deepest fears at that moment....