the sideburns aren't doing him any favors either.
pete's contentment in this episode reminded me of the ending of madame bovary, where the narrator relates that in the wake of doctor bovary's downfall the sleazy, opportunistic pharmacist achieved major success and added that it was his type -- the schemers of the world -- who are posed to inherit the earth. or something.
― très hip (Treeship), Monday, 14 April 2014 03:35 (ten years ago) link
cad otm
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 April 2014 05:50 (ten years ago) link
i can't believe i'm going to keep watching this
― call all destroyer, Sunday, April 13, 2014 8:25 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Monday, 14 April 2014 06:43 (ten years ago) link
yeah this just seems like a chore tbh
― it's a trilby (Clay), Monday, 14 April 2014 06:45 (ten years ago) link
This really needed to be a 2-hour ep, just to get the rhythm going and the characters more in motion than what we got. Loving California Pete & Drug Orgy Roger already tho.
I shall celebrate this, my post 11,000, with some Vanilla Fudge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFabNBveHOk
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 April 2014 09:16 (ten years ago) link
Off to a brisker start than last year's filler season, even if the "meaningful" moment (disheveled Don's final moment on the balcony) felt forced as usual and the camera lingered a bit too long on the young man in bed with Roger and his tryst.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 April 2014 12:36 (ten years ago) link
Man I can't believe they are stretching this thing out over two "seasons" when does season 7b begin?
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
Oh and this was awesome
man it's amazing how much these older guys look like Nixon men
I was thinking about something I saw on Pawn Stars (!) when Don was riding the people mover with his hat on. The old man in the pawn shop said Kennedy never wore hats and by doing so pretty much killed off the trend of men wearing hats by the early 60s. So here's Don, in 1969, still wearing hats like a throwback to another time.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 April 2014 13:51 (ten years ago) link
so does Megan not know that Don isn't working?
― akm, Monday, 14 April 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
Sorta get the sense Megan doesn't really care much what Don's doing, period. So it's not too hard for him to keep her in the dark about his not-job.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 April 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
she's gonna die
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
7(b) is spring 2015 iirc
― johnny crunch, Monday, 14 April 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
ugh
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
I am pretty dense when it comes to symbolism, but last night even I understood how that damned door to the balcony is just like Don Draper's life right now: It's broken, the pitiful effort he is giving cannot fix it so he deals with the misery it causes him starkly alone.
Draper for all of his faults always at least had sex to fall back on but now even that doesn't work for him anymore: His hot wife lays back and thinks of England and he rejects his emotionally vulnerable, cooing co-pilot, using the same lie about having work to do to explain brushing both of them off.
If the show was taking place now, Don would either be self-medicating himself into a coma (Roger Sterling has morphed from an anachronism to a man ahead of his time in this regard) or breaking down (Peggy Olson is going that route, but in private since the times mandate that she - and Joan Holloway for that matter - cannot dare show weakness).
Don is either going to hit rock bottom and start to fight to regain all of the things he has lost (which is pretty much everything when you get right down to it - he symbolically can't get it up and his advertising brilliance is relegated to trading pitches to Freddy Rumsen for sandwiches) or the fall will continue and then it's only a matter of whom he takes down with him.
I hope it's the former since, for all of Dandy Don's faults, which have seemed to be exacerbated every season, I still liked him best when he was he was able to pull the wool over everyone's eyes (including his own) but a case can be made that watching his character implode would make for even more compelling viewing as the season and series winds down.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 14 April 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
I think this 1/2 season will be his rise up and then the next one he will head down again--
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 15:06 (ten years ago) link
Neve Campbell was good enough to survive her character saying her husband "died of thirst."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 April 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
that scene was so bad
― call all destroyer, Monday, 14 April 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
I think it was supposed to be? One critic suggested in might have been a Don fantasy/daydream
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
Really good description here of the whole (Don)-Freddy-Peggy-Lou dynamic, re the way Peggy, "improves" the proposed Accutron slogan and then pushes it (acting first in reflexive self-protection, also like "doing it because I can" male manager reflex, then with self-righteous inadvertant self-parody of her signature professionalism/idealism)---also the shit Joan has to deal with, though I followed that better while watching: http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/mad-men-recap-season-7-premiere.html He doesn't mention that this is probably the first time Draper's ever turned down a proposition---does the fact that the woman's the one putting the moves on him, rather than the other way around, tip the scales, turn him off? Especially since, as this recapper enumerates, Megan's been tossing off a bunch of house rules for her hunka-hubby guest. Of course the world's *still* grooving past him...
― dow, Monday, 14 April 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
they seem to be treading a lot of water thematically (what, Don's down and out AGAIN? how many times have we seen this arc w him by now) but it's still a joy to watch. genuine lolz at Ken's earring toss. and enjoyed the Don/Rumsen front reveal. That "conversation piece" tag is from a real ad, isn't it? sounded familiar.
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
Cosgrove gets hotter every season.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
I appreciate that Cosgrove doesn't get overused, but I do wish they'd use him a little more often than they do.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 April 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link
He's kinda one note though
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
Stan is too, but I feel like they use Stan just the right amount.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 April 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
Yep.
Don seemed different--more restrained. Did we actually see him take a drink? Remember when he lived in that apartment by himself and wrote in a journal? Hope he returns to that place and finds some peace--seems like he's testing himself next week with the grease pencils on the bottles?
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
"One note"? Well, he was never the same after riding the storm in that Buddy Holly plane with those "WHEEE is my Co-pilot" maniac Motor City clients (where he lost his eye, right?) Remember when he was having so much fun, riding the mini-John Deere over the newly crowned UK boss's foot, and writing science fiction short stories (incl. at least one inspired by a visit to Pete's homebase, plausibly enough). Hope he gets his mojo back, but looks like he's going to be the third office casualty, most likely by stressed-out spontaneous combustion.
― dow, Monday, 14 April 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
remember the time he rode one of those girls like a horse
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
I just don't think he has much depth as a character--Harry's way more interesting (because he's a dope).
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
No depth, but as a good MM supporting tool must, he makes himself useful, plot-twist-wise: cutting off feet, refusing to meet, etc.
― dow, Monday, 14 April 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
dancing kinda sweet
http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2013/05/20/itsmyjob.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
Miss Sal hitting on Cosgrove :(
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
stressed-out eyepatch ken was one of the few things i liked in this episode
― call all destroyer, Monday, 14 April 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
Surely everyone here pissed themselves laughing at Pete just sauntering in wearing that outfit?
― Matt DC, Monday, 14 April 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
Did Don call Pete a hippie? I thought that was weird.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
his clothes looked hamptons or newport, not cali, i guess that was the joke?
― call all destroyer, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
He said you talk like a hippie but you dont dress like one
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
And I hope Pete ends up ok
These guys are gonna go ham(m) in 1975, like every thirty and fortysomething for whom the sixties were too late.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 April 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
Also who do we think is going to die
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
What do we think Roger's daughter told him at lunch?
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
Sounded like she was twelve-stepping or something similar.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
gonna be interesting how they handle Manson, seems inevitable w Megan's proximity
also lol at her sub-Paul Lynde agent
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 April 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
agreed the 12 stepping
also, man, is Megan gonna die? I think so. I don't know.
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
Surely everyone here pissed themselves laughing at Pete just sauntering in wearing that outfit?― Matt DC
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 April 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
poor old one-eyed ken cosgrove
― there was a definite cool-factor in tupac's hologram (stevie), Monday, 14 April 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
This has mutated into a very odd show. Two seasons ago I adored it, now I'm not entirely sure what to make of it. The tone of this episode was some weird midpoint between madcap and elegiac.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 00:00 (ten years ago) link
^^ odd show otm, but I love it for it, how it is getting more undefinable, fleeting. Dust in the wind.
If the episode itself doesn't do it for you, there's always Molly Lambert's exquisite reviews. I kind of love her just for her Mad Men recaps.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
Roger's daughter sounded like she's been going to Al-Anon
Megan in the LA hills certainly had a Manson family vibe to it but I'm not sure.
― akm, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 02:57 (ten years ago) link
this show is seeming pretty muddled and boring
but boy is neve campbell looking good
― j., Tuesday, 15 April 2014 03:14 (ten years ago) link