Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

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.

...and to complete the circle, David White played both Mr. Tate on "Bewitched" and Mr. Eichelberger in The Apartment.

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.

R u one of those ppl who sits around watching AMC dramas all nite, tweeting abt how AMAZEBALLS they are?

Walked by a Banana Republic tonight. The big poster in the window asked me if I am a Betty.

Well?

I don't really think there's an answer. I think the significance is in asking the question.

uch, you're such a Betty.

Keep getting BR MM collection ads in my FB feed ATM.

That's a lot of abbreviations.

Do they have a "Are You A Pete?" poster

Banana republic really on the cutting edge with this mad men collection

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So when does this actually start?

via wiki: "The fifth season is scheduled to premiere on March 16, 2012."

crap, I was hoping it was sooner :(

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!

march 2012, sez some place on the internet

I can wait. I think.

SPOILER i hear don draper broods a lot next season SPOILER

read "breeds" at first

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.

^^^

I assume this season will begin in 1975, it feels like they've been gone so long

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

I'm hoping for a mid-70s setting. I feel like anything 1966-1969 will have inevitable stretches of crushing predictability.

(cue "White Rabbit")

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.

eh when it comes back he'll be divorced again already. and it'll be the year 2030.

i wonder if he's quit smoking...

march 25.

Enough time to rewatch S4.

season premiere will be two hours!

Jesus. Not sure how I feel about that.

me neither, but i will watch every last minute of it.

no skip the last minute

The last minute will obviously be Don looking out of a window with a deeply furrowed brow.

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*

the first 45 minutes will a recap of the last 4 seasons because everyone forgot

last time on Mad Men

"wow don congratulations on your wedding. who is your bride?"

"oh uh. i forget her name"

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*

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...I see so little reason for this..??

cos Don is super boring

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.

i love don.

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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.

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"

amc confirmed that s5 is set in may 2003

it follows don and peggy's grandchildren as they team up to solve mysteries

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.

Is there a reason why the gap has been soooo long?

some of the sopranos gaps were this long

Don't really understand how this level of ennui has set in really. Still looking forward to this.

i don't think the ennui is entirely from the gap between seasons but more from how lethargic + disappointing the last season was

Perhaps we're due for another good one (1, 3, 5...)