Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

Harry is so amusing

wow, I'm glad I asked! Sounds like it kind of reads as "writers want to make sure you know this guy is totally Jewish." I assumed it was some sort of blessing, although attributed it more to celebration related to his job? kind of wacky when juxtaposed with the "let's go get some women" bit, for sure

I know how the sausage gets made and sausage-making at this level is still p amazing to me.

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^ lipstick/makeup tests, probably

also

huminahumina

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The rest of those pics were kinda zzz to me. But Hendricks is A+

Jimmy, I kiss u

the blessing scene was great because it came right after him suggesting a pair of older/younger whores, he is obviously a little something

I liked the phone convo between Betty and Don, where she made him tell her it would be okay

After railing against her last week I felt kinda bummed for her this week, lol hi I r a hypocrite ;)

god the interiors are getting kind of ghastly huh

January Jones in a fatsuit for the rest of the season would be so great.

fatsuit? thought it was the aftereffects of eating your placenta

Its a bugle suit

even at her most sympthetic/vulnerable it was noticeable that when she gets the good news, betty's second thought is "now i don't have an excuse for being fat." lol shallow betty.

jewish copywriter has a lot of promise for the show, i think. did you notice he wore jeans to his interview?

remember that peggy's boyfriend and roger's wife are both jewish.

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whoa

I liked how as far as Betty is concerned, Megan is 20.

Harry isn't terrible, just useless and overpromoted because he happened to luck out at the right time. But then this is an organisation where Roger still has a job, so...

Henry didn't tell Betty that Don had called to, y'know, find out whether she had cancer or not. That's going to kick off in time.

I didn't really expect the camera to follow Ginsberg home and I don't really get why it did. The character has potential but they've never really bothered to do that with Ken or Harry.

presumably odd Ginsberg Sr is going to be a significant presence over time in a way Ken or Harry's families aren't

they're presumably setting him to be a major character the way they did peggy

where do i know that actor from?

Betty sais Megan is 20, but later in the episode Megan says she's 26.

(Says. I can't type.)

they're presumably setting him to be a major character the way they did peggy

Very curious to see if Stan's prediction that Michael will outshine Peggy comes true.

No kidding, Betty's perspective way skewed. Megan's 26, and Betty is what, still early 30s? I get where she's coming from in that she feels like Megan's a know-nothing youth, especially with the marriage/kids/social society bit, but it's almost like the two of them are separated by only a handful of years and a complete social generation.

I think Betty also feels older because she married an older politician and has a lot of responsibilities that Megan does not have -- contrast her ancient, forbidding house with the hip apartment Don and Megan are living in.

Kind of sad about Don's lack of reinvention. The guy can relate to all kinds of people, but he's really no good at changing himself in any major way.

it's funny how everyone in this thread keeps going on about how useless harry is when he is actually kind of the only business visionary in the show, realized the potential of and built the whole TV department and probably kept both firms afloat? but he's bumbling and fattish so you have an excuse to feel superior to him

if there is anyone who is in tune with the common man, it is Harry

I'm guessing Bobby Morse has never sung on this thing.

also, they are doing George Romney ads?

No, Betty's politician husband fired off a one-liner about not wanting to meet with Romney in Michigan

thx, I heard there was something.

u guys shd watch the How to Succeed movie for the Morse metajoke

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Don's not good at changing himself?!

It is a TCM staple, I've seen it a couple of times -- it seems like they air it once a month. xp

this gif has me in a trance

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This one is my favorite because of the angry slow clapping:

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the two people that pete fucked hardest

I'm still thinking about Henry totally blowing off Don's call. I don't even get why he would be mad that Betty told Don about the tumor.

Ugh @ soap opera people.

also, ginsburg's dad benching him was way bizarre and strange

full confession: Ginsburg is the first character I've felt any identification with on this show at all (well, apart from maybe Peggy's latest boyfriend) ... but yeah this was weird, was wondering if I was missing something. was he blessing him because he got the job or something? I was perplexed.

xp

Maybe he just brought home the right kind of cheese.

I dug the Ginsburg character. He seems interesting.

built the whole TV department and probably kept both firms afloat

re: the former afaict the "TV department" is just Harry and I seriously doubt the latter is true, not sure what you're basing that on

u guys shd watch the How to Succeed movie for the Morse metajoke

good movie/good metajoke imho

I don't even get why he would be mad that Betty told Don about the tumor.

Probably because Betty didn't tell him she had told Don? That would seem slightly shady to me.

Betty and Don have three children together. I'm sure there are conversations they have that Henry doesn't know about and Henry should be smart enough to realize this happens.

Henry doesn't strike me as particularly smart

BUT I think Henry has some weird inferiority complex re: Don and has to act out in some way.

altho he IS divorced and has told Betty to get over it in terms of dealing with Don and raising their children so yeah I dunno

I really liked the Betty/Don drama in this. 'Tell me everything will be alright' was pretty awesome. Also i loved how Harry was too high to notice he was being scammed by the non-Rolling Stones.

I really don't understand the Harry hate. He seems more like a good-natured goof than anything.

Didn't Harry basically go to Roger "maybe we should have a TV department" and Roger went "okay, you're the head of the TV department" because he didn't really care. And yeah the TV department is one person. It's pretty difficult to work out what he actually does other than occasionally meeting with TV execs and being a hapless buffoon. He's actually a lot less fat than he used to be and has becoming increasingly buffoonish with time. I don't hate him, but he is kind of comically inept.

Speaking of hapless buffoons, they're never going to bring Kinsey back are they?

Yeah, I think the guys who are gone are now gone for good.

we'll see - they brought back Ken and Midge

They brought back Ken and Midge before all that offseason contract rodeo that happened.

I loved Harry talking about Charlton Heston. I think that he comes off as intensely over-eager and also kinda smarmy which I think is why most people are turned off by him.

I could see them bringing anyone back for a guest spot (a la Midge). I think it's not terribly likely than any of the former regulars, come back as regulars at this point cuz really what's left to say about Sal or Kinsey at this point.