Waiting for her to have a baby in episode 13 now.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
writers seem to enjoy placing Betty opposite wiser, more confident, and more thoroughly emotionally restrained women (Sally's psychologist, Henry's mother). They address hard truths matter-of-factly in soft voices and she does her ice-queen-in-the-headlights routine.
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
I don't necessarily think that Henry's mother is being presented as wiser.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
Certainly fatter.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
"Your mother is obese."
― mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
I don't necessarily think that Henry's mother is being presented as wiser
yeah dunno if that's the right word. more mature? more in control?
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
interfering
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
more manipulative
― mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
more worldly and clued in to the way of this man's world methinkssame thing joan's mother was doing; this is all setting us up for generation gap freak out as we hit the summer of '69 methinks
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
Joan's mother was a PIA!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
jealous and manipulative in both cases with these old mothers
Definitely some crazy generational strife with the old guard acting like their daughters were being rebellious when they're just living with a new set of rules
― mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
I think Henry's mother borders on a mother in law joke - she's controlling and cold, and Betty is never going to be good enough for her.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
She really does.
Have we had any nice/good Moms in this thing?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
Carla lol
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
who was Carla? I'm so bad with names in this show
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Roger's first wife seemed okay iirc.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Drapers' maid
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
agree about Roger's first wife, that's a good one
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/1027/3098sam_carla2.jpg
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Granted Trudy's a brand new mom, but she has potential.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Carla was an A+ mom :)
I feel good about Trudy as a Mommy
carla had all those kids with nick tortelli iirc
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
i picture canks as like being in prison coveralls in some sort of '30s-era juvie institution in that post
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
talking in yr sleep again dude
― balls, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
wrong thread hahaha
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
just working through some shit here guys
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
hee hee
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
omg @ betty draper dream
― moullet, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
that was very sopranos
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
but not as good
― Number None, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
it wasn't even as good as Betty's first dream sequence, but it was kinda a lackluster episode over all
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
the whole thing's been pretty lacklustre thus far.
― jed_, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
it's been two fucking episodes. sheesh.
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
feels like more
is betty's cancer going to mean that she is the nude mannequin in the promo artwork?
― fka snush (remy bean), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― balls, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
Was really surprised they picked thyroid cancer for the cancer scare. I guess it was maybe common at the time given the A-bomb blast parties and events in Vegas a decade earlier?
Acne treatments in the 60's ended up causing thyroid cancer later down the road.
― *tera, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
Hamm director.
Hamm may not have directed Betty scenes tho
not all of Carla's kids were with N. Tortelli iirc (though she did fear him during separations because he could make her pregnant with a look also iirc)
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
Footnotes of Mad Men is back in action again: http://madmenunbuttoned.com/
And sloppy X-ray-ing. Thyroid cancer is common and relatively easy to treat.
As someone who has experienced both over and under active thyroid, I knew that's what the doctor was going to say when she asked for the pills and he went for her throat. Thyroid controls metabolism, so if it's not working due to being under active or the cancer, your metabolism slows down and you gain weight. "get the kind that makes you fat" -Betty.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry about the link. Zing touch acting up.
Harry is good-natured but has a lot of weak good ol' boy-isms that he keeps trying on. It's like he is trying to look young, but already has this mentality built up so that all his jokes and references just seem dated. Kind of hilarious when he's telling a story that obviously seems pretty cool to him about Heston, and he's high and stumbling over it in a near-giddy manner, completely oblivious to the fact that he's speaking to someone who has no clue what he's talking about.
― mh, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 10:52 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
who in the hell wouldn't know who charlton heston was in 1966? that's like, i dunno, not knowing who tom hanks is now.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
more like not knowing who kevin costner is now really
― balls, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
15 year olds? Few tv channels, no home video, if you didn't see a variety of movies, you'd possibly miss out. Or it's supposed to be a "kids knew no one over 30" thing.
― mh, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I took it as the latter, he was in plenty of notable stuff in the 60s, but probably nothing that Young People would care about until Planet of the Apes.
― Boo-Yaa Too Rough International Boo-Yaa Empire (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
― balls, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 9:37 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no, costner hasn't been in a hit movie in... 10 or 15 years? heston was in e.g. el cid in 1961. he was also a prominent hollywood activist (for civil rights etc.).
i mean i can see her not really giving a shit or not having seen one of his movies (even the ten commandments?) but not having heard of guy is a little farfetched.
but whatever.
you know what' freaking far-fetched? the idea that folks at a major ad agency would not have thought to open a TV department in 1961-62. that's the one mad men plot point that strikes me as the most egregiously anachronistic.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
didn't they put hamburgers in front of the tv dept way back when?
also, yeah, her not knowing who charlton heston is kinda suprised me. heston was an a-list star at that point. be like some kid today not knowing who george clooney is, really. which isn't all that farfetched, i suppose...
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
People are dumb:http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/who-is-paul-mccartney
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link