Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

Dong Draper's Inverted Clam (DJ PEG.g.y. Refix)

idg why you guys are so annoyed by the dream?

thought this was a v good ep

dream was convincing & i've 100% had anxious fever dreams where i felt like a horrible human being & woke up to find out it was completely false

tell us about the murders

ITS ALL A LIE

dream was convincing & i've 100% had anxious fever dreams where i felt like a horrible human being & woke up to find out it was completely false

― D-40, Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:05 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel like a horrible human being while awake all the time.

i didn't like the dream sequence - it made me feel queasy so i guess it was effective, and i can see how it fit the episode's essential themes, but i found it unconvincing and i totally rolled my eyes. excellent episode otherwise, though. weiner packs a lot of stuff into 50 minutes.

Totally hackneyed and obvious, also poorly written

I'm not completely convinced by the dream sequence, but loved the rest of the episode. Everyone might have been a bit too clever, but there were enough interesting bits. Sally and Henry's mom interacting was great.

dream sequence was telegraphed from the moment he collapsed on the bed and by the time he was strangling the woman it's moving into insulting that they are asking me to suspend disbelief that this is "actually happening"
c.f. betty's dream sequence in ep prior

Maybe the only part that was a dream was where he thought he killed her.

I mean, it did seem to last pretty long, cutting back to other plot points, etc.

Yeah, I initially thought it couldn't have been a dream b/c it wasn't a stand-alone scene.

megan says she came straight home and he was delirious
i think with that info, the only reading that makes sense to me is that either he fever dreamed the whole thing or everything after he pushed her out the back door and i'm inclined to think the former
lines like "they think she made all this but I know it was you" are VERY draper-y ni their subtext; also the suggestion that this chick is so desperate for don dick that she finds his new home the day after she finds out he's married is kinda hella unlikely?

not even the day after! it's like five hours later!

that is why I thought it was a dream when she showed up there

dreams are almost always dumb in movies and books, right?

Dude we know it was a dream

Sopranos, Twin Peaks dream sequences = A+

Gilligan's Island too

It was all a dream. Used to read life magazine. Pan Am, Kodak up in the limousine. Hanging storyboards on my wall...

lol

lord custos tribute thread

man practically every one of Pauline's lines in this episode was amazing. "you can watch the sunset from your bedroom window. It's the saddest sight in the world" etc.

^ yeah, that one especially

i feel like they introduced her as a major character b/c let's face it betty herself is boring

<i>"new home the day after she finds out he's married is kinda hella unlikely?"</i>
Still very possible in the days before FB and Google via phonebooks and tricking the secretary into divulging that information. But yeah, there is no doubt it was a dream.

But she could have been that desperate and found what she was looking for, finally. Remember Beat girl planting herself in his lobby? Still, I have no doubt it was dream.

Could almost be a song.

but stiiiilllll
i have
.....
NO DOUBT
it was a dreeeeeeam

Speck, performing oral sex on another inmate,[39][40] sharing a huge pile of cocaine with an inmate, parading in silk panties, sporting female-like breasts (allegedly grown using smuggled hormone treatments), and boasting, "If they only knew how much fun I was having, they'd turn me loose."

what level of fuckery this is?

high fuckery

it made me miss the slick rick gig.

lots of talk that he was basically forced to do all that and to take the hormones.

either way a pretty shitty dude so i'm not cryin or nuthin

Saw Michael Gladis last night at the Radiohead concert in Santa Barbara.

Sally Draper is on Jimmy Fallon's show tonight. woo!

She's not at Dakota Fanning levels of freakish maturity for someone young, but she's on top of things for sure.

pete is so entertaining.

lol @ don hating the suburbs

These sportcoats are killing me. Make it stop.

i know right!

i like how cosgrove is completely under the radar and then you realize he's probably the most interesting person who works there

also cracked up by all the cliché stuff from pete/trudy about how wonderful it is to live in the suburbs

oh my god this show XD

"i know cooler heads should prevail, but am i the only one who wants to see this?"

ILU Lane.

Pete and the prostitute had me rolling...

blah blah blah.
No.
blah blah blah.
No.
You are my king.
Yes.

"Hard day at the office"

No

"It's my first time and I'm really scared"

No

etc

i feel mad men is catering to audience desires much more than before (joan divorcing mcrapey, pete getting his ass kicked). but it's been really enjoyable to watch all the same.

lol at Pete getting whooped and lol at Lane being a Mets fan.

CHEWING GUM ON HIS PUBIS

http://skreened.com/tvtime/pete-campbell-is-a-grimy-little-pimp