Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

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

here comes success

no!

There we go

wow, that was fast. great episode, too. agree that they're swinging a bit towards fanservice, but i don't mind. pete's been asking for that for a while. also, get bent OTM.

hamm's reactions to the fight were killing me.

These sportcoats are killing me. Make it stop.

god yeah, don's jacket at the party. hoped that he, at least, might be spared the indignity.

he got laid w/e

starting to hate don's "love has made me new man" schtick, though noose doodles are promising

I kind of dig it, at least as its presented to people on the outside.

I also like his newfound sense of openness, as in telling the madame that he grew up in a whorehouse. It's all gonna go wrong, I'll bet.

the "things feel like they're speeding up" dialogue between pete and the high school girl has got to be the worst passage in this show yet.

all of her little soliloquoy was cringeworthy actually

i covet pete's giant stereo system though, damn.

good episode. lots of weird hard cuts between scenes and odd graphic matches and stuff.

More ammo tonight for whoever it was that thought Pete will be the falling man.

?? people really take it that literally ??

I thought it was in this thread! Then where was I reading someone's conspiracy theory about Pete jumping out a window?

"good episode. lots of weird hard cuts between scenes and odd graphic matches and stuff."

there was a cut from someone leaving a door in the office to someone else opening another door in the office which was obviously intentional but also confused my brain for a split second

I was a bit overwhelmed by all the match cuts. Think Slattery had too much fun directing.

But otherwise yeah great ep omg.

there was a cut from someone leaving a door in the office to someone else opening another door in the office which was obviously intentional but also confused my brain for a split second

yeah, this annoyed me. too self-consciously clever for the fact that it just didn't work, plus meaningless.

totally. we need less of those and more star wipes.

12 hours and still no one has popped in to grumble about Cosgrove's story at the end? ilx losing it's edge!

okay I like Ken a lot more now

for some reason, i figured he was gonna be a sci-fi writer from the moment the idea was introduced

I like Ken a lot, but I don't know how much of it is the character and how much of it is from playing a lot of LA Noir.

he was too much of a non-entity before - between this and his "pact" with Peggy and his refusal to exploit his family connections for business he's become a lot more well-defined

i don't agree. they p much fleshed him out when the fact he was a writer came up originally. and when sal was in love with him because he realised that unlike the others he actually was intelligent and had an appreciation and understanding of art.

that episode (The Gold Violin) was pretty much the most screen-time Ken ever had in the series and it was in, what, the first season...?

season 2 apparently

I think it sort of comes down to the series/MW not having as much interest in Ken precisely because Ken is a guy without any super-crushing issues.

yeah - the writer-thing was a characteristic but it didn't generate any kind of conflict. now Ken's being set up as a guy who's a bit torn between work and his desire for a personal life outside the office

Still weirding me out though that instead of descending further into Roger-like decrepitude Don may have actually kind of sort of started figuring out what makes him happy. WTF mad men, what happened to the misery and squalor

Pete crying in the elevator wasn't enough for you?

Don should've peed on him

lol

this episode was amazing btw

amazed that anyone finds anything to like in pete, other than the skill with which he is made to seem completely insufferable and horrid

"i thought we were supposed to be friends"

FUCK YOU

The best thing about Pete is that he can make you turn your feelings about him right around on a dime.