Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

Megan seems to make an awful lot of social faux-paus. Dropping that Don was divorced at the Heinz meeting, loudly exclaiming Cynthia's name at the dinner party, embarassing Don at his surprise party...

hands up if you couldn't remember kenneth's wife name either

(it's not usually my habit to read recaps/re-watch eps of long-form dramas so i don't really remember tiny details of this show the way y'all have tho)

They should've asked Pete, who should've confessed he didn't know either. I should definitely be a Mad Men script consultant.

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I actually not sure she'd even been named in the show up until that point.

^^^ yeah I don't think she'd even been on-screen...? maybe at the last Xmas party?

they should've asked TRUDY

she's been on screen a number of times, ken was out to dinner with her and her parents, at don's party. pretty sure ken mentioned her name in the office.

Cynthia Cosgrove (Larisa Oleynik) (née Baxter) is Ken Cosgrove's wife, the daughter of Ed (Ray Wise), who is the CEO of Corning. Cynthia is a New York society girl, who appears to have moved in the same Manhattan social circles as the presumably older Trudy Campbell. In season four, Cosgrove refuses to use Ed's connections to get new clients for Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, claiming that he doesn't want to be like Pete Campbell. He calls Cynthia "his life" and unlike Pete Campbell, does not want to use her or his future father-in-law to get business. In the fifth season premiere, her character is listed during the credits as Cynthia Cosgrove, implying that they were married between the fourth and fifth seasons.

ah right Ray Wise!!!

too bad u can't rss subscribe to that fashion blog's mad men posts w/out getting everything along with them

some of yall really pull out the magnifying glass on this show huh

good episode

oh no roger

this will not end well

the time is totally out of order, this is great

roger trippin balls
don and Megan bein assy to each other
everyone is so miserable, this is gorgeous

This whole episode feels pretty gimmicky to me so far. Maybe I just don't want to watch a show about the 60s...

Megan acting out was pretty good though.

Amazing episode. I feel like they fit three hours of Mad Men into one hour.

Roger tripping was done way better than I expected.

i liked how about 1/3 of the way through you realize the episode isn't in linear time

don/megan drama is getting ridiculous

they have a real weird relationship

Megan is the adult in the room at almost all times, for sure.

Also, and I'm sure it was intentional, there were some shots of Jane in this episode that made her one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.

I think I'm gonna rewatch this after work tomorrow. There's no way my brain could process all that was happening.

Awesome episode. They've definitely gotten considerably ballsier in terms of style and pace this season IMO.

i lol'd so hard @ rogers "its going to be a beautiful day"

Haven't watched this yet; did they play "White Rabbit"?

"I Just Wasn't Made For this World" :)

white rabbit is from '67 so no

that's not the title of the song xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyhU2mVyFAk

Oh.. These Times, maybe? The Beach Boys. Sorry!

What a weird episode! Also my uh…version had 10 minutes of a Lifetime show spliced in. Which was extra confusing.

Mad Men isn't on lifetime? What have I been watching? Oh my..

So far this is my favorite episode.

lol that happened to me too...took a second to realize it wasn't a shot of young sally

"there were some shots of Jane in this episode that made her one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen."

no kidding; she also talked and had a lot more personality in this episode than I ever remember seeing. the shots of her on the bed at the end were stunning.

i really like megan.

great episode, though i thought the 3-way bad relationship parallelism was maybe a little forced? roger tripping was classic though, and i loved the hojos detour. such a weird and great design scheme. don is a flaming fucking asshole btw.

This is definitely the best episode of the season; likely top five for the series.
A/B/C plots all excellent.
About time; I was getting less and less engaged and a show like this was just what I needed to remind me why I watch Mad Men.

I thought the opposite of Jane. Sort of. While she will always be beautiful I thought she was more serious than she had been in other episodes and sad. I thought she was a very good actress to look less attractive not because she is but because of hat she was emoting: sadness, confusion. I remember thinking she was so gorgeous when she first appeared as the hot secretary. This episode had her looking slightly vintage Star Trek vixenish but jaded and that eclipsed everything, for me at least.

Sorry:
*what not "hat" she was emoting....

Wonder if they are just really going to do away with her so quickly or the exact opposite and show her more now that she and Roger are quits.

it's weird to see don crying again

i liked this episode a lot. no pete, but i'm sure that will be rectified soon.

What a weird episode! Also my uh…version had 10 minutes of a Lifetime show spliced in. Which was extra confusing.

― raw feel vegan (silby)

Ha, mine too.

Roger on acid should've been funnier IMO.

I thought that was the right amount of funny. My favorite part was when he responded to the professor but his lips weren't moving.

amazing episode. up there with the best of the series imo.

the trip scene started out a little corny (orchestra playing out of the vodka bottle) but as it went on it was pretty well done I thought. the end of it where they got really deep into their relationship while they were coming down felt real.

Speaking of that, didn't Timothy Leary already look a little bit more "counterculture" by 1966?

wasn't really buying Peggy giving some random guy a handjob in a movie theater just because she made a bad pitch

She'd had a fight with her bf, lost it at her pitch, decided to play hooky, smoked some random guy's joint, and maybe just felt like being bad. Peggy is all about behaving out of character when no one expects.

amazing episode. the handjob, the acid, the sorbet, the non-linear plot = LOVE

Handjob Peggy (comes with everything you see here) was less to me about her feeling bad and more to me about her wanting to be desired and in control of the situation.