Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

Yeah, at the bar she said something like "My mother trained me to be irresistible" or something like that.

pretty great episode! everything about harry and kinsey was hilarious and sad.

kind of dreading any financial shenanigans plot bullshit going forward tho

why so? seems pretty well motivated given what we know of lane's situation and character.

So ARE they setting us up for Don and Joan having a thing? Or was this episode as far as they'll take it?

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i didnt get the impression they were implying this at all. the dialogue was more about don having a fight of self-determination v. fate iirc, & ends w him driving a car really really fast

i rewound that convo she & he had to rewatch to try to better understand their diff perspectives on the cheating spouse

Is staying with the Hare Krishnas necessarily any better than heading off to LA and facing almost certain failure at being a scriptwriter? Dude seemed in a pretty vulnerable state and that's hardly going to help from what I can see. Peggy was probably OTM earlier in the episode.

LA in the mid-late 60s -- so many more fun cults he could join!

Is staying with the Hare Krishnas necessarily any better than heading off to LA and facing almost certain failure at being a scriptwriter?

yeah i can easily see kinsey panhandling on the streets of hollywood in a few years (or months). when his "screenwriting" ambitions turn up nothing, does he seem grounded enough to like get a job as a waiter or something?

he'll probably end up hanging out with charles manson and dennis wilson.

peggy was great!

That could be her in three years, so the smugness about Kinsey's downfall was nagl I thought.

I just realized - he was the best Krishna recruiter ever because of his advertizing background!

What was it Peggy said? "If it doesn't come easy for him, then he shouldn't bother"? I thought that said a lot about her own attitude about work and her career.

well the implication was if a script that bad didn't come easy then maybe he should try something else

i saw hare krishnas at the airport today for the first time in years! pretty cool.

aside from the really charming joan and don love-in i found p. much everything else in this episode unconvincing. esp the hare krishna thing.

what does that mean 'unconvincing'

what it always means!

the jaguar salesman was convincing

then why you smell of british sterling?

why are you being so condescending? oh wait, it's you. care to provide your flaky thoughts on the french cultural theorist du jour?

i love the world of intrigue this line effortlessly invokes

talk about condensing.

um, condescending

i'm just a pulpist

jed-I agree...

i find that unconvincing

The Hare Krishna storyline seemed a bit sloppy. Liked seeing Kinsey but...meh. I could see how he would be the type to go exploring cults and how subcultures appeal to that character but the show seems to try and incorporate too much pop culture at once this season. Or was I just annoyed with this episode.

given that the mid-60s was when pop culture REALLY went into overdrive, this seems entirely appropriate

They could've just found Kinsey in some storefront "cool" xtian church, but then we wouldn't have had the pleasure of his Krishna haircut.

the theater and post-play argument between Don & Megan was awesome

I guess my main question coming out of the episode was whether Don is throwing himself back into his work for good reasons (he really has been slacking, needs to focus) or bad reasons (Megan is too hard for him to deal with so he's gonna live at the office for six weeks). The fact that Megan was pushing him to try harder at work makes it a complicated question.

i think the joan dinner reminded him that there's more to live for than megan

also tooling around in a jag and megan freaking out with the spaghetti
he likes domesticity but is trying to determine how to balance his life now that megan isn't the constant.
tried making everything a playground, now will try to make his life a battlefield
dude has trouble with half measures

given that the mid-60s was when pop culture REALLY went into overdrive, this seems entirely appropriate
Yeah, this is true.....

megan is awesome you goon

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I like Megan a whole lot more, her charm is diminishing.

Kinsey is such a pathetic Krishna lol

i liked the joke about him working at A&P.

still cracking up every time I think of "there's an airplane here to see you."

yeah, laughed so hard at that

we need gif-age of that

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4e1eus8581qbyqaao1_500.gif

HOORAY

with "666" in the background behind the blinds

wanted a longer one w text, but that's all the internet seemed willing to provide

spooky xp

weird - what is that doing there?

*meant I LIKED Megan a whole lot more....not so much now.

tumblr comes through:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4d6o8eoQW1rrq2fxo1_500.gif

and another good one i found on my tumblr journey:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4hatxZUsk1rntmico1_500.gif

lol at the lamp gif, i'd forgotten about that