Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

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

he played that very well, the lag between perception and comprehension

omg subtitled gif even greater than I hoped

hare krishnas was hilar

Weiner, Gilligan, and Milch talk about TV: http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201206/roundtable-discussion-matthew-weiner-vince-gilligan-david-milch?currentPage=1

i hope that's a convincing interview!

hare krishnas was sort of dumb, but not out of character for this show to do something for the lols. it doesn't take itself very seriously at all, least of all this season. it is 100% soap opera now.

lol what was it before

back to the soap opera thing zzzzzzzzzz

it's always been a soap opera. just with clothes and furniture that you covet.

^^^

Gukbe otm

i think the better word is "melodrama"