MAD MEN on AMC - Seasons 7(a) & & 7(b)

Surely everyone here pissed themselves laughing at Pete just sauntering in wearing that outfit?
― Matt DC

poor old one-eyed ken cosgrove

This has mutated into a very odd show. Two seasons ago I adored it, now I'm not entirely sure what to make of it. The tone of this episode was some weird midpoint between madcap and elegiac.

^^ odd show otm, but I love it for it, how it is getting more undefinable, fleeting. Dust in the wind.

If the episode itself doesn't do it for you, there's always Molly Lambert's exquisite reviews. I kind of love her just for her Mad Men recaps.

Roger's daughter sounded like she's been going to Al-Anon

Megan in the LA hills certainly had a Manson family vibe to it but I'm not sure.

this show is seeming pretty muddled and boring

but boy is neve campbell looking good

how else would she be looking?

hopefully no other way, ever

Since they went to the trouble of giving her character a full name in the end credits, I assume we'll be seeing her again.

Megan in the LA hills certainly had a Manson family vibe to it

i had the same feeling, but it could be a red herring.

...it could also mean she's in the running for backing singer gig w/Leon Russell.

Ever so slightly thought the cgi cold breath of Don was a bit rubbish

i was feeling pretty eh about mad men's return before watching the new episode but now i'm on board again. i don't like downward-spiral don but i do like this new twist where he's too depressed to fuck random women. pete's real estate agent was a dead ringer for young betty.

pete's real estate agent was a dead ringer for young betty.

oh hells yes.

I thought she looked like the girl Don ate chicken Kiev with, though I guess she was probably supposed to look like Betty.
Also Ken didn't run over that guys foot it was Doris the idiotic switchboard operator.

http://i.imgur.com/ItfiaWO.gif

Best gif ever. My bad, but Cosgrove did proudly ride the li'l instrument into the office party, thus providing Doris with her simple twist of wheel and fate. Lookin' good on the resume, D. Wonder what that actress is doing now?

Remind me: what happened to Cosgrove's eye?

hunting accident w/ chevy suits

His tossing Joan's earring at her and missing by a few feet was the best laugh of the episode.

yes, someone tell me when *that gif is ready pls

what happened in the last scene? my VOD cacked out

also btw do you guys realize you are all re-enacting yet again the whole miffed reaction to mad men's perennial slow burn

it's almost like we're sick of it

I love this show and how "boring" it is. But this episode seemed full of action

it's almost like we're sick of it

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, April 15, 2014 10:35 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you'll all be loving it by episode 5

what happened in the last scene? my VOD cacked out

Don went and tried to fix his busted sliding door that Freddy complained about, couldn't do it, and sat out on the freezing cold balcony in his underwear, LITERALLY out in the cold, get it?

I usually don't mind my metaphors ladeled on thick but that one + Meghan being IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT, DO YOU SEE? were a bit much

liked the episode overall though

One of the ATK eps that's up on Prime now has male test kitchen chefs on screen for recipes and I was stunned.

also btw do you guys realize you are all re-enacting yet again the whole miffed reaction to mad men's perennial slow burn

Lol

Whoops stupid zing drafts catching me off-guard.

Major lols at Pete's outfit, Kenny's desperation. Really wish Don would just jump already and let this show be about Joan and Peggy.

his clothes looked hamptons or newport, not cali, i guess that was the joke?

Actually Pete's outfit was pretty much spot-on as to what I remember of early 70s Newport Beach/Orange County. Big push back to remake surfer/CA beach town into something like Martha's Vineyard.

lol ok, good to know!

maybe it was simply the amount of time that's lapsed since the last season (which i was very, very "iffy" about) but the first episode of this new season struck me as a revelation -- of how much this series relies on the same tired visual and dramatic (I'm tempted to put that last word in scare quotes) tropes, the same "meaningful" ellipses and tactfully withheld reactions and information, the same grandiose final shots, the same offbeat narrative rhythms which themselves now feel tremendously stale and just serve at this point to disguise the lack of interesting plotlines and the flatly declarative dialogue. it's the kind of thing that makes me wonder if this show was _ever_ fresh and lively. probably it was, though i have better things to do than to start back at season 1 to find out.

good riddance to this show.

this isn't about the show having "slow burn" or "being boring"—if anything, the straining for quasi-operatic catharsis at the end was bombastic. it's just about it being poorly made.

and the next-day exegesis all over the 'net (which i haven't even bothered to look at this time) has always made this show worse for me, not better. makes it feel like a con's game.

mad men threads are a flat circle.

I just got schooled on fb by a friend of a friend who says '60s radio was completely different than radio as we know it today, and two songs from 1968 (Turtles and Zombies) would likely have already fallen out of rotation for good by February 1969.

my dvr crapped out last week, only got to first ep today so real quick

- megan's freddie metcury teeth when she was lying down in the dark made me lol, I'm so mean

- i was rmde at the dying of thirst thing but I buy into that all being a dream so it's ok

- peggy is gonna get her ass fired if she doesnt cut it out

- pete! with the shoulder sweater! god he's such a goob i love him

I kinda hate Peggy now and it makes me sad because I've always been Team Peggy.

yeah i feel for her but she's kinda spiralling back into old peggy & she needs to sack up

http://images.moviepilot-cdn.com/madcast-s7-e1-time-zones-madmenpod-com-la-pete-is-happypete.jpeg?width=620&height=436

real estate gal is wacky christian cult gal from true blood

cute as a bug's ear

that is not actually anna camp (who gave draper a bj in the backseat a few seasons back), it's definitely another betty type though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessy_Schram

Based on her resume, I know I've seen her before. Nothing sticks out, though.

oh whoa she's not the true blood gal! i stand corrected

she was cuet in veronica mars though

Oh wait, I bet it's Last Resort.

She was whatshisname's wife back on the mainland.

aha!

"just cash the checks, you're gonna die someday"

this show is hilarious. HUGE lol @ who joan picked to be lou's new secretary.

I love how Dawn and Shirley call each other by the other's name, because presumably that happens in the office all the time.