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

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.

peg and shirley and those roses

peggy gurl you gotta stop it right now

lou avery is a diiiiiiiiiiiiick ugh

would watch a don n sally spin-off and/or poker tournament

someone needs to throw yay parties for dawn & joan

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.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, April 20, 2014 10:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

According to wiki, "Elenore" was the final Turtles single of '68 (its parent album came out in November), so it's not completely out of the question that it would still be on air on Valentine's '69. And the Zombies song was regular soundtrack, not radio source music. SO THERE you can tell your friend.

Going deeper: "Elenore" was released in September '68, and the followup, "You Showed Me", appeared on 45 rpm in March '69.

But back to the ep itself: Such an improvement over last week. Don in the beginning, with the Ritz and the robe and the nostalgia tv--I, uh, know the feeling..

ALSO: “She has plans. Look at her calendar: Febuary 14, masturbate gloomily.”

Comcast started going crazy so I missed the last 20 minutes, and not for the first time either.

You missed the best part!

http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/mad-men-recap-season-7-valentines-day-sally-funeral.html

There are hints of reconciliation afterwards — Don’s check skip fake-out makes light of their shared skill at deception while reassuring Sally that he’s not a monster — but their final moment in the car cements the fact that something pure that once existed between them has gone. “I love you,” she says, then shuts the door and goes inside, not giving Don a chance to respond.

I think this guy has it all wrong. Sally telling her father I love you is a sign that she is willing to trust him again. When's the last time anyone said those three words on this show?

Don looked stunned

yeah that's a bizarre misreading imo. don and sally stuff was great. i know thematically there's alot of sopranos 2.0 going on here but i still think this is gonna have a much less cynical conclusion. peg's a mess.

yeah that's a funky reading of that scene, do not agree with vulture at all on that count

I agree. I thought maybe it was a bit on the nose, but the Zombies song that kicked in right away, I read that as Don and Sally coming to terms. He's finally revealing all his lies to her and in letting her in he's shocked by her love and support. Plus the bonding over deceit, which was great...

The warmth of your love
is like the warmth of the sun
and this will be our year
took a long time to come

don't let go of my hand
now darkness has gone
and this will be our year
took a long time to come

and I won't forget
the way you held me up when I was down
and I won't forget the way you said,
"Darling I love you"
You gave me faith to go on

Now we're there and we've only just begun
This will be our year
took a long time to come

yeah I think he has that childish thing of 'if I tell the truth I'm going to get in trouble' and even as an adult he is still surprised by the fact that Sally could forgive him and/or love him anyway

Dawn and Shirley call each other by the other's name

yeah loved this

I didn't buy Sally's identity confusion. Not that she wouldn't say it, but that the show hasn't written scenes between those two that would prepare us for the pseudo-profundity of the observation or that she's capable of it.

Seemed like a classic teenage thing, which might actually get articulated, given a disarming situation or three or more: like seeing him bang the big hair neighbor lady, and the family field trip to that House across the road, and the funeral ("in Queens by the racetrack...it was horrible: her mother was yellow and wearing a wig"); going to his office, and another man was there; "You don't know what it was like for me to come back here, what if I had to get on the elevator with her; he hairspray would make me want to vomit"); then in the diner, a conversation she'd prob never thought she'd have with him.
Including "Why don't you tell her you don't want to move to California?," see,just like that, and his expression...