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

Roxy otm hippies were super corny. They are still super corny.

That's true! impossible to find footage of hippies not being stupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vDqSoi9RSw

Bezoekers is Dutch for hippies? Gonna start calling them that from now on.

Perhaps it's the week I've had/the week I will have, but this making me laugh like an idiot right now

http://bossnugger.tumblr.com/post/84129538308/my-reaction-basically

lol

these people are lost, and on drugs, and have venereal diseases

oh yeah and bob benson's name dropped

just catching up on the last two weeks tonite. early impression is that don's worst failure of imagination is not conceiving of himself taking another job.

oh man, that sweet relief of not having a single bookmark at the top of sna after 8 days of it sitting there

I do love how Don is not giving a shit about the conditions and just doing whatever he wants.

Also, did they make it through the baseball game? Did they even make it to the stadium?

Also the big "Don saves the day" moment at the end was him telling Peggy he would have the tags done later. LOL

p sure game was not attended

Oh wow...was looking at some Mets stuff on youtube, and you can watch the final game of the '69 series...ALL OF IT (well, no ads)

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

As a person who's only visited NYC once and has barely a grip on logistics re: commutes, what would a trip from Madison Ave to Shea be like time and hassle-wise?

walk to grand central and take the 7? not much of a hassle, takes about a half hour.

Even Don at his drunkest should've been able to handle that.

every wikipedia page about burger chef has a sad (but different) photo of a former burger chef that is now like a payday loan business or something depressing like that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_Chef
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_Chef_murders

burger chef murders case should be the next season of true detective

haha

burger chef burgers are a flat circle

When Don was drunkenly staring at the Mets pennant, upside-down it read STEW. And Don was stewing. It's all a rich tapestry.

been thinking about betty's field trip this morning--most literal statement yet of the fact that she is a child?

Loved this episode a lot - Don reading Portnoy's Complaint and staring up at the ceiling where Lane hung himself. Freddy's "get in uniform, fix your bayonet" speech at the end...

Didn't mind the commune scenes at all. Somewhat goofy, but congruent with how the establishment perceived the counterculture to be.

I'm totally down with the commune concept myself, but in reality you'd have to live with people like that.

can't wait for don to jump off the building at the end of this season like he does in the opening credits

it's a metaphor. a metaphor for don being db cooper jumping out of the plane.

7 train to Shea was not AC'd in those days tho (and not til the '90s!), hope it wasn't summer

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/08/brief-history-air-conditioning-new-york-subway/2952/

a lot of meta-stuff in this episode, seemingly poking fun at an obsessive audience, I suppose.

"it's not symbolic"
"no, it's quite literal"

XP I think it's still April (Don's been back three weeks, he watched Model Shop last ep which opened in early April '69).

Don's penchant for modern poetry/literature and foreign films has always seemed a little odd to me - like, where would a poor farm kid raised in a whorehouse pick up these more "intellectual" pursuits

not saying that it's unheard of or unrealistic or whatever, it's just not something that's ever been elucidated

i think he would go to the movies. to pick up a penchant for the movies.

well no one got excited about the '69 Mets til May/June, and they didn't really catch fire til August.

Shakey: modern advertising, esp that period, relied on the cultural cachet of foreign films and intelligent and or "racy" best sellers.

Model Shop def has that '60s cool vibe, tho it was a huge flop i think

(well not huge in that it's shot mostly on the LA boulevards and in homes, and Anouk Aimee and Gary Lockwood couldn't have cost that much)

It wasn't a success. Fun Fact: Demy wanted Harrison Ford for the Lockwood part, but got shut down by the producers.

Roth, Gore Vidal, Updike, Bellow, Mailer -- they were actually best sellers.

xp...and The Doors were approached about doing the score, a job that ended up with Spirit (who appear in the film).

yeah the foreign film thing is pretty understandable (boobs! "intelligence"!). The earlier seasons poetry chapbook namedrops are a little more perplexing.

xp

Thanks youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOnavvQjYV8

portnoy's complaint was the top selling novel of 1969 iirc. one writeup of this episode i read somewhere (nymag maybe?) noted a ton of echoes and callbacks to a season one episode where don is reading leon uris' exodus lol.

Also most of this Draper stuff is in line with him being a auto didact.

^^^ yes. He reminds me of what I've read about JFK: he could read novels and papers at an alarming speed and recite and summarize them w/out getting the sense that they'd affected him in any way.

we all reinvented ourselves in the '60s you see

Excellent episode! Definitely the zippiest and funniest of the season. Thought the office was looking v Kubrickian, then you lot pointed out the 2001 connection.

love the hippie transformation of Marigold...all those mundane little details of her dress, hair, demeanor were a+

and i loved the "must've been real hard to leave ME, DAD" standoff

just kinda pondering but is part of the reason don didn't do the work for peggy (aside from hi i am don draper world's biggest douchecanoe) that he was scared he had lost his touch?
there was that look of rigid panic in his face when freddy said "do the work" that to me seemed to say "but what if i can't"

roxy otm x 100 about hippies being corny, all the eyerolling details were otm

i loled at roger's joke abt putting a man on the roof

just kinda pondering but is part of the reason don didn't do the work for peggy (aside from hi i am don draper world's biggest douchecanoe) that he was scared he had lost his touch?
there was that look of rigid panic in his face when freddy said "do the work" that to me seemed to say "but what if i can't"

but wasn't he doing work for Freddy during his exile? i interpreted it more being Don as constant douche, tbh.