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

Didn't realise My Way was new in 69! I would've pegged it as at least a decade earlier somehow.

Not quite as big a hit as I'd have thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1969

So unusual for a male/female relationship (Don/Peggy) on TV to last this long without the show taking the easy way out.

Ron and Leslie on Parks & Rec is another really great platonic relationship.

It's not over yet.

Bob could still blow Don.

ha!

As much sex as Don has, he still seems fairly vanilla. He branched out a little bit with the neighbor lady last year, but he was probably less into than she was.

And he wasn't super into the idea of the threesome at Megan's place in Cali, but hey...hard to turn down if it's happening.

He's into being slapped

I don't see how a man like Don Draper could turn down Bob's request.

i'd take a bet on Don and Joan at this point; Don saying he has no-one, Joan saying she wants love. i mean..

http://unaffiliatedcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Don-Jon-Hamm-and-Joan-Christina-Hendricks.jpg

Now that I think about it, he doesn't outright say "no" to much.

Joan and Don may have happened at one point, but I think after he was pretty flippant about cutting loose the client she had to sleep with to get her partnership, she's got zero time for anything Don in her life.

Right. Joan hates Don still and seems on the fast track to hating men in general.

actually yeah they've barely spoken since.

was that 'Sweet Charity' on the in-flight movie? it was a real blink-and-you-miss-it moment.

tasty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=814QdW4oDqI

Given that title, something that should be but won't be part of that ep:

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

Ted Chaough's had a lousy season thus far.

xp maybe this is the big time-jump we've been waiting for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4

i enjoy ted's misery tbh

If the point is that Ted somehow somewhere became a halfway decent person and is paying the price for it, sure.

i never really found him to be halfway decent

he's a real dick to Don at first

ted jumping in on the speaker phone was a+ comedy

No, I meant he used to be a grade-A asshole in the earlier seasons, but somewhere along the way during S6 he became only a B-minus dillweed.

he's slept with Peggy, he's married, he thinks he's better than all of them (because he doesn't drink or whatevs but he's not)

The evolution of Peggy disengaging from Ted to her kind of dismissively loathing him has been enjoyable

ted is sympathetic though. good casting

Yeah he just has a likable manner.

he projects intelligence in a good way. imo.

the screenshots tumblr has been real hit or miss as of late, but oh man this one:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/7936bfe050386dc6cf0e11aefef046b5/tumblr_n5wduyj08A1qdbluio1_500.jpg
http://31.media.tumblr.com/cc7028aa45fb3c5109c8694e6a3b0984/tumblr_n5wduyj08A1qdbluio2_500.jpg

I think it's Pete's facial expression that pushes it over.

Pete's weird insistence that he can have someone but Trudy can't because they're technically still married is some annoying bullshit, but his waiting at the house until she got back so he could act all jealous and smarmy put me back in the Pete-as-asshole camp

shit dude, can't you show a little confidence for more than a few episodes

haha

Don will never get w Joan, you think he's gonna get between Sterling and their love child? gtfo

xp

Wait, Don doesn't know does he? Joan and Roger keep a tight TIGHT lid on that shit.

idk, if anyone thought about it for more than a few minutes they might figure it out

shit, Bob probably has, he could drop it as he leaves

shit, Bob probably has, he could drop it as he leaves

he's the type who'd flush though

if anyone thought about it for more than a few minutes they might figure it out

yeah I don't think Don knows but anyone doing the math on when she conceived/delivered would figure it out. Also yeah Joan obviously not into Don lately.

It has taken years for Joan to ascend to this level, years during which she's walked a pushy interloper like Peggy rise. She's not sullying herself for the likes of Draper.

Or solidifying her personal life by marrying a gay man for the sake of appearances

Yeah, how long was Joan at the original Sterling Cooper before Peggy's first day (the pilot)? Long enough to already have a fully developed and comfortable relationship with Roger.

Pete's weird insistence that he can have someone but Trudy can't because they're technically still married is some annoying bullshit, but his waiting at the house until she got back so he could act all jealous and smarmy put me back in the Pete-as-asshole camp

― a strange man (mh), Wednesday, May 21, 2014 2:47 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is completely consistent w/ pete's character over the seasons.

i still have mixed feelings about this show, i feel like all the portentousness and critic-bait (like obvious, "meaningful" repeated motifs, bombastic episode closings) is just getting worse but from scene to scene or moment to moment the show is still capable of cagey little observations/revelations of character that are deeply pleasurable. reading the commentaries on each episode the next day make me hate the show, because all the speculation as to "what was this episode about?" or "what is this season about?" just recapitulate the worst tendencies of film criticism.

personally i feel like this show could actually be one of the best on TV ever _if_ it stopped trying to be one of the best on TV ever. there's a level of self-consciousness, of playing to the critics, that makes it just as annoying as it is great. but my idea of great TV is "taxi," so YMMV.

i really think they just need to cut off the betty character, I guess they can't at this point but what a waste of time her subplots are.

stan is the most entertaining character on the show not to really have had his own subplot. even ginsberg had a few scenes to himself (or with his dad, etc.).

all we know about stan is his moshe dayan poster.

I'm totally cool with Stan remaining a mystery.

i still have mixed feelings about this show, i feel like all the portentousness and critic-bait (like obvious, "meaningful" repeated motifs, bombastic episode closings) is just getting worse but from scene to scene or moment to moment the show is still capable of cagey little observations/revelations of character that are deeply pleasurable

Agreed, although this season is an improvement (he season after Draper married Megan taht opened with his reading Dante on the beach almsot made me hurl the remote at the TV). What's left are less offensive portentous bits like the women's-lib/Friedan dialogue with which Betty is saddled.

yeah, i'm fine w/ it too, just interesting that the writers haven't chosen to do anything with him plotwise even though they've slowly made him into something like a rounded character.