loud ditto to that last one. i'm fine w/ certain characters stories being basically told, i don't need to see vito go to new hampshire again. think there's possibly more to tell w/ ted and think there was definitely more to tell w/ ginsberg but i've been happy that all we see of stan outside the office is hot chicks sleeping in his bed beneath that moshe dayan poster. the show's about don and peg and to a lesser extent rog and pete and joan and sally and betty. sal would be nice to see again as fan service, he's the russian from pine barrens at this point, but i don't think it will happen, that dude talked to the press too much.
― balls, Thursday, 29 May 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
If you don't like it, we can have the conversation you THOUGHT we were having.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, May 29, 2014 2:54 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
such a good scene
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 29 May 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
Kenny is kind of redundant at this point, in the early days his function was to act as the focal point of various other characters' desires and/or resentment (Pete, Kinsey, Sal). But from the moment Bob Benson appeared as a better foil for Pete, Kenny felt kind of redundant. I'm happy when he pops up onscreen but I literally don't care about his character at all.
Feel like they could have done more with Joan over the last season or so, her last big story was the Jaguar thing and she's one of the three best characters easily.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 29 May 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Ken's still good for eye jokes.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 May 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
also tapdancing
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 May 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
That's another request, more tapdancing Ken
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 29 May 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Kenny is kind of redundant at this point, in the early days his function was to act as the focal point of various other characters' desires and/or resentment (Pete, Kinsey, Sal). But from the moment Bob Benson appeared as a better foil for Pete, Kenny felt kind of redundant.
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 29 May 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
― display name changed. (amateurist), Thursday, 29 May 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
Kenny's next short story, "The Redundant Man".
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 May 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
would mean something fairly different in UK
― display name changed. (amateurist), Thursday, 29 May 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link
http://theerstwhilephilistine.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/brentsackedclifton.jpg
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 May 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
Kenny is the only hot guy on this show.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 May 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
and even he looks like the sort of guy whom Nixon would've had a crush on...in 1960.
ok i'm a straight dude so will defer to interested parties but i'm a little skeptical that in an office w/ don draper and roger sterling and once upon a time bob benson that cosgrove is 'the hot one'.
― balls, Thursday, 29 May 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't be surprised if people here argued that Harry is the hot one
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 May 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
The hot one is Stan Rizzo, obvs.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 May 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
Peggy's new maintenance guy is hotter than all of them.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
Never did much care for blondes tho.
i will do the cliche thing and admit to being a don draper gal. square-jawed + dark and mysterious = every fucking time.
― nurse with attitude (get bent), Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
Eric H otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
My sister likes Don, Stan and Bob Benson. I'm straight but I think I have a crush on Pete, nearly all his scenes make me so happy.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
I also think Joan is way hot and it was perfect that Bob Benson latched onto her.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
bobbie barrett, joan, betty are my fuck, marry, kill
― balls, Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
dont u dare kill betty
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 May 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
I dig beardo Stan, Joan, and Dawn. I love Pete but mostly for lols
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 May 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
bob benson is extremely hot
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Friday, 30 May 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, extremely hot coffee!
http://images.buddytv.com/articles/mm31.gif
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 May 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link
thats part of it imo
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Friday, 30 May 2014 03:30 (nine years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthora
― nurse with attitude (get bent), Friday, 30 May 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
awesome
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 30 May 2014 12:50 (nine years ago) link
Benson is hawt.
Don Draper is nawt.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 May 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
who cares
― famous instagram God (waterface), Friday, 30 May 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
p much everyone on earth
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Friday, 30 May 2014 13:30 (nine years ago) link
removes bookmark from earth
― famous instagram God (waterface), Friday, 30 May 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
removes [redacted] from Bob Benson
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Friday, 30 May 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
removes Bob Benson
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 May 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
show's about the 70s and 80s now
Been thinking about this and the first appearance of the Jackson Five (and with them a glimpse of the future of pop music, youth culture, advertising AND American capitalism) right at the end of the 60s is almost too perfectly timed for this show.
Don or maybe Peggy are watching TV with one of the kids, they see the band performing I Want You Back for the first time, they have an idea, no one gets it...
― Matt DC, Monday, 2 June 2014 09:17 (nine years ago) link
"put that kid in touch with Pepsi..."
― Οὖτις, Monday, 2 June 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
"Number one, the people at the time are completely aware that the computer is a symbol. It hasn’t been said in a while because we love our computers so much and we love our phones so much and there’s so much entertainment on them, but [with the computer] there has been a reconfiguring of the hierarchy of humanity where we are under that. And I’m not being a Luddite, I’m just saying there was a re-conception of the world as the computer came in. And everyone at the time was quite aware of it. It’s not just from science fiction movies. The computer is immediately seen, as a guy says in the show, as a metaphor for what people were afraid of."
http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/mad-men-stanley-kubrick
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
this is a weird photo for esquire imo http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/zf/christina-hendricks-hot-watermelon-0510-lg.jpg
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 August 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/matthew-weiner-mad-men-end-interview
tasty interview with Matt Weiner. seems he wrote and directed the last 2 episodes. he's expecting 'mixed reviews' for the finale. hmm.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
Having Peggy and Don dance to "Don't Stop Believing" on New Year's Day 1970 will prove a tactical error.
― It's Autumn Sunrise (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 12:10 (nine years ago) link
I hate to say this — obviously ending the entire series is significantly more pressure — but it's been that way every year. I never knew if the show was coming back for most of the series, so we treated every episode 13 like it was the end. It's very bittersweet and high pressure. "Did we stick the landing?"
If that is the case I expect a wide open ending. As I can't remember any of the e13's being truly season enders as in resolving major show themes or stories or ~drama~. I'd be ok with that though.
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
I sort of think season 6 (?) - don takes the kids to see where he grew up - might have been a fine ending, not that I've not enjoyed all of season 7 to date.
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
The end of S3 would've probably been the best "left open" series ending.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
But then we wouldn't get The Suitcase.
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
hope Rachel Menken comes back for at least a cameo. and Sal.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
I don't expect everything to be tied up with a neat little bow at all, that wouldn't really be consistent with the show's aesthetic nor would it play to the show's strengths.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
I'm rooting for 10 year old Dick to wake up in bed with the kindly prostitute having dreamt the whole thing.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
whatever happens weiner could hardly shit the bed worse than the writers of How I Met Your Mother, in terms of penning a final episode
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link