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

Wondered about Tammy drawing a man with a moustache - a metajoke about facial hair becoming ubiquitous or a particular man she was seeing?

duh, particular man TRUDY was seeing

Poor Trudy.(update: good call, SLB, hope Trudy's got somebody.) Always liked her, but she seems to be one of those characters just floating around in the background, underemployed by the writers, and altogether, I guess.
Maybe Pete will get a call from Rory, who got her memory back--electroshock wouldn't affect her as much as they both thought, not in 1970, unless she got into the clutches of that guy at McGill, who tried to blast his patients back to infancy, and rebuild their personalities (forgot his name, for some reason---but he was the president of the American Psychological Association and the World Psychological Association). Of course, both characters were depressive, but that was part of their bonding.

Come to think of it, this would prob be too damn sweet for MM, since the actor who plays Pete and the actress who played Rory are married.

Just to clarify, wasn't questioning Trudy's exasperation--rather my ability to hear correctly.

I feel like Trudy was genuinely annoyed but it was also a little bit of a humblebrag.

THE KING ORDERED IT!

"Always liked her, but she seems to be one of those characters just floating around in the background, underemployed by the writers, and altogether, I guess."

I believe issue is Allison Brie has Community conflicts which preclude her being used in Mad Men with any consistency.

sounds like they need to give community to sterling cooper west

I'm noticing a move away from cocktails to beer this season. They're all getting on, I suppose.

"I feel like Trudy was genuinely annoyed but it was also a little bit of a humblebrag"

She also points out that she's just a few years from being ignored altogether by the same men. She's pretty astute.

xpost Hobart suggested they all crack open champagne, so getting beer instead was a kind of passive-aggressive spite move

A friend and I had an idea for some writing...Can someone clarify where exactly they are on the timeline right now? Is it mid-1970, late '70, or are they into '71 yet?

"humblebrag": seems like a genuine source of frustration, and while she might possibly be attracted to some of the guys making passes, still they're all "husbands," or those are the ones she mentions, of course Pete was a husband, not a good advertisement for the status, and she's being invited to be the cheater or cheatee, having been the cheated-on, and doesn't feel good about that. Plus, there are so many of these guys: the sheer frequency of having to deal is an annoyance in itself (prob gets bits of attitude from wives too).
Also, she's conditioned to think of herself in terms of attractiveness, and she sees how it is for older women, also conditioning makes it come out like she's a poor little orphan princess (and she was raised as a princess of industry, pretty sane and adaptable considering). But she has to say all this to somebody, she would like Pete to commiserate/have *some* clue, and maybe a bit of a reproach for casting her adrift (also maybe "You lost a good thing," understandably so).
He should have stayed, and these upper-class bullshit-damaged waifs could have made their way through the forest together.

very otm, thanks dow

season started in April 1970, so it's probably around July now?

I thought Pete/Trudy story echoed the main Sterling Cooper story in that both were about trying to repeat what has worked in the past, with little success. What made the private-school thing funny was that it seemed like it was at first about how the family name doesn't mean as much anymore, with the move toward merit-based achievement tests and so forth, but then the twist was that it still carried a lot of weight ... to an absurd degree.

Don's fabled powers of persuasion utterly failing him twice in one episode was a marvel to behold. he's officially a relic now, prospects are grim

yep

Draper looked more destroyed when the McCann guy told him to sit than when Megan and Betty left him.

loool so true

I love how being freshly-minted millionaires provided absolutely no solace for anybody

I liked Roger planting a drunken kiss on Don, "you are okay"

Last five minutes of Mad Men is gonna be Lou's "Scout's Honor" cartoon.

Would love it if they all jumped ship again to join Freddy Rumsen's fledgling startup.

Rumsen Phillips and Romano

I also liked the foursome drinking beer in the middle of the day after McCann guy gives them the rest of the day off.

A reddit thread places it in August 1970 - the calendar on the wall behind Trudy, genuine magazines on desks from that month.

xxxxp

Joan: "No one takes me seriously over there." Yeah we saw that recently, when she and Peggy met with the Three Stooges, who were about to start jacking off at the conference table, 'til one of the gals pulled out some distracting print, ooo, gotta study this, h'mmm, yas.
Mention of contracts (don't think they have all the merger loot yet), but maybe she could buy her own non-advertising business (something she may already know about, like a printing company, IT consultancy[lot of early IT consultants were female]). Can see her on the beach with her geezer, phoning in, to see how things are going. She left the business world behind briefly, when she got married, but that went so wrong, and it's been so long, don't think she'll try that again (although---was that a serious offer, to send her four-year-old away, to please the geezer?)

I liked Roger planting a drunken kiss on Don, "you are okay"

For some reason that made me immediately think "oh no, Roger is going to die!" It felt too much like a final farewell and there was all of this stuff before that about quitting smoking "you're a young man" etc.

although---was that a serious offer, to send her four-year-old away

Lock this thread forever and don't let another one be started if anyone else asks this.

I figured she did it to check his reaction.

I was drunk

I am the man who drinks at home

re: upthread: don has paid prostitutes for sex intentionally, remember the prostitute he hired repeatedly to slap him (etc) in the faye era?

last scene is homeless don draper clutching rotgut in a brown paper bag looking at the 1984 Ridley Scott Mac commercial through an electronics store window

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Serious LOL!

Some of the music in this was odd, especially the Pete and Peggy scene.

As soon as they were all planning to turn things around it was obvious it wasn't going to work. Great episode.

yeah they were obviously setting up a reversal of "that scene" that seems to play out in every other season-ending arc (the one where they hatch and execute a brilliant plan under duress)

i like the idea that the ending of the show will just be all these folks absorbed into the anonymity of a huge ad agency.

I want a spinoff where Betty moves to Italy.

I want a spinoff where she becomes a psychologist.

ok now this is interesting IMO. vague but interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI7d4tkz4e4

All three women look gorgeous in that clip.

january jones irl is just sensationally beautiful.

so grim that elizabeth moss is a scientologist.

amusing that jon hamm says literally nothing in that entire video, until five seconds at the very end, he is the secret man who drinks at work.

so grim that elizabeth moss is a scientologist.

Oh fuck. I liked her until you said that.

i know - disgusting.

J Jones looks like she'd be the loopy one. I agree she looks stunning though.

totes can imagine a Cruise/Moss marriage in the not too distant ftr.

she is not a good token nor capable of being a cypher, especially after her commentary on last marriage

elisabeth moss was born into a prominent scientology family.

that doesn't exactly excuse her various apologies/evasions, but it gives it a little context i guess.

above all i just find it sad.

didn't january jones date keanu reeves yonks ago? that's how i first heard of her IIRC.

Maybe? I know she dated Ashton Kutcher for a couple years.

http://popara.mk/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Ashton-Kutcher-and-January-Jones.jpg

No one ever wishes Jane would come back. Poor Jane.

http://literalminded.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/janesiegal.jpg