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

i find myself only halfwatching most of the time, it's so laconic it's like it doesnt even care that its on tv lol

schwantz otm

"just"

PF: I just don’t think about it very often. It’s just the way it is. It can often happen that way. You get cast on a show and you don’t know what’s going to happen eight episodes from now. When you’re doing television, it’s not like a play or a movie where you know what’s coming and can plan for it. I do remember on Mad Men, Matt Weiner told me a line that was four episodes later at the time I booked it. He told me that I say, “I’ve been standing behind guys like that my whole life,” about Don Draper. Matt told me that line when I got cast because he wanted me to know that’s what I’m feeling about Don. That one line was like, “Oh yeah, of course.”

http://www.avclub.com/article/patrick-fischler-mad-men-lost-and-secrets-mulholla-218573

Realest MM has gotten for me. And that one episode w the poor guy who got fired for taking Don's advice and promptly told him off.

, it's so laconic it's like it doesnt even care that its on tv lol

That is hilarious. I'm totally going to steal this.

Season 1 was decent, season 2 a bit better, season 3 not bad (though that ATF agent was one of the worst characters in tv history in terms of depiction and treatment and execution, pun intended.) downhill from there big time.

― ceres, Wednesday, May 13, 2015 5:10 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

season 4 was ok too, then they were just making shit up because they hadn't thought ahead about what if they didn't get cancelled

MM is just pretentious Melrose Place.

in season finale, it is revealed that Bob Benson is actually Layne Price - who faked his own death but is now BACK to exact a terrible revenge

:D

can someone please mow roger down with a car

omigod guys imagine '92 era Grant Show in 1961 finery.

*swoon*

start crossover fanfic... NOW

and still called Jake

of course

can someone please mow roger down with a car

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, May 13, 2015 5:41 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

b-b-b-but his bon mots though

they obvs make up for his wholesale destruction of his family and the epic selfcenteredness of his self loathing

now trying to think of what Roger would say after being hit by a car

"it was.... fun"

"now I'm definitely too tired"

dada da dada da *applause*

ie two tire-d

ok so cars have four but its funny
maybe a moped instead

you've been saving that one up haven't ou

"Figures it'd be a Toyota"

awesome

irl lols

i have one coworker that completely idolizes don draper which is just O_o

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, May 13, 2015 4:27 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people who mistake interesting characters for role models
someone on fb shared an article on The Toast about "books all white men own" and it had a fair number of entries with main characters that'd fall in that category of characters

like, I get that The Catcher in the Rye is an acclaimed book, but you know the narrator is an asshole, right?

I like Don Draper. I once wrote a blogpost calling him the Hamlet of our times.

Hamlet is an asshole to, though.

"Do you want to be a latter-day Hamlet thinking about the hypocrisies of our times?"

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02385/network_2385848b.jpg

Hamlet is an asshole too, though True enough that Shakespeare makes a point of getting of the Prince's head, showing what it's like to have deal with him. As we see with Walter White, but not enough with Draper. We know he fucks & runs, that he's not a great husband & father, that he's not a great boss or business partner, but we don't see enough of people dealing with the consequences---there's not enough room, cos it's so Don-centric (Weiner said Hamm thinks this too). But of course he knows he's an asshole (Weiner" Shame is in his blood"), but that's part of his self-obsession and inner dither, which of course contribute to harmful behavior.
Other than that: not bad!

"...getting *out* of the Prince's head," I meant.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HH5toJ0j46E

xp inveighing against

Waterloo seems to be overtaking The Suitcase as the canonical classic Best Episode
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/the-top-20-episodes-of-mad-men-20150513

"waterloo" is v good but if I'm picking a top 10 episode from season 7A it's gonna be "the strategy"

No "Guy Walks Into An Ad Agency" or "Signal 30" on that list?

how on earth do you guys remember episodes from that long ago?

that said, weirdly i can remember specific "cheers" episodes from my youth but i couldn't name/identify a single earlier "mad men" episode.

for me mad men is gonna be the show I blather to my kids about rather than the 90s buffoonery I technically grew up with

I've watched a few "Cosby Show" and "I Love Lucy" episodes hundreds of times but I couldn't tell you their names! That's why I laughed at "Friends" starting every episode title "The One Where..."

well back before the internet you often never knew the names of episodes. those were just for folks w/ copies of the script.

i remember the first time i discovered that TV show episodes actually had names! (aside from anthologies like "the twilight zone," that is...)

If you watch them on DVD, streaming, or download, the titles are how you identify the episodes because they are labelled that way.

Noted

Why I'll surely revisit the whole series a few years down the road: I was looking up the details of how "Early in the Morning" was used, and found out it was Father Gill who sang it, alone in his room (not sure if he was lip-synching to Peter, Paul & Mary or playing it himself). Anyway, I'd completely forgotten about Father Gill--he seemed important for a few episodes. Or that guy at the riding club who was the object of both Betty and her friend's attention--he seemed important for a while. There are undoubtedly other characters like who I've forgotten about. (And I watched the entire series over Christmas; it's not like I'm thinking back six or seven years.)

http://img.sharetv.com/shows/characters/large/mad_men.father_john_gill.jpg

I would generally watch it a month or so after it finished airing, in marathons on summer break from college the first few seasons. season 3 I missed all of until much later & still haven't watched all of its eps. 4 onward I've watched as it's aired, more or less. I definitely know the later seasons better because I've watched most of those episodes multiple times.

Another Father Gill-ish character -- Don's schoolteacher crush. And his Village bohemian gf. Lots of them.

Would be fun to have a bonus episode, fake-doc style, where all these subsidiary characters years down the road talk frankly about Don, Betty, etc.

i felt like zosia mamet's character was going to be important for a minute

she was important for a minute (as was Father Gill, and Jimmy the comedian etc.) but once they served their narrative purpose and passed out of the main characters' lives it seems perfectly reasonable to me that they not reappear

just like what's her face this season

Anyone else get the feeling that Don's denial of past and fresh start doctrine ("It'll be like this never happened") to Peggy was somewhat right in professional effect, but completely wrong when it comes to self image? Peggy has kind of posited herself as the woman who has no need for children, to comical extent when the neighbor kid obviously loves hanging out with her, and eventually breaks down and tells Stan about the baby she gave up.

And we sure know how well pretending he didn't come from nothing and steal his commanding officer's life has gone for Don's well-being