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Last week Duck drunkenly heckled at the Clios, Pete asked Ken if he could do as told, Peggy got naked, Don grabbed Joan’s hand under the table and introduced himself as Dick, and SCDP hired Jane Sterling’s cousin.
“Don has stolen someone’s idea which, for me, is a new low for him,” allows series mastermind Matt Weiner. “The joy of the episode is realizing at some level that Roger doesn’t know if he hired [Don] at all.”
And “Mad Men” won its third best-drama Emmy in a row.
AMC says of tonight’s installment, titled “The Suitcase”:
A deadline disrupts Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
The first Clay/Liston fight took place Feb. 25, 1964. The second, the one Don and the gang are talking about, on May 25, 1965. Despite all the references to “Clay,” Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. had already changed his name to Muhammad Ali at this point in history.
Episode titles:
4.1 Public Relations
4.2 Christmas Comes But Once A Year
4.3 The Good News
4.4 The Rejected
4.5 The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
4.6 Waldorf Stories
4.7 The Suitcase
4.8 The Summer Man
4.9 The Beautiful Girls
4.10 Hands and Knees
4.11 Chinese Wall
4.12 Blowing Smoke
4.13 Tomorrowland
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that get's lose with the Jew blast.Seems like something he might say.
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Ali may have changed his name before the second fight but there was a fair amount of push back to that change at the time. Those recalcitrant to the change still referred to the champ as Clay at the time of the re-match and, frankly, for a few years more. (That is if memory serves.)
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And tell me that this show isn't a shitload of fun. How anyone could find this writing "boring" is beyond me.
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with Mad Men. Watched season 1 and got absolutely nothing from it and now I'm battering through number 2.Its just so cold and soulless. Does anyone actually ENJOY it? I won't deny that its well made, acted and looks nice - but there's almost no human factor to any of it.
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Watch clip. Then rethink your post.
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Goddammit...
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Then just stop. It's not for you. It's not cold or soulless. Just not for you, clearly. If you weren't enraptured by the end of s1, you never will be. You clearly can't understand just how much I really ENJOY this show
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Sep 05, 2010 8:20:20 AM CDT
Imagine How We'd React Today If A Famous Athlete Went "Muhammed"
by crow3711
Fox news would freak the fuck out and call him an unamerican terrorist, and everyone else would follow suit. Imagine how much worse it must have been back then. No rich white men were gonna walk around calling him Muhammed. It just wasn't going to happen.
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I gotta' say, I'm a little surprised to hear the the critique of "no human factor" but to each his own. As much as I'm a cheerleader for this show, I'd say stop watching. Sometimes things just don't connect with us, even if it seems we're predisposed to liking it. I'm a big sci-fi fan, but just couldn't get into Battlestar Galactica. I realize it's well written, acted, some great performances...it just didn't float my space-boat. It happens. It happens on the flip side too; by all indications I would hate those Pirates of the Carribean movies, but I totally love them. One man's treasure is another man's trash, I guess. I'm sure we can at least agree on one thing; Christina Hendricks was designed by God for my pleasure, and I'm an atheist.
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Now that he needs mothering. That's Joan's kind of man.
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He is slowly becoming an anachronism.
I think the writers have a plan (Maybe they're Cylons).
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I didn't start the series hating Pete. Sure, he's a little rude and might come off as insensitive, but I just chalked that up to having been raised in an alternate hell dimension. I totally agree though that Don was destined to be an anachronism. He represents an American ideology that will be nearly dead by the series end. The tragedy is that it will have been advertising culture that helped kill it.
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After someone becomes famous under one name and suddenly changes it, I can see people still using his old name. Doesn't have to have any meaning behind it other than not really caring what some crazy celebrity does.
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case in point, chad "ochocinco", sure something like that isn't the same as changing your name for religious and personal beliefs, but it's still kinda the same. "that guy can put whatever he wants on the back of his jersey(or robe) but it doesn't mean i'll call him that." Also see, courtney cox-arquette.
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I remember on a documentary about the history of drug use in America, the 1960s saw Madison Avenue trying to keep up with the times and resorting to psychedelic advertising. Will Don take LSD in a couple of seasons?
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There is an apocryphal story about Ali. He used to watch wrestling and saw that Gorgeous George was one of wrestling's biggest stars. Ali also noticed that George was not a very good wrestler. He was old and fat.
Gorgeous George's shtick was that he was vain, effeminate and possibly homosexual. The wrestling fans hated George but, they would line up hoping to see him get his ass kicked.
Ali was a great boxer but, he knew that was not enough to be a star and a box office draw. He adapted George's "I'm so pretty." act while still appearing very masculine. He knew white racists would line up to see that "arrogant negro" get his ass beat. Ali of course disappointed them but, most of his fights were promoted as the "Good" deferential Negro vs. the "Bad" arrogant Negro. (Don't jump all over my ass for using the word "Negro" simple using the nomenclature of the time.).
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I think it's gonna be the opposite. Sure, the people who "root" for characters with morals and what not will start to stray that way, but mark my words, the final season will be Don and everyone from his era clinging to the liferaft as the Harry's, Pete's and Peggy's of the world are trying to cut them loose. Not sure I'd root for the guy doing the cutting.
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I mean, just cuz someone "realized" what Ali's schtick was all about, doesn't mean you still couldn't consider him an arrogant blowhard. From some older folks, I've learned that some just considered Ali obnoxious, no matter the race.
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Don has become a total "Leisure Suit Larry" that young girls laugh at in the disco. He dies of a heart attack all coked up in the hot tub at "Plato's Retreat".
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Yea racist. I don't think the scene of Harry and that new little weasel calling each other "Cheap Jews" was not put there without a reason. It was meant to highlight the casual bigotry that was still common at that time.
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Harry will be on the life raft with Don. Everything about the man suggests that, while he seems to have taken to his Head of Media job, he still clings to the old ways of Don, Roger, and Bert.
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Sep 05, 2010 11:00:14 AM CDT
I Enjoyed The Commentary On The "Spoiler" Community Last Week
by crow3711
With Harry killing time by ruining the next few weeks of that soap opera for them, can't remember the name. My mother also thought it was great because she remembered the show and what a big deal it was. Like the lost of the 60s. I thought that was a really clever way to comment on the modern Internet spoiler fad. The guys wanted to hear it, and then were surprised by the twists, and then disappointed that it was now ruined for them. Add to that all of Harrys name droppe and Lane making fun of him for it, and you've got a really charming, smart scene. Imagine if admen of today or to read the scripts for lost a few weeks ahead o time. Can you imagine a creative showrunner allowing that? Handing their secretive scripts over to some bumbling ad man. Yeesh.
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Crow- The show was Peyton Place. It was huge around that time.
Ali- How many people called Prince "The Symbol" or whatever when he changed his name to one? Not too many. The Mad Men era's casual racism might possibly have had something to do with it in Ali's case though. That casual racism back then might today be called "racial insensitivity". They just made off-handed remarks, they were not exactly stating any belief that Ali or Jews were sub-human or inferior in any way. In fact, if you remember Pete's comment about Lassie a couple of weeks ago, and his inroads into targeting advertising to blacks, we know he's a little open-minded about race. I have seen no other characters show contempt or hatred for any other race or ethnicity, with the one exception being Roger. In his case, I find that understandable. Finally, foreshadowing- Pete will die young. "It runs in my family." Uh oh. -
Sep 05, 2010 11:48:27 AM CDT
Sorry, HoldMyFuckingWatchI could have saved you the trouble of p
by thunderbolt ross
it's a soap and it sucks.
it's a soap and I love it
it's not a soap
it's overrated
it's the best show on TV
Dexter is better
The Wire was better
Lost sucked
Betty is a piece of shit
it's boring
it's superficial
I can't get into it even though I tried
there are no likable characters
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I don't think that's a reasonable comparison. I mean, a fucking symbol, for the love of god. Also I am sure Ali's mouth running had nothing to do with Gorgeous George and everything to do with pumping himself up and trying to get his opponents off their game. And of course he was a great enough boxer to be a star based on that alone. Are you kidding?
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I grew up when he was in his last gasp but still going, and I know that he was just doing schtick, but it was still obnoxious. Did anyone see that documentary about the way he treated Frazier before their bout in Manila? I mean the guy was just a plain dick a lot of the time. I understand and respect that he refused to go to Vietnam, but honestly, being a great boxer doesn't make you a hero. The way people conflate athletic prowess with heroism in this country is ridiculous. Also look up his interview with Parkinson on Youtube - he was just an angry fuck. Now, granted, a black man had the right to be plenty angry at the time, but that's exactly why I think George Foreman is much more of a hero, because he managed to tranform that anger into an upbeat and positive outlook on life. And hey, the tray catches the grease. Uhm...what was I talking about again?
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Anti-semitic joke a couple episodes ago when he talked about people running out of gas on the bridge, "I think you know who I mean". It was such a subtle throwaway that I didn't catch it until I watched the show for like the third time. That's the thing about the show, it is so packed with information it really rewards repeat viewing.
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That's why stupid people don't like the show.
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The point I was making was about people being reluctant to call a celebrity by a new name, regardless of the reason. Some people caled called Prince "The Artist" or "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince", but most people still called him "Prince". Chad Ochocinco is still Chad Johnson. Cat Stevens (I can't remember what he calls himself now) is still Cat Stevens. I will leave you with the words of Arsenio Hall dressed as an old black man in a barber shop, "His mama called him Clay. I'm a call him Clay."
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fair point about harry, i wonder if there is a third option there for him. He is riding the television straight to the top of his profession, they've made that pretty clear. Now that we are talking about it, i realize that they are already setting Pete up as beginning to despise the old way of business. And with peggy having a new social epiphany every episode, i wonder if that young vs. old clash is coming sooner than later.
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No matter how famous he gets or how prevalent this Dwayne Johnson character becomes. Everyone knows he's The fucking Rock. Pretty much the best example we've got.
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Can it be brought to number one with actual intelligent discussion. I know we could spam it or turn it into the "MadPedalback" but I would like to keep it on topic.
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is mad men going to the lame TGIF ABC route and doing a finale in disney world? God i hope so, it worked well for Boy Meets World/
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Seems like the promoters would want to keep him happy and advertise the match using his new name.
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I would actually be totally gung-ho for that, if we get an appearance from Walt Disney, possibly getting frozen in carbonite.
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Walt Disney was cremated. His ashes are interred at Forest Lawn Cemetary.
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Yes, that's what they want everyone to think. Lol!
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Could be cool, i heard he was molded to the wall Han Solo style, in the top floor of Cinderella's castle. Seeing that could be the real wakeup call that don needs to defeat the empire. Wait what are we talking about? Also you need to change you're name to thrillho.
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Push through Season 2. I can totally understand Season 1 not moving you as the heart of the show is the women and in particular Peggy. She really gets to develop as the series goes on. The Don Draper show does get boring in and of itself. It's the other characters that are actually interesting.
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i bet you also think their's wind on the moon....and that Obama is "really" the president. pfft....sheep.
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my kingdom for an edit function.
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I know your talkback sections rule the Internet and are literally, from what I've seen, the only site that actually has significant, continued forum discussions on every story (don't go to chud, so I don't know about there, but discussion on latonoreview, etc is death. Just empty. And as such, I have no doubt you are afraid to alter anything about the tb format, that it might kill the site (and knowing the aicn frequenters, it legitimately might they are such children) but really, you gotta update this at least a little. It's still the best format, all on one page, etc. But it needs edit so badly. How much efffort and money could it possibly to add edit functionality and a few other common features for modern Internet forums? I'm not attacking or complaining. This system is still better than any other site I know of, and the population rules. But it could be so much better without making it worse. My biggest fear is when you finally do update it's a huge drastic change to everything, and that would kill the site. Don't do that. Keep it the same and add a few simple changes. It would reinvigorate the site, IMO. Of course, you all hear this everyday and never respond, explain, or change anything, so this was pointless. But realy, I'd appreciate just hearing why it's never updated. I won't even call the reason Bs or complain. Just want to hear why. Is it money?
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giants of the industry...and both totally insane
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the least being his racei remember wanting fraizer to beat the crap out of him, because of the way he dissed fraizeryears later, i came to understand that it was all a part of the game, and that ali was a brilliant tactician...but i didnt know it at the timethere hasnt been a showman in boxing like ali ever...the man is a genius
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I'm calling him Clay.
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I don't watch any clips before I watch the show. I like to go in fresh and not spoiled in any way.
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A whole bunch of spoilery pics from Jon-Hamm.org
http://www.jon-hamm.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=700&page=1
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after thinking about this for a bit, i realized neither DisneyWorld nor Disneyland was open for business at this point in time. However, didn't tomorrowland start out as an exhibit at the new york world's fair? I'm seeing a moving and dramatic "carousel of progress" scene in our near future.
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Betty is really being turned into the succubus/delilah of this show. Everything we've seen of Don pre-Betty is much more optimistic and overall happy Don. He smiled more in those 5 minutes from his first meetings with Don than probably the entire season combined.
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Disneyland opened in July of 1955. It would have been in operation for over 10 years come the end of Mad Men season 3. Tomorrowland was definitely part of Disneyland from the very beginning of the park.
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It's just alo of white people didn't like him because the saw him as the "uppity" negro. Rebeck2 pretty much confirmed it when he said he preferred docile George Forman to "obnoxious" Ali. It's why guys like Terrell Owens or Isiah Thomas weren't liked much. Too uppity whereas with with athletes who act the same way are considered dominant and confident.
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then i scrolled down
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The arrogant bravado and trash-talking was his brilliant way of making himself stand out among other boxers and getting people in the seats at his fights. As someone else posted above, he borrowed a lot of it from what some wrestlers did (and still do), with exagerrated vanity to make the audience want to come see them get their asses kicked. Andy Kaufman did something similar with his inter-gender wrestling act, playing the "villain" to get the audience stirred up so that they'd keep coming back to see more.
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I knew disneyworld wouldn't have made the cut, and for some reason i assumed disneyland was the younger of the two. My carousel of progress finale is still intact tho.
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Sep 05, 2010 5:20:51 PM CDT
Walt dies in 1966, and Disneyworld opened in the early 70s
by shabbyblue
I wonder if they'll address Walt's death next season, even if it's only in passing reference.
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I wasn't trying to raise one show above another. Not even in the slightest. I watch stuff because, you know: I like tv.I'll definitely keep watching if it improves some (The Wire never really had me till season 2) and I really hope I begin to enjoy it. Especially after hearing so much in its praise.Thunderbolt Ross, you are an asshole. I praised most aspects; I only said it didn't click with me. God forbid.
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People don't like Isiah Thomas because he's a complete and utter asshole.
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I meant when Isiah was a player. GM Isiah is a whole other story...
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Thanks for calling me a racist. Fuck you very much. Ali WAS obnoxious, it has nothing to do with race. I would say the same thing about John McEnroe or Bobby Riggs. You got me, you caught me - I don't like assholes. Or racists like you.
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I didn't love the show until season 3. So keep watching.
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...we were calling Chad Johnson "Ochocinco" way before he officially changed it...so I guess the transition was pretty easy around here.
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its coming.. one where shes getting molested. trust me. graphic, groundbreaking tv.
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Caught me off guard, and I laughed, mostly because I couldn't believe they used it as a throwaway line.
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I liked the commercial. Of course Don hated it.
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Sep 05, 2010 9:10:37 PM CDT
Anyone get a chuckled outta that heavy-footed bitch
by hollywoodhellraiser
walking pass the secretaries desks after Don went into his office, just now?Talk about a woman walking very unsexy!EPIC FAIL lady! Whomever you are! LOL
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How we all watch the show and act like only back then would people make the Jew joke. Some people still would today, but you may not expect in a formal kind of work place setting like on this show. Don doesn't strike me as any kind of raging racist beyond some of the typical backward thinking of the time. He might have a few wrong ideas, but I don't see him as being too hate filled. He wouldn't correct some bigoted joking, but probably wouldn't join in, either.
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No it's not. Matt Weiner already said in a recent interview that Betty wasn't molested.
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Sep 05, 2010 9:29:10 PM CDT
" You should be thanking me, along with Jesus, for giving you an
by grammaton cleric
...cold fucking blooded.
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Peggy needed to hear that straight up!Don is right on the money about Peggy always wanting credit for doing her job!How many of us who works get credit for doing their job???I rarely get a thanky you and I too figure my thank you is fat paycheck I pcoket every week!GO, DON!!!!
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Sep 05, 2010 9:32:40 PM CDT
Oops! *I meant* my thank you is the fat paycheck...
by hollywoodhellraiser
I pocket every week!
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I'm getting that vibe so far in this ep...
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But he turned her down, cold!
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I was getting that vibe too, which was why I figured it isn't gonna happen (typically the case on this show).
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Don puking (reminiscent of Team America's puke scene), Duck trying to shit on Draper's chair. What is happppening here.
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And he's steeping to immature acts like shitting on Draper's chair. Wow.
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Almost five thousand four hundred today.
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Was there ever a line that funny in "All in the Family"?
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Sep 05, 2010 9:57:48 PM CDT
All Iin The Family was full of jokes! Archie rarely held back!
by hollywoodhellraiser
Love his and Lional interaction the most!
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I almost teared up when Don broke down in front of Peggy in his office. I felt his loss.
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They are really hitting Grand Slams this season.
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Sep 05, 2010 10:05:07 PM CDT
is the site gonna have an rip thread for schimmel and/or conrad?
by brabon300
lost two giants this weekend...im bummed
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that past behavior can indeed be a predictor of future behavior?
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yelling at it like you could see the fight, and being able to listen and concentrate radio broadcast while having converstation. the juxtoposition of the "fight" and the fight between duck and don. The future (or possible future of Don becoming Duck) knocking out the past quickly, the whole theme of the episode. My fav so far this season. The S&G at the end Bleeker Street from Wednesday 3AM -- peggy-o , sounds of silence, times are a channgin -- are also on that album. Just amazing choice.
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Peggy will be his new close friend that he can open up to unlike anyone else in his life.
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Do they think they're fooling the audience or something. Fucking dreadful. Makes me hate the products they're pushing.
Great Episode. Maybe the best of the season.
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Anyone else catch the framed photo of Buddy Ebsen as Jed Clampett behind Harry?
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best episode of the season.....quite possible one of the better of the series. Jon Hamm just found his emmy tape for next year.
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Sep 05, 2010 10:13:35 PM CDT
And I'll add it should have next year Emmy on lock!
by hollywoodhellraiser
Yeah, I don't think I'm reaching.
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Sep 05, 2010 10:18:27 PM CDT
I Didn't Make It Home In Time?! Not Even For The Encore?!?!
by crow3711
NOOOOOOO!!!!
I guess I'll have to steal this online tomorrow. Gar.
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I actually think this episode might end up being my fave overall. This has just been an outstanding season. Mad Men just keeps giving us gifts.
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There should be one more showing at 1am, gotta love cable.
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I swear I thought anything jew had to do with money and that goes for offensive jokes as well!Maybe Weiner didn't want to offend his partners and academy voters?
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It was so throwaway I didn't even hear it. Dammit.
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I Googled Conrad and saw nothing.
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And though it was a nice touch to have the "ghost" of Anna finally getting to see where Dick worked. To bad she didn't drop in on the kids. Could have screwed up Sally even more.
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I am so glad this show does not resort to the "shouting means things are important" pit so many others fall into. They use such nuanced restraint, and so if voices really are raised, it means something - and we saw that tonight with Peggy's response. There was SO much great acting going on tonight. I think BOTH Elisabeth Moss and Jon Hamm have an episode for their Emmy contention reel. And maybe now we'll see Don pull himself a little bit out of his stuporfunk. I don't want them to be together, but I want them to be a team. Such a great show. I'm already dreading the end of the season...
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Add me to the list - just a fantastic episode that covered so much ground and was so cathartic for both characters. A lot of great lines, but I loved "That's what the money's for!".
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If I had a girlfriend, (sigh)
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That was a fucking excellent episode. Holy shit. I'm still smiling.
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That was a fucking excellent episode. Holy shit. I'm still smiling.
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"I can't get into it even though I tried" ... Read the sign, mate
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Sep 05, 2010 11:43:04 PM CDT
Thought this was one of the greatest things I've ever seen, then
by thunderbolt ross
... then there was that shot of the urinals, and Peggy's expression, and I knew.
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In the physical sense it's much deeper than that. They are two severely closed off lonely people that recognized something in the other person that makes for a safe connection. Plus they both are holding onto some pretty big secrets about the other person. It's profound sense of safety and M.A.D. all rolled into one.Roger that cat is fucking aces with the one liners.The info about Bert sounds, at the very least, plausible. Both Hamm and Moss have now have Emmey reels to send in after this episode. To save shipping cost they should just send in one jointly.
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...is some of the best writing and acting on TV in a long damn time.
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I'm wondering if they'll have Don start a gradual ascent back into sobriety so they can have something to juxtapose against Betty going further bat-fuck nuts. I'm in the "I have empathy for Betty" camp, so I'm kind of dreading watching her go further off the deep-end.
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I agree, I don't see them actually hooking up. If they ever did get together I think it would be more serious, because of all the women in Don's life she's the one that can see through his bullshit, call him on it, and not be afraid to do so. But, I don't see it happening. Don just knows she was pregnant right, but doesn't know that Pete is the father?
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Don does not know who the father is.
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Don probably now thinks Duck is the father.
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Wasn't the title for this TB, you're such a jew? Did this get changed just now?
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If you didn't see how much more attractive Peggy is than Joan here, then there is no convincing (or redeeming) you. Paraphrased:
Peggy: When I walk down the straight, men don't turn their heads to look at me.
Don: You'd want that?
Don and Peggy? They're in love, more than Peggy has ever been, maybe in a way that Don can finally allow himself to truly experience love. They see themselves reflected in the other. That diner scene? So romantic.
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Pretty sure that Don can figure out that Duck's arrival at SC wouldn't fit the timeline of Peggy's pregnancy
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Sep 06, 2010 12:26:31 AM CDT
"By the end of the series we will be rooting for Pete and hating
by jayemel
If this happens, the show will be a steaming pile of shit.
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And Rubicon was solid as always as well. Can't wait for "The Walking Dead"
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They're kindred spirits in some weird way but I didn't see anything romantic in their interactions. If anything, this pivotal episode underlines that there is nothing amorous about their complicated relationship.
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I not only think Anna Draper stopped by the office to see Don one last time...She also stopped to see Peggy.. Who will take over as the person who will really love this guy for what and who he is..just as Anna did until she passed to the other side..Take it as gospel..
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perfect!!!!
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which made it even funnier
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...then call me Good Charlotte because "I don't wanna be in love." Seriously, philosophically their relationship is the definition of love. Opposites attract? Bullshit. Kindred spirits do. The only question now is if they'll get their minds straight enough to realize it.
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I'm not one of the spell checkers...In fact I didn't even see a post up here from you...I also didn't notice anyone mention the suitcase..Have you been partying with Duck?
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Remember Mulder and Scully by the end of the X-Files? How wrong that was? Same thing here, if they chose to go down that road. This show is too smart for that. I'd be so disappointed.
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best ep of the series, forget all previous ones.
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But I do think if Joan loses her man she could be vying for a spot as Peggy's rival....I only say that because I have a deep seated fantasy of being loved to death by Christina Hendricks "Joan Holloway"
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I think it's true that Peggy has kind of stepped into Anna's shoes for Don. And from what we've seen Anna's case, Don doesn't seem to sleep with the women he is really emotionally close to. Maybe the teacher.
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I don't find Peggy attractive. She kind of reminds me of Little Man Tate a little bit. Maybe it's her awful haircut. I don't know. Joan, on the other hand, is a different story. I'm not crazy about redheads, but Joan is the bee's knees. And, if you throw Betty into the mix, purely on a physical level, she is pretty damn "Wow" too.
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The kiss last week was a little uncomfortably long. And didn't Joan seem giddy when Don took her hand?
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cuz if he doesnt for this season, i dont think he ever will
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"Something Wicked This Way Comes"?
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just about everything Peggy might want to hear.. I think Don respects her and shares the same feelings and fears that Peggy has.
They actually would have a good shot I think if this was real life.
They do have more honesty when together than any one else on the show especially now that Anna's gone..Think about it!!
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It really is unbeleivable, every season, every episode just keeps delivering. Peggy standing outside both the male and female bathrooms chooses the mens room. I thought that was a very deliberate shot. And Anna's Ghost, were we meant to believe he really sees her? I guess it's up to each viewer. I will admit in tearer up. Great fucking episode.
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There's no way that this season could lose at the Emmys next year.
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a doff of the hat to you sir..
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It's up to the viewer to decide. It could really be her ghost, or just Don's drunken hallucination. After all, she had a Samsonite suitcase in hand... so it was probably just his imagination.
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I love "Something Wicked". I watch it around Halloween each year. I can think of no other film that better evokes a feeling of autumn and being a kid during that time of year than that movie.
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A great compliment to the Mad Man series if your name comes from what I consider the Best T.V. show that was ever aired..
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I think it was just a drunken hallucination, like Ray Milland's bat and mouse in The Lost Weekend.
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Bradbury had a thing about the fall..The October people, Something Wicked, etc. by the way if you liked Something Wicked as a film I would also recommened a great movie called The Other...trust me if you liked Something Wicked you will most certianly like The Other..
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The Other is pretty cool too. Tom Tryon, the author of the book, starred as Texas John Slaughter on Walt Disney Presents. My mom remembers it fondly, but due to the demise of the Walt Disney Treasures line, I will probably never see it.
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but that was a fantastic episode. I'm amazed at the subtle movement of the character arcs in this story, so much movement without any of the fanfare.
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This show almost takes away the loss of The Wire, the Shield and a few others.. I do look forward to the Walking Dead and the return of Breaking bad..right now it seems AMC can do no wrong..If someone told me I would prefer T.V. to what Hollywood is dishing out to the theaters I never would have believed them..fucking amazing TV going on right now..
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Greatest drama period put to moving pictures. But Mad Men is creeping up there. Every episode begins and I Think okay maybe this won't be such a great episode and then the show takes you somewhere you could never comprehend 20 minutes before, and reveal slowly something new about a character that at one time is outlandish, bewildering, yet totally in line in what we have learned and loved about that certain character.
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I've heard of it, but I've never read the story or seen the cartoon version of it. I will look for both though.
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Greatest drama period put to moving pictures. But Mad Men is creeping up there. Every episode begins and I Think okay maybe this won't be such a great episode and then the show takes you somewhere you could never comprehend 20 minutes before, and reveal slowly something new about a character that at one time is outlandish, bewildering, yet totally in line in what we have learned and loved about that certain character.
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If you havent seen it yet try to get a hold of The Corner it is made by the great minds that brought you The Wire .. It was a four part 2 disc set...(you can rent it from netflix) hosted by Charels Dutton (Roc) who I believe
wrote some of it about the Corner in his neighboorhood where drug dealing took place ...I gotta tell you up front it isn't the Wire but it's got most of the actors from the series in what are some very different roles..It will make your skin crawl with its in your face depiction of the addict...It is not for everyone but its true and very well done.. In fact at the end you get to meet the real survivors and hear how shit worked out for them ...Check it out if you havent....time for sleep enjoy -
Why do you change these the headlines of these posts?
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I almost always find one better.
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the time change is moving rather quickly...i hope they dont skip most of 66 next season
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And Don's breakdown in front of Peggy replaced flustered Don dropping his cigarette at the end of season three as my favorite Mad Men moment. Don and Peggy won't hookup. They're too similar, and running too parallel and the show is not about that. They'll HELP each other. I feel if they eventually did hook up, that would be the final straw in Don seeing how much he fucked up.
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Glad this show has turned into something.
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Yes. Much love for Rubicon as well. And I can't wait to watch this week's episode of Mad Men again On Demand.
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Peggy and his pregnant wife walking, talking together. He was for a brief second nervous.
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"He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience–or to fake–a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer — because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut."
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"He will not acknowledge, but he knows that sex is the physical expression of a tribute to personal values. So he tries, by going through the motions of the effect, to acquire that which should have been the cause. He tries to gain a sense of his own value from the women who surrender to him– and he forgets that the women he picks have neither character nor judgment nor standard of value. He tells himself that all he’s after is physical pleasure– but observe that he tires of his woman in a week or a night, that he despises professional whores and that he loves to imagine he is seducing virtuous girls who make a great exception for his sake. It is the feeling of achievement that he seeks and never finds. What glory can there be in the conquest of a mindless body? Now that is your woman chaser."
That pretty much describes Don Draper perfectly. Peggy is his deepest reflection of himself. We saw that in this episode. Don's Hank Rearden journey is being amped up and I love it! Read the rest here:
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I have thought since season 2 that the series finale will be based around Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. With the theme of "man going beyond his limits".
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I think before we see that we may see a certian Duck that can't fly.
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On top of everything else, Duck farted and tried to take a dump in the office. Jar Jar Binks you are officially on notice
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That was world-class. Just an outstanding episode.
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Project much?
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I know this scam well. If I respond, I doth protest too much - if I don't respond, I'm admitting to something. It's a no win deal. So, once again, with feeling: Fuck you.
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And probably one of the best of the series. Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss have their nominations for the 2011 Emmys locked up. Here's a great review: http://bit.ly/9avAuc
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...with Don killing himself, it will also be a steaming pile of shit. The opening credits are a metaphor for how everyone lives in the show. None of them are happy. They're all repressed, frustrated, and, well, mad.
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I love how this show can have everyone Googling Lyle Evans to figure out who he is a couple of weeks ago, only to casually reveal the answer a few episodes later.
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Definitely the best of the season. Unfortunately we need to deal with Betty bringing down the show next week.
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As always, this show comes through with those little moments that you can read a bit into. I find it interesting how when they're at the diner Don keeps stealing fries (or something) from Peggy's plate. He's a pretty professional guy and for him to be able to kick back like that with Peggy says a lot about their relationship.
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I keeed. I keeed.
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Without a doubt, Elizabeth Moss's Emmy submission episode. Great stuff.
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Sep 06, 2010 2:45:22 PM CDT
It's always interesting how real life can prime interpretations
by jardinier
Someone mentioned Billy Wilder's THE LOST WEEKEND last week, and I happened to have the DVD handy, so i watched it. So when Don saw the mouse, naturally I assumed it was a hallucination. I would have gone on assuming that if not for Peggy's reaction.
I also don't think Don and Peggy will hook up. This episode wasn't about preparing them for a romantic relationship; in an actual soap opera, they would probably get together. But "Mad Men" isn't a soap opera: it operates on theme and character as opposed to surface and plot. This episode was about Peggy and how her path to success reflects Don's, while being very much her own. The two most striking actions/images in the episode for me: Peggy lying down on her own couch, spending the night at the office because she does not want to face her fiancé/family: just like Don. And Peggy sitting on the couch, Don's head in her lap, a glass in one hand and the other arm comfortably resting partly on Don, partly on the back of the couch: a variation of the opening title shot (imagine that scene from behind: you wouldn't even see Don). (And that image isn't just about Peggy and how Don is the one with whose help she will rise further; it's also about Don and how he has found a new confidante and partner (of sorts, anyway).) While we're on the subject, I guess the final image of the episode means that Don has finally decided to turn over a new leaf and re-start his life (though, who knows, I've thought that a couple of times already this season, and was proven wrong). -
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Don and Peggys relationship seems to be foreshadowed by Don and Rogers. Anyone remember in season 1 when Roger and Don are at a restaurant and they try to out drink one another only to find when they get back to Sterling Copper that Elevator is broken so they take the stairs and Roger pukes infront of would be clients. Roger has a heart attack soon after. Now last weeks episode showed Roger having flashbacks around his first encounter with Don after taking credit for finding Don(he of course has almost nothing to do with it. Don was hired due to Rogers bad memory). This is in contrast with Don and Peggy when we see Don trying to take credit for something he had nothing to do with(the Cereal Slogan). And hiring someone he doesn't see talent in as a result. Now how many times have we seen Don throw up from drinking? None. Tonight was the first time in four seasons he has puked as a result of his drinking. Matt Weiner waited four seasons to show us Don puking as a result of his lifestyle. Why? Are they trying to to tell us something? Is Don going to have a heart attack? Or some sort of major consequence from his drinking? There has to be something there. Roger is divorced and married a former secretary. Don is divorced and fucks his secretary. Anyone else see something here? And thoughts on why this might be important? On a side note I think a major death is coming. Last season I was sure they were going to show Burt kick the bucket by the end of season 3. That didn't happen. I don't know why but I have a feeling Roger or Burt might bite the dust soon. I'm inclined to think Burt due to his age but Weiner likes to throw curve balls so who knows. Thoughts anyone? -
Sep 06, 2010 4:04:40 PM CDT
I don't think the opening credits have anything to do with suici
by inactionman
The silhouette of the man in the business suite doesn't jump. Everything that "holds him up" his briefcase, office furniture, decorations the walls and the floor start to fall away from him and then he begins to plummet.
However, we never see the man hit the ground. Does he land safely and become "The Man" casually smoking the cigarette at the end of the credit sequence or has he been replaced be a new "The Man"?
Who is the silhouette of "The Man" Don, Pete, Roger?
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I believe all of the ideas they were hashing out were used as commercials for suitcases in the late 1960's and 1970's. The football players, thowing the suitcase off a roof, and of course the animal ideas. American Tourister's most famous ad was a gorilla throwing the suitcase around a cage.Don and Peggy will not hook up, Peggy will replace Anna as the one woman he truly trusts. Anna's farewell was great, and Hamm will win that Emmy.Peggy will become the typical late 1970's-early 1980's corporate woman, who sacrificed everything for the job: family, friends, marriage, and children.Loved the use of Simon and Garfunkel. BTW May 1965 was when the college kids started calling radio stations requesting "Sounds of Silence". The song was recut and re-released that summer, and "Sounds of Silence" hit #1 on the US charts by New Years Day 1966. So, My money is on MM using "7 O'Clock news" when Joan's husband is killed.------later-----m
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While I can see why others feel that Don and Peggy getting together wouldn't happen on this show, I would hate for Weiner to not put them together just to be different. If this is a show that prides itself on realism over soap opera antics, two single people who love each other and are attracted to each other NOT hooking up is NOT realistic. Don never tried with Anna because Anna was the real Don's wife and I'm sure he felt as though he'd taken enough from the guy. And, of course, there are plenty of logical reasons for Don not to hook up with Peggy, mostly work related. However, I would hate for Weiner to think about putting them in a relationship and stop himself because it's "too predictable". At this point in the show, doing the predictable thing WOULD be unpredictable.
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I think it might be Pete who kicks the bucket. That might throw people for a loop, but he mentioned a certain heart condition that runs in his family, he is an expectant father, he is partner in a (sort of) new, hot ad agency... Things are looking up for Pete, until his possible death.
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That's precisely why I think it shouldn't happen. It's happened on so many other shows, and those shows usually get worse because of it. And Mad Men is so much better than most other shows.
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Interesting. There's some good thinking here.
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Of this season so far and I feel we still have lot to learn about Peggy. Would like to see more Betty, even though she's a total child beating bitch January Jones gets my pants warm
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I don't think if they indeed love each other it's the kind of love that necessitates romance. If the writers don't have them hooking up, I think that's natural, not trying to be "different"
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The KEY element in that scene is that Don tells Roger the elevator is out so he HAS to climb the stairs, knowing that Roger is old, and that he'll throw up in front of them. It's all very intentional, and a good example of Don being able to manipulate circumstances to his advantage, without looking like it.
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Pete dying before the birth of his child due it his casually mentioned heart condition is possible - he seems to be wound up pretty tight lately
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And as a bunch of people mentioned here, it seems like Peggy will become the new Anna. He was giving her details about his mom and dad here that he hasn't with other people. I think he wants to know he CAN have a platonic relationship, so adding sex to what he has with Peggy, I feel would only make him feel worse about himself, and as attracted as Peggy may or may not be to Don, if she were to start dating him, it would only solidify everyone's assumptions that she is where she is due to Don, which she doesn't want. The two of them are both loners; independents, and to show them both on that same journey, while helping each other on the way, makes a lot more sense than them hooking up. Someone else that is A LOT like Don, but not quite an "extension of himself" is that blonde that's been introduced this season, and I do see them eventually getting together.
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What a great meltdown. LOVED IT!!!! starts out great, then the anger creeps in. gold.
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Two key characters stuck in a neurotic predicament seemingly of their own creation, but really because there's much larger things at stake that at least one of the characters is hiding from.
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Reminded me of Fly as well. Probably my two favorite pieces of writing this year. And both just ENITRELY character pieces. If these were the first episodes you saw of these shows, you'd surely hate these episodes.
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The space time continuum is altered when Ken and Harry find a Macbook.
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Peggy & Don is predictable? What world do you people live in? In the world I live in, fictional characters never end up with people likes themselves. We're fed the whole "opposites attract" bs. Do you want evidence? How about Lee Adama and Starbuck? How about Jack and Kate? I'd love to live in a world where the correct view of love exists, but it doesn't. Peggy & Don would be subversive, not cliche.
Ndally, such fucking brilliant analysis. You're exactly right, Roger is what Don could be. The key word is "could." Roger is the logical conclusion about the American philosophy up until that point in time. Then Don comes along. Is he going to allow himself to befall the same fate or find a new philosophy and overcome? (And yes, I used the word "befall" as a pun on the opening credits, as you're exactly right. Everything that is supposed to be supporting the man is letting him down and causing him to fall.) -
I think that Don took notice of how alike he and Peggy are when she said, "I know what I'm supposed to want..." and that she's not sure it's what she wants. That describes not only Don exactly, but even Betty to some extent. They all have tried for certain things in life that others tell them they should want. Honestly, that right there is a major component, though in a subtle way, of the whole hippie / counter culture thing back then. Though some of that culture went to sort of an excessive degree, Don and Peggy are struggling to do what they want with life but cant figure out how to get it outside of the world they're stuck in. I think sometimes people overlook that change during the 1960s because of the "sexier" peace, love, dope, war protest stuff.
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Interesting enough Danielkirkland Don has the exact opposite happen in this episode. When we see Peggy helping Don walk without falling over Don says "that elevator is like a rocket" or something to that affect which means Roger vomited as a result of not taking an elevator and Don puked because of one.
This makes me think that Weiner is trying to show us the parrells between Roger and Don but at the same time telling us there is usually something different about their similarties. I mentioned earlier the parrelel with Roger and Don both divorced while Roger marries his affair Don did not(Roger tends to wear his heart on his sleeve a bit more than Don so it makes sense especially when we see how affectionate Roger is towards Joan and the lady from last season who owned the Dog Food company) So the point of showing Roger have the heart attack etc. was to show how the lifesyle these men lead catches up with them eventually. We rarely see the effects of heavey drinking short term but rather the slow burn and long term consequences of drinking. Duck, Freddy Rumsen and in a way Roger with the above example. This year has seen Don using someone elses idea when drunk(a new low according to Weiner) he fucked the secretary when he was wasted(at least that's what I remember). So we are seeing Dons consequences of drinking more than anyother point in this show. Is it Rockbottom or the begining?
This episode had fighting as a big theme. Don with Duck, Don with Peggy and the fight that everyone watches that Don looses money on. Anna loosing the fight with cancer(that exampe could be reaching a bit i duno)I'm not sure with this show if we should take these fights at face value or look for the metaphors. maybe Don fighting Duck is Don fighting his possible future(sounds lame and a tad clichè) as a warn out alcoholic. he looses that fight. I don't know I guess that's reaching too but this show has so much going on you can't take everything at face value. Look at when Peggy sees the painting of the Parthanon with the dog. She asks why is a dog there and Don says the Dog is a roach. I guess you could go on forever looking at every character interaction and the motivation and metaphors behind it. Does it all mean something or are they all peices to a larger puzzle? All I know is that the Sopranos followed a similar "don't take everything at face value" approach and when you go back and watch the sopranos again you can see all the pieces moving and fitting together like a giant puzzle. Great story telling. This episode kept me up last night thinking of what the bigger picture might be and where all this is headed.
Think of the really bad shit that has happened to people in this show. Freddy Rumsen Pissing himself, the British guy getting his foot run over, Duck embarassing himself, Betty cheating on Don for the first time in after meeting at a BAR, SAL and Lucky strike guy, numerous Don Draper sexual encounters, Rogers Heart attack, Harry cheating on his wife plus I'm probably missing alot more. All of these events are fueled by drunk people. Consqeuences or actions motivated by alcohol. that has been a constant through out the show. Most people chalk it up to being the 60s and "that's just what people did" but you start to see a pattern. Whenever something bad happens what do people on this show usually say? "I need a drink" or "make me a drink" or "do you want a drink".
We are being conditioned by Matt Weiner to think alcohol=negative consqeuces. Just some thoughts anyone have any ideas about these questions or is it just looking into things to much?
**pardon the spelling and grammar I'm writing from my cell**
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That should have been in Paragraphs and was written that way but for some reason there are no paragraphs.
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His exact words: "And they're self so righteous". Actor flubbing line, or character too drunk to talk straight?
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season 4 has been very strong IMO. Good additions to the cast in addition to new sets and circumstances that work well with the continuing story arcs of the characters.
I know it is beyond the budget and scope of the series, but I would LOVE to see more exterior street scenes in the series. So far, the series has taken place almost entirely in office, bar, lobbies, the Draper household and aircraft interior sets. Other than Don driving on long winding highways with the California wind in his hair, they are almost never outdoors. I suppose the costs of digital mattes and CG extensions of city streets would be prohibitive.
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It's usually a good signifier for when I should stop visiting the talkback, as I see the episodes a day later than everyone else. New headline mean spoilers abound!Also, what does anyone make of the one guy refusing to clean up the mess when Joan asks them to?
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I think with the Duck/Don fight you're missing an important component. Don sort of loses the fight, yes, but Peggy is there to pull Duck off and send him away. To extend the metaphor, is Peggy keeping Don from becoming Duck? Similarly, at the beginning of the episode, Don is talking about Liston, but by the end he is utilizing the image of Clay to mean strength.
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That's true. I was going to touch on Don using the winner of fight for his idea, that he thinks Peggy is "shitting on" before she makes an excuse for her first reaction. Kind of reversing roles from the begining of the episode when Don is doing the same thing to Peggys ideas but I didn't tie it in to the Duck/Don fight which makes it even more
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I guess that's why they call him Duck.
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not for the ADD crowd. That's for sure.This was the midpoint of the season, and the best episode so far.I like how they toss in some old ads during the breaks, but the wannabe riffs and the trivia cards are lame.
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Sep 07, 2010 3:32:30 PM CDT
I had a weird dream that mixed Mad Men with True Blood.
by royston lodge
I had this dream a few nights ago. It was very strange.
It was 1960s New York, but for some reason Mad Men took place inside the True Blood universe, and had just recently been turned into a vampire.
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That should have read, "and Sally had just recently been turned into a vampire."
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showed both a general lack of respect for authority (in the air at the time) and a change in tone on how Joan is treated in this new office. She was once SheWhoWillNotBeQuestioned, and now is just the old lady secretary. Not to be confused with Don's old lady secretary.
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Even if he is passive-aggresive as all get-out, how could he not have the guts to fight off Duck?
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what he was doing, fight-wise. Maybe all that bluster about "you know I killed 17 men" wasn't bluster - he basically led Don into attacking him, then took him down with ease, despite the fact that he, too, was shitfaced beyond belief.
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...Joey's the guy who didn't clean up when she asked. In the preview for next week's show it has Joan yelling at the guys again. It could be one of those "young good-looking guy stands up to her, thereby, turns her on". Or, Joan could make a pass at him, and he totally rejects her, thereby showing Joan's descent into middleage. Or, they could have absolutely no relation to each other at all and I'm totally wrong about where MAD MEN is going, once again.
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He might as well have said "Ok, Uncle, asshole."
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Because he is the quintessential Alpha Male we all assumed that Don was going to wipe the floor with Duck. But really, when has Don ever had to fight anyone? He's used to talking and charming his way out of a conflict. Duck was an actual soldier so of course he won the fight.
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Sep 07, 2010 5:58:09 PM CDT
If Duick was a badass soldier he would've had Don at the start!
by hollywoodhellraiser
C'mon both guys fought sloppy and Duck just manage to get on top of Don! Then he pulled some fake ass move that ANY guy on AICN could've seen from a magazine!Thats badass???How many of us never did that shit with moves we saw on tv with Bruce Lee or Chuck Norris?How many declare themselves a lethal weapon when growing up and knew it was BULLSHIT?Don said uncle because that was the only thing his drunk, hungover mind could think of!Seriously, did Don looked scared? Because to me he looked like he wasn't in the mood to fight!
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it seems like don is losing more than fights... that "the champ" suitcase idea was pretty lame, and both he and peggy knew it. she basically said "no it's good" while avoiding eye contact, after don looked hurt at her criticism (and it was the second of his ideas in the course of the episode that she questioned and pointed out wouldn't translate to television aka the creative genius is starting to fall behind the times...) will the series end with don in the cooper role, the big head honcho who reads the paper all day and is (metaphorically, of course!) without any real balls? leading just maybe to that don't jumpppppppp moment....
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First of all, that wasn't much of a fight. Second, Duck was het up and WANTING a fight. Don had JUST finished puking his brains out and obviously had very little interest in fisticuffs. I think reading into that moment too much is a mistake.
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20 years and about a million gallons of hootch ago.
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joan doesnt make passes at men, and is very confidant in her sexualityand those boys are gonna learn who rules the roost...and it isnt them
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Don is no fighter. Not just because of how he left Korea, but you can see it in the way he deals with his family and even in the way he deals with Roger. He may have not been particularly scared of Duck, but he knew he was out of his element and backed down. Don is all about avoiding confrontation.@ndally, if that AICN paragraph bug continues to plague you, you can get the greasemonkey plugin for firefox and then install the AICN Power Mod (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/72709) I wrote to fix that and a whole lot of other problems with this site. You can check out the entire list at that link. It's free and open source.
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Talk about reading too much into something.Like someone stated, Don had just puke his guts out and was just still hungover! Both guys were drunk!Did you missed the part where Don swung and missed Duck by a mile???Duck got lucky and caught Don by the upperbody and both fell to the ground.There was no special takedown or any special moves by Duck! Both fell to the ground like to drunk hobos!WTF, do some Youtubing and see some real fights! LOL
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I think when Don said "uncle" he meant it, but it's not particularly meaningful.
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But he only said it because he didn't want to fight anymore, not because he was scared of Duck so-called threat!
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Where does this one land? Great, great stuff there: Peggy and Don going at each other, makin up, the drinking, the fights (Duck, Cassius), Duck Shit, obscene levels of puking, Trudy/Peggy/Pete, Tears, orchiectomies, Possible Apparitions, Queen of Perversion, a mouse, the whistle. Damn, that was a great episode
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That was the best episode so far, in my opinion. Probably the best episode of TV in years.
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I'm not sure where it ranks on the show but it's one of the best things I've seen in a long time, period
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So I guess no one else noticed what seemed an awful lot like a flubbed line?
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If blooper reels are any indication, actors tend to start cursing or laughing once their brain notices any flub, thus ruining the take anyway. So if it's in the show (and it wasn't part of an insanely complicated shot), it's probably intentional.
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Sure they were drunk but Don is just not a fighter, and it's unlikely he could even beat Pete Campbell in a fight. That is not any insult on his manhood unless you're 14 and think who can win a fistfight means who is the better man. Interestnigly, an undercurrent of this season has been former WW2 Vets like Duck and Roger unhappy with how they are not being treated as well as they feel like they should be while softer Don has it all (in their eyes, of course we see him as sad and lonely).
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I was exaggerating when I said Pete. :) Would be fun to see though.
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And throw him out the window to land on the head of that Lucky Strike bastard.
That would work.
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The entire theme of the episode, if not the season/show, has been Don dealing with his avoidance issues. He couldn't deal with Anna, nor did he want to deal with Peggy or Duck. He's drinking more and more to avoid all his problems. He didn't fight with Betty for the kids or the house. He's pretty much avoided his entire past. I did specifically say he wasn't afraid of Duck, but that fighting is just not his thing. He's a runner. Which is why he was so averse to signing any contract. He took a swing because he was drunk, but then quickly realized that's not his thing (and yes, Duck would have won cause he had the fire and experience).
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It's really a minor issue, if one at all. I am sort of taken aback that some of you seem to really care about this very small touch in the episode. Two drunk assholes flailing away. Yes, Don said he never killed anyone earlier in the episode. Yes Duck claims to have killed 17 men at Okinawa. Yes Duck gets the better of Don. He also tried to take a dump on a chair. It's like ... I don't know, I think it's odd that people are so interested in this in an episode with so much more interesting and important things to offer. The fight was an aside.
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Unfortunately they were on our side.
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I kept thinking, sp when Peggy mentions the elephant, is someone going to come up with the famous gorilla-with-a-suitcase campaign. Using Clay as a starting point, given the racial attitude it could be linked that "Clay's as strong as a gorilla" (remember Howard Cosell's "look at that monkey run" debacle), and take it from there. A little research though shows that that campaign didn't begin until 1970, and it was for American Tourister, which ironically was bought out by Samsonite, and was linked to that campaign and capitalized on it in future ads. Ah, the power of advertising...
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"Why is there a dog in the Parthenon?...That's a roach. Lets go.."Let me echo what been said week after week. Weiner and company seem to firing on all cylinders this season.
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after Duck called Peggy a whore.
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The whole WW2 vet thing is setting up the Vietnam controversy, when this country turned on its soldiers for the first time. Also, with the free love movement came a redefinition of manhood...which we're not so coincidentally discussing in this thread. Good job, Matthew Weiner.
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hmmm
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That line was delivered as such a "throw-away", then, I caught myself thinking of three different meanings for it, then I thought to myself: "Am I over-thinking this". Then I realized, it's Mad Men.
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Is a hint at the philosophy Don is discovering. He's been "trying to get out of the room" (his unhappiness) by going down the conventional path, the path of Roger Sterling. However, this season sees him struggling with these important ideas (expectations vs wants), and finally starting to understand what side he needs to fall down on (wants).
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- A fucking awesome AVENGERS Super Bowl Spot! Love this! -- 209 total posts 209 posts
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- Harry's read this new EVIL DEAD script - and yeah, takes more after EVIL DEAD the original... -- 163 total posts 80 posts
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