The best thing for me about the Salvatore and wife/girlfirend scene was while they were watching Jackie O, all Salvatore wanted to know was "Where is her
husband?" wink wink
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MAD Men: Just When You Get Your Foot in the Door
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Posts: 1813 (07/28/08 9:56 PM) |
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Posts: 95 (07/28/08 10:20 PM) |
I just got through watching the first season and the first episode this season, and I can easily say I love this show. I'm upset that I didn't find out
about it sooner. Well, it is on AMC and I don't watch the channel a lot, so that may explain it. It's an interesting insight in the 60s for me, seeing
that I wasn't alive in that era.
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Posts: 510 (07/28/08 10:47 PM) |
trinity17888 wrote:
secrets.
but it scared the shit out of me. another guy, another time. and i was seeing betty dead lying along side the road.
all "cold case"...
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Posts: 2019 (07/29/08 6:35 AM) Registered User |
(FROM VARIETY) - The July 27 season 2 premiere of AMC's Mad Men attracted 1.9 million viewers, more than double the 916,000 season 1 average. The show also tallied 955,000 viewers under age 50, which is nearly three times the 342,00 average for season 1. The 13-episode second season runs through October. The season 1 preimere attracted 1.6 million viewers on a Thursday in July but fell off later in the season as the broadcast networks began airing their new original episodes. (Variety) |
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Posts: 2912 (07/30/08 10:39 AM) Registered user |
Interesting that Variety attributes the drop-off in viewers to the competition from the networks, and not the viewer's inability to keep up with the show.
I hope they're right.
And thanks, Glam, for the Valium info. I predict that Betty may develop one of those 'mother's helper' addictions down the road. |
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Posts: 530 (08/01/08 8:08 PM) |
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Posts: 538 (08/03/08 8:34 PM) |
omg!
peggy's baby is at her mother's house. omg! |
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Posts: 1468 (08/03/08 9:22 PM) Registered user |
peggy's baby is at her mother's house.She's going all Children of the Corn on all of them. Dead behind the eyes, anyone? Could it be possible that this show keeps getting better every week? Sundays rule again. |
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Posts: 539 (08/03/08 9:23 PM) |
so was pete adopted by his family? i might have missed that in season one.
his father had no respect for him, which we saw when pete was begging for a loan on the apartment. pete had no respect for his father, which we saw when pops died. the "salt and pepper" thing with his "brother"? maybe i'm thinking too much. even that cute little weiner trick (i know you motherfucker) when someone made an inappropriate comment about the plane crash after pete learned of his dad's death. pete punched out a coworker in season one ("we call them lobsters. all of the meat is in the tail") but did not react at all at this remark? then pete and duck (i hate duck) used the whole event to attempt to get a new client? i don't know... Dead behind the eyes, anyone? heh, perfect angie. i saw "jaws" on chill this weekend. quint: "got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. when (s)he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until (s)he bites ya...
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Posts: 8322 (08/03/08 9:38 PM) Registered User |
Damn Joan was HOT tonight when she called out Mr. Pretentous.
I found the first scene with Pete and Don so interesting...Don showed a lot of kindness to Mr. Blackmail. Don seems so neutered at this phase of his life...I hope we get to see the lion come out (probably when we least expect it). |
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Posts: 540 (08/03/08 9:58 PM) |
SuitSnob wrote:
heh. what gave it away? the apartment, the beard, the pipe , the rag tied around his neck, or the girlfriend? joan is the shit. joan knows all and sees all and tells all. i love her. don's only problem is duck. don has got to eliminate the duck. and that should be a fun storyline this season... |
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Posts: 472 (08/03/08 10:47 PM) Registered User |
What a dark, miserable episode...
That was a fascinating exchange at the card table. Very passive-aggressive. Betty's comment had nothing to do with Bobby , I think it was all about Don. He's the liar. I feel bad for the Draper children though. |
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Posts: 383 (08/03/08 10:56 PM) |
Wow. I thought the premiere was a bit slow, but they more than made up for it with this episode. The plane crash thing would have been such a lame, soap-opera
like twist if they had done it on any other show, but this show made it brilliant. The fallout from it led us to know so much more about Pete, about the moral
compass of Don (which looks to be a huge theme this season), and about the direction in which Sterling Cooper is headed as a company with the help of this
jackass Duck guy. So well played.
Also, I can't believe I'm writing this, but after disliking Joan for every other episode to date, I think I now love this woman based on this episode alone. First of all, calling out Mr. Pretentious was just badass. So ballsy. So painfully true. No other character on the show would have called someone out about something like that. And in her exchange with Peggy, she just completely laid out on the table why she's been giving Peggy so much shit for over a year. Yes, it was never too subtle what her motives were for bullying Peggy, but I was always too busy taking Peggy's side to care. Hearing Joan just be so bluntly honest about it for a change made me sympathetic towards her for the first time ever. The previews for next week look like gold too, especially the Don/Betty stuff. "Is this the one where I talk or where I don't talk?" Damn Betty, don't hold back. 
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Posts: 1840 (08/03/08 11:03 PM) |
Another wonderful episode. Brought back memories of my parents' bridge club in the 60s, and how my mother would serve cheesecake with cherries on top, and
have bowls of bridge mix and peanuts sitting around. And they'd all get tanked, and one of my father's co-workers would chase me around making
inappropriate drunken comments. I was just a little kid.
And then the Catholic guilt stuff. Peggy can't do communion you know, she's a sinner. Loved the episode. |
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Posts: 541 (08/03/08 11:18 PM) |
trinity17888 wrote:
my god i was watching my parents. and then my marriage too. trinity, you know i love you as a poster so don't take this wrong... this is exactly how married people "communicate" after a few years and a few kids. that is why i love this show so. they get it right. take notes. betty has much to teach here.
and don't worry about the draper kids. that boy or girl is probably your boss now...
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Posts: 10 (08/03/08 11:44 PM) |
I just finished the first season and the first two episodes of season two. I LOVE it!! First impressions:
1. Blu-ray vs. AMC non HD... ack! I never knew regular tv sucked so much! 2. Vincent Kartheiser is about thisclose to killing someone, or being awesome, I don't know yet. Seriously, this is as excited I've been over a show since the Sopranos... and that was a long time ago! |
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Posts: 473 (08/03/08 11:51 PM) Registered User |
OG sofa wrote: I actually remember those early '60s, I wasn't in high school yet, but this show still feels very, very real to me. I think that's why I love it so much. What was going on with the ceramic elephant at Pete's mom's house? Was it really just as obvious as it looked... 'the pink elephant in the room?' |
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Posts: 2637 (08/04/08 12:01 AM) Registered User |
Having finished the Alpha male playbook, Don's loyalty and his behavior is clearly Alpha and Duck is a Beta male.. and his attempt to use the other Beta
Pete is not surprising.. they both are deadly when they feel their position threatened... that rejection by Don was just the stick but he is not smart enough
to see through Ducks exploitation.. or maybe he is and he will stomp on him too...
As for Betty. who resents their children more? The uber Catholic raised Peggy guilted to keep her child and let her mother raise him.. is she my Aunt/Sister or Mother? Jesus and then Betty's maternal instincts last week with threatening death and then calling the one a liar.. Martha Stewart take notes!!! I can see why Don is slamming those drinks.. I knew their was a reason to have kids.. I am on my way to Honduras tonight... call me Glamalina.. mother to the indigent poor and future mixologists.... And poor angry "oldster" Joan.. racist and jealous. My god that woman is cold... I can see why the woman's movement came to be...to be so frustrated and angry and limited in your opportunities.. it was that or stick with the valium. |
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trinity17888 |
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Posts: 474 (08/04/08 12:07 AM) Registered User |
EmmaPeel wrote: I think Peggy made the decision to sit out communion and not because she thought she was a sinner. No one can make her do something she doesn't want to do it seems, be it receive Communion or even raise her own child. Her sister turned the tables on her though, by making her hold the infant. That was a very interesting scene because try as she might, she just couldn't deny her own child's existence. |
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SuitSnob |
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Posts: 8323 (08/04/08 12:23 AM) Registered User |
Wow...some Wikipedia Nerd already got this updated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_1 |
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