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Mad Men Season 3

post #1 of 147
8/7/09 at 7:58am
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Well, we're now a little more then a week away, season 3 starts August 16. 


Argh. Can't get brightcove embeds to work here at all. http://www.amctv.com/videos/mad-men/?bcpid=8803972001&bclid=29713005001&bctid=28953593001
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post #2 of 147
8/12/09 at 5:56am
The publicity machine is really ramping up for season 3. That could be a good thing if it means more viewers, which could help the longevity of the series.

There was a great article this past weekend in the New York Times Arts & Leisure: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/arts/television/09kapl.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22matthew%20weiner%22&st=cse

And in the spirit of "Simpsonizing Yourself," you can now "Mad Men Yourself":
http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/madmenyourself/
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post #3 of 147
8/12/09 at 8:36pm
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Great interview.. the last question/response is fantastic.  Great understanding of a period piece... and one I wish more people would recognize.

http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/int/2009/08/13/vincent_kartheiser/
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post #4 of 147
8/13/09 at 4:05am
I got into this show last year.  Have seen all of season one and have the season two discs ready to go.  I've been watching them on blu ray and when setting the dvr for season three, haven't seen them listed in HD.  Am I missing something or are they not broadcast in HD?
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post #5 of 147
8/13/09 at 6:54am
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I got into this show last year.  Have seen all of season one and have the season two discs ready to go.  I've been watching them on blu ray and when setting the dvr for season three, haven't seen them listed in HD.  Am I missing something or are they not broadcast in HD?
 

They're broadcast in HD, but not all cable or satellite systems carry the AMC HD channel. For example, Time Warner Cable in Manhattan just added AMCHD within the last year. They didn't offer it for the first two seasons of Mad Men.
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post #6 of 147
8/13/09 at 2:23pm
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They're broadcast in HD, but not all cable or satellite systems carry the AMC HD channel. For example, Time Warner Cable in Manhattan just added AMCHD within the last year. They didn't offer it for the first two seasons of Mad Men.

 

Directv. 
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post #7 of 147
8/14/09 at 10:47am
Thank the maker. season 3 is finally apon us. I was very concered after the second season ended and rumurs were flying about the show being cancelled. I started watching at the beginning of season 2 when it was a free show On Demand thru Comcast. I have since cancelled my cable so hopefully they will have it streaming on AMC's web site. If not I'll just have to buy the series from iTunes or Amazon or something.
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post #8 of 147
8/16/09 at 10:48am
 All of the shows this season will be 62 minutes long.
Just to be safe I am recording 70 minutes.
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post #9 of 147
8/16/09 at 8:11pm
Good start.  Pete was truly livid with his "promotion".  Haha. 

Who knew Kate Bosworth's sister would have such a bangin' bod.  The look on Don's face when his daughter finds the TWA pin was hilarious. 

Sal's look of mortification when Don sees him with the bellhop in his bedroom was pitch-perfect.
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post #10 of 147
8/16/09 at 8:33pm
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Great stuff.  This show really does have a completely different feel from almost everything else that's on TV. 

I like that we're still seeing, some time later, the aftermath of Duck's "sell the company" road.  Pete's character is so well played as a terrible pessimist.  Cosgrove sees the glass half full - this is his chance to prove himself, and hey, it's still a great promotion.  Pete looks at it the other way: it's torture and just an opportunity to show him he's failed.  Such a great contrast between those characters.
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post #11 of 147
8/16/09 at 8:35pm
I want to know what happened to "Duck", I'm sure e was fired but I would like to know just a bit more even if its just an allusion.
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post #12 of 147
8/16/09 at 10:33pm
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 All of the shows this season will be 62 minutes long.
Just to be safe I am recording 70 minutes.

Apparently I was misinformed, tonight was about 52 minutes.

I still have an American Airlines pin from a long ago stewardess encounter.

 
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post #13 of 147
8/17/09 at 6:12am
If it had been more recent, it would have been a "flight attendant" encounter. :)

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...I still have an American Airlines pin from a long ago stewardess encounter.

 
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post #14 of 147
8/17/09 at 8:34am
I'm surprised they didn't address Pete with Peggy's revelation about the baby, but I guess the best is yet to come. I see they wanted to establish the new characters first, as well as create the immediate conflict between Pete and Cosgrove.

If, for some dumb reason, AMC decides to cancel this show, couldn't another network pick it up and continue the seasons?
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post #15 of 147
8/18/09 at 10:14am
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I want to know what happened to "Duck", I'm sure e was fired but I would like to know just a bit more even if its just an allusion.
 


On a commentary on the S2 finale, I think Matthew Weiner says that Duck was indeed fired after he tried to force Don out.
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post #16 of 147
8/18/09 at 12:10pm
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I'm just trying to figure out the pregnancy.. I thought two years passed between S2 and S3.. but this would appear to make it more like 6 months (?)
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post #17 of 147
8/18/09 at 1:08pm
With the time gap, the real question is "is that Don's baby or the guy from the coat check room?"  It's all I could think about as Don thought about his beginnings from the belly of a whore.

I also loved the look on his face at the end.  First, the pin question "Did you bring this for me, daddy?"  followed by "Tell me about the night I was born."  His struggle to remember anything was heart breaking.  The dude is seriously so detatched.
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post #18 of 147
8/18/09 at 1:16pm
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I'm just trying to figure out the pregnancy.. I thought two years passed between S2 and S3.. but this would appear to make it more like 6 months (?)


Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's around the spring of 1963 and S2 ended with the Cuban Missle Crisis in October (?) 1962.

And unless they think it's too obvious, I'm guessing that this season will end on or near November 22, 1963.
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post #19 of 147
8/19/09 at 3:50pm
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With the time gap, the real question is "is that Don's baby or the guy from the coat check room?"  It's all I could think about as Don thought about his beginnings from the belly of a whore.
 

It's Don's.  She (and the audience) were already aware of her pregnancy before her encounter with the guy in the bar.
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post #20 of 147
8/23/09 at 9:17pm
This episode just flew by, I was shocked when the episode was over.

Was there really a Pepsi diet drink by the name of Patio?  Ye gads!

Don really can sell snow to eskimos.
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post #21 of 147
8/23/09 at 11:59pm
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"Patio" pepsi lasted on the market for all of 6 months, it was taken off the market and re-named "Diet Pepsi" in 1964.. this was in response to Coca-Cola releasing it's product "Tab" in 1963, which proved far more successful then "Patio" as easier to market to women.  Tab had two really successful ad campaigns in the 1960s.. "Be a Mind Sticker" and "Keep a Tab on you!" which were both a good way to market the idea that "tab" was about keeping a running tab on your calorie intake.

Pepsi's Patio proved too difficult to attract women, and so Pepsi went very blunt to respond with "Diet Pepsi"  Coke, refusing to alter it's signature name brand, didn't offer "Diet Coke" until 1982.
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post #22 of 147
8/24/09 at 5:48am
Did anyone else focus on the date of Maggie Sterling's wedding? That's going to be one gloomy affair.
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post #23 of 147
8/24/09 at 6:03am
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I noticed it and thought it was a bit too cute, so I'm not thinking about it.

Then again, supposedly that day was very popular for weddings, as are most weekends preceding thanksgiving.
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post #24 of 147
8/24/09 at 6:20am

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I noticed it and thought it was a bit too cute, so I'm not thinking about it.
 

My first reaction as well, but then I remembered that everyone was just going about their lives as usual, with no idea of what was about to happen. This whole season has some of that quality of the Hitchcock example of two people sitting at a table talking about baseball, while the camera shows the audience that there's a bomb ticking beneath the table.

The meetings with the Penn Station guys have a similar effect, since in later years the demolition of the original Penn Station will come to be viewed as one of the great architectural sacrileges of the 20th century. Kinsey might as well be speaking the verdict of history.
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post #25 of 147
8/24/09 at 6:43am
I liked how this episode handled Peggy's story in a kind of staccato fashion with brief scenes sketching in her mounting personal and professional frustration leading to a physical outlet followed by back to business professionalism in the last scene.  The fact that the commercial breaks occured after Peggy scenes actually underlined this arc.

Regards,
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post #26 of 147
8/24/09 at 10:46am
I got a big kick out of the Carvel reference, too. This show is always pitch-perfect!
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post #27 of 147
8/24/09 at 11:46am
The wedding date certainly sets the table for the end of the season.

I'm not sure I get the scene with Don touching the grass and zoning out as he watched the teacher doing her spring dance.  Anyone care to take a shot?

Seeing Bets dad deal with Alzheimer's was a real bummer.  And, they don't even have a name for it in 1963.

I'm most curious to see what comes between Don and the London group.  He pulls his magic and they dump the account?  That just doesn't fly in Don's universe.  I wonder if he'll pull a side job...
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post #28 of 147
8/24/09 at 12:02pm
He was was using the grass as a conduit to touch her or be connected to her. A beautiful but sad kind of scene that shows his desires haven't changed all that much despite his resolve to stay faithful to his family.

I remember an episode of Star Trek: TNG when Riker was describing looking up at the moon every night and believing Troi was looking at it as well and that being the way they were connected across a great distance.

This case was less romantic but the same idea.

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I'm not sure I get the scene with Don touching the grass and zoning out as he watched the teacher doing her spring dance.  Anyone care to take a shot?
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post #29 of 147
8/24/09 at 9:01pm
I always thought they called Alzheimers Disease, Senility back then,
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post #30 of 147
8/24/09 at 9:04pm
Would his behavior be from Alzheimer's or from the stroke?
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