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post #61 of 147
9/28/09 at 4:20am
LOL at Peggy in the same clothes the day after her tryst with Duck, and Don not noticing. 
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post #62 of 147
9/28/09 at 10:05am
Well Don was certainly distracted.  it was interesting watch all of the main stories involve irrational poor decisions and the interconnection of them. Another great episode.

Great line from Cooper last night calling Hilton "eccentric"
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post #63 of 147
9/28/09 at 10:22am
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"I don't want anything to do with Roger Sterling"  ZING!   Roger pressing Betsy about a contract wast he straw that broke the camel's back and the truce is over. 


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post #64 of 147
9/28/09 at 12:09pm

I love that every 'chapter' of MAD MEN has a theme...

Last night it was all about power, and it was fascinating to watch an episode about power wherein Don had none for about 99% of it.  I don't think we've ever seen him displayed so powerlessly.  I loved the little touches - like him consistently finding himself on the other side of his desk.

Of course, the two times he DID have the power, I think he misused it - once to berate Peggy (bad call) and finally to sever ties with Roger.  Roger may be a pain in his ass, but he's wrong to sever that tie.

 

Bets beginning to wield her feminine power again always scares me.  And, that sofa is the ugliest thing ever.  She is a nutcase.

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post #65 of 147
9/28/09 at 4:18pm
I loved the sofa (I have no interior decorating taste, I've been told).
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post #66 of 147
9/28/09 at 8:05pm
I’m really enjoying this season, another solid effort so far.
As for the Victorian sofa, it’s not bad but people either like Victorian or they don’t. One thing for certain, it shouldn’t have been placed right in front of the fireplace.
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post #67 of 147
9/29/09 at 2:59pm
The sofa wasn't bad.  The sofa in that room with it's existing furnishings was beyond bad.  Like a 12' Robocop statue in the middle of a rose garden!
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post #68 of 147
9/29/09 at 3:08pm
 Oh Gawd, we're talking home decor.
The fainting couch was very nice, I would put a different fabric on it.
The fainting couch shoved in front of the mantle in THAT room was Betty acting out.
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post #69 of 147
10/1/09 at 9:05am
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One of the best parodies I've seen:


The "Good work Sycophants" bit is HILARIOUS

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post #70 of 147
10/5/09 at 6:06am
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I'm wondering how long until Pete gets caught with his .... wanderings.  No Peggy or Roger in the episode, as vacation kicked into high gear.  It appears as though Connie has much bigger plans for Don, with the nice trip to Rome.

One thing I've come to notice.. this show uses almost no ambient music and, in this episode, almost no background "office" type noises, even in the past you'd hear some keyboards clanging.. the backdrop was dead silent. Interesting choice
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post #71 of 147
10/11/09 at 8:14pm
Really solid episode tonight.

It was a real pain to carry on with an affair if you were a housewife back then.  Heh.

Don gets slapped around by Connie and Don goes for the only source of peace he knows - the arms of another woman.

Wonder how Sal's dismissal will pan out.

Civil Rights - the times they are a-changin'
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post #72 of 147
10/11/09 at 8:41pm
The agency really took it on the chin tonight.

Why do I have a feeling that by the end of this season two-thirds of the Sterling-Cooper staff will no longer be working there?

I think the writers are doing a splendid job of showing what happens when a large company buys a small one and then forces the smaller company to adapt to the large company's way of doing business. Sterling-Cooper is rapidly becoming an empty shell.

I'm not familiar with the man, but I wonder how much of Hilton's character is based on reality. I half expect him to morph into Howard Hughes any episode now... 
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post #73 of 147
10/11/09 at 9:42pm
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Yeah, Don has to figure out how to pickup all the pieces.  Conrad Hilton comes across as ... weird.  "I want the moon" .. WTF?  Don came across completely annoyed...

After doing some research, though, this is almost documentary in style.  Apparently, Mad Men did a TON of research about how Conrad Hilton developed and managed his move into the 1960s ad campaign, and got a lot of help from researchers on the issue:

http://www.hotelsmag.com/article/CA6700205.html

So this might be a hell of a blow-by-blow of "what happened" with some juicy story telling mixed in.

 

So far, I'm loving the whole storyline and wondering how Don fixes the situation...

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post #74 of 147
10/13/09 at 1:18pm
I found it extremely odd and reckless that Don would lie, "Connie just called..." as he goes to bang the teacher.  It won't happen, but judging from this episode I'd say there is a huge possibility Connie DOES call while he's gone.  What then?
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post #75 of 147
10/13/09 at 1:22pm
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I found it extremely odd and reckless that Don would lie, "Connie just called..." as he goes to bang the teacher.  It won't happen, but judging from this episode I'd say there is a huge possibility Connie DOES call while he's gone.  What then?


Given where Don and Hilton's working relationship was by that point in the episode, I thought there was no chance that he would call Don.
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post #76 of 147
10/18/09 at 9:22pm
That teacher is very hot.  The kid brother was quite the c-blocker. 

Betty is going sandbag Don with his past, and it won't be pretty.

The revolving door of Sterling-Cooper's ownership isn't all that surprising, but we'll see if it happens sooner or later.

Paul needs to be shown the door, but doubt that's happening soon.  Laughed when he got schooled by Peggy and Don.


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post #77 of 147
10/18/09 at 9:44pm
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Am I thinking ahead, or do I see Don leveraging a buyout of Sterling-Cooper with some Hilton backing?  "You Dream to Small"  ?
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post #78 of 147
10/18/09 at 10:05pm
Don is squirelling away a lot of cash...
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post #79 of 147
10/19/09 at 4:53am
 I hope Sally doesn't find that key.
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post #80 of 147
10/19/09 at 4:35pm
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She'd just pocket it and mope around.  I'm waiting for the confrontation.. but Betsy is such a freaking wet blanket.  She's the hardest character of any of them to relate to... she just comes across as cold & weird.

Loved Peggy's moment last night.  Here they split so he can show her up because "she just takes over ideas" and then she comes in, he has absolutely nothing, takes a quote out of his mouth and turns it into the campaign.  And he has to realize that Peggy & Don simply have the gift... he doesn't.  Great moment of realization there.
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post #81 of 147
10/25/09 at 8:46pm
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Some heartbreaking stuff from Don tonight.

I had to re-watch Joan and vase a couple of time.  You go, girl!

Hope Joan's hubby gets what's coming to him in the army.  Doh!

Roger actually has a heart.  "You weren't."  Talk about a dagger into the heart with those 2 words.

Suzanne looked amazing in bed tonight.

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post #82 of 147
10/25/09 at 9:04pm
It gets intense as each season draws to close. And we just entered November 1963.
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post #83 of 147
10/26/09 at 11:09am
This makes me laugh heartily

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post #84 of 147
10/26/09 at 1:09pm
It's so richly deserved, isn't it?
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post #85 of 147
10/26/09 at 1:28pm
It's a good thing that vase was easily shattered, otherwise, he'd really be in a world of hurt from getting hitting by it.
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post #86 of 147
10/26/09 at 2:12pm

He might even need (dare I say it?) . . . a surgeon!

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post #87 of 147
10/26/09 at 2:49pm
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I'm waiting for that dog food company to become... what?  Alpo?  Purina?

And, just so it can be said the whole "I'm just an OK surgeon, I'm not a great surgeon.. I know, I'll join the army and be a surgeon!"

Wow.  Recipe for disaster.

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post #88 of 147
11/1/09 at 9:51pm
Ever since Roger's daughter's wedding date was revealed early in the season, I was wondering how that day would pan out for these characters.

Lane has pushed Peter to his limit, perhaps.

Peggy and Duck...rolling eyes material for me.

Don's having some rough weeks, his home life crumbling around him.

We finally see a smile from Betty, maybe she really is ready to kick Don to the curb and move on.

Roger finds himself a man who can't really connect to his young wife, looks backwards towards Joan.

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post #89 of 147
11/3/09 at 7:42pm
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Ever since Roger's daughter's wedding date was revealed early in the season, I was wondering how that day would pan out for these characters.

 


I like how they handled it by not giving the date (and I was wondering what the time frame was since everyone was complaining about how cold they were) and then just springing it on the audience by Duck seeing part of a newscast.
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post #90 of 147
11/3/09 at 8:21pm
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There were so many moments of this episode I loved.  I loved how the day after it happened, people were recounting to others "I was at home when my friend called..." everyone was already thinking of part of their life by remembering where they were when it happened.  Interesting twist.

I liked Peggy being flabbergasted; where would she remember she was?  Would she view it as a regret?   It seemed that way, with her diligently back in the office, thinking of Aquanet.

 

Don's crushing reveal..  Betsy realizing the world around her has changed and that she wants to change her world, and wants to leave Don.  (would she/could she reveal his secret?  Probably not without destroying her children, and she knows that).  Betsy's moment where the world went sideways as Lee Harvey was gunned down by Jack Ruby..

Roger trying hard to get through his wedding, referring to his daughter as being "brave" and giving them strength in time of trouble, to later remark how much of a disaster it was, and his new young wife getting plastered.. for the second time (she got plastered at that event where he put on blackface) and him having to carry her home, only to make the call to a woman he can't seem to shake.

Great, great stuff. 

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