Mad Men.

Did anyone else catch the slightly racist comment by Mrs B when asked if she'll be watching the big fight and as she walked away said " Oh please if i wanted to watch two negroes fight i'll throw a dollar out of the window".
 
Did anyone notice reduced picture quality in episode 12? I downloaded the HD version from iPlayer, it seemed kinda misty and there was instrusive traffic/crowd noises on and off throughout.

So I gave up on that version and went to the recording on my Freeview PVR - still a bit misty, traffic noises not so bad; ended up watching it on Tiscali IPTV recording, OK, but just not the sharp quality I expect.

Yes, I rather like Mad Men, so I take no chances of missing an episode :D

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The mention of the possibility of getting the account for the first Honda car which they all thought rather amusing, brought back memories.
I saw two being promoted in a display in the aisle of the Duke of Westminster's shopping mall in Chester in about 1969. They were really small and cheap looking.
How times have changed, I'm on my third Honda and wouldn't buy anything else now.
 
They haven't dropped it and there is no statement from the BBC saying they will drop it.

It's tabloid speculation purely, so don't get your knickers in a twist! :D
 
Everyone I know found it shocking. The humour is the humour of shock, like when you get all those sick jokes going round when someone famous dies unexpectedly.

Although you could see that an accident was bound to happen it was partly shocking because it's completely out of genre to have a high drama action scene like this, and because a big new character had apparently been introduced.

These brilliant plotline dead enRAB are an integral part of Mad Men. It continunes its success because it doesn't do the usual thing of American series which is to start original and quirky and then either try too hard or worse, revert to safe plotting around just a few stars to keep the ratings up.
 
So the old guy behind the bar at the country club turned out to be Conrad Hilton, or 'Connie' for short?! :eek:

God, I love this show! :D:cool:

Is Joan really leaving though? I'll miss them both... :(:cry:
 
This weeks episode - stunning again! Just when I thought Don was going to seduce the teenage girl, the news about the original Mrs Draper knocks him sideways.Then Joan and Lane. Just unmissable!
 
Oooh, didn't notice the Rachel connections ~ well spotted ;)

Re Don being Jane's first choice ~ that ocurred to me too, when she bought him those shirts I thought she was making a play for him as she thought that he was now an available conquest en route to her sleeping her way to the top, and that was why he was quite terse with his 'submit your receipt' comment. I guess the Menken bags didn't help her much though!

I think Roger might get stung quite badly as a result of his dalliance with Jane ~ she was only interested once she needed to use him to get one over on Joan, I doundy she feels anything for him at all. I hope Mona wips him out in the divorce setlement ~ couldn't happen to a more deserving chap! :D
 
You've reduced the show to the point of caricature and it's an inaccurate one at that. Predictable? The mousy, timid secretary who gets pregnant from a one time fling, has the baby and banishes the child to be raised by her sister for the sake of her career? The ad man with the apparently perfect wife, children and career built on lies and stolen identity? The wife who realizes she doesn't know anything about the man who she married and hardly knows herself any better?

As I said, you don't have to like the show. It has a style of storytelling and character development that is methodical and deliberate. It doesn't shy from long pauses and long camera takes. It's understandable if some don't have the patience for it. But please spare us the hoary criticism that "nothing happens." In fact, plenty happens. It just happens in a manner that you don't like.

And since you seem to be so keen on Gareth McLean, do you actually think this is a coherent criticism: "a wasted opportunity to skewer the hollowness of the American dream"? Setting aside the question of whether that statement is even accurate, one has to wonder when TV reviewers started to rubbish entertainment shows for their alleged failure to adequately skewer the American Dream. Battlestar Galactica? Insufficient skewering of the War on Terror and anti-Muslim bias! Damages? Where's the criticism of Guantanamo Bay?! Gossip Girl? The very characters are offensive to the working class!

Gareth McLean should review shows for what they are, not how he wants them to be. His review of Mad Men is rubbish.
 
I think when he looked at Roger and his wife together he perhaps thought that he had had enough of living a lie. As he said to Rachel, this is all there is. I think Rachel is serious about him too. Her sort of woman would not have allowed him in and given in to him in that era if she wasn't.

If his wife doesn't know the fact that he has opened up to Rachel will hurt her more than anything else if she finRAB out.
 
Yes, the counterpoint between young Don and the new kid (was he in "Buffy"?) was nicely done - Don's become Roger! :eek:
I wonder if that lost weekend is the point where Don realises he has a drink problem?
 
Gawd can't believe have to wait till next year for the next series!!!. Pure class. I couldn't believe Peggy told Pete about the baby!!!, and Don walking out on Stirling Cooper wow!
 
That has been known to make me scream at the TV at the end of House, and it's particularly infuriating at the end of Mad Men when there is a carefully chosen song. Equity have a campaign going about the credits (their members are missing out as their names aren't seen thanks to all this nonsense) and I hope they succeed.
 
I still don't understand why he cheats on his wife all the time! Ok , he is constantly struggling with demons and boredom but his wife is so nice and attractive. I'm glad I wasn't alive back then , it was horrible.
 
I fully expected Sal to be called in to open up the art room :(

Bryan Batt has done a couple of 2010 episodes of Ugly Betty (which I don't watch after giving a couple of early episodes a try), but nothing else is recorded on IMDB :confused:

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