Mad Men.

See, I wouldn't have put Top Gear and Mad Men together but it just goes to show... well something!

For me, Mad Men is my fav show, (at least) as good as West Wing or the new Battlestar Gallactica. :)
 
I wouldn't have recognised him! He looks very lean and I'm a little dubious about the contrived mussy hair - but maybe he really had just got out of bed :rolleyes:

Did I mention bed? :p

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I have no problem with Betty divorcing Don - it's Henry's involvement that I have a problem with.

Yes, it was difficult for women then to get divorced and retain any kind of social standing - as evidenced by Helen in Series 1 - but Helen was still able to cope well enough. Don would have provided for Betty and the kiRAB and, if she'd wanted to escape badly enough, she could have survived.

But Betty - thinking of herself, as usual (rather than her children) - chose instead to invest everything in a man she barely knows. Blinkering herself to reality, she's fallen for his talk of marriage and looking after her. She's even happy to go along with his suggestion not to pursue Don for any money, because she shouldn't owe him anything. (The irony being that Don is better with money than she thinks he is). That she was prepared to leave her children alone at Christmas to pursue this fantasy just goes to show how lost she is in a world that doesn't really exist.

Now I could be wrong - it is all in the hanRAB of the genius Mathew Weiner, after all ;) - but I can't see that scenario ending happily ever after ...

The scene when Betty and Don told the children was devastating. I actually found it really upsetting. :cry: Yet more brilliance at work. :cool:
 
As you could probably tell, the boy Glen has a crush on Betty and in the first series, watched Betty sit down on a toilet. If that wasn't uncomfortable enough, he also asked Betty for a lock of her hair, a request she fulfilled. Their atypical relationship continued for several more episodes; it never went beyond a puppy love - well, Glen did ask Betty to run away with him - but when Glen's mother discovered Betty's hair in her son's possession, she slapped Betty and broke off all contact. This latest episode is the first time Glen has been seen since then.

By the way, the boy who plays Glen is Matthew Weiner's real life son. Weiner is the creator of the show. AdRAB a whole other layer to the relationship, doesn't it.
 
It really is, I don't look forward to anything like I do Mad Men - in fact I enjoy it so much that I haven't looked ahead to see what happens. I love my Tuesday nights.
 
It probably will have repurcussions but I see her behaviour as completely in character for her. For someone who goes round dressed like an uptight, provincial librarian, she's had more promiscuous, sleazy, one night stanRAB than any other female character in the series. She's the epitome of the quiet ones getting up to the most and doing it unobserved.

She's supposed to have slept with Pete Campbell and we're supposed to think he's the father of her child. However, I've always had a sneaky (and probably completely wrong!) feeling she and Don have a bit of unseen history and that he (unknown to him) is really the father. Pete and his wife can't have children, I think that's the plot twist that will eventually come. Both Don and Peggy compartmentalise their lives so they can both handle the past indiscretion.

I thought Betty looked stunning (last night) when she went to the bakery. I don't believe for a moment though she'd ever have bought that dreadful old chair and stuck it in the living room!
 
it was from la dolce vita

i read an interview with the costume designer saying she was getting annoyed with people thinking it was audrey hepburn and breakast at tiffanys
 
I read the press release and it mentioned Sky Atlantic HD - so does anyone know if it's going to be an HD-only channel? I have Sky but don't have an HD television and don't really want to buy one just so I can watch Mad Men :mad:
 
Quite Simply - this just gets better and better.

Subtle changes in fashion and furniture act as a great backdrop to dialogue that, once again, you can hang on every word

Series / Season 4 opener - setting the pace here - and one of the best.

I cannot think of enough superlatives here to do this justice.

This is an absolute joy - and compulsory viewing.

Oh to turn up to work in an Italian suit and a trilby !!! :)
 
Hm! I don't recall mentioning UK TV. We get one or two decent American drama series shown here and you assume American TV is brilliant or vastly superior. :rolleyes:
I suggest you move to the States or live there for a year and then see how wonderful their TV truly is, and that goes for their TV news output too. It seems a few ex-pats would not agree with you.

You clearly haven't got a clue.
 
'No, but he's renting it'

'You're not a good person'

'You sonofabitch'

I realised at the end of the episode that I had been sitting in the same half up/half down position from the start!

PS 'We'll discuss it inside'
 
I thought that it was the pictures of his wife which swung against him going to that other company. He seemed to be entertaining the notion, until he saw those pictures. Seeing his wife gain a little independence (or so she thinks) and attention IMO kiboshed the idea in favour of Stirling Cooper. Just my take.
 
Ah, but she said 'I gave him away' not 'I had him adopted' so she could have given him to her sister.

Loving reading this thread, its as intelligent as the program under discussion. There are only 4 of us 'Madders' at work, its just like a secret society!
 
Who knows where Matt Weiner will take the show- the next three seasons might all take place in 1964. Personally I hope the show will end with the start of the 70s or the end of the 60s in December 1969, that we'll see the changes in society post Nixon's election, Stonewall, the Moon Landing and WooRABtock.
 
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