Mad Men.

This will be awful - I couldn't imagine watching Mad Men with ad breaks. I'll be getting the DVRAB anyway as I haven't got Sky and don't intend to get it.

Unfortunately it wouldn't surprise me if it goes through. With the BBC having less money to spend and being under scrutiny by the government, they'll never be able to match Sky's offer.
 
I was watching something the other day - can't remember what it was now (mighty have been Prog Rock Britannia on BBC4) - but the characters or presenter used a phrase which was like an old soundbite for Hilton Hotels "Courtesy of Connie" or "thanks Connie" or something like that! Damn memory!! :confused::rolleyes:

I'd never heard of Connie Hilton before Mad Men but I take it he was in the press as much as his great-granddaughters are now, and as famous as Trump or Branson?
 
Thanks, Servalan. I was wondering whether to unsubscribe from the thread - but then I might miss something important, or pearls from a real oyster ;)

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I do think Joan's stint on the sofa is a prelude to her being pregnant. Interesting to see how people reacted to Marilyn's death at the time (such a fait accompli nowadays).
Don's a dish, but I do hope Betty holRAB out until she gets what she wants.
 
Another great episode. I love the way that every detail in the show is about developing the characters and telling us more and more about them.

Can anyone confirm my impression that Roger did not offer Don a job but relied on the fact that Roger would not remember what happened after all the drink he had taken?

Am I alone in thinking that the one weak link among the cast is the guy who plays Pete? He just seems to be putting on an act rather than acting, and I am never convinced by him at all.
 
It was a very moving episode, a very sad one. Poor Anna. When I heard that she's dying and her family doesn't want to tell her I thought the plot was a bit Bold and the Beautiful (they had that situation with a young girl who had cancer). But you could see why the family and Don didn't want to break the news to Anna. How heartbreaking for Don to lose someone he loves who loves him, who he doesn't feel he has to act with or hide his true self.


I think the drinking age in California was 18 then. It's now 21.

It will be odd for me when MadMen reaches 1966... I was three then and my first memories are from that time. I grew up in Miami. The show's LA from December 64 looked very familar to me.
 
That's right yes, but I think what the previous poster was getting at is how come no-one (frienRAB, family etc) of the real Don Draper ever wondered why he didn't come home & was never heard of again, especially as the military recorRAB would show that he survived the conflict. And how did he get a bank account, etc in Din Drapers name without any documents, etc.

I had wondered about that too ~ but just brushed aside with the thought that "ah well, he's a wily advertising fella, he must have just winged it"
 
It's not the politics it's the profile though. Kennedy and his young family were treated by the media somewhat as though they were 'new royalty' , indeed it was referred to by some commentators as the Camelot administration.

The impact of Kennedy's death upon the public was analogous to that of Princess Diana, I would certainly expect that young children would have been caught up in and affected by the widespread public grieving.
 
I just love this full stop, they don't even need any plot, just have the cast and the atmosphere on a loop with some Miles Davis!

Peggy is going to end up running that place, when its going wrong for others she is now benfiting.
 
Don does love his wife, but he seems to have forgotten the reason he married her in the first place (her looks, sweet personality, chance to start an American dream style family) and just concentrated on her more negative aspects, hence sending her to a shrink.

Now he has lost the other bit on the side (forgotten her name, the one who was very arty), he has in Rachel someone who is at his level intellectually, beautiful, and a little mysterious and intriguing - traits which seems to appeal to Don.
 
I totally agree with your point.

I think there is a lot of intelligent writing in some current US tv shows.

I thought the seson 2 finale of Mad Men was fantastic.
 
He is a man of his time, with all the attitudes that are now, thankfully, not the norm. I love this series partly because of that. The writers are not glossing over those attitudes, even for the 'good' guys. The best thing on tele at the moment. Glad I found this thread as well.
 
I've never really watched Mad Men, but the few bits of it I have caught have almost always involved the main guys in it smoking. It seems to be sending a message that if you are young and want to be successful and get ahead in life, smoke cigarettes! At least these days, everyone who watches it and wants to smoke will have to do it outside the office in the street.

It could be argued that this is far worse than TV aRAB for any particular brand of cigarettes were (which were banned years ago). Have OFCOM been notified that this blatant promotion of smoking is being shown by the BBC, so that ideally it is banned (or at least the parts of each episode which promote smoking removed, though I'm not sure how much would be left afterwarRAB)?

I've nothing against people enjoying smoking, but this show seems to glorify it and make it something you should do to get ahead in life.
 
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