THE KiNG OF POP
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He slept with her first just before he went off for his wedding - then did the quicky in the office!
Peggy was just on the pill at the time.
Peggy was just on the pill at the time.
Mad Men.
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I really loved this last night but...I felt like I had missed out on something as it seemed to have jumped forward by a year (if I remember rightly, S3 ended with JFK's assassination in November 63).
Also, did anybody think that Betsy looked really old all of a sudden? She seems to be dressing like a politician's wife (which I suppose she is now) and wearing clothes that seem too old for her.
I thought that Sally seemed to have grown up all of a sudden as well and seemed like a pre teen rather than a young child.
Loving Peggy's new do, very Jackie O...but who is the guy she was working with? He seems to have appeared from nowhere!
Also, did anybody think that Betsy looked really old all of a sudden? She seems to be dressing like a politician's wife (which I suppose she is now) and wearing clothes that seem too old for her.
I thought that Sally seemed to have grown up all of a sudden as well and seemed like a pre teen rather than a young child.
Loving Peggy's new do, very Jackie O...but who is the guy she was working with? He seems to have appeared from nowhere!
S h [A] h X e B
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No qualms about littering at all 
I've been noticing that Joan's bosom is getting bigger by the week! And was it just me, or did her hair look a lot more 'orange' this week?
I've been noticing that Joan's bosom is getting bigger by the week! And was it just me, or did her hair look a lot more 'orange' this week?
Loved this episode as always, but as usual it made me feel a bit dim, as if there are subtle things going on which I don't quite get.
For instance, can anyone explain Don's line about during the depression he saw a loaf being thrown out of a truck, because it was more dignified? Did he mean more dignified than the feeding frenzy it would cause?
I can't bear how horrible Betty is to her children, especially her daughter. We almost never see her interacting with them other than to tell them crossly to stop doing something. Sally's moment in the sun with her grandfather liking her was really lovely.
For instance, can anyone explain Don's line about during the depression he saw a loaf being thrown out of a truck, because it was more dignified? Did he mean more dignified than the feeding frenzy it would cause?
I can't bear how horrible Betty is to her children, especially her daughter. We almost never see her interacting with them other than to tell them crossly to stop doing something. Sally's moment in the sun with her grandfather liking her was really lovely.
shelivade ♂☿
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I also love this show and agree with all that has been said about it. haven't watched last night's ep. yet - have V-plussed it - but no-one has mentioned the time Pete exchanged his wedding present for a rifle - I wonder if that rifle will be seen again?.......
stfuxitsxnano
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You are not alone 
But I think that's partly why it captivates me, when other "soaps" (as Manic Miner dubs it) repel me.
parthena
But I think that's partly why it captivates me, when other "soaps" (as Manic Miner dubs it) repel me.parthena
anonymous whisperer
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So sad about Anna - a small part of me had kept hoping that she and Don would somehow end up together.
Interesting article in the Mail Online about the props used in the show.
Interesting article in the Mail Online about the props used in the show.
hugz_to_ma_thugz
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A too am enjoying Mad Men. I thought the Marilyn's death ep was the best of the series so far and I'm pleased that storyline of Betty and that creepy kid perving on her has come back, she's so isolated she almost responded to him!
I was a bit disappointed at the start of Series 2 that they fast-forwarded to 1962 from 1960as it's such a rich period to mine especially stylistically, but the scripts are now dealing with the sudden death of the sunny side up 1950s and the beginning of the more mixed up 60s as popular myth remembers it - after Marilyn (and soon JFK), a more fluid but uncertain society with civil rights strife, the start of the rise of the ambitious professional woman in the office and the unhappy decline of the perfect 50s housewife who has run out of things to do, the end of maiRAB and liftmen - at one point soon those characters are not going to be there just cleaning up in the background anymore - dysfunctional families typified by divorcing parents and over-indulged children etc. etc. I think they've caught the cusp very well.
I was a bit disappointed at the start of Series 2 that they fast-forwarded to 1962 from 1960as it's such a rich period to mine especially stylistically, but the scripts are now dealing with the sudden death of the sunny side up 1950s and the beginning of the more mixed up 60s as popular myth remembers it - after Marilyn (and soon JFK), a more fluid but uncertain society with civil rights strife, the start of the rise of the ambitious professional woman in the office and the unhappy decline of the perfect 50s housewife who has run out of things to do, the end of maiRAB and liftmen - at one point soon those characters are not going to be there just cleaning up in the background anymore - dysfunctional families typified by divorcing parents and over-indulged children etc. etc. I think they've caught the cusp very well.
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Great description
Salamander Way
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That possibility has already been mooted - the last I saw we were not convinced that the BBC would let us down.
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MyApocalypse
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If the ratings aren't through the roof, it's only because so much television is about instant gratification and audiences aren't encouraged to give series time. Like The Wire, Mad Men is a slow burn - and a very satisfying one, too.
Tonight's ep was terrific and the Drapers' marriage was beautifully depicted - great acting from John Hamm and January Jones.
Tonight's ep was terrific and the Drapers' marriage was beautifully depicted - great acting from John Hamm and January Jones.
Danish Deshmukh
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Charlie Brooker published this in Saturday's Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/apr/10/charlie-brooker-mad-men-screenburn:
"Madmen is one of those rare shows you just don't want to end. Thankfully its pace is so languid, it almost doesn't start, let alone finish. 85% of each episode consists of Don Draper staring into the middle distance through a veil of cigarette smoke. Sometimes so little appears to be happening, you have to fight the urge to get up and slap your TV to make the characters start moving again. Hypnotic visuals, lingering pace: Mad Men is television's very own lava lamp. I'm exaggerating, of course, as anyone who's been absorbing the show on a season-by-season basis will attest. And I use the word "absorb" deliberately: you don't really "watch" Mad Men: you lie back and let it seep into you. It works by osmosis.
David Simon once explained The Wire's deliberate refusal to decode cop jargon and street lingo was a conscious ploy to force the viewer to "lean in"; to make an effort, to engage, to pay close attention to the dialogue. Mad Men plays things differently. It makes the viewer lean back. The programme's glacial tempo is startlingly alien to the average modern viewer, accustomed to meaningless televisual lightshows such as CSI Miami
"Madmen is one of those rare shows you just don't want to end. Thankfully its pace is so languid, it almost doesn't start, let alone finish. 85% of each episode consists of Don Draper staring into the middle distance through a veil of cigarette smoke. Sometimes so little appears to be happening, you have to fight the urge to get up and slap your TV to make the characters start moving again. Hypnotic visuals, lingering pace: Mad Men is television's very own lava lamp. I'm exaggerating, of course, as anyone who's been absorbing the show on a season-by-season basis will attest. And I use the word "absorb" deliberately: you don't really "watch" Mad Men: you lie back and let it seep into you. It works by osmosis.
David Simon once explained The Wire's deliberate refusal to decode cop jargon and street lingo was a conscious ploy to force the viewer to "lean in"; to make an effort, to engage, to pay close attention to the dialogue. Mad Men plays things differently. It makes the viewer lean back. The programme's glacial tempo is startlingly alien to the average modern viewer, accustomed to meaningless televisual lightshows such as CSI Miami
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Great photo. John Hamm: hot HOT HOT!!! 
§§Mad Banke®§§
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As well as the dishwasher, I also noticed their beRABide phone was like a "Trimphone" rather than the oldfashioned kind with a dial, that I remember well into the 70s.