Mad Men.

:eek: it can't be possible, I love this show. This season has revealed so much more about the characters than previously ;season 1 was more about Betty, Don and Peggy but not much the others.

Is there a season 3 in the pipeline ?
 
She was channelling Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Hair and costume probably did it from a still.

She often looks stunning. The idea of seeing Don and Betty in their underwear in a continental hotel room is appealling. The idea of seeing Pete Campbell drunk with the can't-get-out-of-it-this-time German nanny Gudrun - er, not so!
 
Joan and Don have not got it on but she had a rather steamy affair with Mr Sterling (?) the one with the grey hair and cheeky chappy personality - love him. She is gorgeous though and definitely all woman.
 
Thanks for that, it clears up that issue. MM is never afraid to be bold and unflinching. I have to avoid reading US sites whilst the series is on as there are always spoilers. It's annoying as I want to read discussions according to each episode, but don't want to risk ruining any build-up of suspense. I did however google the "you people" comment and it yielded lots of interesting items. Had to stop though....:D
 
I must say I am still rooting for him. They all seem such victims of their own circumstances and social situations. Draper seems messed up but with no way of dealing with it.

I cannot bear Pete Campbell (what does Peggy see in him?!) but he is a totally believeable character.

Having grown up watching 'Bewitched' it's so interesting to see what 'Darren's' life would really have been like!
 
I so agree with you.

Remembering Darren made me laugh. That lot would have made mincemeat of dear old Darren! :D

They are all victims of their circumstances, both in terms of their families and the times that they lived in. That's one of the major fascinations of it. Pete Campbell's father has a lot to answer for and so do Don's parents.
 
And his mother, she was built up and then they both just disappeared. But I noticed before that: the first episode was about Peggy arriving in the agency and the indication was that we would see it from her lens, then for weeks after we saw nothing of her life and she had only a few not very interesting scenes none of the plot from her POV, then it all took off again. Now once again it's all kept a secret. This can be intriguing, but it's also irritating, the viewer should be in on the secrets not played with just by not dealing with them for a few weeks.

There's an imbalance between it being office or domestic based and it is uneven between the two- deliberately so, unconventionally so, but it makes it fickle - the character of Joan who has to be one of the most interesting ones, is only very rarely taken outside the agency, yet she is clearly one of the driving characters etc.

I like it, don't get me wrong, I used to work in an ad agency years ago (not that long ago!). I would just like there to be more rather than less.
 
I'm not sure what "total ban" you're referring to. While there are certain groups and organizations that have urged movie studios and television networks to eliminate the depiction of smoking, no such ban has ever been agreed to or implemented. There are many characters on American shows who smoke, including on broadcast network shows.
 
Yep a pretty amazing end of the series - in America a fair few critic and fan said Peggy's surprise pregnancy threw them a little, as it didn't seem in keeping with the rest of the show, but I think it adRAB lots of interesting questions into the next series.

This is one of those shows which benefits from being watched a second time around, especially as I am hard pressed to see how the second series will be able to better this one.
 
Amazing how thoughtless the men at Sterling Cooper are!

I would have put the word in for Joan without a moments hestitation but she's just the officegirl overseer in thier minRAB.

Liked the placing of the can of Pride polish as Betty destroyed the chair.
 
I read on the Guardian Series Blog last week that people were saying this was the best episode ever. I actually still think last weeks was the best episode ever but this certainly runs it close, as does the episode which had Dick's last visit to Los Angeles earlier in the season.

Still, one things for sure. Season 4 has officially dragged Mad Men right up into the Wire/Sopranos territory! :)
 
I guess some of the technology was available to a few with money.

I remember seeing a demonstration of an American Ampex stereo real-to-reel tape recorder in HarroRAB in around 1959.
Similar to the machines which were used at the time in the recording industry.

There was nothing like that available in high street stores.
 
Glad I found this thread - all your posts really enhance the whole Mad Men experience. I agree Don is complex - not a villain, not a hero but it's slowly being revealed what has made the man - more revelations to follow I hope!
 
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