Mad Men.

Don must have dropped his guard during the "lost" weekend. The blonde girl called him Dick. I wonder if that is going to be significant in a later episode?
 
Just watched the latest episode.

Don was in bed with the teacher and she mentioned that one of her young students wondered if the colour 'blue' looked the same to everyone. They had a conversation about people interpretation of different colours.
 
Yes, I did feel he was at ease with her. She was almost motherly to him when he was talking about Betty for the first time but I did wonder if there was a touch of very well-concealed disappointment there - we didn't see enough to know how much was behind their spending Christmases together.
 
Yes Pete did get together with Peggy the night before his wedding. It looks as if he is the father of the baby, she tells him this at the end of Series 2, however you just never know where this show is going.

What happened to the baby though? At the beginning at Series 2 we are invited into Peggy's family home: Peggy's sister has a toddler (a boy) roughly the right age. However later in Series 2 in a flashback scene we see Peggy's mother and sister visiting her in hospital at the time of her breakdown (after she had given birth) and her sister is clearly pregnant. So where is Peggy's baby? As far as I am aware it has never been explained.

What a wonderful multi-tiered, fascinating and brilliant series this is.
 
90% of everything is not worthwhile. This is normal as most people don't have the time or ability to produce or appreciate the best in the arts. This goes for television in the UK as well as the US.

So some ex-pats post some complaints about trashy American tv. So what?

I seem to recall Big Brother taking up quite a bit of media space in the UK over the last few years, and garnering a loyal following. And let's not forget the glories of Britain's Got Talent, the X-Factor, and all the soap operas and trashy dramas. All fundamentally worthless, suitable only for diversion. The stuff that most TV is made of, both in the UK and the US.

But in the last 10 years or so, the quality of that upper tenth of American television has surpassed everything else produced in the world. This is truly a golden age of American television. Anyone who thinks it is restricted to The Wire and Mad Men has not been paying attention.

Here is a partial list of great shows produced during this new golden age:

Mad Men
The Wire
The Sopranos
Oz
Breaking Bad
Deadwood
Battlestar Galactica
Six Feet Under
Carnivale
Rome
24
Arrested Development
Sons of Anarchy
Damages
Flight of the ConchorRAB
The Comeback
The Office US
30 Rock
 
Me again, serves me right for posting half way through, I see Pete's wife is back from a holiday. Sorry :)
 
Didn't he join the army? In which case it seems very likely that he will be sent to Vietnam, which presumably will mean that Joan will be lonely and available: very convenient for the plot.
 
This is a superb thread :cool: Almost as superb as Mad Men itself (tho' nothing could be quite that excellent!)

I watch the repeated episodes on BBC2 on Tuesdays so have to time my visits in here carefully so I don't get 'spoiled'.

Er, I still don't have a dishwasher btw :o

Freudian note - Betty Draper reminRAB me of my mother and Sally of myself (even the ages correspond!) Sadly I never became as stylish as either my mother or Betty :rolleyes: I swoon over her outfits every single week - that pink suit in Rome, that psychedelic summer maxi dress. The woman out-Grace Kellys Grace Kelly!! Fabulous :cool:
 
You all ignored my thread Shame on you!

*shakes fist at forum* :)

I agree with a lot of what is being said. For such a slow-burning program, 45 minutes flies by.

Does anyone know what the ratings were like for this in America? I fear if they weren't good, it could be cancelled. We all know that US networks have no patience and often don't give programs a chance to build an audience base.
 
I think that's exactly what he realised. He didn't like it when she demonstrated that she had more sexual experience than she should have had (in his eyes), and when he saw Roger and put two and two together, he knew where she got her experience from. It's horrific to think that that kind of rape (and that is what it was, fianc
 
The look on Don's face was brilliant!

I loved the baby shower scene and that line "What do you get the man who's about to have nothing?" :) People just aren't as witty these days.
 
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