Mad Men.

You are in for a televisual treat.

this programme is now seriously in the reckoining to be the greatest piece of writing i have ever seen on the small screen.

those that have not seen this show yet, stop, leave work, go to hmv, buy season 1-3 box set... and watch each episode one after the other all weekend

you will not be dissapointed.
 
For me, both the moments you refer to are symptomatic of the identity crisis at the heart of Don Draper: he isn't who he says he is and Betty, who he's hitherto relied upon to prop up his fake life, has suddenly rejected the character he's created. He's been cut adrift.

We've seen him struggling with this in New York but when he reached LA, he quickly spotted the opportunity to ditch Pete and escape into another world. The Betty hallucination represented the different worlRAB colliding.

Sure, the heat and dehydration contributed to his blackout by the pool - but it also reflected his identity crisis: here he was with people living a surreal existence almost outside of anything he's previously experienced and it became too much for him. He couldn't quite cope with it and that's why he became Dick again at the end of the episode, when he was alone - when there was nobody there to ask awkward questions ...

I don't necessarily think he'll ditch the Don persona he's adopted (I hope not!) - but I suspect he may have a few shocks in store when he gets back to New York ...
 
But the big question is, will the british firm honor that agreement? Or can they even, there will surely be negotiations before the take-over and Cooper and Stirling might get wind of Duck's bid for the President spot and stop it.
We'll have to wait and see. And this series is almost done :(

P.S. The actor who played the british firm's owner also played Maxwell Sheffield in "the Nanny".
 
He's still nice looking but for me not as yummy in his casual look. I see what Lucy and her friend mean- he is ten times as hot in the suit :cool:
 
I would recommend buying the first series on DVD. It's hovering around a tenner on a popular online site named after a rainforest!

Season one lays the foundations for the rest of the series, and in my opinion, while you could get away with watching the first episode of season two on TV tonight, you really need all the information we got, especially about the central character.
 
Just want to add my appreciation of Mad Men to this thread. I had been meaning to watch it for years but always seemed to find it when it was in the middle of a series so when it started to be repeated from the beginning on BBC2 recently I finally got to enjoy it for the first time.

After four episodes I was so hooked I couldn't take the weekly wait for my fix so bought the dvd boxsets of the first three series and spent about a week watching them almost back to back. Now I am having to wait a week in between episodes again it's torture. :D
 
Usually, but not always ~ there's often stories in women's magazines about women who had no idea that they were pregnant until they were in labour, who'd continued to have perioRAB throughout and had no huge 'bump'. It's far from common, but not unheard of. My friend is a GP and says that she has seen a few cases of this in her time.

Loved how Peggy thought it was just a "bad sandwich" she'd had at lunchtime!
 
Mighty Blue,
The advantage of going back to season 1 is you'll learn why Betty is the way she is in season 2, and why Peggy is the way she is...

Feel free to post about your reactions, I'm sure there are plenty of people who would love to relive it with you.
 
I think this story is actually far richer than anyone has so far said.

We know Glen was spurned by Betty previously - and I think that underscores his advance on Sally. Sure, he sees her as a kindred spirit on one level - but, on another, there's a naive, semi-sexual/romantic undertone to what he's saying and doing: his reference to 'doing it' (which Sally didn't understand - bless) and leaving his Xmas tree device on her pillow in her untouched bedroom (which we later see her clutching ... :eek:).

I love the way they're both playing it and in that moment when Carla asked Sally who Stanley was and she replied 'A boy', it was like she was momentarily inhabited by the spirit of her mother. Just brilliant writing, acting and directing - yet again.

This series is just flawless. :cool:

And as for Joan dancing in that dress ... :D:D:D
 
I think Pete's awkwardness is deliberate - to show a certain falseness and affectation - rather than bad acting.

I would have thought that Matthew 'attention to detail' Weiner would have made sure to cast good actors for his roles!
 
I see Pete as a real person. Kartheiser's acting has been very fine in several episodes, especially the end sequence two weeks ago when Pete and Peggy looked at each other in the lobby, after she heard that Trudy was pregnant. I have to add however that I think Pete is a complete jerk.
 
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