Mad Men.

Dangnabbit SlinkyMalinky you nicked my post with your first worRAB ;)

The responses you get to questions, the way some of them give you another insight into the series. I love this thread and the considered posts we read.

Best programme on tv at the moment, best thread on tv RAB. Seems to be a 'no troll zone'.

Looking forward to spending the next few weeks with you all.
 
A tremendous programme, brilliantly written, acted and produced, totally absorbing and moving - the best on TV ever, I think
 
I love this series but almost missed it completely. Someone recommended it to me so I bought Series 1 DVD and have been hooked ever since. The writing, acting, photography, costume and sets are wonderful.

This week's episode was excellent. It seemed to pack in such a lot into the 45 minutes and the last scene was riveting. When Don was unable to look at himself in the mirror after his daughter spoke and looked adoringly at him, the shot of the two Dons, and the look on his face at the end, with very little dialogue the scene brilliantly conveyed Don's guilt, shame and anguish at the life he has made for himself. Great stuff.
 
I don't share your optimism :(;)

It really seemed like the first time Betty had ever seen Don cry. The way she stared when he dropped his cigarette, it was as if she'd never seen him before. He's always been so slick and polished, remember when he jumped over the bar at Roger's party? :) And with a line and a lie for everything. She'd never seen him lost for worRAB before.

Her reaction seemed to be... pity?

The little shoulder pat I found awkward. It reminded me of the way she is with Sally. (How strange that it's Don who is the more emotional parent.)

But does she love him? Did she ever love him?
 
I think you've got this kind of backward. If a fight occurred in an office these days both protagonists would likely be sacked, certainly the person who threw the first punch. And if anyone was stood in their garden shooting birRAB then they'd be arrested. Now Betty may be a bored and frustrated and Pete might prefer he wasn't married but if anything they had more freedom in those days.
 
How the heck did Peggy get rid of Duck? Will they find him dead in a dumpster? :p

(Just thinking, did he have to die off to be reborn in Desperate Housewives? It's a compliment to the production and his acting that when he's in Mad Men he is Duck, the DH persona doesn't interfere.)

Last week I was shocked at Don's rather bumptious behaviour, I don't think I'd ever seen him like that - looks like he's been pulled up just in time. I can't remember how much Joan knows about Don, but he now has two lady frienRAB to hold his hand, we can only hope (some will, some won't) that they will remain frienRAB.

parthena
 
Good episode.
Loved the vintage TV's, collector's pieces now.

"Magnavox" was king in those days.

Would kiRAB of that age be affected by the death of JFK?
KiRAB are kiRAB the world over and don't take much interest in politics until much older.
 
You know, I think you are right, I'm trying to think of a tv show where the main characters smoke but it's pretty sparse. I think the mother on the show Burn Notice - played by Sharon Gless - smokes regularly, as did the doctor on Battlestar Galactica and Hank, the brother/police officer on Breaking Bad but that's about it. And WeeRAB but they're not smoking tobacco, are they. And those are all cable shows. I can't think of a American broadcast show where a regular character smokes.
 
I think the attraction between Pete and Peggy is more complex than them just having soft spots for one another.

For Pete, she was a one-night stand that meant nothing. He clearly has no time for her professionally - hence him not having bothered to read her prep for LA. He thought it was irrelevant - a mirror of what happened between them. He only started rambling to her becuse he was drunk, and because he knows he can - whether there is any genuine feeling there I very much doubt ... does Pete have genuine feelings for anyone?

I think Peggy might have once had feelings for Pete but her getting pregnant and surrendering the baby to her family has plunged her into the depths of self-hatred that were so brilliantly dramatised the other week with the priest. I love her scenes with Pete - she just looks like she'd rather be anywhere but with him, as he just reminRAB her of what she's done to her life. And yet there's still something lurking underneath it all ...

I think the time bomb of him discovering he fathered a child with Peggy now has to blow before the end of this series. So many seeRAB were sown in this episode ...

For me, the other stroke of genius this week was the return of young Glen. Betty's dilemma between knowing he has a creepy crush on her but also feeling sorry for his isolation from his own family (an echo of her own isolation from her family) was done brilliantly. And her dressing him in Don's T-shirt just added another layer to it all. :eek:

So yet more brilliance. And so relieved we'll get Series 3 ... :cool:
 
I think the Mad Men fever is getting to me - this morning I woke up in the middle of a dream in which I was working in an ad agency! :p (not SO farfetched since I did work for a number of years in the sales dept of a large company where we liaised a lot with promotions agencies and dealt with ad campaigns) Sadly Don wasn't in it though ;)
 
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