Mad Men.

I just caught up with the last few episodes off tape (old school me), The Sterling Cooper Gang stage a heist! Or was it a coup? Either way, huge fun and great to see Joan is riding shotgun again.

The mood was sublimely handled both at SC and at home.
 
That's what I thought watching the show, but in the article (see above) Weiner confirms Peggy's baby was given up for adoption. The baby in that other scene is not her child.
 
oooh, interesting theory on Joan's possible pregnancy ~ would explain the weekly bosom inflation (and I'm dismayed that my theory about the fake engagement was pretty wide of the mark! :o)

'At home' Joan is so much more laid back than 'office' Joan :D

I really felt for her when she got passed over (in fact not even considered) for the job :( . Superbly acted scene from her :))



I agree ~ great closing montage of the characters 'taking off' their public personas: Joan with her bra, priest with his collar, and Peggy 'cleansing' herself.



Despite his philandering I've never disliked Don, until last night's episode when he continued to lie to Betty repeatedly. You've been caught out, mate ~ have enough respect for her just to admit it, rather than making out she's delusional and continuing the humiliation :mad:.



Absolutely ~ he's been living a lie for so long I wonder if he even knows what the truth is anymore, or if he just believes that if he decides it's true then it's true?

It was sad to see three women suffering in silence like that ~ and what has happened to Francine, Betty's totally rocking friend? :confused:
 
Gosh, it was all happening, wasn't it?! Some good, some horrid :cry:

A special compensation for the bad was seeing Joanie waltz back in and save the day :D

I really must look after myself better so I survive for the next season ;)

parthena
 
betty is by far the most interesting character for me

you intially just think she is dumb but i have so much sympathy for her. she acts like a child but don has kept her like that. she is slowly starting to grow up (loved the bits where she spoke italian, shows she has hidden depths).

also her clothes...absolutely amazing

my top 3 are:

the gown she wore with the long gloves in the last episode

the rome dress (based on la dolce vita btw, not audrey hepburn)

the one she wore when she first met henry in that cafe, the one she teemed with white sunglasses
 
Thank you for this. I was bewildered by the scene of him letting the dog go and couldn't really understand why, but your explanation makes a lot of sense. I also thought the scene of him staring into that bottle was powerful - Duck had seemed so awful until this episode, but suddenly he is human too.
 
It's all in the details - When else would Carla have felt comfortable enough to sit down with Betty and light a cigarette while news of JFK's death filtered through the TV news?
 
I think it is Don's secretary, yes

Re the chinaman thing ~ I assumed it was a euphemism for taking a leak, although I don't get it?! :confused:



Is Margaret Roger & Mona's daughter? Hence her saying 'tell that to Margaret' meaning explain to our daughter why you're leaving just before her wedding.

Mind, Jane's a fast worker, isn't she?! It took Roger long enough to get her address out of her and now!!...

Loved Roger's character last night: I was really impressed with his maturity when he was talking to Don in the bar adn thought maybe there was more to him than the selfishness we usually see , and then the sod went and twisted everything to make his wife think Don had advised him to leave his wife! Prize cad, but he delivers his lines SO brilliantly! And loved the whole 'Freddy, we're sacking you for being a drunk. Now lets go get slaughtered!' thing was very sensitive of him!

Two cracking quotes from last night:

Lift operator: 'Some people hide in plain sight.' Heh! Don didn't have much to say to that.

Don, reprimanding the boys taking the p*ss (no pun intended) out of Freddy: 'It's only a man's name'. Absolutely, Dick Whitman ~ who would disrespect a man's name, eh? ;)
 
That would be the 1960s thing to do - and I think she's very ambitious and won't want to throw away that new job. (My guess is that in the future she will make life very difficult for Putrid Pete too.)

There are so many interesting threaRAB that have been laid down, I wonder what we will see next - I hope the gay theme is expanded as that would be an interesting one (was homosexuality illegal in the US then as it was here?). If they continue with the Helen Bishop storyline (Don's neighbour) I'm sure mucky little weirdo Glen will crop up again. I read on the AMC website that Roger is coming back, so it will be interesting to see if he returns as family man or rampant womaniser again.

One thing that is easy to forget is that many of these guys fought in the war. When you have stared death in the face, I think it changes you as a person, so this may be the reason for the hard drinking and whoring lifestyle (Roger being a typical example) - some would have got through it better than others, but they would all have been touched by it in some way.
 
I can't remember if he actually joined the army properly, but I know he had a change in career direction when he didn't get the position at the hospital that he and everybody else thought he was going to get.

Personally I would be quite glad if he went off to Vietnam and didn't come back...I don't know why Joan ever married him, especially after what he did to her in one of the offices in S2...I think she would be far better off with Roger Stirling :)
 
Another beautifully layered episode last night, but I have to watch it again on it's repeat because I got a phone call (after 10pm! On a Tuesday!) and missed most of the interaction between Betty and little Glen.

Peggy and Pete clearly have soft spots for each other, do you think he's going to find out about the baby?

I'm glad there's a third series coming, but I'm equally sad that there are only 3 episodes of this series left.
 
and we could listen to it this time :) (my campaign finally pays off)

Another sublime episode, more tension bubbling up than a volcanic geyser. Don's in danger of bringing down all his houses.
 
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