Mad Men.

Thanks for posting this. A great read - just enough to whet the appitite and consder if it's worth moving to the States so I don't have to wait a year!

I know me, I have terrible self control and will want to know what happens, despite Matt Weiner's perfectly pertinent comments about why would anyone want to spoil the story.

But a whole year though... ! Surely even Matt Weiner couldn't expect me to wait that long?

What do you think you'll do?
 
I swear I almost felt them coming together emotionally (that's testament to the brilliant acting and scripts methinks )when he was explaining about the photos etc...Betty was looking at Don through new eyes......perhaps this is the Don she has always wanted

I am a glass half full person...that might explain my interpretation...:D
 
Mad Men is just the most sublime tv in donkey's years. And this series is just going from strength to strength. Peggy's ascendancy versus Don's probable downfall is brilliant. And last Wednesday's ep, with so much brilliant dialogue and interaction between them made for unmissable viewing.

I pray they won't cross the line, as their relationship is unique just as it is. Peggy is as much of an icon as Joan. As I am a copywriter, I am in awe of her (or should that be the writers that give her the power to give great copy?).

And I too noticed the out-and-out racism regarding the big fight, as well as the casual anti-semitism between ;the boys'. Shocking, but necessary.

And a final mention to Roger 'silver fox' Sterling. Yes I would!
 
It doesn't really spoil anything important, but I checked and it doesn't happen until episode 3, so I figured I'd wrap it anyway. I just mentioned a small scene involving Sally.
 
No problem :) I found it fascinating too! Did you recognise the actress who plays Peggy as Bartlett's daughter from The West Wing?

I don't know if I'm biased but they all seemed like nice people!
 
Well I was a "kid of that age" (probably the age of their boy) and in the UK. But I do remember seeing the footage - and I also remember seeing the footage of Oswald being shot (which hasn't been shown so much in the years since, so I doubt it's a false memory). It didn't affect me emotionally, though I recall from the reaction of the adults - primarily parents, that it was a big deal. Probably on a par with Sept-11 for "kiRAB of that age" in 2001.
 
Intrigued by John Hamm is a very polite way of putting it as far as I'm concerned. ;) I think, wonderful as the others are, he is the one cast member who is probably irreplacable. Again, like JJ when you see him interviewed he is young, funny, outgoing- nothing like Don. It's that enigmatic quality that he has which is so unusual- it allows you to read between the lines and make a deeper connection to how he may be feeling. The old stars had that too and JJ shares it with him. Sal's wife said when she was interviewed that Peggy "plays the secret" all the time and that's a neat way of putting it.

So is your phrase stabbing confirmation. It just doesn't seem fair in these multi channel instant access times that we should have to wait SO long when we love it SO much.
 
I have really enjoyed this series & still can't believe the BBC are showing this at such a late hour on BBC2 - do they not think that a good proportion of their viewers would be interested in this type of programme.

Will we find out if Peggy is pregnant?
 
Yes, both Mad Men and Battlestar Galactica have doctors who smoke in front of their patients, which was a funny joke the first time but tiresome by the 10th time. I think a legitimate criticism of the show is sometimes, the art direction get carried away. I don't think the show is all style, no substance - there is too much substance in the writing to take that charge seriously - but there are moments when the art direction takes over to the detriment of the overall show. I remember during the first series a birthday party in the backyard of the Drapers. I think Don was fixing something in his white t-shirt outside, Betty went to talk to him in a dress that perfectly matched the hyper-green lawn and the multi-colored balloons. Everything was all a bit too perfectly coordinated and saturated and the effect was to take me out of the show. Yet, most of the time, the show finRAB the right balance with being stylish enough that you notice but not so much that it becomes the focal point.
 
I watched S1-S3 on DVD / Blu-ray box sets, then caught up on S4 which was stacking up on the Sky box...now up to ( UK pace ) date and one episode a week is agony...need more of my "mad men fix"

There was a good article in last months "Word" magazine ( 10 classic MM moments ) but someone who has read the article and seen the S4 finale please tell me that the "WorRAB" classic moment no 10 contained purely journalistic conjecture and not one almighty spoiler !! ? ) - which would be bad form for a UK mag reviewing a currently screening series
 
Thanks for your recollections, Servalan, they're more-or-less the same as mine - yet I'm under the impression that Joan has an "understanding" of Don, where do I get that from :confused:

Don't bother answering, all will be revealed... perhaps ;)

parthena
 
I cried too (so glad I was watching it on my own, in private ... I wept bitterly, right to the end and that choice of closing music).

I was absolutely stunned by this episode. So powerful, so moving. Jon Hamm and January Jones were superb. So were Christina Hendricks, and John Slattery.
 
I thought the sequence in which Don gets into Joy's car and takes off to Palm Springs was going to turn out to be a dream. It was odd that Don would suddenly abandon his work responsibilites. I then thought, after the episode was over, that the presentation about the nuclear warheaRAB scared him a great deal, and made him think that the world could blow up at any moment, so why shouldn't he chase what he wanted? The title of the episode is "the Jet Set" and the people at the house were the Beautiful People of the early 60s: rich and idle. However, they seemed like they had come out of a Harold Robbins novel. But I suppose their outlandish sexual behavior was meant to contrast with Don's behavior in the past.

This epsiode seemed much more conscious of current events then previous ones, and the characters appeared a little too much au courant. Did people really know so much about Bob Dylan in 1962? The hairstyles- especially's Joy's- looked more like 1963 or 1964 styles to me. When she asked Don to Palm Springs Joy looked like she had just stepped out of a Mary Quant shop. Wasn't it later than 1962 when that sort of hairstyle and dress became stylish?

When the Swedish guy offered to cut Peggy's hair I groaned, "Oh no! Madmen's now going Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"! It was startling to hear him say openly he was homosexual. The whole scene in Peggy's flat though made him look like a mere stereotype.

The suitcase being delievered in the last scene must be Don's- he probably abandoned it at his hotel in LA. I wonder who he's going to see. Obviously it's someone in his past. I doubt it's anyone in his family though.

Can't wait for the next episode.
 
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