Mad Men.

Yeah, forgot about the litter & Don throwing his beer can...how things have changed, ha ha!

Jimmy is indeed a strange fish, but love the way he dealt with Don...

Difficult one with Kitty...but she couldn't possibly realise Sal has feelings for Ken - I mean these are the 60s :rolleyes:
 
I assumed Don did know Peggy had had a baby because of what he advised her to do - forget about everything. It echoed what he himself had done and to say that he must have been aware of the enormity of what had happened.

I don't know if your Joan theory is correct but I love it and am now hoping it's right. :D

Another truly brilliant episode. Especially jaw-dropping performances from John Hamm and Elisabeth Moss. And stunning writing, of course. I don't know they keep getting it so right, week after week, but I'm so glad they do. Flawless. :D:cool:
 
Last night i caught the fact that series link and the HD recording for mad men had gone - i found it on HD again and set it to record - but no option for recording the series - now i have to remember to find it next week and try to set up the series link - SKY WHY DID YOU DO THIS!!:mad:
 
Great, no voiceover during the credits at long last.

It annoys me on every programme, but on Mad Men, it really really really was the most disrespectful behaviour when you are trying to absorb the events of the preceding 45 minutes of great telly.

You really do expect more of BBC4.
 
I'm thinking that the next series will be built around the assassination of JFK too, which will be perfect.

If you had told me half way through season one that I would be feeling sorry for Pete Campbell I would not have believed you. Which just shows what wonderful stuff Mad Men is. That shotgun was a matter of pride to him in the first series, when he had to take it back.

I love the way it is underwritten too. You could waste acres of dialogue trying to put across what is shown in a few telling shots or actions. Show don't tell is a basic principle of good writing and you rarely see it done so well as it is in Mad Men. It also allows you tell a lot of stories very economically. There is so much we need to know. Just to take one example. Salvatore. We have seen enough to know a lot ( his face when the guy came out as gay and took flak for it) yet we have never really been let into his story. That gives a wonderful depth to what is going on- you are shown a whole world. You need the actors to do it of course and they certainly found them.
 
I absolutely agree. Nothing whatsoever is wasted, or filler. The episodes are so intense to watch. During that scene with Don and Betty I literally craned closer to the screen.
 
As soon as Betty walked out of the room to go to the Ladies I thought "O-oh! Here we go :cry: ".

Maybe you've gotta be a male to empathise with Don, in that respect at least. But Betty seems to be getting more and more remote and intolerant, I hope she's not heading for clinical depression.

parthena
 
I remember reading a strip by a cartoonist who grew up in the 60s. She said her first crush was David McCallum. She was very upset when she read that he was married because as a devout Catholic she thought in that case it wasn't morally right for her to fancy him. She tried to stop watching the Man From Uncle but she couldn't. She said she "lost the faith" over David McCallum.
 
The BBC announced recently it will show the second season of Damages in February 2009 on BBC1, only a month after it began in the U.S. (the first new episode was yesterday):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/01_january/02/damages.shtml

Whereas the season 2 of Mad Men, which concluded in October 2008 in the U.S., has apparently still not been scheduled yet. The press release about Damages even mentions that Mad Men will be aired this year but nothing more specific.

Was Damages that much more popular than Mad Men in the UK?
 
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