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Post by Carade on Apr 5, 2015 21:01:31 GMT -5
IT'S TIME EVERYBODY. IT'S STARTING.
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Post by Lady Bones on Apr 5, 2015 22:06:43 GMT -5
RACHEL NOOOOOO
KEN NOOOOO
OH WAIT, KEN YESSSSS
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 6, 2015 5:32:26 GMT -5
I skipped past the first posts because I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m just here to register my disappointment that (unless someone leaks the season) I’ll never participate in a Mad Men thread at the AVClub. I never had cable when it was on so I always waited for streaming/DVD, and now I’m in Europe where even if I could get to watch it in between airtime and the review going up (or early enough that I could enter the scrum of the comments) time zone stuff gets in the way.
On the other hand, the Mad Men comments do get to keep that whole “club that I’m never able to join” allure…
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Apr 6, 2015 6:50:06 GMT -5
I don't get to watch it until later today. However, I missed it because I was seeing my favorite podcast live and it was SO WORTH IT!
But yeah, placeholder comment for when I get to watch today and share thoughts.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Apr 6, 2015 9:41:12 GMT -5
RACHEL NOOOOOO KEN NOOOOO OH WAIT, KEN YESSSSS This was my exact reaction, just add in some: DAMMIT DON (of course, because that's a given) and WHAT ON EARTH, PEGGY?! |
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Post by pairesta on Apr 6, 2015 13:29:36 GMT -5
Are we supposed to know who the waitress is? At first I thought she was the woman Pete had that fling with.
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Post by Lady Bones on Apr 6, 2015 13:40:35 GMT -5
Are we supposed to know who the waitress is? At first I thought she was the woman Pete had that fling with. The actress has never been on the show before, she just really looks like Rachel. To Don, me, and my brother, anyway. |
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Post by pairesta on Apr 6, 2015 14:53:51 GMT -5
Where's that weasel, Cutler? I hope there's just some tossed-off line about him being unceremoniously fired soon.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Apr 6, 2015 17:29:47 GMT -5
- I would be surprised if Cutler had been fired. He's probably moved up the ladder to McCann Erickson instead. But i hope he's been canned.
- I didn't realize for a while that we were seeing The Area Formerly Known As Ken Cosgrove's Eyeball in that one scene. Fascinating!
- Ted Chaough is divorced? Did that happen at the end of S7A and I'm just forgetting? Last thing I remember he had a reasonably healthy marriage that he was willing to move to California to save, so that was disappointing.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 7, 2015 6:24:15 GMT -5
Ted Chaough’s moustache was more of a shock to me than Roger’s. This feels vaguely like that opening in Seinfeld where Jerry and George grew moustaches over the summer:
Are we supposed to know who the waitress is? At first I thought she was the woman Pete had that fling with. She struck me as just another Don Draper type—she’s kind of intellectual (reading John Dos Passos) and brunette. The fact that they all kind of run together seems like it’s part of the point. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Apr 7, 2015 14:14:48 GMT -5
So; at what point in the earlier run of the seasons do we think Don's brain tumour first manifested? Because the hallucinations are getting seriously full-blown at this point.
My only other theory is: Don was in Purgatory the whole time.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2015 14:23:35 GMT -5
- Ted Chaough is divorced? Did that happen at the end of S7A and I'm just forgetting? Last thing I remember he had a reasonably healthy marriage that he was willing to move to California to save, so that was disappointing. I must have missed that. When did Chaough say he was divorced? As far as the "reasonably healthy marriage" goes: I think if someone is unfaithful to their spouse, there's probably more than one thing wrong with the marriage. Or maybe he just told her what happened with Peggy. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Apr 7, 2015 14:59:06 GMT -5
@fooltheworld - I saw a few different recaps talking about "newly single" Ted Chaough and his apartment full of rising hemlines. I always enjoyed the few glimpses we got of the Chaough home and its happy healthy teenagers watching tv.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2015 15:11:28 GMT -5
@fooltheworld - I saw a few different recaps talking about "newly single" Ted Chaough and his apartment full of rising hemlines. I always enjoyed the few glimpses we got of the Chaough home and its happy healthy teenagers watching tv. I totally spaced on that. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2015 16:03:05 GMT -5
So; at what point in the earlier run of the seasons do we think Don's brain tumour first manifested? Because the hallucinations are getting seriously full-blown at this point. My only other theory is: Don was in Purgatory the whole time. DAMNIT, IN LOST THEY WERE NOT DEAD THE WHO...... Oh, it is another show for once! I don't think the purgatory thing really fits. Since a good bit of the other characters have had their own stuff away from Don. Seems weird if that it was Don in purgatory this whole time, why would be spending so much time on what should just be filler illusions for him. Certainly don isn't aware of all the other stuff that goes on. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2015 16:06:27 GMT -5
As far as ted goes. He went to California for his marriage, but as we saw, he just became a near suicidal wreck. Though one that seemed more tantrum than if he really was going to off himself. I can see his wife just getting tired of his woe is me crap, especially after he would have to sell them on a move back to new york. Or he could still be married but he has embraced his inner cheating douchenozzle side like 99% of ad men.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Apr 7, 2015 16:27:21 GMT -5
So; at what point in the earlier run of the seasons do we think Don's brain tumour first manifested? Because the hallucinations are getting seriously full-blown at this point. My only other theory is: Don was in Purgatory the whole time. DAMNIT, IN LOST THEY WERE NOT DEAD THE WHO...... Oh, it is another show for once! I don't think the purgatory thing really fits. Since a good bit of the other characters have had their own stuff away from Don. Seems weird if that it was Don in purgatory this whole time, why would be spending so much time on what should just be filler illusions for him. Certainly don isn't aware of all the other stuff that goes on. Maybe they were all actually on that American Airlines flight that went down in the bay and killed Pete's dad? |
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Post by Carade on Apr 8, 2015 16:20:18 GMT -5
- I would be surprised if Cutler had been fired. He's probably moved up the ladder to McCann Erickson instead. But i hope he's been canned. So you hope that Cutler was canned rather than... McCanned? |
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Post by pairesta on Apr 10, 2015 8:09:33 GMT -5
It's a funny detail how each company they merge/get bought by is progressively worse. Now they've gotten to the point where everyone at McCann are seething sociopaths.
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Post by Carade on Apr 13, 2015 3:07:52 GMT -5
What an odd episode.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 9:16:48 GMT -5
If Marie Calvert is the human embodiment of a blackhead, that would make Harry Crane a crotch boil.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 9:25:43 GMT -5
I bet Don won't even get new furniture. He'll just continue to live in that million-dollar empty apartment, an apartment as empty and hollow as his soul. See, it's a metaphor - did you get it? Hahaha now I'm imagining him sleeping in a nest of old newspapers in a corner, surrounded by empty vodka bottles and tin cans full of cigarette butts.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 22:20:28 GMT -5
I guess you don't care that she is married.... TO MY FATHER!
Mimi rogers be banging everyone.
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Post by pairesta on Apr 15, 2015 10:42:12 GMT -5
I know it's only been two episodes, and forgive me for gushing, but can I just say Teti is killing it with the reviews? I've always loved his thoughtful Six Feet Under writeups; that he's able to apply that same analysis to Mad Men as it airs is even more impressive.
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Post by jerkassimo on Apr 17, 2015 8:10:54 GMT -5
I know it's only been two episodes, and forgive me for gushing, but can I just say Teti is killing it with the reviews? I've always loved his thoughtful Six Feet Under writeups; that he's able to apply that same analysis to Mad Men as it airs is even more impressive. He's such a great critic and is absolutely killing it. His thoughtfulness and arguments are so persuasive that he sort of changes my mind about the episode. I was not a fan of the first two episodes (don't know why, just Don Draper fatigue) but definitely warmed to them after reading Teti's reviews. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Apr 17, 2015 10:20:43 GMT -5
I know it's only been two episodes, and forgive me for gushing, but can I just say Teti is killing it with the reviews? I've always loved his thoughtful Six Feet Under writeups; that he's able to apply that same analysis to Mad Men as it airs is even more impressive. He's such a great critic and is absolutely killing it. His thoughtfulness and arguments are so persuasive that he sort of changes my mind about the episode. I was not a fan of the first two episodes (don't know why, just Don Draper fatigue) but definitely warmed to them after reading Teti's reviews. The guy is a treasure! And super charming in person. I know a lot of people complain about reviews now but I think we still have a ton of interesting, thoughtful reviewers on the site. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2015 21:54:47 GMT -5
OH MY GOD, oh lord, ahahhahahaha Glen. AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Oh Betty, good for you. Crisis avoided.
Thank you, show.
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Post by pairesta on Apr 22, 2015 8:28:33 GMT -5
I'm not sure if Don's existential crisis about being unable to map out a future is too on-the-nose for people, but I really like it. I was starting to worry that we weren't coming to any sort of endgame with the series yet, but I think now we have it. Plus it frankly and candidly dovetails with some of my own issues and misgivings at my job the past few years (though I'm nowhere near as successful as Don).
Not sure what to make of Glenn. I thought they had done a nice job of de-escalating him from budding psychopath to being maybe just a little off, but now it looks like his arc was a long con to get more of that sweet, sweet Betty hair, so eww.
Is this the last we see and have our hearts broken by Sally?
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 22, 2015 11:56:20 GMT -5
pairesta Bert Cooper’s final song is really haunting over this final half-season.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 21:35:24 GMT -5
PETER CAMPBELLLLLLLL!
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