Mad Men

They ran a scene from Season 3 in the "previously on Mad Men" and even Don looked like he had more hair.

That was my thought too.

BTW, I'm so glad MAD MEN doesn't have that on their actual episodes like BSG did. And I'm glad it has no credits over the actual show. That's a pet peeve of mine on TV shows.

I've always really liked the way the episode credits are in the main opening credits. I've seen a few shows since adopt it, but Mad Men's method is really classy.

I've ripped a lot of MAD MEN music off of YouTube. I've listened to this piece soooo many times.

My folks didn't like this one as much, but I went along with it, as insane as it was. The whole thing with the merger is a hoot. Because I skipped the recap, the whole thing with Burt Petersen did not occur to me because I completely forgott about him until I actually did see the recap when they did the back to back rerun. Until I get to rewatch the previous episodes, recaps in that instance help me. Speaking of rewatch:

"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"

Pretty interesting to see how far this show went. IMO, I liked the cinematography better in this pilot. Seems a lot more colorful compared to recent episodes and not due to the use of film but rather the aesthetics of the production design. I miss seeing the old office. I forgot how utterly slimy younger Pete was in the beginning, at least compared to the balding sore loser of today. The sexism is absurd, like Ferengi absurd.

Hey did I miss why Dawn was mysteriously absent the whole episode or was that plot thread left dangling?

Alan Sepinwall proposes a Sterling and Cutler plotless spin-off show "Sterling's Gold and Cutler's Chops."

I really enjoy Jim Cutler. Sorta Roger-like. I want to see Roger and Jim get into trouble.

The camera work on the pilot does seem a little more free. The show has evolved a sorta look that I'd say makes me think of the mosquito in amber from JURASSIC PARK.

If you're going through the show again, Roger's dismissal of psychiatry in "Ladies Room" is sorta funny. These writers really seem to look back and make old lines and events serve as omens.

My bad on the dating Kennedy was shot in the late evening of June 4th and died in hospital in the early morning of June 6th so the news would have broke by the morning of June 5th so the episode does start on a Monday. June 3-5.

Just to go off topic momentarily, as I've yet to catch up to the current season, but I saw that Julia Ormond has guest starred in a couple of episodes. What's she like?

She's pretty great

So the episode is June 3-5?

Yeah, Monday through to Wednesday morning.

Good episode.

Shame that whole sex slave arrangement didn't work out for Don.

I love his thought process of "well now that she's kicked her husband out her sole purpose in life is to fucked by me!"
Granted that red dress was DAMN fine.

The little storyline of Joan saving Bob's job was one of those nice little vignettes Mad Men does well.

Glad to see the end (god willing) of the Sylvia arc. The character was tedious. A repressed hypocritical housewife. Not like we've seen that before.

This might be a little writing nitpick, but we were told last week that SCDCC would be one of the top 25 ad agencies or something along that line. Yet they have maybe 9 copywriters including Peggy, Don and Ted (and then fired a couple of them. I think they mentioned firing the dowdy old lady copywriter) and all of six account executives? We were told in previous seasons of the larger firms throwing 'floors of creative' at accounts. We're told that 'all of creative' were in that same room.

Likewise, you might be able to fanwank that they were just listing off senior account execs, but then you have Bob Benson on the list, who we know is low on the totem pole.

It's just something that bugs me about tv shows. Obviously there are casting and budget limitations, but it's not that hard to write around.

Yeah I noticed a bit of that too. I mean I knew that the merger would mean SOME lay-offs to get rid of redundancies, but I thought the point was to make them a Bigger Agency. They felt bigger at the beginning of Season 6 with the new floor! Now they feel cramped into that space like when SCDP was just a hotel suite.

re: Sylvia. The character herself being less exciting than Don's past women can be a comment on how he has gotten older and is getting the best of lot currently available to him.

That doesn't mean the storyline has to be boring. The teacher was a dull character too, but you still had some of those great moments with her brother the drifter and the scene where she was sitting right in the car while Betty confronted Don.

I don't think they did anything like that with Don and Sylvia. Despite the fact both them and their spouses live in the same building. All they managed to do is show that Don is a douchebag and Sylvia a hypocrite. One of which we already know and the other which we don't have a reason to care about.

Well, that was fucked up.

The awkward moment when you get burgled by Samuel L. Jackson's mother.

That was the biggest piece of shit I've seen on a tv screen since I watched CALIGULA.

Some of its amusing moments aside, I'd have to agree that it was one of the lazier episodes of the series. It lacked sense and cohesion. There was basically no plot progress, seemingly thanks to the fact that everyone was too fucked up from having Red Bull injected into their arses. A forty-eight minute fart is probably how I'd describe it.

That was something.