Mad Men

[Coito ergo sum]

I've never seen a commercial for Mad Men that implied it was comedic. Usually they talk about its awards for "Best Drama" and that sort of thing.

[Animavore]

I've never seen a commercial for Mad Men that implied it was comedic. Usually they talk about its awards for "Best Drama" and that sort of thing.

I've never seen a commercial for Mad Men. I haven't heard 'them' talk about its awards. I was going of limited information here. The impression I got was this is a fun show.





Fun.

[Pappa]

Funbags.

[Coito ergo sum]

Betty Draper .... up until this season, of course... they've really uglied January Jones up this year...

[Audley Strange]

Mad Men. Hmm. I have an odd relationship with that show. Sometimes it is truly excellent T.V. sometimes is an endurance contest and sometimes its just self indulgent. Fair play to it for all of that, but it seems to me often like that which it is trying to reflect, the world of marketing. It's selling you something, something glossy, stylish even exciting, but its never quite what you thought it was going to be.

I watch it but I find that it misses a warm beating heart at the centre of the show, there are just lots of characters spinning off wildly.

Perhaps that's the point. I dunno, to me it lacks something.

[Coito ergo sum]

So, on last night's episode - June 9, 2013 -

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Sally walked in on Don fucking Dr. Rosen's wife.

Lot's of deep meaning embedded in that bit of the story. There have been many flashbacks to Don's childhood and how he was exposed to the seedy side of sexuality, living in a whore house for a while -- spying on sexual encounters -- witnessing his mom and his dad's seedy sexual lives, etc. He had been figuring on keeping Sally and his other kids insulated from that sort of thing, all the while engaging in shenanigans on the sly.

So now, he has seen the role reversal, where he is the adult engaging in shenanigans and his own child is on the other end of things.

This episode took us another nudge closer to Don's rotten core. He's being exposed as a thin veneer surrounding a bad apple.

Sally is now keeping the secret, though, as she enters the world of young adulthood. She was already starting to experiment and be involved with boys, and so now she enters this world knowing her dad harbors a deep secret. And, not only did dad divorce mom, but now she knows pretty much why. And, now she has to also either tell Megan, the second wife, or keep the secret to herself. Add to that, Sally has a crush on Dr. Rosen's son, and she now knows that Don is fucking Mrs. Rosen.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Oh, and "Spoiler alert!"

[Coito ergo sum]

Oh, and "Spoiler alert!"

Yeah - good call. The show was last night.....doops!

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Thanks, Coito. That was like listening to a couple of old women on the bus chatting about people I didn't know.



...and spoilering it for you.

[Coito ergo sum]

Thanks, Coito. That was like listening to a couple of old women on the bus chatting about people I didn't know.



...and spoilering it for you.

[Animavore]

Didn't you already start a thread on this ages ago?

[Coito ergo sum]

Didn't you already start a thread on this ages ago?

I thought so, but I couldn't find it in the search function.

[Animavore]

It won't search words under three letters. Try search by a name that would've been used in that thread. I'm positive you did start one because I remember watching it after reading the thread.

[Coito ergo sum]

Good call -- http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... lit=draper

...merge may be 'propriate...

[Animavore]

Found it.