Unlikely Words » mad men http://www.unlikelywords.com A blog with delusions of grandeur Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:48:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Wait, how old is Don Draper? http://www.unlikelywords.com/2011/11/15/wait-how-old-is-don-draper/ http://www.unlikelywords.com/2011/11/15/wait-how-old-is-don-draper/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:16:53 +0000 aaron cohen http://www.unlikelywords.com/?p=8430
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    • ]]>     How Mad Men will end." He didn't say anything except, and I'm paraphrasing here, "Blah, blah, blah." In the paragraph Kottke pulled out, though was this: "It's 2011. Don Draper would be 84 right now." I posted it a couple years ago, but this is weird because a commenter on AMC used this interview with Don Draper to make a convincing case that Draper was born in 1924, not 1927. Being born in 1927 would explain Don's non-participation in World War II, but not sure how to explain away the 36 in 1960 thing.

    Ha. Imagine if the previous paragraph was about Twilight instead of Mad Men.



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    ]]>     http://www.unlikelywords.com/2011/11/15/wait-how-old-is-don-draper/feed/ 1     Don Draper presents Facebook Timeline http://www.unlikelywords.com/2011/09/27/don-draper-presents-facebook-timeline/ http://www.unlikelywords.com/2011/09/27/don-draper-presents-facebook-timeline/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:41:29 +0000 aaron cohen http://www.unlikelywords.com/?p=8235
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    Via Urlesque / Brooklyn Mutt

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    • ]]>     86 or 87. Glad that's sorted out.

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    ]]>     http://www.unlikelywords.com/2011/02/11/how-old-is-don-draper/feed/ 0     British ‘Mad Men’ coming, starring McNulty from The Wire http://www.unlikelywords.com/2010/11/11/british-%e2%80%98mad-men%e2%80%99-coming-starring-mcnulty-from-the-wire/ http://www.unlikelywords.com/2010/11/11/british-%e2%80%98mad-men%e2%80%99-coming-starring-mcnulty-from-the-wire/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:16:49 +0000 aaron cohen http://www.unlikelywords.com/?p=7542
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    • ]]>     British equivalent to Mad Men. WOW. FUCKING WOW!

    Via Jonah.

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    I was really happy to work with Chris Piascik on this weekly series of Mad Men drawings and recap. I'm really pleased with how they came out and I hope you enjoyed the little twist they added each week.

    The big question about what would happen with the agency was actually solved last week when the partners all put money in. That bought them 6 months. The beginning of next season will have to be right around 6 months from now, or else losing Lucky Strike wasn't that big of a deal. If I recall correctly, season 2 was 6 months after season 1 and season 3 was 1 year after season 2. Maybe the pattern will be 6 months, 1 year, 6 months, etc. From the comments last week was a suggestion of Hilton (or possibly Disney saving the agency), which I thought made sense. That didn't come to pass because the agency's situation isn't as dire as we thought. I thought Sterling killing himself was another possibility based on a sequence from a couple episodes ago. That didn't happen either.

    -When Joan delivers the mail to Lane, she definitely looked like she decided to keep the baby. This is confirmed later in the episode when talking to her rapey husband. "Yes, honey, they're bigger." I guess surgeons in Vietnam can make calls.
    -We hadn't seen it in a while, but when Don and Pete met with the Cancer Society, he was pitching. That's always fun. At the beginning, he was subtly pitching himself, "In my heart it was an impulse because I knew what I needed to do to move forward." Before going on to pitch ideas, "Teenagers are sentimental as well. Have you heard their music?"
    -The partners tried to get Ken Cosgrove to Pete Campbell his father in law. He's not willing to do it, though. "I'm not Pete, sorry about that." On the second watch, I noticed that Don's look lingered a bit on Ken when he talked about not wanting to screw stuff up with his wife/real life.
    -"It's Glenn, are you decent?" Sketchy Glenn is so sketchy!
    -Betty is feeling all upheaved and she's taking it out on Carla. There conversation has a strange dynamic because Carla is deferential, but not TOO deferential. In certain cases, she talks to Betty as if she's a child. A recurring theme.
    -All you hedge fund dicks paying 15%? Capital Gains was 48% in 1965. Stop complaining.
    -I'm extremely excited for The Walking Dead, but it's possible AMC went a little hard promoting it this week. Also, imagine how much AMC gave up in advertising during the finale of Mad Men. I wonder how much of a crossover Mad Men and The Walking Dead. On the one hand, there is definitely a set that watches all of the finely crafted cable programs (Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, etc). On the other hand, zombies are not in the ballpark, not even in the same sport as advertising in the 60s.
    -Maybe Don's turning over a new leaf. He takes Faye Miller's advice and tells his kids that he's sometimes called Dick. We'll see how long it takes him to tell Megan.
    -As soon as Stephanie gave Don the engagement ring, I figured he'd ask Megan to marry him. It made sense because, 1. Well, what was he going to do with an engagement ring? and 2. What was he going to do with an engagement ring in the finale of the season? After that milkshake scene, it was obvious. Other telegraphs were his lawyer suggesting he settle down and his look at Ken when Ken mentioned his wife.
    -"There is no fresh start. Lives carry on." This is interesting, and probably jarring to Betty because Don actually did get a fresh start. He did and he didn't though, because Dick Whitman is still following the new Don Draper around. Also, I think Henry is continuing to realize he's made a mistake. Especially with the, "No one's ever on your side." line. No one's on her side because she always on the wrong side.
    -Did you notice Don was drinking the champagne of beers right before going a-knocking on Megan's door.
    -Peggy's out pitching and it's working. Way to go, Peggy.
    -Don told Megan she made him, "Feel like myself. The way I want to feel." When he says myself, what do you think he means? I wonder what Megan's role will be like next year.
    -After Ken told Peggy they'd won the account, Peggy jumped into Ken's arms and he lifted her up as they hugged. Then immediately after, they both fixed their hair at the same time. Pretty awesome.
    -After Don told everyone about the engagement, Peggy stayed behind to discuss. It's clear Don has an affection for Peggy, but it's more father/daughter or brother/sister. Hard to say why Peggy cares, really, except maybe devotion.
    -I guess Peggy and Joan are friends now? Took a long time! "Well, I learned a long time ago to not get all my satisfaction from this job." "Bullshit."
    -I wonder what this means from a psychological perspective, "I hope she knows you only like the beginnings of things." Don was never going to be able to be with Faye permanently after he told her. He's not able to be who he wants to be when someone knows who he really is. You want to know when Peggy will be leaving the show? It'll be sometime very soon after she learns the truth about Don's past.
    -The scene with Don and Betty in the old house was very sweet. Betty was vulnerable. I thought for a second they would do it. The shot that ended that scene with Don going out one door and Betty out the other was one of my favorites of the season. Nice work, cinematographers.
    Scene with Don/Betty, great shot.
    -So, this was around Labor Day, right? Strange that I think the last 3 episodes took place in a month while all the other episodes were separated by about a month. Unless this was during Columbus Day. Did they have Columbus Day in 1965?
    -I don't know what Don looking out the window in the last scene signifies, but as J pointed out, the song that played the episode out was "I've Got You Babe." That was the song playing every morning in Groundhog Day. It's a stretch, and an obscure reference, but how cool would it be if that was actually a nod to the idea that Don's life is repeating itself? Very cool.

    So that's it. Another season in the books. The finale didn't have the explosions of last year when the new agency was formed, but the engagement was a huge event. I enjoyed it. What did you think?

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    And a special bonus this week.

    Mad Men Quotations

    Each week, Chris Piascik draws one of the better quotations from the episode and we pair it with the recap I write on his site and here. If you're reading this sentence it's because I finished the recap before Chris finished the drawing and I had to go to bed. Check back in the morning.

    I enjoyed this episode a lot, but I don't have a whole lot to say about it. Like last week, it seemed to move the plot forward quickly, but not touch so much on bigger (and more subtle themes). I haven't noticed if this is the first, but this episode was directed by John Slattery (Roger Sterling).

    -"There's a time for beans and there's a time for ketchup." Apparently, however, the time for beans at SCDP is not now. People think the agency is dying and they don't want to be associated with it right now. "I will have an exciting idea, I know that." Doesn't mean much.
    -Did you see Harry Crane's office? It had an antique desk and a replica cannon. Crane really is a ridiculous character.
    -Sketchy Glenn is back giving Sally Draper an additional psychiatry appointment per day. He's really coming across as well-grounded and it's weird. Glenn's decided that if he can't have Betty, he'll have Sally instead. I loved how he turned and ran when he saw Betty.
    -We're getting closer and closer to the late 60's and unfortunately Midge is the sacrificial lamb for the writers to depict the coming popularity of heroin/drugs. Her and her husband are so far gone that he's willing to whore her out for a score. Her painting did seemingly inspire Don's ad in the New York Times. Though maybe it was her obvious desperation that was the inspiration. "It's about what she sees when she shuts her eyes."
    -"She doesn't care what the truth is as long as I do what she says." Sally is learning to be like Betty. Suppressing everything as a tactic to get by. Incidentally, Betty needs Sally's psychiatrist more than Sally does. The conversation between Betty and the doctor was great and when the doctor said, "I'm a child psychiatrist", the implication being that Betty is a child.
    -Peggy wanted Don to change the name or the conversation, and according to Ken Cosgrove, Don at least changed the conversation. It was quite literally an ad for the agency, as Don mentioned, and it gave him the opportunity to get on his advertising genius high horse. I love when he gets on his advertising genius high horse. I don't remember the exact quote, but he's said something similar before. "This ad is genius and if you don't get it, I'm not going to bother trying to explain it, you won't get it anyway. Luddite."
    -Creative is "the least important most important thing there is." Talk amongst yourselves.
    -After the NYT ad, Don had to pry from Peggy what she thought of it. I feel like he has to do that quite a bit. He'll do something, and she won't tell him what she thinks. It's almost as if he's used to getting a response, positive or negative from everyone, and her not responding throws a wrench in his sense of normalcy. This conversation was a reference to the ham fight in one of the first couple episodes. Peggy said something along the lines of, "I thought you didn't go in for shenanigans like this." The NYT ad was a stunt in the same way the ham fight was. We'll see if it was as successful.
    -Betty finally wants to move out of the house. Sally's bummed.
    -Ted Chaough's Kennedy was pretty atrocious, very Mayor Quimbyesque, and I was curious why they got such a poor Bobby Kennedy impersonator.
    -Don paid Pete Campbell's share, which I guess is Don's way of thanking Pete for carrying Don's shit. Where did Don get $150K?
    -Also, did Bert Cooper really just quit? "You there, get my shoes." It would be a fitting exit for a man without an office.

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    Each week, Chris Piascik draws one of the better quotations from the episode and we pair it with the recap I write on his site and here.

    I don't think there were many deep themes in this episode and there was very little subtlety. Things happened. Lucky Strike is gone, they left early, and Peggy is "giving it off."
    -Peggy went to the beach with David Mamet's daughter and somehow they ran into Abe and agreed to give him a ride home without Peggy knowing it. That didn't make any sense, but then she took him home and they did it all night, and again in the morning. She's forgiven him for being a cad, and now she wants him all the time.
    -I should have rewinded it to see what the situation was when Trudi went into labor with the future Cosgroves. Pete was golfing with his father-in-law.
    -Interestingly, last we saw with Pete and Vick's Chemical, Pete's father-in-law was calling him a son of a bitch. My understanding was he said that because Pete implied he wanted the entire slate of Vick's. However, it seems to have worked out that Vick's is at CGC with Ted Chaough.
    -Looks like Ken Cosgrove has his own Ted Chaough in John Floury at BBDO, who broke the news that Lucky Strike was jumping.
    -Everyone showed up on Saturday (?) night at the office, including Bert Cooper in his pajamas. Does he live upstairs or something?
    -Roger faked the call to Lee Garner, Jr and pretended not to know Lucky Strike was leaving. It's fun to imagine the scenes that could have been with Don pitching American Tobacco. On the other hand, we saw a Lucky Strike pitch already, "It's Toasted."
    -"Everyday I tried not to think about what would happen if this happened." "You're the most hire-able man on Madison Avenue." I guess this is going to be the story arc until the end of the season. It's frustrating because most of these characters on the show for the duration. That means the agency is going to figure it out without Lucky Strike.
    -I was curious which hotel Roger was in until he called Joan at the office. It just brings up the question, why not at least try? Why did he keep it a secret from the agency. He knew he would get blamed and felt like he could spin it.
    -Who is Joe? Maybe the controller. Joe says, "Any questions?" and doesn't see Danny because Danny is short.
    -"Be successful." Good advice, Don.
    -"Every time something good happens, something bad happens." This could describe the show, right? Or at least Don's life.
    -Joan takes off earring to answer the phone. It seems like she wouldn't bother wearing earrings. She's probably on the phone quite a bit, right? Also, is she wearing clip ons?
    -I just wanted to tell AMC that those little factoids before a commercial? I don't read them anymore, sorry.
    -Pete was going from the hospital to the office to the hospital. The "Congratulations" he got when he found out he had a daughter was maybe the funniest moment of the season. I died.
    -When Glo-Coat called to cancel the account, did you notice the noise on the long distance line?
    -"No, but I need a favor, make sure I don't over do it." Pay attention to this line, it becomes important later on.
    -Pete Campbell doesn't drive a car. How will that be portrayed on Pete Campbell's Bitchface.
    -"I'm not a solution to your problems, I'm another problem." Joan is so smart. It was sad when Roger said the thing about the night of the mugging being the last time. He really is such a child. It's apparent in practically every interaction he has.
    -"My job is to present facts, if they're unhappy with the agency, it's not my problem." Interesting juxtaposition of female characters talking about problems.
    -"Why do you keep making me reject you?" Peggy said this about Stan, but it could have easily been Joan from the scene before. I'm not sure why Stan didn't tell her about the lipstick on her teeth, seems like that could have hurt their chances in the presentation. Also, my guess is she'd look in a mirror before going in to the meeting. Stan really did make her less anxious, so maybe it was all good.
    -"Congratulations."
    -"You judge people on their work, I'm the same way. Everything else is sentimental." Is that true, Megan? I mean... Who are you the Don Draper of secretaries?
    -Oh, hi Jane. For a brief moment, I was convinced Roger was going to kill himself when he got home to Jane. Him looking at the copies of his book didn't dissuade me from that notion. It was only when he cuddled with Jane on the couch that I was sure it at least wasn't going to be this episode.
    -The book brings up a question, when is this episode? It's after August 15, but not much after, because Peggy was at the beach. It's before September 15 because Roger asked for 30 days, which he didn't get. But who knew Roger finished his book and that it was at a publisher?
    -Megan was really going for it and then she got it. This was foreshadowed last week or the week before. Don did this when he was still mad at Faye, but it's not hard to imagine him doing it even if he wasn't. By sleeping with Don, Megan has guaranteed she'll never do what Don does, or even what Peggy does. Sorry, lady.
    -"Welcome to my world, won't you come on in." The music that played the episode out hints at Faye getting to be a bigger part of Don's life. Maybe it just means he was happy she was going to help him poach a client. Maybe it means something even more, that now she's a big part of Don's life, he's going to be unfaithful to her. Every time something good happens, something bad happens.
    -If I did have to nail down some themes for the episode, I guess it'd be rejection. The agency was rejected, Roger, Stan, Megan should have been. But also, renewal. Pete's daughter and what the agency will become.

    Update:
    -Just heard the Bill Simmons podcast with Mike Lombardi wherein Lombardi suggests the history of Lee Garner Jr and Sal could come in to play. Pretty good guess.

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    Every week, Chris Piascik draws a quotation from the episode to go with the recap I write.

    10 episodes down and there are as many balls up in the air as usual. There is a lot going on right now.
    -Roger has nothing to do except babysit Lucky Strike and try not to have another heart attack. When Joan comes in with her news, he's not even bothering with his book anymore, he's watching a perpetually drinking chicken. "These things happen, right? Would you stop being so upset?"
    -Roger was pretty sleazy in this episode, which was odd, because Joan didn't really seem to want to keep the baby. It was just unnecessary. That is, he didn't need to try to convince her to get an abortion, but he tried to convince her anyway. "I'm just trying to think of what's best for you." He really did sound desperate.
    -The Beatles at Shea Stadium peg this episode as mid-August, 1965. Sally Draper was excited and it was nice to see even Betty crack a smile. Well played, Don.
    -I wonder how much Mad Men had to pay to license the Beatles Do You Want to Know a Secret? at the end of the episode.
    -Speaking of secrets, this episode was full of them. There's Joan's pregnancy, which it's not entirely clear she ended. There's Lane's new life in the US which he proudly shows off to his father. Lane's father was abusive and likely not for the first time. Roger finds out about the loss of Lucky Strike and decides to keep it to himself for a bit. And of course Don. The episode was titled Hands and Knees, but only Roger was really begging. Don was looking for an exit, but he only really begged Pete for help, and not in so many words.
    -Lane has a Mets pennant... for some reason.
    -The Playboy Club makes its first appearance on the series even though they've been open for 5 years. The Wiki for the Playboy Club is actually pretty interesting. True story, I used to have one of the membership keys until I lost it in a trampoline accident. That was frustrating.
    -The blacked out document in the North American Aviation meeting was a foreshadowing of Don Draper's background check. Of course, I didn't pick up on that. The conversation with Betty was funny when they both thought the phone might be bugged. Did you notice, he was instantly sweaty when she mentioned the questions?
    -Trudy looks like one of those pink Hostess Sno-Balls.
    -It's a little unclear what sway Lane's father would have over him, but he had no interest in talking to Lane's new girlfriend. He did say get your house in order, either here or there, so who knows.
    -"We came here for your discretion, not your judgment." The doctor was pretty judgy, wasn't he?
    -"And I signed it without looking because that's what I do." Don, you have got to get a better handle on the situation.
    -Did you notice that the Time Life Building doesn't have elevator attendants? Bert Cooper presses his own buttons?
    -If you thought Roger was desperate for Joan to get an abortion, he was even more desperate with Lee Garner, Jr. He convinced him to give them the 30 days, though. I'm really hoping that Lucky Strike isn't a cliffhanger to end the season. That would be laaaaaaaame.
    -Have we seen Don get a panic attack? And why is he constantly puking this season?
    -Lane was preening about his new, exotic girlfriend and his father let loose on him. That is an interesting dynamic there, huh?
    -Here's a question for you. If Faye and Don are carrying on something of an illicit romance, or even one they're keeping secret, why on earth would she walk out of the bedroom if she heard a knock on the door? There are all sorts of explanations starting with maybe she didn't hear the knock on the door, but whatever... She heard it. Stay in the bedroom until Pete is gone.
    -And Don told Faye... He's getting looser and looser with whom he tells.
    -Mad Men's been cursing up a storm this season, but you still can't say the f word, apparently. That even made Bert demand Roger apologize. There's a storm coming, we'll see.
    -"You see, everything worked out." Ah, Megan. It's Don's sort of MO. Get out of trouble and then do a little hound-dogging. That was an extra long look he gave her, wasn't it?
    Anything else?

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    Each week, Chris Piascik draws something from the episode to go with this recap.

    I think it's the middle of July and I say that as a way of introduction to this recap because I don't have anything else.
    -Wow, what an opening. Don and Faye knocking boots, loudly. And just a month ago, Don couldn't go any further. "Lock the door behind you, as a courtesy." Is it discourteous to leave doors unlocked in this situation? "I'm taking everything interesting with me." It's just an apartment, Faye, my journal is in my briefcase.
    -I guess we're through worrying about Don, huh? I had thought he was going to be a bad guy for longer, but he's turned it around.
    -Joan's husband got called up to serve in Vietnam, which almost all of you have been looking forward to since before he even joined the army.
    -"It's a business of sadists and masochists, and you know which one you are." This was truly Mrs. Blankenship's finest episode. From the "Not a chance" in the crossword puzzle scene with Bert, to this line, to dying.
    -"One more drink and it will come out." The scene with Peggy and Abe was interesting. He's so earnest and sincere. Unfortunately, Peggy isn't a political person. Yet.
    -"Most of the things that Negroes can't do, I can't do either and no one seems to care." I usually don't know the episode titles when watching or writing these, but I wanted to look it up today because I thought it'd be Glass Ceilings or something. Not far off, it's "The Beautiful Girls." This week was all about the ladies. The elevator shot at the end of Joan, Peggy, and Fay going down the elevator should have had the ghost of Blankenship in it. It was 3 working women at very different places in life and in the work force. Faye Miller got where she was because she made a choice to not have kids, and because as Ms. Blankenship pointed out, she opens doors without waiting to ask if it's OK. Peggy is just not starting to pay attention to human rights, but she's coming at it from a selfish perspective. Even little Sally Draper. She can't stand the way things are and ran away to make a change. It's not hard to imagine that foreshadowing future issues, but also seeing it as something all women during that time would want to do. "She died like she lived, surrounded by the people she answered phones for." From Ms. Blankenship to Sally, girls have it tough.
    -Via Jessie, Faye Miller is the name Marilyn Monroe often used to check in to hotels the mental hospital.
    -"Why do we have to convince him?" Don is still playing hard to get with the clients.
    -"I offered you money and I said thank you." I just put this here because it reminded me of the scene 2 weeks ago when Don told Peggy "I give you money, you give me ideas." "That's what the money is for."
    -"I would have my secretary do it, but she's dead." If you want to get someone to do something for you, try this line. If it's not true, everyone will get a good laugh. If it is true, it's amazingly effective.
    -Normally, they're very good about this sort of thing, and this is admittedly nitpicking, but when Roger and Joan were in the diner, the ash on Joan's cigarette kept changing length...
    -During the mugging, Roger kept his eyes down and didn't look the mugger in the face. And then Joan kissed Roger first. I wonder where this will go. Probably nowhere. Was this a Sal at the park moment?
    -The french toast with rum was funny, but the punchline was telegraphed when Don kept eating. I chuckled.
    -When Bert Cooper said he'd call Ms. Blankenship's niece, did that remind any of you of Don having to call Stephanie? Is Ms. Blankenship the only one who really knew Bert Cooper?
    -I didn't realize this until Bert said something about it, but he doesn't have an office. That's why he always seems to be sitting around. I wonder where his art is.
    -"Our job is to make men like Fillmore Auto, not make Fillmore Auto like Negroes." Being from Boston, I sometimes have a hard time picking up on accents that are supposed to be Boston accents. I didn't realize this until just now. I didn't know the Fillmore Auto dudes were from Boston, but I suppose it makes sense.
    -"It feels like it was a test and I failed it." Nah, Faye, you did fine. Is everything a test to you? It obviously concerned you, if you were up all night. She seemed to do OK with the babysitting, though.
    -"Jesus, what a mess." I believe this will be the subtitle for the comprehensive 25 DVD box set when it comes out after the series ends. Mad Men: Jesus, What a Mess.

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    And this week a bonus.
    Mad Men Quote

    Each week, Chris Piascik draws something from the episode to go with this recap.

    Last week's episode would have been difficult to top, so they went introspective this week. They just went through the spring, the traditional time of rebirth, but now it's about to be the beginning of summer and things are changing.
    -Don's writing a journal. Getting introspective, swimming, and cutting down on the drinking. The dark downtrodden Don of the beginning of the season is apparently gone, last week was the rock bottom it seemed, and Don is on the path to digging his way out. "I should have finished High School. Everything could have been different." Well, if you say so.
    -"I'm kidding around here." There's really no reason Ida Blankenship is on the show. As far as I can tell, she doesn't serve any purpose. I imagine something will happen with her at some point, but then again, maybe it won't.
    -Did you notice? No racial or ethnic slurs this week. 2 in the first 2 minutes last week and none this week? Just rampant sexism is all... Er...
    -Joey and Joanie... Joey's mother issues wouldn't let him be bullied by Joan, but mostly it was a way to show that Joan is of the Dr. Faye Miller School of Catching More Flies With Honey. Peggy thinks she was doing Joan a favor for firing Joey, and she was, but Joan just thinks it'll reinforce their respective stereotypes. Not really a situation Peggy could win, or would want to. Nice reference by Joey to Joan being raped and then in the next scene she goes home to her rapist husband. She bursts into tears when he suggests she talk to her work friends.
    -Seriously? A Budweiser product placement in one of the journal writing scene?
    -Don's list of things he'd like to do is surprisingly short and to the point. Climb a mountain, or travel anywhere, and get control of his feelings. I guess he feels one Clio is enough, but I definitely expected that list to be a little bit longer.
    -"Every date feels like a first date with you." "Don't you want to be close with anyone?" Get used to it, sister, this is Don the Drape we're talking about. Bethany wants Don desperately, or rather she wants what he can give her. He's the right kind of guy for her, she thinks, but this new Don probably isn't going to end up with her. In fact, going down on Don in the cab might be the last we see of her.
    -"I bet she was thinking of that line all night" was actually a line cut out of Casablanca. Maybe not, but didn't Don's voice-over dialogue sound straight out of a noir movie? Actually, this was a pretty neat trick, aging the voice in Don's head, making it sound almost sepia. Wonder if they'll keep using it.
    -"I'm working, all the time." When you're not drinking or sleeping on your couch.
    -I liked the scene with Henry and Betty in the car. I've written a couple times in the past about whether was a great actor playing wooden, or just an awful actor. This was one of the first scenes I thought she was really great in. At the end of the scene when when she was pouting against the door, she really looked like a little girl.
    -"People tell you who they are but we ignore it because we want them to be who we want them to be." Don has said stuff like this before. More than once.
    -"You need 3 ingredients for a cocktail. Vodka and Mountain Dew is an emergency." Peggy Olson's Bartender's Bible will be out next week at booksellers all over.
    -Don looked at alcohol different all episode. In the first meeting, he was going in and out, probably in some kind of withdrawal, on the date with Faye, before the date with Faye. There was a cool scene where he looked at his liquor tray, looked at his watch, and then called Ida for some coffee. You go, Don. Make a change today.
    -"You want some respect, go out there and get it for yourself." "Don doesn't even know who you are." "It's just a job Joey, you'll get another one." Peggy really sounded like Don when firing Joey. It's a move away from "the guys", a group she had been moving to, up towards Don. This is a really interesting dynamic to watch this season.
    -"Don has nothing to lose and you have everything." Remember when Francine wanted to shower with Don? While she's right that Don has nothing, Betty and Henry don't really have a whole lot. It was hard to tell if Don was invited to the birthday, or if he just came, but Betty was trying to make it work. We'll see how this plays out.
    -"A man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him." I don't really know what this means at all.
    -"I've been a little out of sorts lately." Ya think?
    -"He's a handsome 2-bit gangster like you." Faye pretty clearly sees Don for what he is, but still wanted to use him for sex. Wonder where this is going to go.
    -There wasn't any music at the end. Last week the open door shot played out with Bleecker Street by Simon & Garfunkle (a sort of foreboding song to play over the idea of an open door). This week, Don playing with Gene. More uplifting, and no music at all.

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    Everyweek, Chris Piascik draws something from the episode to go with the recap. This week calls to mind the conversation between Peggy and Don in the diner.

    I'm not going to lie, I could have used an evening off from Mad Men tonight. It was, however, one of the best episodes of the season. Mad Men had been putting up good episodes all season, but this was a 'wow' episode. Don, Peggy, Don and Peggy, Duck. Wow. Probably the most passion we've seen to date, too. Date of the episode: May 25, 1965. This was the 2nd Ali/Liston fight and took places in Lewiston, ME. Is it me, or are there WAY more historical events referenced this season?
    -Two off-color racial/ethnic jokes in the first minute or so of the show? I don't remember two all season. Accident? Doubt it. Lazy? Maybe. I hope this isn't the show continuing to turn into a caricature of itself. And what's with all the swears. It's like AMC is showing off to be edgy. (Or did office swearing rise in popularity in 1965?)
    -Oh, Ida Blankenship, you hellcat. It's almost as if Don is doing penance. She can't even make coffee well.
    -The Joe Namath ad pitched by Peggy and the gang was actually pretty well conceived, funny even. Most of the pre-pitches aren't that thought out. Speaking of the gang. Danny hadn't event started last episode, and now he's a full fledged member of said gang? They're so welcoming!
    -There was a bit of the old vs new in this episode. Don doesn't like Joe Namath (endorsements are lazy) or Cassius Clay (if you have to say you're the greatest...). They're too flashy, but they are what advertising will become.
    -When did Roger and Don become so chummy? This seems like it happened in the last 2-3 episodes. Were we supposed to forget the, "Keep him away from me" from last year? Also, I haven't seen him drink something brown since his heart attack.
    -"I'm glad that this is an environment where you're not afraid to fail." The season wasn't really building to this, but last week did foreshadow it. In an episode where Duck Phillips, showed us where Don could be headed in a couple years, Don and Peggy continued to solidify their connection. I want to say something here about Peggy following in Don's footsteps, but it's not totally clear how to describe that. "How long are you going to go on like this?" Peggy seems to see there's a problem. Maybe she's the first, or maybe she's the only one acknowledging it, but Don is in a bad way.
    -"I give you money, you give me ideas." "That's what the money is for!" "Everything to you is an opportunity." "I'm sorry about your boyfriend, OK?" I liked these lines. Don gives Peggy opportunity, but when she acts entitled, he bristles. We haven't really seen her do anything good this year, why does she think she's so great? Also, Peggy, remember to lock the door when you take a nap at work. Otherwise, Stan will wake you up with a whistle.
    -What do you suppose the mouse signified and Don's line about there being another way out of the office? "You know, there's a way out of this room we don't know about."
    -"Trains leaving the station, get on board. Woo Woo." "Peg, I'm falling apart." Wow, Duck, wow. You get fired from Grey and think it's a good idea to start your own agency? You need to get your shit together. And that is NOT a euphemism for pooping in Roger Sterling's office. It may have been Don's lowest point of the season when he had to cry uncle to Duck. That is LOW.
    -Peggy goes to the bathroom before heading off to dinner and gets continually kicked in the balls, first by another secretary and then by Pete Campbell's wife. "Well, you're doing alright, aren't you?" "You know, 26 is still very young." But then, "Is it any different than living with Pete?" you go, girl! Mark inviting Peggy's family to dinner wins the title of most awkward family dinner.
    -"You know what gets you over stuff like that? Drinking." Roger continuing the role of classic comic relief and witty one-liners. "Come on, Ida was a hellcat? Cooper lost his balls? Roger's writing a book?" And that, of course.
    -"There's no use crying over fish in the sea." I guess Danny mixes his cliches?
    -This episode featured Don opening up to Peggy more than he had to almost anyone all series. "It's a mouse, I grew up on a farm." "More of a yokel than me, even." Korea. Don saw his father dies. I guess it's only remarkable because it happened so quickly, but Don was REALLY sharing. Wonder if it felt good. To say nothing of Anne dying, and Peggy seeing him call Stephanie and start bawling. "The only person in the world who really knew me."
    -When Don and Peggy were eating in the diner and Peggy said she didn't know the difference between good and awful, Don used a TON of cliches to say there was very little difference. I have to imagine this was on purpose. Otherwise, it's time to start giving back Emmys. "You know you're cute as hell." Is there anyone who would suggest Don thinks Peggy is cute/beautiful?
    -"You don't want to start giving me morality lessons, do you? People do things." This never happened...
    -Don saw Anne has a ghost. Just putting this here so we remember it later, not sure it was very important. It does sort of recall the flashbacks from Don's childhood, though
    -And at the end of the episode, the door was opened. If we were watching this entire season at once, I bet we could point back to this episode as an ending to the first half of the season. Or maybe I'm misinterpreting it. How did you see the open door and what is its import?
    What did I miss?

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    I don't know how to start this week's recap, so I'll just remind you that every week, I write a Mad Men recap, while Chris Piascik draws one.

    -"It's an idiom. Did you know that?" Don and Peggy are barely able to conceal their disdain in the interview with Roger's wife's cousin who wants a job. His book is all one idea and then ads he's pulled out of magazines for inspiration. "Don't you ever tear things out of magazines?" We've seen Don tear things out of magazines at least once. That fact foreshadows the theme of the episode. Nice to see the Lemon VW ad make another appearance.
    -"It's a relief to see someone worse than me." Peggy has never been happy for long. She has a chip on her shoulder about her status in the firm and did at Sterling Cooper, as well. This is probably what drives her, huh?
    -They're hitting the Roger not doing anything pretty hard this episode. In 2 scenes he's rambling about Howdie Doodie and chocolate ice cream respectively. I guess he's writing a book now? Also, are Roger and Don friends again? They seemed pretty jovial today, even before the award.
    -Flashing back to Don selling furs and the story of how it all started. We'd seen a flashback to that time in Don's life before, but it hadn't been fleshed out. Roger looked younger, and they changed up the wardrobe. I hadn't really thought of this before, but it seems that Don made his way to the top of Sterling Cooper in about 6-8 years, and probably less. Mad Men Season 1 started around March, 1960, and the Korean War ended in 1953. Even if Don was among the first wave of soldiers in Korea, there would have had to be some time for convalescence, time to get found by Anne Draper selling used cars, time to work all that out with her, to move to NYC, etc, etc.
    -Don was super eager to get a job and included a book of his work in the fur coat to Joan. So I guess she's been there for a while.
    -"Make it simple, but significant." Indeed.
    -I liked Roger ripping on Ted Chaough ("Isn't that a lot of extra letters" and "Chagagag"). Not really sure why Ted is so uppity.
    -"Don't talk to me right now." Don is so mean to Pete Campbell. I think everyone loves it!
    -Oh, hello, Duck Phillips. Did someone over-serve you?
    -"Who claps for themselves?" The addition of an Art Director character was a bit jarring. Sal played such a big role in the firm (and in several episodes) that it seems like we should have heard from this character before tonight. In any case, I like how Peggy puts him in his place stripping for him and forcing him to concede the point. "Win the prize for the smuggest bitch in the world."
    -You all saw that after both Don and Roger were holding Joan's hand under the table, Don kissed Joan on the lips before going up to the stage, right? She was definitely surprised. It was more than just a celebratory kiss. The victory kicked off something of a bender. During the Life cereal pitch, Don was super-eager and pretty full of himself. He wanted to prove he could close a pitch while drunk (which I'm actually surprised hasn't been shown before), and kept rattling off lines until he used one he had heard earlier in the day during the terrible interview. Oops.
    -"If everyone set?" "That's my word for it." Oh, Lane.
    -More Mrs. Blankenship comic relief. She wears a wig and was surly. Why hasn't she been replaced? She's the Jar Jar Binks of Mad Men.
    -"Award or no award you're still Don Draper." "Whatever that means." I thought we might get through one episode without a question of identity. I guess not.
    -"You've crossed the border from lubricated to morose." Ladies and gentlemen, your designated moral compass, Joan!
    -Good to have Ken Cosgrove back and Pete Campbell feeling threatened. Cosgrove good naturedly dealing with it. Campbell obviously feels threatened, and always has. Would he be Ken's boss?
    -"Then he sucks on Vick's." Real subtle, guys.
    -Another subtle moment in the episode was Don badgering Roger into letting him buy him a drink. Probably reading too much into this, but Roger didn't seem totally comfortable with drinking with Don so early in the day. Maybe he was playing it up, but wouldn't it be an interesting wrinkle if Don was the bad influence all these years? This idea was reinforced a bit with the scene between Don and Doris. He's obviously been overdoing it for a long time, even before getting to Sterling Cooper. Though Doris called him Dick at during the scene. When could that have been? I thought he ran away from home and went straight into the army. He was Don Draper when he came home. Someone help me with this one.
    -Roger > Don > Peggy > Danny. This progression was pretty clear through the episode and is, I think, the main theme from tonight. Everybody comes from somewhere, gets their start somewhere. Roger didn't remember hiring Don because he was drunk. Don was drunk and used Danny's line forcing his hire. Roger told Don he forgot to tell Roger he couldn't have done it without him. According to Peggy, Don wouldn't have been able to do it without her because it was her idea. And he wouldn't have been able to seal Life Cereal without Danny's line. Danny is really, really short.
    -Don is still out of control, but on the evil scale, he didn't really move backwards at all, and you have to consider that a positive. He did forget to pick up his kids, but as long as he's not hitting on the nieces of dear friends, or sleeping with his secretary, he's winning, right?

    +++
    Update: The first 2 comments below bring up an interesting point that I had considered, but decided to interpret differently. Basically they suggest that at 2 points in the episode, characters got into situations where they blacked out. Roger either agreed to hire Don during a blackout, or Don convinced him that he had. Also, Don blacked out and picked up a waitress as Dick Whitman. I don't really want to believe that Mad Men would resort to blackouts as a plot device, which is why I interpreted it differently. I read the Dick Whitman waitress pick up as a flashback to some time in the past. On the other hand, there's too much to imply if we're to believe Don made up the story about Roger hiring him, hoping that Roger would forget. Lots to speculate on this week.

    Update 2:
    On having occasion to watch the episode again, I'm thinking that it is the same weekend and Don was so wasted, he did tell Doris his name was Dick... Also, I didn't realize this before, but the Life Cereal pitch had notes of the Kodak Carousel pitch. Nostalgia. It was funny to hear the Kodak Carousel pitch drunken and rushed.

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    Each week, I write a recap of Mad Men, and Chris Piascik draws one.

    I'm going to watch Mad Men until the series ends. It's my favorite show right now. I'm not giving up or anything, but in a couple years, I wouldn't be surprised if people refer to this episode as the one were Don Draper water skied over a shark. From the first scene with Mrs. Blankenship wearing the silly magnifying glass and providing general comedic relief, to the Italian Job-style montage when they hoodwinking an up-and-coming agency into blowing a pitch, this episode just seemed to have far more fluff than usual. I like the hoodwinking and I'm tired of Blankenship, and this episode was different.

    -The mention by Roger Sterling of Selma probably puts this episode at the first week of March. "You still think they don't need a civil rights law." It was interesting that Sterling was the one to say this to Cooper, as he doesn't seem the most liberal of all the characters. On the other hand, Cooper, while appearing conservative, doesn't seem like a total dick.
    -A lot of Sterling's appearances this year have been littered with one liners and jokes. The poop puns at the beginning of the partners meeting is no exception. "Lucky Strike is great, meeting adjourned."
    -Who is Dr. Lyle Evans? Seems like it isn't a real historic figure, which... Well, no reason not to make up historical people and send your viewers to Google, right?
    -Sally was obviously a big part of the episode, acting out by cutting her hair so Don would like it, and then being an adolescent at a slumber party. (Uh... I don't even think I can write about it, but when was the last time you saw THAT subject matter covered on TV, even on, gasp, cable?) Is there any connection to how Sally is acting out and how Roger is acting out. Sally wants to make a statement about the divorce, and if Pete is right about Roger, Roger wants to make a statement about not being the top dog at SCDP. "The rest of us are trying to build something."
    -Oh, Ted Shaw / Ted Chaough, Good luck, champ. "Well, if it isn't the inscrutable Don Draper." He looked like James Spader didn't he? Don played him pretty well with his misdirection. Additionally, the scene where Don goes in to resign the motorcycle campaign was Kodak Kodachrome-level Don Draper... There hasn't been a ton of that energy yet this year.
    -"Do you know the river of shit I'm gonna get from her mother." Is Betty Draper the coldest woman on TV? If not, she's in the running. Interesting that both Don and Henry push back on Betty slapping Sally. "That was impulsive, I'll apologize." Don used to call Betty a child pretty often. That got addressed in tonight, as well. When talking to the school psychiatrist, Betty started talking and couldn't stop, and she got that creepy smile when looking at the doll house. Betty needs help. "I feel like Sally did this to punish me." Damn it, Betty, it's not all about you.
    -Remember when Carlton slapped that other dude's son and the other dude got weirded out?
    -Did you see the sigh Henry Frances let out after Betty went up the stairs? There is a lot of regret in that sigh.
    -All of the scenes with Honda were funny. Mostly because of Pete Campbell or the translator, "I don't know what this room is for." "It's a cantaloupe."
    -"I'm still wondering what makes you work." Love it.
    -The auteur commercial director, is there anyone more annoying? Besides Ted Shaw / Ted Chaough, at least. It's hard to tell if Ted will be a recurring character or not. It makes sense to give Don an external competitor, it seems a little late in the game to introduce a new agency to play that role. We'll just have to wonder, though I'm glad they didn't just the easy way out of using an ex-Draper employee. "And give me 20 different words for pimples."
    -"Why does everyone need to talk about everything?" Don started by talking about not seeing the value of talking, and then shared a lot with the good doctor, an "interested stranger". On the other hand, she must find Don pretty irresistible to let him in on her fake marriage act.
    -"And when I drop them off, I feel relieved. And then I miss them." Unlike Don regressing into eternal badness, if last week he was neutral, I'd have to say this week he moved forward, towards the light. If only for showing concern after Betty slapped Sally and opening up about missing his kids. The theory that Don was going to continue to spiral downward with each irredeemable act is not looking good right now. Not saying he couldn't continue to fall, or that there were any great reveals this episode, just that the trend was reversed.
    -"Since when is forgiveness a better quality than loyalty?" It's hard to know what loyalty means on Mad Men. Sterling is probably the worst philanderer than Don.

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    Every week, I write a recap about that night's Mad Men episode and Chris Piascik draws one.

    Whereas last week, the episode was slow taking a lot of time with what happened, this week seemed to jump around. There was less of a focus on "What I want to do" vs "What's expected of me," and more of a look at the advertising world. These are nice episodes, too.
    -"Brief nudity." Well, now!
    -"Why is this empty?" "Because you drank it all." There are more and more references each episode to Don's drinking. Is this building to something? Later in the episode, Alison calls him a drunk.
    -Clearasil needs to be moved, putting Pete in an awkward position, which everyone seems to love doing. This is similar to Don having to fire the airline when Duck Phillips thought they had a shot at (Pan Am? US Air?).
    -"Lucky Strike noticed they're being billed for all the work we do for everyone else at this agency." I'd happily trade Lee Garner for Sal at this point.
    -Peggy seems to work really hard at not feeling awkward in unusual situations. Being hit on by a woman in a dingy loft party? No problem! Let's be friends. It did lead to some of the best dialogue of the night, "I have a boyfriend." "He doesn't own your vagina." "No, but he's renting it." "You're not working on something else," because everyone in advertising has a novel in their bottom drawer. "Art in advertising? Why would anyone do that after Warhol." "Sorry, for someone to sell their soul, they've got to have one."
    -The moment when Peggy was trying on Faye's engagement ring, Don saw her, and she saw him notice her... It's almost like Don and Peggy still share something between them, deeper than having slept together. Peggy doesn't know about Dick Whitman, right? She'll eventually find out.
    -And then Peggy and Alison. Alison assumes Peggy had slept with Don, as well, and that they could commiserate. Peggy pushes back hard on this. What they shared is deeper than a one night stand. Interesting that Alison couldn't hack it, though. This is why you have rules, Don. Don't break'em.
    -Pete also had some great moments in the episode. I had the sound off and I watched the scene with his father-in-law while I was writing this. You could tell what was being said, just from the expressions. Great acting. Then Pete goes home and seems genuinely excited about having a baby. Did you catch the, "How would you know how this feels?" line?
    -Pete and Ken was funny. It's nice to have Cosgrove back, he looked a little heavy. I liked how he went after Pete for stuff he may or may not have said, and some stuff he definitely didn't. Ken looks heavier and seems down on advertising. Though he's happier now than when he was at McCann. The writers don't think too highly of McCann, do they? Just for old times, Ken says something ridiculous without any sense of irony at all, "Another Campbell, that's just what the world needs."
    -And at the end of the episode, Peggy and Pete had a moment. It seemed like recognition and forgiveness? They smiled. Did the cut to the old people, "Did you get the pears?" mean anything, or was it just a cut? Did you get the pears? Pairs?
    -Alison and Don's confrontation was great. This time, however, Don didn't seem to be trying to be cruel. He wasn't hurting her because he was being selfish, he just didn't know what to do to fix the situation. Don thought it was nice to let Alison write her own recommendation. Alison was furious because she thought it showed Don cared even less about her. If he cared, he would have been able to write something nice.
    -Cooper. Hanging out in reception eating an apple. Why not?
    -"Every time you jump to conclusions, Tom, you make me respect you less." That's a burn!
    -What seemed to be a relatively recurring theme this episode, new vs old advertising. Science (Faye Miller) is telling them to stick with what's work, but Don rebels against this, and to a certain extent, Peggy trying to get the artist involved, does, as well. Don's argument is that people don't know what they like. They don't say what they want and how they want to be marketed to and the good advertisers will tell them. This has come up before, though usually in regards to clients. Don and Peggy work well together because, not only do they think of new messaging, they think of new angles. This goes against what the "science" says. "A new idea is something they don't know yet, so of course it's not going to come up as an option." "You can't tell how people are going to behave based on how they have behaved."
    -Part of Don's aversion to Faye Miller's science is his passion for privacy. He doesn't like market research and all the tricks Faye uses to get her information.
    -Don was less of a bad guy in this episode. In conversations this week, I mentioned I thought it was possible Don would last the series without ever becoming redeemable. What if he was just a bad guy, a cad, who just kept getting worse? He'd certainly be interesting as a protagonist, and Matthew Weiner would have experience with that type of character from The Sopranos. In the previous 3 seasons, there was always a charm to Don. We hadn't seen that in the first 3 episodes, and, in fact, he went in reverse. I'd say Don was stayed in neutral in this episode, what with the lack of hitting on secretaries and nieces of very close friends.

    What did I miss?

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    Every week, I write a recap of Mad Men, and Chris Piascik illustrates something from the episode. Here's week 3.

    I guess we need to start expecting weekly lines of dialogue like, "Is that what you want? Or is that what people expect of you" show up in the episodes. That is the theme of Mad Men, struggling to live within the expectations people have for you. Right now, Don is living it up right on the edge. Should we start 1965, everyone?
    -Oh, look, there's Joan's creepy doctor. She's wrestling with the expectation that she start a family. I don't get the sense that she really wants to, but she does seem to want to fulfill expectations. 2 procedures, hmm? "Whatever will be, will be" is not usually how it goes on Mad Men. We're talking about people who need control.
    -Harry Crane looks a lot better this week. Not sure what his appearance was supposed to convey in week 1. I couldn't put my finger on something about him since the middle of last year, but the character plays with a subtle confidence. He's not arrogant, but he also doesn't let Draper and the others push him around. He takes the abuse, but he doesn't seem so neurotic anymore.
    -Guess Don IS going to Acapulco, but first a quick stop in LA. He's going away, running away, but stopping at the one place he feels at home, Anne Draper's house. His familiarity with Anne's sister and niece lead us to believe he's spent a lot more time out in LA than we knew before. That wasn't the 2nd time he'd met them, or even the 3rd.
    -After Lane wishes Don a Happy New Year, Don says "Enjoy your family". Kind of a weird thing to say, but in retrospect, it foreshadows trouble.
    -"Consider me the incorruptible exception". The Lane/Joan plot-line was fun, starting with this quotation leading to an epic florist screw up. Too bad Lane couldn't FaceTime with his wife to smooth things over.
    -More on Don in LA. "Are you sitting in?" Don's conservativeness seems to be less about a personal belief structure, and more about a fear of change. Going to have to think on that one some more.
    -"You're in charge. Trust me, I work in advertising." Indeed.
    -Jan and Dean is who brought you Stephanie's bathroom break.
    -"Have you been there?" "No, but every time I hear this song, I want to go." Don's always wants to go. Somewhere. He likes the idea of the place, any place, but can't figure out where it is.
    -Oh, so it's Breyer's time in the fake Mad Men commercial world. This makes me want to buy your product less. Just know that, Breyer's.
    -Don making a move on Stephanie was something of a plot device to show us he's still a cad. It was telegraphed as soon as she walked into the house in a bikini top. It's meant to contrast his not caring about anything with his caring for Anne.
    -"But no one knows what's wrong with themselves and everyone else can see it right away." It's all so obvious that everyone is unhappy, but if we all ignore it, it'll be fine. Anne doesn't know she has cancer, but everyone else can see there's something wrong. Don doesn't know he's in a downward spiral, but everyone else can see it.
    -Anne's sister sets Don straight. "You're just a man, in a room, with a checkbook." This is what Don has been in his family's life for a long, long time, and I think hearing it was something of a shock. He sat Anne down to tell her she had cancer and then did the right thing by not. This is another interesting contrast because Don runs away from this problem, too. In this case, however, he did what was best for Anne and her family at the expense of the thing that would have made him feel better (commiserating with Anne).
    -No idea what the discussions of UFOs means, though it did bring out the conversation about how thin reality is.
    -Just noticed this Helvetica poster in the break room at SCDP.
    -Is Joan a cutter? She certainly seemed to purposely cut herself to get attention of the doc. It worked for the time being.
    -"Although things are precarious financially, it's been a magnificent year." SCDP really has done well in the last year to go from the hotel to 2 floors at the Time Life Building. It is part of the thin reality mentioned earlier. Don and Lane are having terrible years!
    -When they go to the movies, they have a courtesy seat between them. Guess that's not new. In fact, almost everything about Don and Lane on the town was funny, including Lane's outburst in the restaurant. "Is that what you want? Or is that what people expect of you."
    -Did the comedian introduce Paul Simon or Rudy Jensen?
    -This episode didn't seem to move time along as fast as some of the other episodes, and I think that contributed to it seeming a bit slow. What'd you think?

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    My friend, Chris Piascik, and I thought we'd do something different for this season of Mad Men. We meant to start last week, but forgot. In any case, every episode this season will have a recap from me and a daily drawing from Chris. If you're looking a this and there's no daily drawing, it'll be here shortly. Hope you enjoy!

    Christmas, 1964. 2 new characters (Phoebe, the nurse neighbor, and Dr. Faye Miller, the product marketing scientist) and 2 old characters (Sketchy Glenn and Ready Freddie Rumsen). Tonight's episode seemed, more than other episodes, to contrast old fashionedness with the new way of doing things. I can't remember men typing before (except for maybe Roger at one point), and tonight we had Don (who is quite adept at the typing, he's no hunt and peckerer) and Freddie tapping away. Peggy also had a typewriter at home, which seemed to be in the middle of the scene. There's also Freddie's old fashioned thoughts on how to market to women contrasting with SCDP's hiring of a market research firm, Motivational Research Group.
    -It's weird the Christmas episode airs in August. Subtle how Don gets Bobby a drum set for Christmas. That'll make Betty very happy. I imagine she'll never let him play it.
    -"Suffice to say, we're in a fraternity together." Freddie is back and he's in AA. Did a pretty good job staying clean this episode.
    -It was pretty clear that something is going to happen between Faye Miller and Don just based on the first scene, they were eying each other pretty heavily. However, it wouldn't surprise me if it's a couple episodes before she pops up again. "I'm disappointed, I thought you came in to flirt, but you came in to fight." During their last scene, Faye also expressed her advertising philosophy: "It all comes down to what I want versus what's expected of me." This calls to mind Don's explanation from season 1, "Advertising is based on 1 thing: happiness. And you know what happiness is? It’s the smell of a new car, it’s freedom from fear. It’s a billboard, on the side of the road, that screams with reassurance that whatever you’re doing is OK. You are OK."
    -Another contrast in this episode was Lee Garner's overt sense of entitlement compared to Don's less explicit. Lee acts like spoiled child, petulant and needy, forcing SCDP to re-plan their Christmas party. "I trust you'll make the necessary improvements." He genuinely seems pleased with his gift. "Reminds me of when I was a kid. Remember that? You ask for something and then you get it? Makes you happy." Don gets what he wants, but does it a little quieter. Having Allison bring his keys to him is one thing, making a move on her, and Phoebe to boot, show Don as a cad, taking what he wants. At least Lee Garner is paying a lot of money for SCDP to tolerate his boorish behavior. "Put it on, Roger. Put it on."
    -Sally Draper really does seem happy that Sketchy Glenn trashed her house as a way of showing his love. I don't know what's going on here. "Don't turn on the lights, shithead."
    -So, er, Don's going to Acapulco by himself?
    -Last week, Don mentioned his floor wax commercial was supposed to make viewers feel like it was a part of the show they were watching. Dove did that on this week's episode of Mad Men, and I'm a little surprised Mad Men went for it. More gimmicky then I expect from them.
    -At the Christmas party, Bert Cooper and the market research dude are railing against socialism and Obamacare. Good times! "If they pass Medicare, they won't stop until they ban personal property."
    -Pete and Trudy in the front of the Conga line. They love to shake it.
    -Peggy almost certainly doesn't think her boyfriend is marriage material, otherwise she wouldn't have slept with him.
    -Which leaves us with Don and Allison. I suppose it was bound to happen at some point, Don sleeping with someone from work, but he'd always been so careful before. We know he likes being taken care of. After last episode's prostitution scene, I was concerned Don would give Allison her Christmas bonus after giving her a Christmas bonus (wink, wink), he did the next worst thing and gave it to her the next morning. "I just wanted to say thank you for bringing my keys."
    -What else?

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    It might take a couple episode for me to get all analytical again, but let's give it a whirl. Last season ended with endings and beginnings, this episode did the heavy lifting of telling us where we are this season. We're almost exactly a year after last season's finale. Henry Francis and Betty are married and living in the Draper residence. Don's living in an apartment, and Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce have moved into two floors of the Time Life building.
    -Everyone is going to start these recaps with the first line of the season. "Who is Don Draper?" I don't know if that'll be a theme to the season, but it is consistent with the series' theme of, "What do you want me to say/do?" which Don hints at in the next line, "What do men say when you ask that?" Finally copping out of the interview with, "We were taught that it's not polite to talk about yourself." This scene, a failed PR ploy, is instructive to Don's idea of the agency. He thinks he can create good work and the clients will come.
    -However, Peggy and Pete's PR campaign, a couple of women fighting over a canned ham in the grocery store, was successful... "until it wasn't". Don's frustrated with this. It's a stunt, and it's not the image he wants for his agency. These stunts don't have value as work (and you can't charge for them, anyway). It must have struck a chord with him, though, because that combined with throwing the Jantzen prudes out of the office, convinced to be the Don Draper the agency wants/needs him to be in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
    -"Next time just have one meeting." Pete Campbell is convinced that SCDP's size will be an asset. The small upstart. I wonder if this will be a theme of the season, small vs big.
    -Don's in a rush, seems grumpy (with the maid), tired (sleeping in his office), and tells Pete how it's not worth having meetings they don't have a chance at because every hour is accountable to the growth of the agency. I wonder if time, Don wanting more of it, will pop up again.
    -Even in an apartment, Don has a maid.
    -Not much to say about Don's date except she wants to come off as sophisticated. Let's use this to talk about the prostitute Don hires on Thanksgiving. TO SLAP HIM! That was sort of a "Sal in the park" scene, wasn't it? I forget exactly what she said, but I'm hoping it was, "I know what you want me to do." That would be a perfect counterpart to Don's question (I swear, it's tattooed on his back), "What do you want me to do?" I don't think anyone saw the slap coming because Don has been more dominant in the past.
    -Harry Crane looks terrible. Why is that?
    -Just going to mention Sally Draper. I'm so glad she got made a series regular so she can be in more episodes. She really adds a lot.
    -Peggy's "fiance". OK... "All we want to do is please you." Peggy wants Don to know that she's learning, he wants her to know it's not happening fast enough.
    -Two anachronisms things to ground us in 1964 today, John and Marsha and The Murder Andrew Goodman. (If you're scoring from home, that's one point for Paste Magazine and their list of 16 things about 1964 that could be featured. 15 to go.)
    -"Believe me Henry, but everyone thinks this is temporary." That's a zing for Don. I also liked Henry Francis' mother getting in on the Betty hate, mentioning that the kids are terrified of her, and that Henry could have gotten what he wanted without marrying Betty. Is Betty holding onto the past by not looking for a new house to move into? It wouldn't surprise me. Henry does want to move, though, so we'll see what happens.
    -I'm happy about the pitch in this episode. The office scenes and actual business of advertising were something that were lacking in season 2 and 3. Of course, Season 3 had a pitch in the first episode, too, so we'll see if that keeps up.
    -There was a lot about image and appearance in this episode, what's the image of the agency, how does Don come across in an interview, women fighting over a ham... I think there's going to be more of this.

    I was happy with this episode. A couple surprises (the prostitute and the slap), good dialogue, an ad pitch... Glad Mad Men is back.

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    Season 4 of Mad Men starts tonight and I'm looking forward to it. I'll be doing the weekly episode recaps again this season, but before we get to that, here's a round up of what some on the internet are saying about Season 4 of Mad Men, along with some more general Mad Men links.

    -The NY Times previews season 4 and has a paragraph or 2 about what happens in the opening episode.

    -Here's the WSJ with a look at how Matthew Weiner, the show's creator, and Jainie Bryant collaborate on the clothing for the show.

    “Matt has a very strong opinion of what he wants in terms of clothes and he’ll write it into the script,” says Scott Hornbacher, the executive producer of “Mad Men.” “But Janie is one of the only people on set who can wear him down. She’s got that Southern aspect to her—where everything is said in a very polite way with a smile—but deep down she’s pretty tenacious.”


    -Alan Sepinwall's preview with more info about what happens in the first episode. Also on the potential for pushback from fans this year.
    The press has spent much of the last three years raising “Mad Men” up, and the show is entering the age at which critics’ darlings start to get knocked down. What once felt fresh begins to seem tired, and there’s usually a shiny new toy to distract you from the old reliable one.


    -On Language on anachronisms and un-anachronisms.

    -Flavorwire and the periodic table of Mad Men.

    -Esquire's 8 lessons from Don Draper.

    -Postmadern Men from the New Yorker is dumb.

    -Everything You Need to Know to be Ready for Season 4 of Mad Men

    -Playboy finally scores one of the women from Mad Men, and it's... Lois from the switchboard.

    -2 posts with the title, 'The Times They Are a Changin'. Newsweek and
    Zap2it.

    -16 Significant 1964 Moments Mad Men Might Tackle in Season Four. Not sure how many of these will make the cut. For one thing, I understand this season to be taking place about a year after season 3. That would put us in November/December 1964. Of course, the reported timeline has been wrong before. The other thing is the Kennedy assassination was THE defining moment of that generation... These 16 things don't have the same stature.

    -How "Mad Men" transformed pop culture this slide show is off in some respects, but on in others.

    -There isn't much to James Wolcott's blog post except this: "Having seen the episode, I will say this, however--I severely doubt that anyone will find the season opener a letdown."







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    July 25th, you guys.

    Via The Daily What

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    • ]]>     Olly Moss posting a Mad Men design? If you didn't know I'd post this, you don't know me very well. At all. That Don Draper quote at the bottom of the poster that's hard to read? "You know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of the road that screams reassurance that whatever you are doing is OK. You are OK."

    You guys, the new season starts July 25th.

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