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Mad Men

This show is starting to remind me of BSG - a bunch of horrible horrible horrible people who I wish would just DIE DIE DIE so why am I watching this every week? But at least the BSG folks had the excuse that they were fighting for their lives. And their personalities were funny and colorful. And there were space battles.

Not all the characters are assholes, Peggy and the head of the tv department seem ok, and Don's daughter is funny. ;)
 
This show is starting to remind me of BSG - a bunch of horrible horrible horrible people who I wish would just DIE DIE DIE so why am I watching this every week? But at least the BSG folks had the excuse that they were fighting for their lives. And their personalities were funny and colorful. And there were space battles.

Not all the characters are assholes, Peggy and the head of the tv department seem ok, and Don's daughter is funny. ;)

I love Bert Cooper.
 
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Young Bert Cooper, fresh out of college, on his way to Manhattan to take Madison Avenue by storm? :lol:
 
Am I the only one who really, really loves the fact that they all but show us the final scene of the show during the opening credits every week?
 
Am I the only one who really, really loves the fact that they all but show us the final scene of the show during the opening credits every week?

I've thought that as well since the first episode of the first season. I thought to myself "well this must be how the series will end in the final episode". I know that opening could be conveying different things as well but i couldnt help but think that Don jumping from his office could very well be how it all ends. We have already seen a downward slide this season for him since he was pressured into signing a contract with SC. I'm sure the road ahead is even rockier given that there will probably be fall out from the teacher thing.
 
Oh, the teacher thing's gonna blow up in his face. Whether she gets possessive, knocked up, or Sally sees them going at it, it's gonna blow up. Don's headed for self destruction on that one. I'd love it if Betty finally managed to open Don's secret drawer simultaneously with finding out about the bunny boiler to be.

Vincent Kartheiser on Swine flu, the Charleston, and the bag he carries everywhere

Kartheiser is my favorite actor on the show.
 
I've liked Mad Men from the beginning, but things seemed to have slowed up. Good thing a season is only thirteen episodes long. I admit part of the appeal is its ambience and style.

But I missed last week's episode and I'll miss the rest of the season because I've just moved into an area that doesn't get AMC (or TCM :scream:) on the cable package.

I'll have to download the episodes, which is okay but I prefer watching things on my TV rather than my computer, or I'll just have to pick up the season sets.
 
Wouldn't Don get locked up in Leavenworth for desertion if he was ever found out publicly? Dick Whitman wasn't finished with his tour of duty. Maybe that's why Don would jump out a window? Korea was a "police action" but I understood that the same rules applied. Pre-Vietnam, a deserter couldn't hold his head up in public.
 
I've liked Mad Men from the beginning, but things seemed to have slowed up.

So far, the only interesting things that's happened this season are:

1. English guy loses his foot in an office party gone wrong.

2. Don's massive betrayal of poor Sal.

Putting these two together, the obvious next step is to combine office place violence and Sal's story. I vote he comes back to work carrying an AK-47* and lets Don have it.

*If AK-47s are anachronistic, how about a Tommy gun a la Scarface (the original!)?
 
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