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newcritics: Live Blogging Mad Men: “And you, sir, are no John Galt”

  • Tom Watson · 2 years ago
    Starting off with Robert Morse is never a bad move in this show...
  • Resumes · 1 month ago
    LOL!!!!!!! twerpiest of twerps nice choice of word to describe him
  • Claire Helene · 2 years ago
    I like how the kids wait til Dad's gone to play. :)
  • steverino · 2 years ago
    What are the odds they put a twist on it and Nixon wins?
  • Tom Watson · 2 years ago
    The Sterling Cooper crowd reminds me of the Kerry-Edwards bunch early on election night three years ago...
  • steverino · 2 years ago
    He DOES look like Orson Welles
  • M.A. Peel · 2 years ago
    Signs of real life in this episode--it's nice
  • Tom Watson · 2 years ago
    All he cares about is the glasses?!
  • M.A. Peel · 2 years ago
    there hasn't been a commerical yet
  • Blue Girl · 2 years ago
    Yeah, there are hardly any commercials in this show! Makes running up to read comments hard.

    Tom, he was preoccupied with those glasses so he didn't have to look at, ahem, other things.
  • Tom Watson · 2 years ago
    Ah, the myth of the stolen '60 election - which Nixon kept alive over Eisenhower's objections.
  • steverino · 2 years ago
    Well, so much for my alternate universe-Nixon wins '60 election scenario...was thinking this might be alternate universe where the life forms - while looking human - are really unemoting androids.
  • Tom Watson · 2 years ago
    I don't think DeNiro put on weight that quick for his Raging Bull role.
  • Blue Girl · 2 years ago
    She was *too much* coming in with that coat and hat on.

    I was glad though that she's gonna report them for the three bucks!
  • Claire Helene · 2 years ago
    I really hope that Don doesn't fall for Pete's blackmail. He's such a little twerp.
  • Blue Girl · 2 years ago
    Why am I all initial capped all of a sudden?

    It's so formal.
  • Claire Helene · 2 years ago
    Secrets can only hurt you if you keep them in the dark.
  • Blue Girl · 2 years ago
    He’s such a little twerp.

    Say it, sister. He is the twerpiest of twerps.
  • Guest · 3 months ago
    great
  • Tom Watson · 2 years ago
    Where's Hawkeye and Trapper?
  • steverino · 2 years ago
    Hey - it's Hawkeye!
  • steverino · 2 years ago
    Bite me, Tom.
  • steverino · 2 years ago
    What a wimpy jerk. Sheesh.
  • Claire Helene · 2 years ago
    Amen, Steverino. Don needs to grow a pair.
  • Tom Watson · 2 years ago
    Man he really is a whore-child!
  • steverino · 2 years ago
    Ah, Tom, but aren't we all? And isn't that the point of this subtle masterpiece of tv?
  • Tom Watson · 2 years ago
    Well, Draper is a Randian paragon in one aspect - his pure selfishness.
  • Claire Helene · 2 years ago
    HA!!! "And what a deep lack of character you have."
  • Claire Helene · 2 years ago
    Good call Tom.
  • steverino · 2 years ago
    Indeed. Who cares?
  • Tom Watson · 2 years ago
    I've heard that line before
  • M.A. Peel · 2 years ago
    Well quite a reveal.
  • James S. · 2 years ago
    I knew that Don wouldn't fold under pressure. He is a classic American. Jay Gatsby the ubermensch.
  • Karen · 2 years ago
    What I can't understand is why Don thought Cooper would even care. Wouldn't an Onjectivist only care about the man in front of him, rather than his past? I was praying that Don would call Pete's bluff, which Cooper handled exactly the way I assumed he would. Pete really is an idiot. Don had no reason to look so nervous.

    Kudos to Rachel, by the way. Nice to see a woman with balls on this show. Even more than Joan.
  • cgeye · 2 years ago
    "One never knows how loyalty is born."

    HUH?

    What the?

    IDGI.
  • Steve Paradis · 2 years ago
    “One never knows how loyalty is born.”

    Pete finds out how the Alpha dog alphas. Even if he doesn't, it's another great cryptic line for Cooper. I swear they cast the show around Robert Morse.
    Saddest orgy ever. I wanted so to see Edith Prickley Jr. get lucky: "I believe in MIRACLES . . . "
    And WEHT Kristen Schaal? Did she quit to follow the Conchords full time?
  • cgeye · 2 years ago
    "Galt is a bug, from the wrong side of the tracks. You don't want to be Galt."

    How did I miss this? It's what Paul said when Sal complained about playing the lead.