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Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: By the Waters of Babylon

CliveGP — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:21:59 -0000

@Fatherflotam. I am also a fan of that German research department lady. My fovorite female of the series.

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pussypumps — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:51:00 -0000

My hubby feels the same. He's so turned on by the kinky, bitchy German research department lady. I have that character in mind when I surprise him on our anniversary with a kinky role play. I'm so excited with how he would react to it!

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blue girl — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:59:48 -0000

Loved the wicked Mad Men recap, Kristin.

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Kristin — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:51:22 -0000

The "like watching a dog play the piano line" was just painful. As was much of the episode. Hey, is it set in 1960? I'm just asking, because the director really isn't making a poing of it every three seconds or anything.

You might enjoy this week's irreverent and wicked "Attention Deficit Theatre" recap of "Mad Men" here:

http://www.unboundedition.com/content/view/2165...

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M.A.Peel — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:30:08 -0000

Karen, what a riot.

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Karen — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:51:34 -0000

fatherflot, yes--I think that was a Dr. Johnson allusion, which is why it initially made me laugh out loud for the first time in the series. But then I thought about it being said, in all seriousness, in 1960, and it just pissed me off.

For those of you not watching the show with Closed Captions, you're missing a surreal treat. Not only are our captioneers members of the "would of, should of, could of" school, but they thought those caviar blinis were "caviar balinese" and that Don was threatening to abandon his wife on an "ice flow." But my FAVORITE part was when someone (Don?) toasted by saying "L'chaim" and the captions informed us that he was "[speaking Jewish]".

I have to think Weiner must be behind these as well.

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cgeye — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:34:28 -0000

Um, palette.

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cgeye — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:23:52 -0000

Within the next two years, we'll see regional stagings of MACBETH, using this design palate. If I were a director, I'd be capturing screen shots now, and asking my artistic director to make lunch dates with those actors, and see what could happen with a hiatus.

Because the secretarial pool, where the witches emerge? With Salvatore as Hecate? Oh, I'm feeling it -- or, is it the antihistamines....

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Fatherflot — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:42:22 -0000

I turned to my wife tonight and said that my favorite character is the German research department lady. She was in the first episode, but I don't recall seeing her again until this ep. She's got a welcome kinky-bitchy vibe and the actress can act, unlike most of the rest of the chickens. The tension between her and the red-breasted battleship in the lipstick scene was about all the juice this episode had.

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Fatherflot — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:38:25 -0000

Tom:

Isn't the "dog playing the piano reference" a rather lame update on Samuel Johnson's quote about lady preachers?

[to Boswell] "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all."

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Jim Tourtelott — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:23:06 -0000

BG--

Of course she would. She came up with one of the best remembered campaigns of the last forty years, and these clowns' top idea man thought "O Little Town of Bethlehem" was a flash of genius.

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David Halsted — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:21:26 -0000

Don, Don -- you ran away from your family, created a new identity, fought in the war, made it to the top of the advertising game, you have a beautiful wife and an artsy mistress who wears black underwear --
How did you become such a boring stick-in-the-mud?
Maybe one of the other Mad Men will turn out to be with the CIA and dose Don's scotch with LSD...but that's probably hoping for too much.

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blue girl — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:12:03 -0000

Lois Wyse wouldnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t have done well with these guys.

I have a feeling she would've kicked their butts.

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blue girl — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:10:36 -0000

As far as soap opera's go, it's picking up a little steam, I guess. But, that's all it is -- a really pretty, well propped soap opera with an advertising backdrop.

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Jim Tourtelott — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:07:20 -0000

Lois Wyse wouldn't have done well with these guys. Or at least The I Don't Want to Go to Bed Book for Boys wouldn't.

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Tom Watson — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:06:14 -0000

I'm pretty sure it's the same beatniks Joe Friday and Bill Gannon busted in '67.

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M.A. Peel — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:06:07 -0000

Tom, hahahaha!

Never has a writer/producer done so little with so much potential. Oh, wait, that's the Sorkin school of tv.

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Tom Watson — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:03:15 -0000

Good one, blue girl!

This feels like Planet of the Apes, and the woman are the humans.

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Jim Tourtelott — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:01:59 -0000

Actually, these are the same beatniks Jethro wanted to join when his career as a double-nought spy didn't work out. As you may remember, when Granny told them about morning chores, one of them said, "You mean it gets to be 6 o'clock twice?"

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blue girl — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:01:38 -0000

creative women were all over hte agencies in the 50s and 60s. Not at the very top, but most definitely outside the secretarial pool.
Some were at the top.

Don't be fooled.

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James Wolcott — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:00:31 -0000

It would sure be nice if they could pull together some of these story strands into something resembling tension and ignition--didn't Matthew Weiner learn anything from his time on The Sopranos. There's nothing simmering under these scenes.

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Jim Tourtelott — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:58:33 -0000

M.A,, you're exactly right. That montage to metaphoric music was pure Studio 60.

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Tom Watson — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:54:08 -0000

This looks like the same beatnik dive Goober Pyle visited over in Mount Pilot.

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M.A. Peel — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:53:42 -0000

This is becoming very Sorkin here

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Jim Tourtelott — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:52:44 -0000

Sweet Jesus. What is the beatnik for--equal opportunity cliche?