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Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: Crisis Management 101

FHIQ — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:04:07 -0000

As for the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis: there’s very little I can say about that. My parents, who both worked for Pfizer, sold a considerable amount of Pfizer stock when the market tanked in the uncertainty, and for one reason or another they didn’t get back in. The way they always spoke of it, I would have been a Pfizer heiress if the missile crisis hadn’t happened.

Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: Crisis Management 101

David Ehrenstein — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:38:56 -0000

It's Frank O'Hara Day

Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: Crisis Management 101

MaPeel — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:55:26 -0000

Very sad news from The House Next Door. Andrew Johnston passed away yesterday, October 26. His recaps of Mad Men were beautiful pieces of writing. Matt Zoller Seitz stepped in for Andrew yesterday with his usual stunning insights.

http://www.thehousenextdooronline.com/2008/10/m...

Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: Crisis Management 101

SweetSue — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:22:18 -0000

You have to understand that people really believed that they were about to die.
And Pete just told her that he loved her and that, in his eyes, she was perfect.
Jesus, are women ever allowed to be people?

Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: Crisis Management 101

terrsa — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:39:53 -0000

I thought she was saying that she had the chance once to be with him, decided she wanted something else and he needed to bug off and stop trying to do his lame, married guy come one.

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clairehelene7 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:21:44 -0000

I agree, it seemed cruel. But I think it was her way of repenting. She doesn't think God is as mean as the young priest does, but know thinks honesty is important.

Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: Crisis Management 101

tim — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:14:19 -0000

OK, I'll admit my ignorance and ask: why did Peggy tell Pete about the baby? Just to be cruel? What the hell was the point of that? I often think she's a sociopath.

Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: Crisis Management 101

clairehelene7 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:12:16 -0000

Well, they are actors Tom. ;-)

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Steve Paradis — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:10:01 -0000

If the center is Don, the season was disappointing.
If the center is Peggy, it wasn't.
If the center is Pete, I need a highball.

Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: Crisis Management 101

JamesS — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:06:05 -0000

Do you remember that conceptual art screening of Hitchcock's Psycho one frame a second at MoMA? This season M-Squared seemed to me like televising a Douglas Sirk movie one frame a second.

Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: Crisis Management 101

clairehelene7 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:05:59 -0000

Weiner definitely thinks he's amazing. Luckily he'll have some time now to soak in all those accolades.

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Steve Paradis — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:05:19 -0000

When was he looking for work? Hot rods were pretty well known by the 60's--that scene looked like mid 50's.
I think he went from Hope Lange to Love Reign O'er Me to the stables.
Goddamit, Weiner--would a transition kill you? This is AMC, remember?

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tomwatson — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:04:04 -0000

I think Matt's got a future in TV advertising - this was one helluva beer commercial.

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James Wolcott — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:01:25 -0000

The creative gap between Matthew Weiner and David Chase widens at every turn.

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tomwatson — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:00:43 -0000

Would it be impolitic to note that that they all seem rather simple?

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MaPeel — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:59:51 -0000

I'm sorry, I'm still in crisis. And has Don really changed, or he just thinks he changed.

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tomwatson — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:59:49 -0000

Strange point of fact: it's now moored in Fall River, Mass as part of a floating museum.

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Steve Paradis — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:59:14 -0000

"Hi, Christina. Hi, Christina's rack."

Though it's nice to see that Bryan Batt isn't Poor Sad Sal.

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MaPeel — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:57:37 -0000

He's the Vincent Chase of the 60s.

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tomwatson — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:57:29 -0000

You noticed that, huh? Plus he'd sort of, um, changed? Like he wasn't the same character - again.

Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: Crisis Management 101

clairehelene7 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:56:46 -0000

I agree. And since they combined the commercials and ended 10 minutes early, I feel a little cheated as a viewer. (And I don't even love the show.)

Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: Crisis Management 101

MaPeel — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:55:00 -0000

Too much again happened off camera. What happened to Dick Whitman in CA with the first Mrs. Draper?? He was saying he was looking for work, then he takes a dip in the Pacific and ends up on a riding farm in Westchester. Not very tight plotting.

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clairehelene7 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:54:24 -0000

It's funny to see the actors with modern haircuts.

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Steve Paradis — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:54:22 -0000

Well, THAT ended.
So, "The Prisoner" is set in the Area 51 base housing. No American Portmeirion?

Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: Crisis Management 101

clairehelene7 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:52:29 -0000

No it didn't.