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Mad Men: Everybody Into The Typing Pool (Liveblog The New Girl)

Started by tomwatson · 10 months ago

As fun as it is to get lost in, and quibble with, the exhaustive amount of period detail in Mad Men, that’s not quite where I come from on it. Right or wrong (or more to the point, right AND wrong), the period details of Mad Men are meant, I think, to frame the story %5 ... Continue reading »

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  • tomwatson

    10 months ago

    Yeah, self-creation - or recreation. Good theme, WB - and one that's been occasionally potent in this series. Sometimes incredibly conscious, and sometimes more instinctual. You're right, that "creative class" we hear so much about now was alive and well in 1962 and furiously changing skins while appearing to toe the line of the conventional in society.

    This needs more exploration by the group...

    I'm in the mountains with the iffiest of signals - but a good cable TV connection. So, WB, we're on differnet poles of the access axis. Looking forward to tonight but my comments will be sparse.
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  • James Wolcott

    10 months ago

    What's Michael Kinsley doing in Sardi's?
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  • James Wolcott

    10 months ago

    Don Draper is looking especially soul-sick this evening.
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  • James Wolcott

    10 months ago

    Liquor straight from the bottle--classy.
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  • tomwatson

    10 months ago

    Uh, Stony Brook is on the north shore - that'd be the sweet Long Island Sound you're smelling, sweetheart.

    Research!!
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  • James S.

    10 months ago

    I thought for a moment that Don and Bobbie were gonna T-Bone Roger O. Thornhill's
    car driving through Glen Cove, with a CGI generated guest appearance by Cary Grant.
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  • MaPeel

    10 months ago

    And it's in Suffolk, and that's a Nassau police uniform
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  • tomwatson

    10 months ago

    That's a power move for Peggy...the queen of self-invention.
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  • MaPeel

    10 months ago

    Love Peggy's white gloves at 2 in the morning
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  • James Wolcott

    10 months ago

    I have high blood pressure too but I've never used it as a cover story for carousing with another woman and wrecking a car.

    But that's just me, I don't mean to "judge."
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  • tomwatson

    10 months ago

    Lipitor has been known to make me a crazy man...
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  • James Wolcott

    10 months ago

    It's interesting how Jimmy Barrett manages to be an irritating presence even when he isn't on screen.
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  • James Wolcott

    10 months ago

    Does John Slattery do ANY work?
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  • weboy

    10 months ago

    As far as I can tell, no. Which fits the pattern of executives I've seen at his level. :)
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  • MaPeel

    10 months ago

    Bobbie is Don-obsessed. Could be actual trouble--
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  • James Wolcott

    10 months ago

    "Professional decorum" at Sterling Cooper? What, huh?
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  • MaPeel

    10 months ago

    The New Girl, just giving it the old college try. Surely Joan should get that.
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  • James Wolcott

    10 months ago

    That zipper solo--needs work.
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  • MaPeel

    10 months ago

    I don't recognize the Zipper Soloist. Where's that Duck guy?
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  • MaPeel

    10 months ago

    Pete physically looks a lot like Don right now
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  • James Wolcott

    10 months ago

    I don't think the Mozartian zipperist has been in the last couple episodes, though he's familiar from last season.

    Pete wanking into a cup (thankfully offscreen)--Slattery playing paddle-ball--the zipper solo...it's some kind of thematic motif.
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  • MaPeel

    10 months ago

    Don giving Peggy advice about how "this never happened" is actually deeply chilling. Peggy is making a deal with the Devil--
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  • James Wolcott

    10 months ago

    Peggy's calling Don by his first name had a pivotal quality.

    That last scene could have been called "The American Family going through the motions" or "Donna Reed meets the alienation effect."
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  • MaryC

    10 months ago

    Zipper soloist made me laugh because .. this actor was a second banana on "Dharma & Greg" playing Greg's sidekick, a goofy fellow lawyer. And this is exactly the kind of business they'd write for Dharma & Greg Guy -- coming out of his office to play a tune on his zipper with the same "look what I discovered!" expression on his face. Don't know what this means, if anything (why would anyone want to give a shout-out to Dharma & Greg?). It was just funny.
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  • ahurvitz2

    10 months ago

    I was disappointed, actually cringing, at the overly mannered dialogue and performances of the charcter Pete Campbell and his wife. It almost entered "Desperate Housewives" territory with the rigid and strangely stilted acting of both actors.
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    1 day ago

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