DISQUS

tomwatson · 1 year 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.

James Wolcott · 1 year ago

What's Michael Kinsley doing in Sardi's?

James Wolcott · 1 year ago

Don Draper is looking especially soul-sick this evening.

James Wolcott · 1 year ago

Liquor straight from the bottle--classy.

tomwatson · 1 year ago

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

Research!!

James S. · 1 year 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.

MaPeel · 1 year ago

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

tomwatson · 1 year ago

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

MaPeel · 1 year ago

Love Peggy's white gloves at 2 in the morning

James Wolcott · 1 year 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."

tomwatson · 1 year ago

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James Wolcott · 1 year ago

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

James Wolcott · 1 year ago

Does John Slattery do ANY work?

weboy · 1 year ago

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

MaPeel · 1 year ago

Bobbie is Don-obsessed. Could be actual trouble--

James Wolcott · 1 year ago

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

MaPeel · 1 year ago

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

James Wolcott · 1 year ago

That zipper solo--needs work.

MaPeel · 1 year ago

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

MaPeel · 1 year ago

Pete physically looks a lot like Don right now

James Wolcott · 1 year 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.

MaPeel · 1 year ago

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

James Wolcott · 1 year 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."

MaryC · 1 year 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.

ahurvitz2 · 1 year 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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