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The World According to Bert Cooper

Started by tomwatson · 9 months ago

As I mentioned in our last outing, the life in the edges in Mad Men is often more entertaining than the faux suburban turmoil that makes up the lives of Don and Betty Draper. The world of Sterling Cooper is really coming into its own in season two, even as the cardboard angst of Ossining [...% ... Continue reading »

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wedgito
9 months ago

why don't the SC guys ever go visit the clients? would love to see other offices too.

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tomwatson
9 months ago

Too much budget...

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tomwatson
9 months ago

I just watched last week's episode, and the agency stories were great. Do I are about Don and Betty's phony marriage? Naw.

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MaPeel
9 months ago

Testing, testing. Dusting off the live-blogging cobwebs.

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MaPeel
9 months ago

Okay Tom, are we going to have the Titanic discussion? The film came out in 1958--surely the good Fr. and Peggy would hear that echo.

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tomwatson
9 months ago

Yeah no question they would - you should be happy the so-called "Catholic" plot line is back - plenty of snark material

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MaPeel
9 months ago

Did he just say Maytag is "very sensitive to Calvinism???""

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MaPeel
9 months ago

Roger never looked more like Larry Tate than in this classic Bewitched entertaining-the-client dinner scene.

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tomwatson
9 months ago

Larry Tate wore the befuddled look brilliantly - how cool would it be if Betty wiggled her nose? She'd be a lot more interesting.

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tomwatson
9 months ago

I like Duck - guilty confession. Indeed, I'm enjoying the S-C ensemble.

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tomwatson
9 months ago

I'm slightly distracted tonight by the financial Armageddon unfolding on Wall Street...

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MaPeel
9 months ago

Don't you bring no reality into the Mad Men zone Tom. Drink a Manhattan until the urge to care about real life goes away, just like Don.

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tomwatson
9 months ago

Don never seems to worry about that bottom line...

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MaPeel
9 months ago

Pro bono "clients." The reason never to volunteer--

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tomwatson
9 months ago

Tell me about it!

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MaPeel
9 months ago

Woa--Betty speaks! Betty finds the words she has needed to say for a long time. Pretty big character development.

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tomwatson
9 months ago

Joan's got a future in television!

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MaPeel
9 months ago

LOVE the Maytag guys.

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tomwatson
9 months ago

Yeah...the ad business is actually getting better - they listened to what we said here last year, obviously.

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tomwatson
9 months ago

Hey, that's St. Patrick's across the street from Roger's office!

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MaPeel
9 months ago

I hope Joan finds her voice about this---

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tomwatson
9 months ago

The singin' priest...

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James S.
9 months ago

Is this the guy who started the guitar Mass? Sheesh...gimme that old time
spooky-tooth Sunday show...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6AOvStZS64

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MaPeel
9 months ago

Well, it was a night to remember for Don---the night that Betty finally put it all together and said NO.

The rest of the episodes will be Don rearranging those decks chairs---

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Victoria
9 months ago

One of their best episodes, I thought. The Joan development - her talent, her high business value, the trigger of insecurity in her fiance, the
gross stupidity in hiring that young guy to do "her" job...boy, I hope they play this out well. It's rich material. Joan needs to head up the TV Department before this is over. --- Betty working up a sunrise sweat, beating the crap out of a chair, and slopping around in her wonder bread party dress... I liked it.

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