DISQUS

matt weiner · 1 year ago

You are absolutely right, Mad Men is horrible. Stop watching. Immediately.
-- Matt Weiner

tomwatson · 1 year ago

No thanks, Matt - it shows promise.

MaPeel · 1 year ago

Road trip!

tomwatson · 1 year ago

They want to do some LA locations - oh, the irony.

James Wolcott · 1 year ago

OMG, Betty's father is John McCain!

Or to put it another way,

OMG, John McCain is Betty's father!

tomwatson · 1 year ago

Ha - my friends, it's just a little stroke.

randomdeanna · 1 year ago

wahaha

MaPeel · 1 year ago

So the team hasn't seen any of Newman's films, but at least they're watching Hitchcock.

James Wolcott · 1 year ago

I wonder where Betty's family stays in Cape May.

tomwatson · 1 year ago

Who knows what he does and why he does it - ah, the insight of McCain - and that famous temper.

MaPeel · 1 year ago

Dad still sharp where it counts.

tomwatson · 1 year ago

Elisabeth Moss in the Madonna role....quite the advertising tie-in.

MaPeel · 1 year ago

The episode title is "The Inheritance." Sounds vaguely Henry James-like. Would that the writing was even glancing in that direction.

James Wolcott · 1 year ago

John McCain's wife looks like Claire McCaskill--now I'm really confused.

tomwatson · 1 year ago

And January Jones a young Cindy - whoa, he just went for her....

MaPeel · 1 year ago

You are so right---creepy casting

name · 1 year ago

Method schmethod. Look at that plaid jacket.

tomwatson · 1 year ago

the lining is the best part

James S. · 1 year ago

Was that Douglas Sirk's specter hovering over the scene with January Jones &
the housekeeper?

tomwatson · 1 year ago

Is this supposed to be a series of mini-episodes - like sketches - one unconnected to the next?

MaPeel · 1 year ago

Are Betty's kids ever coming home?

MaPeel · 1 year ago

Crazy Betty--how did she not pick up the phone the minute she found Glen?

James Wolcott · 1 year ago

That kid is creeping me out.

James Wolcott · 1 year ago

Throw his white, pontificating ass off the bus!

chan · 1 year ago

Maybe he'll get killed by the KKK (in a Marxist sense).

MaPeel · 1 year ago

Betty giving advice on mothering? Now we're in farce. Oh I don't know where we are--

James Wolcott · 1 year ago

Maybe this show should simply dispense with dialogue and simply have all of the characters sit/stand around smoking cigarettes.

tomwatson · 1 year ago

And stare wistfully into an uncertain future....

MaPeel · 1 year ago

As the light of a new day shines on our anti-hero's face---in a haze of smoke, of course--we can look forward to Don in LALA land next week.

MaPeel · 1 year ago

Matt is no longer doing the filmed post-game fill-in-the-blanks on the plotting and themes. I'm thinking it would be helpful if those tags came back.

James S. · 1 year ago

This was an entropy episode, with the story threads falling apart. I'm sure they will stitch it back together next week.

Steve Paradis · 1 year ago

Want plot? Watch "The Days of the Week". Ditto for dialogue. I don't care anymore. Tableaux vivants based on the ad pages of LIFE and LOOK--with something a little sad around the eyes, like they've been sitting there a bit too long.
This is Sirkland; they are all staring into the abyss, and looking damn fine doing it.
I keep hoping Don will come one morning and find Hope Lange manning the desk at his door, white gloves peeping out of her purse.

Next week? "Duck's off!"

Jim · 1 year ago

Won't the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Kennedy Assassination play a part in upcoming episodes? I remember walking to high school in October 1962 wondering whether I would be alive to come home in the afternoon. And Kennedy's assassination left many of us feeling like we were falling into the abyss, our young father figure murdered. Shaken and shocked. Who knew this was playing itself out earlier in the lives of Don, Betty, and the others. Perhaps Don will go into the music business and have something to do with the Beatles. Perhaps Elizabeth's baby will be adopted by Vincent and his wife. "Honey, the baby looks so much like you, it's scary.

Rosie · 1 year ago

What is this? Critics are surprised that Jon Hamm lost the Best Actor Emmy to Bryan Cranston and are now trying to justify why he lost by comparing his acting skills - to his detriment - to James Gondolfino? What hell is this? Sometimes, the media really astounds me. And sometimes they are full of crap. Like now.