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Mad Men - Season 6 - Sundays on AMC

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BertramCooper

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is it about mad men or top of the lake?
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The teaser played a clip between Peggy and Don from S1, so methinks it will be almost entirely Mad Men.

Terry loves the show, and bookends pretty much every Mad Men season with Weiner and/or cast interviews. I think this will be her first interview with Moss, so it should be interesting.
 
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BertramCooper said:
The teaser played a clip between Peggy and Don from S1, so methinks it will be almost entirely Mad Men.

Terry loves the show, and bookends pretty much every Mad Men season with Weiner and/or cast interviews. I think this will be her first interview with Moss, so it should be interesting.
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nice! looking forward to it popping up on the podcast feed. terry gross is amazing.
 
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Jack Scofield

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I think every episode this season had a scene with Megan sallying up to Don, draping her arms around his neck, and sensually kissing him on the lips. It almost became parody.
 
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jorma

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Someone told me today that the "majority" of Mad Men staff of writers are women. Any truth to that?
 
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lobdale

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jorma said:
Someone told me today that the "majority" of Mad Men staff of writers are women. Any truth to that?
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CNN said:
Both writers are quick to point out that while gender biases still exist in the workplace, they don't exist in their workplace. In the "Mad Men" writers' room, a great idea is a great idea, they say, no matter who came up with it.

"We have a predominately female writing staff -- women from their early 20s to their 50s -- and plenty of female department heads and directors," Jacquemetton says. "[Show creator] Matt Weiner and [executive producer] Scott Hornbacher hire people they believe in, based on their talent and their experience. 'Can you capture this world? Can you bring great storytelling?'"
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This was as of season three, dunno what it's like now.


http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/08/17/o.women.and.mad.men/index.html
 
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jtb

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on that subject, I wonder how much writer turnover there is on Mad Men?

given how it was just drowning in the Emmys for the first four seasons, I have to imagine some of the writers were getting offers from other networks/shows. the show's remained pretty consistent tonally over the course of the six seasons so, either way, they've done an impressive job either keeping their talent or replacing them.
 
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BertramCooper

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on that subject, I wonder how much writer turnover there is on Mad Men?

given how it was just drowning in the Emmys for the first four seasons, I have to imagine some of the writers were getting offers from other networks/shows. the show's remained pretty consistent tonally over the course of the six seasons so, either way, they've done an impressive job either keeping their talent or replacing them.
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Quite a lot. But it wasn't because a lot of them were leaving; it's because Matthew Weiner was firing them.
 
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giga

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I'd say he succeeded.
 
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tsunami643

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I just caught up and watched the season finale, so I don't know if anyone has brought this up but:

Is Pete and Trudy's daughter retarded?

If so, I don't ever remember this being brought up, but earlier in the season someone asked him about how he wouldn't see his daughter if he moves to Detroit and he said "She won't know the difference," and then in the finale when he's saying goodbye to her, she looks semi-awake and blinking and moving her mouth, but not reacting. Unfortunately, a google search of "pete campbell retarded" yields about as many useful results as one would expect.
 
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tsunami643 said:
I just caught up and watched the season finale, so I don't know if anyone has brought this up but:

Is Pete and Trudy's daughter retarded?

If so, I don't ever remember this being brought up, but earlier in the season someone asked him about how he wouldn't see his daughter if he moves to Detroit and he said "She won't know the difference," and then in the finale when he's saying goodbye to her, she looks semi-awake and blinking and moving her mouth, but not reacting. Unfortunately, a google search of "pete campbell retarded" yields about as many useful results as one would expect.
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lol, but I assume it's because she's an infant.
 
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tsunami643

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Glorified G said:
lol, but I assume it's because she's an infant.
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That's what I thought at first but according to Wikipedia:

Tamsin "Tammy" Vogel Campbell is the first-born daughter of Pete and Trudy, born after a long and difficult labor (that took over two days). She is named a feminine variation of Thomas, her maternal grandfather's name, quite possibly in an attempt to assuage the thorny relationship between Pete and his in-laws. Tammy is born sometime between September 7 and 10, 1965, right after Labor Day weekend.
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I don't even remember the long labor thing, but that just strengthens my theory. Also, 4 years old is old enough to know your parents... right?
 
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tsunami643 said:
That's what I thought at first but according to Wikipedia:



I don't even remember the long labor thing, but that just strengthens my theory. Also, 4 years old is old enough to know your parents... right?
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I always assumed she was just a baby, but yeah that's plausible. Any other show I wouldn't give it a second thought but Weiner might be sly enough to set that up.
 
Jackben

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Pete was literally never home. He was gone in the morning when she woke up, at the office during the day and on the train when she was put to bed. After a while of that he didn't even come home at all during the week thanks to his apartment. Not to mention only seeing Tammy on the weekends after Trudy booted him out.

The child is just very young and likely isn't attached to Pete much. Occam's razor seems prudent rather than jumping to the conclusion that she is retarded based on conjecture.
 
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Mad Men's Emmy nomination haul from this morning:
AMC said:
The The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced this morning the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Award nominations, recognizing AMC with 26 nominations, which ties the network this year with FX for the most nominations of any basic cable network and marks AMC's sixth consecutive year with this distinction. Mad Men, which reigns as the only television series in cable history to win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series four years in row (2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011), continues to be the most Emmy nominated drama series on television with a total of 97 nominations. This year the series garnered 12 nominations, including Outstanding Lead Actor for Jon Hamm, Outstanding Actress for Elisabeth Moss, Outstanding Supporting Actress for Christina Hendricks, Outstanding Guest Actor for Robert Morse and Harry Hamlin and Outstanding Guest Actress for Linda Cardellini. The series also received nominations for Outstanding Cinematography for Christopher Manley as well as nominations for Outstanding Hair Styling, Outstanding Make-Up, Outstanding Sound Mixing and Outstanding Editing.

Below is a complete list of Mad Men nominations.

Outstanding Drama Series -- Mad Men • AMC • Lionsgate Television

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series -- Mad Men • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Jon Hamm as Don Draper (Read Interview)

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series -- Mad Men • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson (Read Interview)

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series -- Mad Men • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway Harris (Read Interview)

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series -- Mad Men • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Linda Cardellini as Sylvia Rosen

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series -- Mad Men • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Robert Morse as Bertram Cooper (Read Interview)

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series -- Mad Men • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Harry Hamlin as Jim Cutler

Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series -- Mad Men • The Doorway • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Christopher Manley, ASC, Director of Photography (Read Interview)

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series -- Mad Men • Collaborators • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Chris Figler, Editor

Outstanding Hairstyling For A Single-Camera Series -- Mad Men • The Doorway • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Theresa Rivers, Department Head, Hairstylist
Arturo Rojas, Key Hairstylist
David Blair, Hairstylist
Jules Holdren, Hairstylist

Outstanding Makeup For A Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic) -- Mad Men • The Doorway • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Lana Horochowski, Department Head, Makeup Artist (Read Interview)
Ron Pipes, Key Makeup Artist
Ken Neiderbaumer, Makeup Artist
Maurine Burke, Additional Makeup Artist
Cyndilee Rice, Additional Makeup Artist

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour) -- Mad Men • The Flood • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Peter Bentley, Sound Mixer
Ken Teaney, Re-Recording Mixer
Alec St. John, Re-Recording Mixer
Sean Rush, Production Sound Mixer
Joe Earle, Re-Recording Mixer
Doug Andham, Re-Recording Mixer
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CassSept

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I'm surprised MM didn't get a single writing nomination. The series dominated the category in the past (up to 4 out of 5 nominations during season 2!) and even last year (which I'd consider the weakest yet) got 3 noms. This year, nothing.
 
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This is OT for season 6 but i didn't want to make a LTTP thread but jesus christ is this show good. I tried watching it years ago and just found season 1 to boring and slow and uninteresting and maybe it's because it was a difficult time in my life and my head wasn't there but my aunt kept talking it up so i decided to give it another chance. So 3 days ago i started from season 1 and now i am on episode 3 season 3 and i can't stop watching it. I take back all negative things i have ever said about this show.

And Pete Campbell? I want to snap his neck. And i can't unsee Ken as Cole Phelps from L.A Noire, actually a lot of actors in this show were in L.A Noire
 
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Linius

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So yeah, I don't why but super LTTP I watched the last two eps from this season. Man some great stuff in there. Sally definitely growing up now. Great exchanges between Bob and Pete. Don putting Ted on the spot in that meeting about Peggy's commercial was outstanding. And then the season ended with quite a bang plus knocking in some sense to Sally. Can't wait for the next season.
 
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MetalGuardian

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I just finished Season 4. I love this show so very much.

Would any kind souls be willing to link me to articles covering the symbolism, allusions, foreshadowing, and etc. up through season 4? I did a quick google search but couldn't find anything that didn't go up through season 5. From what I've read this show is packed with symbolism and the like, and I feel like I've not picked up on a lot of it.

Only 13 episodes left for me on Netflix, and I'm assuming season 6 won't be added until mid-2014. Sigh!
 
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MetalGuardian said:
I just finished Season 4. I love this show so very much.

Would any kind souls be willing to link me to articles covering the symbolism, allusions, foreshadowing, and etc. up through season 4? I did a quick google search but couldn't find anything that didn't go up through season 5. From what I've read this show is packed with symbolism and the like, and I feel like I've not picked up on a lot of it.

Only 13 episodes left for me on Netflix, and I'm assuming season 6 won't be added until mid-2014. Sigh!
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Check out HitFix and the Onion A|V Club for reviews from previous seasons. Just scroll back through their archives to the episodes that you're looking for.
 
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MetalGuardian

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Cornballer said:
Check out HitFix and the Onion A|V Club for reviews from previous seasons. Just scroll back through their archives to the episodes that you're looking for.
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Hmm... is the symbolism self-contained in the individual episodes then? I just imagined there being overarching elements that weave through the whole series, but I'm obviously not well-versed in it or else I wouldn't be asking :p

Thanks Cornballer, you're the man. GAF would be far worse off without your dedication in all of these television threads.
 
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MetalGuardian said:
Hmm... is the symbolism self-contained in the individual episodes then? I just imagined there being overarching elements that weave through the whole series, but I'm obviously not well-versed in it or else I wouldn't be asking :p

Thanks Cornballer, you're the man. GAF would be far worse off without your dedication in all of these television threads.
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Some is, some isn't. A lot of it is costuming and color coordination, actually.
 
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