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Mad Men - Season 6 - Sundays on AMC

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Cornballer

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Content Round Up - Episode 8 - The Crash

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Videos:
- Inside Episode 608 Mad Men: The Crash (youtube vid)
- Next on Mad Men: Episode 609 (please spoiler tag any discussion, youtube vid)
- Janie Bryant on Costumes in Episode 608: Inside Mad Men (youtube vid)

Reviews:
Coming soon.

Other content:
- AMC Q&A with January Jones
 
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movie_club

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Hey everyone!

Don is about to break into new levels of advertising. Post '68 we firmly enter the Society of the Spectacle.

He was already trying to "sell his experience" in the premier after Hawaii.

He is to ahead of the task at hand for Chevy.

He is the ideas man...And is foreshadowing an era where adverting isnt even about the product anymore.

"trying to get to the basics of advertising"


Sure his trip and ideas were wrapped in Sylvia, but not really in the end.
 
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Zeus Molecules

illegal immigrants are stealing our air
watching the episode again I got to say one of the lessons of this show is don't tell your kids where you keep your expensive watches... lol
 
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movie_club

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"If this strategy works its bigger than a car, its everything"- Don draper

Don: "How do I capture her imagination?"

Peggy: "Who is her?"

Its about getting your foot in the door...the way youtube ads have 5 seconds to grab you

Which is why he keeps muttering about sylvia dont shut the door.

ConfusingJazz said:
I just kinda prefer letting the show reveal it to me instead.
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...the show has revealed it.
 
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ConfusingJazz

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movie_club said:
"If this strategy works its bigger than a car, its everything"- Don draper

Don: "How do I capture her imagination?"

Peggy: "Who is her?"

Its about getting your foot in the door...the way youtube ads have 5 seconds to grab you


...the show has revealed it.
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He hasn't sold it yet. Hell, they haven't built a campaign on it yet.

I mean, he has yet to show a product in any campaign this season, but no one has bought into it. It's an idea that hasn't been revealed to the audience completely yet.
 
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movie_club

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ConfusingJazz said:
He hasn't sold it yet. Hell, they haven't built a campaign on it yet.

I mean, he has yet to show a product in any campaign this season, but no one has bought into it. It's an idea that hasn't been revealed to the audience completely yet.
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What? The episode ended with Don saying call me in 1970 when we are ready to make an ad. he is moving on to bigger things.

So because it has not been "revealed" completely it cant be discussed in this thread?
 
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ConfusingJazz

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movie_club said:
What? The episode ended with Don saying call me in 1970 when we are ready to make an ad. he is moving on to bigger things.

So because it has not been "revealed" completely it cant be discussed in this thread?
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We don't even know what that means. The man could just be saying "Fuck this shit" and becoming a manager. At least, until now, that's exactly what I thought.

I think it's kind of the point of the season, so kinda.
 
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Zeus Molecules

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ConfusingJazz said:
We don't even know what that means. The man could just be saying "Fuck this shit" and becoming a manager. At least, until now, that's exactly what I thought.

I think it's kind of the point of the season, so kinda.
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I am pretty sure he was saying I am done spending my weekends here "working" on Chevy. which makes sense due to it being the time he is suppose to be with his kids and look at what just happened.
 
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Amir0x

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boy did this show ever redouble its efforts to be the best show on television after having its first middling season ever
 
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HP_Wuvcraft

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what am i watching.

that intensity between don and ken.

that was amazing.

EDIT: That Don monologue. "The darkness is coming" "do what you have to"
 
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lamaroo

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The episode wasn't quite as surreal on the second viewing, everything made sense. Those time jumps the first time around though, so good.

Although I'm still not sure how much time passed between the scenes where Wendy shows up in his office, but I love that conversation.

"I think it's broken"
"You can hear that?"
"I can't hear anything"
 
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Zeus Molecules

illegal immigrants are stealing our air
ok last note of the episode the "don't close the door" theme also can represent Don's relationship with Peggy as well. When he was standing on the stairs and ted's secretary closed the door on Ted and peggy's conversation was the exact moment Don started to trip and become obsessed with Doors.
 
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Mad Men continues to rival the best Sopranos episodes, in terms of being an absolute cerebral thrill ride.

This one reminded me of arguably the best Sopranos episode ever, Funhouse.
 
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Deified Data

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Goddamn, felt like that episode was directed by David Lynch. I had to check the credits just to make sure it wasn't. So disjointed and surreal. Amazing episode.
 
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psykomyko

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So I was late to watching this tonight, but before I started I saw on Twitter people calling it the worst episode of the entire show. I have no idea what they saw but it was not even close to that. Fantastic episode.

@NYR
The dream sequences in The Sopranos were fantastic. And I agree on Funhouse, such a great episode.
 
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Niraj

I shot people I like more for less.
This episode was pretty hilarious considering how much fucked up shit it dealt with (Gleason dying, Stan's cousin dying, the thief at Don's place, Don's flashbacks). Really good contrast there. Just so much funny stuff:

The Ken tap dancing part was fucking awesome.

One of my favorite parts is right after when Don runs after Ken, then around the room the creatives are at, then stops and walks in like he wasn't doing anything lol

Stan getting the pen stuck in his arm, and Ginsberg's awful throwing.

Speaking of Stan, his ever-increasing idea count.

Etc etc

It's seriously just amazing how this show just keeps staying so damn good.
 
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Niraj said:
This episode was pretty hilarious considering how much fucked up shit it dealt with (Gleason dying, Stan's cousin dying, the thief at Don's place, Don's flashbacks). Really good contrast there.
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Peggy's line about trying to avoid dealing with pain by doing drugs or having sex was spot on.



You could have never even seen an episode of Mad Men before and really enjoyed this episode. It stands on it's own.
 
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