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Mad Men - Season 6 - Sundays on AMC

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Bobby Roberts

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GQman2121 said:
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Gaming side gaf in a nutshell
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This might be one of my favorite posts in the short time I've been here.
 
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movie_club

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Zeus Molecules said:
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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great point!
 
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Empty

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i didn't like it much. i liked roger's lsd trip last season way more than the weirdness in this, too goofy. don't care for the young don flashbacks much either.

jim cutler is pretty hilarious though. nice to get a sally story too.
 
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ari

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Yeeeeaaaaa, I don't think house of cards is knocking madmen off from the emmy race this year like homeland did last year.

The last three eps blows that show and others out the water. Kevin spacy is winning best actor though unless Cranston comes for his snub from last year.

Its gonna be a good emmy race me thinks.
 
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DataStream

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I think this has struck Twin Peaks episode 2 (red room reveal, tibetan dream) from my #1 fav piece of TV spot.

I have no idea where things are going now.
 
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royalan

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I think I need to let that episode sink in a bit.

I think Mad Men tried something bold tonight, but I don't think it quite hit its mark.
 
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Jerrod

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It was clear from the very beginning to me that the older black lady in Don's apartment was stealing, but I was really hoping she actually knew Don Draper (the original one) and that Don/Dick would get into a weird situation that would have been partly solved by her getting arrested but saying he isn't the real Don in front of everybody while being taken away. Would have been pretty awesome I think, but regardless this episode was amazing.
 
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CassSept

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Well, that was interesting. I enjoyed the episode, even though some of it felt like a retread (yes, we get it that Don was shaped by the whorehouse). Still, his final line was marvelous.
 
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Don being the bastard of a whore is the root of his self loathing and self destructive behavior. He's been made to feel like less than dirt his whole life and when he had the opportunity to be a new person and put his past behind, he jumped in with both feet. It was kind of disheartening to see Stan not take Peggy's advice to heart. It's crazy how Don almost banged Frank's daughter. She has to be no less than 18.
 
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pigeon

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I loved this episode. Terrifying as hell. If you've ever been on a lot of drugs while something genuinely bad is happening that you should be having a rational damage-control reaction to but can't, that's kind of what it's like.
 
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royalan

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FatboyRoberts said:
Sepinwall's review is up. He's mostly exhausted by it, and ultimately lands on the negative side rather than the positive.
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Ultimately, I have to say I agree with this:

My problem is that the execution was too self-conscious, and ultimately so strange that it distracted from anything the episode had to say about Don, mothers, fathers, Chevy or the way, as Don puts it in one of the more coherent parts of his pitch to Peggy and Ginsberg, history holds us all together. This was a memorably weird episode of "Mad Men," but one where I imagine I'm only going to remember the weirdness — the style and not the substance. As much fun as it is to watch Ken tap dance, or Ginsberg almost maim Stan, or Bobby try to make sense of Grandma Ida, those should be the garnishes on a "Mad Men" episode; they shouldn't leave a bigger impression than the main course.
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Angry Fork

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This might be my favorite episode of the season so far, it had everything and never let up.

Question: Anyone know the song playing when Don had his head against Sylvia's door? Or who was the woman singing it?
 
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brianjones

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I couldn't believe when don referred to cosgrove as "this cripple" in the beginning while he was in the room lol

such a dick

agree with sepinwall on the weakness of the flashbacks but i thought it was a really fun episode overall
 
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hateradio

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This reminds me that according to my grandpa, his grandma was black.


Anyway, the episode was a nightmare, but that's what it was supposed to feel like, I guess.
 
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ZanzibarBreeze

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My recap hasn't been published yet, but here are some of my thoughts. Loved the episode, by the way. One of my favorites so far.

The great irony of the episode was, of course, that Don was supposed to be working on the Chevy ad but was instead working on a speech that was to win Sylvia back. Don, after piecing together the greatest pitch and ad in history, one tailored specifically for his dear Sylvia, suddenly finds he lacks the ardor he once had. I assume it’s because he came home to that awful situation, saw the one ruined family he had, saw the second (potentially) ruined family he’s currently with, and was put off by it all. I can't say why, though -- was it guilt? Was it him sobering up off the high?

Connected with Sylvia was the curious mother complex that arose here. (It's a trait that his character should obviously have given his childhood, but it's something that hasn't been focused on until now.) We have his abusive step-mother, a motherly prostitute, the black con-artist that claims to be his mother and, of course, his quest to regain Sylvia; his quest to find his mother again. (If there’s any doubt that Sylvia and the mother issues are related, just look at the advertisement he eventually finds to spur on his creativity: a mother and son, the caption, "Because you know what he needs"—another irony, because the only real mother figure in his life, that abusive step-mother, certainly did not know what he needed.) I have to say, I don't really know what to make of it save for the fact that it was kind of obvious, but I'd love to see Weiner and co. examine this more.

What's it going to take for Don to say the words "I love you"? I kept waiting for him to say it to Sally, but it never came. He got tantalizingly close when he said "I left the door open," and I’m half-sure that was a deliberate choice of wording by the writers. He can’t say "I love" but he can say "I left." Of course, as he revealed a few episodes back, he doesn’t think he loves them as he should. And, as we learned this episode, he has a broken heart. So he doesn’t love anybody—at least he doesn’t lie to them and tell them that he does, I guess.

Finally, JH would make a good John McClane.
 
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SummitAve

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CassSept said:
That one part in the middle where Don walks from the creative meeting to his office and it's suddenly late afternoon was... interesting
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The whole thing made me feel uneasy and uncomfortable with what I and the characters perceived was going on, what was actually going on. Not a feeling I ever really get from tv drama, which is why I enjoyed it. And that's not necessarily just because it revolved around drugs. It definitely played with my expectations of the tone and personality of Mad Men. The LSD episode is much more in line with what you'd expect a drug-experience centered episode, this was just something different.
 
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Liquid Helium

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Watched the episode a short while ago, so fucking good and successful at what it tried to do. Nice to see Mad Men being as confident and as good as it was mid last season.
 
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BertramCooper

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Loved it.

I've always enjoyed trippy, experimental episodes, both here and on The Sopranos.

Mad Men seems to have a reputation for being boring and stodgy, but it's actually one of the most inventive shows on TV.
 
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hiryu

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I really loved the episode. I've never gone from full on laughter to very creeped out so quickly before. The whole thing was absurd and uncomfortable.
 
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dave is ok

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Angry Fork said:
This might be my favorite episode of the season so far, it had everything and never let up.

Question: Anyone know the song playing when Don had his head against Sylvia's door? Or who was the woman singing it?
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The song was 'Goin' Out of My Head', there is a more famous version by Little Anthony and the Imperials. I'm not sure what version they used for the episode, wasn't familiar with it.
 
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Ignatz Mouse

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dave is ok said:
The song was 'Goin' Out of My Head', there is a more famous version by Little Anthony and the Imperials. I'm not sure what version they used for the episode, wasn't familiar with it.
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There was a top ten recording of it in 1968 by the Lettermen. Bet that's it.

By the way, I missed the exact acronym that the company is using. I though I only heard 6 letters, is that right?
 
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dave is ok

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Ignatz Mouse said:
There was a top ten recording of it in 1968 by the Lettermen. Bet that's it.

By the way, I missed the exact acronym that the company is using. I though I only heard 6 letters, is that right?
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I think the doctor said all seven, but Gleason died so he might have not said the G
 
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