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abraham linksys posted:Apparently she was supposed to look enough like Rachel to trigger Don's memory (at least, that's what the AV Club review implies), but it'd been so long since we'd seen Rachel I forgot what she looked like Its been so long since I watched Mad Men... Who is Rachel? I didn't understand any of that story line.
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Apr 6, 2015 06:41
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I love how Ken took a second to savor the moment at the end of that scene, and I loved even more that poo poo-eating grin he had:
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 This scene. This scene was the absolute best part of tonight's episode. Pete provides the comedic punch-line and Ken Cosgrove Accounts lays the foundation for what I hope is fabulous payback. I really do hope we get to see at least one scene where Kenny Cosgrove is the unhappy client and makes everyone squirm. Great start to a season.
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LostRook posted:I thought it was Midge. I'm glad I'm not the only one, I could have sworn it was her right as Don thought he recognised her. It made the scene with Rachel even weirder.
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Apr 6, 2015 10:24
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All the talk of a writing career has me thinking we'll see Kinsey again this season.
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Hoopy Frood posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one, I could have sworn it was her right as Don thought he recognised her. It made the scene with Rachel even weirder. I also coulda swore we had seen the waitress before. Maybe I've just seen her in another show.
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Apr 6, 2015 10:53
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GoutPatrol posted:I also coulda swore we had seen the waitress before. Maybe I've just seen her in another show. She's the vampire "mom" from Twilight. Also had an early season Grey's Anatomy several episode arc.
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Not reading any of this spoilery nonsense, but I'm sticking my head through the door to see if anyone knows if Amazon or iTunes UK will be streaming this after Sky shows it. I tried it buy it from both the US counterparts but couldn't get past the geography gates. I really don't want to pirate this. How are Sky's business practices not illegal?
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i cant beleive this.. theyre taking anothejr year break after a quarter of this season before showing the last quarter? amc has stooped to a new low
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Not Al-Qaeda posted:i cant beleive this.. theyre taking anothejr year break after a quarter of this season before showing the last quarter? amc has stooped to a new low AMC: the Zeno's Paradox of broadcasting.
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Peggy and Stan just need to get it on at this point. Stan the Man 2015
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That would be too happy of an ending. Also, agreed that Stan is currently turning into a bear so it would never work out.
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Panzeh posted:All the talk of a writing career has me thinking we'll see Kinsey again this season. I'm gonna go with Kinsey having become a wildly successful scifi writer, eventually getting into self-help and spinning that into a cult that he rules with a megalomaniacal iron fist.
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Apr 6, 2015 16:06
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It's amazing how a show that has hammered home how little people change no matter how hard they try always manages to leave me totally disoriented with how different everything feels in every season premier. Don's behavior reminded me of how I expected things to go after his first divorce- basically loving anything that moved and owning his unshackled status. It was weird seeing Don seem to have an actually good time banging that flight attendant, from start to finish. I wonder if he's over compensating with that persona the same way he played up being a Dad in the season 5 premier. He's definitely as hosed up as ever, although him being able to laugh with Roger of all people about his childhood is pretty significant. Only six episodes left  I would watch six episodes of Roger and Ted growing mustaches and creeping around after work parties with Don. There are just too many great characters for them to get to everything
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Red posted:I suppose, but even if he wanted to fight it, how much choice did Roger have? Roger really, really loves firing people. Every time he's done so, he's done it with great relish and several vicious barbs, particularly since every time he fires someone it's a surprise, too. I was surprised he was so cruel to Ken, but he seems to be in one of his Caligula phases.
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TheBalor posted:Roger really, really loves firing people. Every time he's done so, he's done it with great relish and several vicious barbs, particularly since every time he fires someone it's a surprise, too. I was surprised he was so cruel to Ken, but he seems to be in one of his Caligula phases. I don't remember which episode it was where Roger tries to convince Bert that he's ready for a serious leadership position and Bert just shuts him down and rightly points out that Roger has never been leadership material. We're now seeing the post-Cooper Roger where he feels like its his company and is just wrecking everything good about it by letting McCann do whatever they want. Just Roger's comment about "Guess they need someone in fertilizer" was really hosed up because it seemed like he was trying to joke that Ken was only good enough to shovel poo poo, when Ken has been an integral part of the company for years and was only fired because an rear end in a top hat McCann exec personally hates him, something Roger gave no fucks about.
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So, what is it with Don's hallucinations? First Bert, then Rachel. Is this an indication that he might be sick? Losing it? Alcoholism? Or just prone to daydreams?
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Ana Lucia Cortez posted:So, what is it with Don's hallucinations? First Bert, then Rachel. Is this an indication that he might be sick? Losing it? Alcoholism? Or just prone to daydreams? Probably Syphilis
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Apr 6, 2015 19:29
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Terminal case of prestige drama protagonist
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Ana Lucia Cortez posted:So, what is it with Don's hallucinations? First Bert, then Rachel. Is this an indication that he might be sick? Losing it? Alcoholism? Or just prone to daydreams? He's had surreal daydreams going back at least to the fourth season, so if there's something wrong it's been wrong for a long time. I don't think he has a brain tumor or anything like that.
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Ana Lucia Cortez posted:So, what is it with Don's hallucinations? First Bert, then Rachel. Is this an indication that he might be sick? Losing it? Alcoholism? Or just prone to daydreams? Don can see departing spirits. He had a vision of Anna Draper before he got news of her death.
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Apr 6, 2015 19:36
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In the last moments of the show, he sits down in his living room and turns on the tv, and the opening of Mad Men comes on. He furrows his brow. By the way, I really liked the moment in this episode where he comes home, turns on the lights just long enough for us to see that it's exactly the same, and then turns them back off again.
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No Mods No Masters posted:Terminal case of prestige drama protagonist This is the answer I come up with any time something on this show strikes me as odd. Matthew Weiner seems like kind of an insufferable rear end in a top hat and so it makes the most sense.
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Not Al-Qaeda posted:i cant beleive this.. theyre taking anothejr year break after a quarter of this season before showing the last quarter? amc has stooped to a new low This is a joke, right?
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Apr 6, 2015 20:31
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I hope at some point Don just wakes up with a ridiculous moustache he's grown overnight.
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Apr 6, 2015 20:38
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Illinois Smith posted:I hope at some point Don just wakes up with a ridiculous moustache he's grown overnight. Did you see Hamm at the roundtable?!
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Sash! posted:Did you see Hamm at the roundtable?! He grows the full lumberjack like that every offseason though.
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Ana Lucia Cortez posted:So, what is it with Don's hallucinations? First Bert, then Rachel. Is this an indication that he might be sick? Losing it? Alcoholism? Or just prone to daydreams? He has consumption
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Dmitri-9 posted:Don can see departing spirits. He had a vision of Anna Draper before he got news of her death. It's deliberately open to interpretation but he was very obviously asleep and dreaming for the Rachel thing and probably asleep for the Anna thing, and he knew Anna was at death's door in any case. For Rachel the waitress straight up outlines the unreliability of Don's take on it, given he's probably dreamt of her more than once in the past 8 years. For the (sober) waking visions I'm pretty sure we're intended to take that as externalisations of Don's imagination and memory rather than literal hallucinations but I appreciate even then Don comes off as kind of a loving crazy person.
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Yo the show is literally called Mad Men, hth
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Rachel was the love interest throughout season 1. I just had to specify this because literally every single person who answered a question about her has said she's from season 2 which is wrong.
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Bown posted:Rachel was the love interest throughout season 1. I just had to specify this because literally every single person who answered a question about her has said she's from season 2 which is wrong. This is true, but he last saw her in Season 2, when he finds out she married the little nerd-looking Tilden Katz who you see this episode.
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I laughed when I saw the guy who played Dan in One Tree Hill making a guest appearance. Seems he got better after a dog ate his heart. Really wish they hadn't split this season. It takes time to get into the show after a break, and then it's going to be all over.
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netally posted:I laughed when I saw the guy who played Dan in One Tree Hill making a guest appearance.[/url] Paul Johansson loves playing rear end in a top hat characters... so it was a nice little appearance to see him in something else. Sort of like when Mr. Belding showed up a few seasons ago.
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netally posted:Seems he got better after a dog ate his heart. Both the zenith and nadir of televised storytelling, really.
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Was just able to watch this, and wow, what a great start to the rest of the season. I loved the snappy pacing of it, and all the callbacks to the start of the series were great. I've always liked the relationship between Peggy and Joan... they're not exactly friends, not exactly enemies, and every scene with both of them is pretty great. Last night's was incredibly uncomfortable to watch, but so believable. I'm continually in awe of the acting on this show in general; Joan's death stare at that horrible meeting and Don's crumpling face at the funeral were both incredible. Can't wait to see what's next. Good lord, though, 1970 was a dark time for fashion. Still not how to feel about the Ster-stache.
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