The series finally returns on Sunday, 3/25/12. Now DirecTV subscribers can even watch the show in 16:9 HD, no less. -G
That poster is trying way too hard. I remember really loving the Sopranos posters for each season. And I liked the previous ones for this show.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2...ew-with-matthew-weiner-part-1/?ref=television Interesting interview with Matt Weiner. As you would expect, there are no spoilers in it.
Looking forward to Sunday night. Can there be a worse set of parents than Betty and Don and in particular, Betty.
I've never watched the show, but I can only imagine. Particularly since they are real people and not characters like Don and Betty.
I'm not sure she's that much worse than Don (even if Don has a tiny bit better sense of what the kids needs, albeit from a chauvinistic point of view) - I think I see Weiner's point that Betty is a mirror that the audience doesn't like looking into.
Well for a show that context is so important, I think Weiner is way off base here if that was his intent. I grew up in the 60's and people today are much more self absorbed. Betty Draper may have been more of a characterization of January Jones than the worst of the 1960's parents. Remember most parents in the 60's Grew up during the second world war and many may have heard stories of the depression. These people were very grounded and their moral code and upbringing was very consistent. The show's timeline of the mid 1960's was before the radical changes brought on by the opposition to Vietnam and the counterculture movement it spawned. At most you had the minor influence of the beat generation and that was localized in Northern California and the Village. It didn't influence the entire country, so most parents were very traditional with stay at home mom's and dad as the primary bread winner. Betty's neurotic and self absorbed behavior has closer ties to the behavior of movie stars of that era than the wife of a Madison Avenue executive.
That was fun. Watched with a bunch of friends and we recorded clips of our reactions, uploaded to YouTube at each commercial break. Because, you know, I'm sure millions of people care what we think... Lane Pryce is a scandal waiting to happen!
Great to have the show back, but the two hour episode was not great. Particularly given the amount of time the show has been off air and I know it sets the wheels in motion for what happens this season, but it could have been better. Looks like the time line moved forward approximately one to one and one half years.
Beans ballet. Good episode and I'm glad that the series is back. Maybe because of the 17 months since the previous episode first aired, there were a few characters in the season premiere whom I first immediately thought of in other roles I've seen the actors/actresses in more recently, in particular Trudy Campbell of whom I first thought of Annie Edison in NBC's Community and Kenneth Cosgrove of whom I first thought of Cole Phelps in L.A. Noire (the latter of which takes place about twenty years earlier than even Mad Men, albeit on the other side of the country). Had I gotten around to watching Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (which I still plan to) when it hit theaters a few months ago, I probably would've first thought of Professor James Moriarty when seeing Layne Pryce. All in all, I can't wait for next week's episode. -G
Satisfied customer here. From the Space Age Bachelor Pad opening music to the Dusty Springfield closer (one of my faves, and Yes, I read the story about how they had to switch to that song for chronological accuracy). My main question, though, is the Joan/Roger baby -- clearly it's Roger's and Joan told him that. But then she lied to him about ending that pregnancy. So did the hubby come home for leave at some point that would make Roger think it's not his? Because he sure wasn't acting in any way responsible--and No, I don't think giving the kid a bike counts. But A) I could be wrong; and B) Roger is nothing if not a heartless bastard. But that whole baby scene was outstanding -- right up there with the John Deere mower: Joan trying to get that ridiculous thing through the doors, while dressed to kill; Joan and Roger ("There's my baby..."); Peggy and Pete standing awkwardly over the baby; Peggy wanting nothing to do with it; Megan looking longingly at the baby while hating Don; and the amazing shot of Pete and pushing the carriage through the office. Also the Harry/Roger scene was the show at its best, as they start off having different conversations with each other, and the way it kept shifting. And Harry's over-sharing ("What I did to X when I got home..." / "I don't want to hear that...") Other thoughts: --I'm surprised they let the actor who plays Harry lose all that weight. Makes his character less sad and simply more assholish. --"Men hate surprises. Don't you get Lucy in Canada." --Pete's Jacket FTW
I never would have thought to spell it that way. Zou bisou bisou. Then again, I don't speak any French.
In the Tomorrowland episode, were they were going to Disneyland during Labor Day weekend? I thought Joannie was still pregnant either at the end of her first trimester or her second, so the baby looks a tad older than he should be. Who has really grown is Sally. Lot's of changes in only 9 months.