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Mad Men; Season Five!
Topic Started: Apr 2 2012, 12:34 AM (1,492 Views)
IcyAll
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Mad men and the women who love them ...

Season Five premiered March 25th, 2012
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Love Mad Men, but am a little disappointed so far. I want more Don and his drinking and his womanizing. I am less interested in having all the changes of the 60's shoved down my throat in three episodes. Don would never go backstage to a Stones concert to see if he could sign them up.

And whoever did Betty's "fat girl" makeup should be shot. I know she was pregnant in real life but they made her look cartoony.

The new copywriter was too much of a caricature.

Thank heavens Roger is as funny as ever. I hope he gets his revenge on that snake Pete.

Bottom line, more Don please. I'd like more Joan as well.
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I agree with everything you said, weaver.

I thought the new copywriter was a charicature too, and I don't really want to know his story. Maybe I will later, but I would rather catch up with the others.

More Roger and Jane, please. I like Pete on screen too - yes he's a snake but I love his character.

I'd really like to know if Roger knows that he has a first-born son with Joan. Wouldn't he know by the timing?

Betty and Henry's new house is very intriguing! It's so different from the Ossining house. I'm going to miss that house, it was just like so many in the neighborhood I grew up in.
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Apr 3 2012, 11:43 AM
I agree with everything you said, weaver.

I thought the new copywriter was a charicature too, and I don't really want to know his story. Maybe I will later, but I would rather catch up with the others.

More Roger and Jane, please. I like Pete on screen too - yes he's a snake but I love his character.

I'd really like to know if Roger knows that he has a first-born son with Joan. Wouldn't he know by the timing?

Betty and Henry's new house is very intriguing! It's so different from the Ossining house. I'm going to miss that house, it was just like so many in the neighborhood I grew up in.
Didn't Joan tell Roger last year that he was the father? So I was rather surprised to see her waltz into the office with the carriage last week. I'm sure more will happen in that plot.

Yes, Bettys house was odd. Doesn't seem like anything Betty would want. Are we supposed to believe that Betty has been so depressed that she is letting hubby make the decisions on things like that or was that a status house of the era? I think Henry is old money, isn't he? Seems like a house from his mother's generation and newer gorgeous Colonial type homes would have been built in Rye.

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I missed the second episode ( damn!) but I love Mad Men... if only just to drool over Don Draper.
Actually I get quite a kick out of it, and Mr. Disco and I crack up, just remembering the cheesey-ness that was the 1960's.
It picks up in May of 66? I was all of 51/2 years old, but I remember some of those songs!
Funny, Darren Stevens of Bewitched was a "Mad Man", but never gave off the awesome vibe of these guys!
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Wait. You're seriously messing with my head, Disco -- Darrin and Samantha ... lived in Westchester or something? I thought they lived in Los Angeles? I know Dick and Laura lived in New Rochelle, but he was a TV writer. Darrin worked on Madison Avenue? Whoa ... I need to rethink my TV fact guide!! ;)
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I'm a little embarrassed that I know this...Darrin and Samantha lived in Patterson. Presumably Patterson, NJ.
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OMG! That's news to me!! WOW.
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Icy,
Samantha would get all dolled up and go "into the City" to meet Darrin for lunch/dinner in some episodes.
And I remember there were a few episodes where the female clients got too friendly with Darrin for Samantha's taste. (Shades of last night's epi with the old flame).
I think Bewitched is on TVland in the am (I know Dick Van Dyke is on 9-10 am Central. I love watching it... "Oh Rob!". I'm going to have to catch a few Bewitched just to look for Mad Men similarites. (Other than the fact that Darrin and Larry always had a cocktail. Damn, Don Draper is just soooo sexy compared to those two!!)
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I saw this for the first time last night. (I know, I KNOW) It's was on opposite something I liked and somehow I just never watched before, don't have a DVR.

I thought that girl who took the other one home was going to hit on her, suddenly drunkenly discover lesbian leanings or something. I also didn't get why she got the $400, which is more like $2600 in today's world.

I will watch again for sure.
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Mariah, that was a dark episode compared to most. I've been reading the TWoP thread and a lot of people seem to feel like that. I enjoyed it a lot, but I enjoy almost every episode.

Peggy got the $400 because Roger is very wealthy and was desperate for someone to work on a campaign for Mohawk that Pete Campbell didn't immediately know about. I am not sure what Roger's up to, but we should find out.

You should really get the DVDs and catch up!
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I totally agree, Mariah.

What did everyone think about Don's febrile dream? At first I thought "Holy Shit"... then realized it was a dream.

I love Peggy giving it to Roger. We never see him actually do anything, other than smoke, drink, entertain and screw.

Also,loved that Joanie dumped her husband! Does anyone think Roger and Joanie will ever get together?
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I want to catch up, maybe when Best Buy has their secret sale around the holidays I will see if they are on sale. I got the entire series of Big Love for $25 this year, yeah, someone made a mistake, it was supposed to be the incredible sale price for each season but the computer person also put in the full series. SCORE!

As a first time watcher, I thought he really did kill that girl.
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Mariah, if your local library carries the series, put the DVDs on hold. I've got Season 1 of Downton Abbey sitting here - it took a month of waiting, but I have it. (Have never seen it, have just read the hype.)

Although if you do find a great deal like your Big Love score, go for buying them. I would like to own them myself.

discomom, I thought Matt Weiner made Don's dream sequence too much like the ones he wrote on The Sopranos. I wasn't a big fan of it.
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I hate dream sequences. I guess Don's old impulses are still there and maybe he is trying to kill them by staying faithful to Megan? Who knows?

Henry's mother is a bit of a caricature.

I'm enjoying the show but just wondering where it is leading. Before we know it the season will be over.

I'm not sure there would have been a black secretary for someone as important as Don Draper on Madison Avenue at that time.

I guess the way is cleared for Joan to return to the office, which should make it more enjoyable. Hope hubby is really gone for good.
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