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Mad Men season 5

I literally can't believe neither of you mentioned Fat Betty. I laughed. I guess that explains why they didn't show her in the preview last week! I liked her scenes. Though the ice cream eating was a bit obvious.

It's not racist to find Roger hilarious, is it? "Darker before the Dawn over there."

Everyone on the internet (well, a few people) does seem to think Pete's going to die but I hope not!
 
(I've discussed the show on 2 other boards already so I'm running on fumes here lol)

Betty was fat because January Jones was 8 months preggers when filming began on the season. So expect her to disappear for a couple of episodes, and then spend the rest of the season struggling to get slim again (which she is, she had the baby in September).

I thought it was an okay way to handle her weight -- it makes sense that she would turn around and be dissatisfied with hubby #2 as well. I guess Henry isn't a demon in bed like Don was.

NICE FAKE FAT CHIN THOUGH!
 
From what I've read, they filmed this episode before the first two episodes, so maybe JJ went off to have the baby right after filming it, so we won't see her for a few weeks.

(Of course they filmed the whole season late last year so they could have filmed more scenes with her being skinny again a month ago and edited it in, so who knows LOLFUCK)

JON HAMM DIRECTED THIS EPISODE.
 
Jessica Paré's French in this episode was the weirdest thing. It was a French accent, not a Canadian one, and the cadence was off, and it wasn't even grammatically correct. So, um, what the fuck.
 
Yeah, so turns out that Jessica Paré just doesn't speak French very well in real life. She doesn't have the french-canadian accent at all, and she's not very fluent.

So that's a mystery solved.
 
Anyone else think Betty lied to her husband about the doctor's news, and she's actually sick? I remember thinking that for a second while watching the show, and now there's a lot of 'net chatter in that direction...
 
THE 30 journalists that are Mad Men's entire UK viewership have given the rest of the population a five-day window in which to catch up.

The British Mad Men audience is a cabal of just over two dozen powerful journalists who can have anyone unable to recite Don Draper's entire back story in reverse chronology beaten to death with a box set of The Brittas Empire.

But in a remarkable display of mercy, they have given the rest of the population until Friday to watch every episode and ask as many stupid questions as they like.

Inadequate TV viewer Wayne Hayes said: “Thank God for this opportunity to be cool. I’ve never watched Mad Men, but thanks to the endless acres of press coverage I frequently see Jon Hamm's face superimposed over my wife's when we make love.

“I know that it’s set in an advertising agency in the 1960s and that everyone smokes loads. And I know that there’s a woman in it who’s the same shape as a normal woman, and that’s apparently of huge significance.

“And I also know that because I don’t watch it, I am a drooling man-ape who doesn't even deserve Holby City."

TV critic Nathan Muir said: “If you haven’t been keeping up with Don Draper and the team at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, then you have completely failed to engage with the different, and yet wryly similar, zeitgeists of both now and the early 1960s.

“Mad Men is the very essence of television. It is the single most important human invention since the wheel. Sorry, I meant The Wire.”
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It's actually "Gossip Girl", the most important, thorough, and insightful sociological study of wealth and power of our modern times.
 
No one is bringing up the really juicy story here:

WHO IS THE FATHER OF JANUARY JONES' BABY? MAGNETO??!!!??!!!??
 
Was honestly convinced that Don had choked a woman to death for a moment there.

Peggy was awesome but had to CHECK HER RACISM.

And the continuing fucked up childhood of Sally Draper is always entertaining.
 
Yeah. the producers are going to put an Emmy in Kiernan Shipka's hands if they have to slowly kill Sally to do it.

Odd but interesting episode -- I'm torn between thinking that they are setting up Roger for some really tragic end, or they've just given up on him and he's going to be the company jester from now on for cheap comic relief, which would be sad.

I like that they are doing their history homework, using the Richard Speck murders as a backdrop for a single episode. But the Lincoln Center reference was cutting it close to being anachronistic -- portions of the complex were open but I don't know how up and running and thriving it was in '66.

Old babysitter lady is this year's evil version of Miss Blankenship. I wiss she would drop off and Miss Blankenship was still around. Then again, I like the new black secretary, and the fact that they are actually giving her lines. Hopefully she'll become more than "scared minority woman trying to tiptoe around the office" this year.

I find Ginsberg both fascinating and annoying at the same time. They've never had a character like him on the show before, so sometimes I think he's a nice funny splash of cold water on the others, and sometimes I just think he's on the wrong show.

I didn't catch on to the hallucination right away, but I like how they left it slightly open so that it's still possible that it really happened, and Megan is so on board Team Draper that she disposed of the body and just let Don think it was a dream, lol.
 
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