Mad Men:
Wow! Good episode. I felt sorry for Pete too. And poor Peggy isn't over her denial yet.
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
sj - Aug 03, 2008 6:10:27 pm PDT #1103 of 11998
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Vortex - Aug 03, 2008 6:24:17 pm PDT #1104 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I gather from her sister's comments that Peggy was institutionalized for a while? I'm surprised that they kept her job for her.
sj - Aug 03, 2008 6:42:22 pm PDT #1105 of 11998
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I believe in the last episode the men in the office said Peggy was away for 6 weeks. I wonder if any of the bosses know the truth.
SailAweigh - Aug 03, 2008 7:13:02 pm PDT #1106 of 11998
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I know. Six weeks was a long time to be away from work, especially in that era and especially if it was to have a baby. It was long before FMLA and many women just plain didn't have a job to go back to after a baby and had to start over. Presumably, no one knows she had the baby, so I'm dying to know what her excuse was. It coul have been portrayed as an "illness" that could be excused because of recovery time (appendix, something like that.)
Did you notice that the sister was played by the actress who played the family maid in Wonderfalls? The more TV I watch, the more incestuous it gets.
Hayden - Aug 03, 2008 7:29:49 pm PDT #1107 of 11998
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
My wife and I noticed. She was on Pushing Daisies, too, we think.
sumi - Aug 04, 2008 5:05:49 am PDT #1108 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!
Really? I thought I'd seen her before but I couldn't figure out from where.
So, she was institutionalized because she rejected her baby? I thought (why I interpreted it this way) that she had tried to give the baby up for adoption w/o permission from her parents and the state prevented her from doing that.
Vortex - Aug 04, 2008 5:43:20 am PDT #1109 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
So, she was institutionalized because she rejected her baby? I thought (why I interpreted it this way) that she had tried to give the baby up for adoption w/o permission from her parents and the state prevented her from doing that.
She's over 18, so she wouldn't have had to get permission from her parents. I would think that it was more that she had denied that she was pregnant, then refused to acknowledge the baby. In that time, they would have thought that something was wrong with her because every woman wants to be a mother!
sumi - Aug 04, 2008 5:48:56 am PDT #1110 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!
Was it over 18 in the 60s? Wouldn't it have been over 21?
SailAweigh - Aug 04, 2008 6:21:30 am PDT #1111 of 11998
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
In one episode, she said she was 22. I thought that was in the first season, so she would have been well over the age of consent/legal/whatever.
Vortex has it right. Any woman who didn't want a child must be INSANE. The denial didn't help any.
I had friends who, even in the 80s, the Navy wouldn't tie their tubes without a psych eval, because women must want children! It's abnormal not to want children! Argh.
Scrappy - Aug 04, 2008 1:07:21 pm PDT #1112 of 11998
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Adorable interview with Jon Hamm. [link]
Check him out bragging on his girlfriend and talking about being an old dude. He seems like such a nice, regular guy.