Ok. Sorry, guys. It's not that they are not good, but the workforce is rather homogenous.
a bit of the point, I think.
I just realized, no Pete this week.
Question: Will hiding in a cavern with stockpiled chocolate goods be any part of this plan?
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
Vortex - Aug 11, 2008 9:54:16 am PDT #1145 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
erikaj - Aug 11, 2008 11:31:41 am PDT #1146 of 11998
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, it makes it hard to keep them straight, is all I'm saying. And I didn't really remember Kenny till y'all pointed him out. Now I do.
DavidS - Aug 11, 2008 8:18:36 pm PDT #1147 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Mad Men is hitting on all cylinders now. As good as last year was, these episodes are better. Everything's got so many layers now. They're really digging in to each of these characters and finding complex, ambiguous, revealing moments.
If HBO had kept this and Deadwood and Rome they'd be sitting pretty.
amych - Aug 11, 2008 8:23:53 pm PDT #1148 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Everything's got so many layers now.
"It's like everything he says means something else."
DavidS - Aug 11, 2008 8:32:36 pm PDT #1149 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"It's like everything he says means something else."
Definition of irony, no? It's all sophisticated and shit.
I just get the feeling that Weiner is feeling so confident in his storytelling right now. Last year he was creating that world and that in itself was fascinating. This year he's got this fabulous structure in which to explore a lot of really interesting stories and he knows it and he's absolutely hitting every bell note true.
In the last couple episodes I've had several scenes where I've thought, "I have never seen that moment on television before." And they're subtle, little moments. Complicated little betrayals and vulnerabilities.
Don's backstory turned out to be a little broader and more melodramatic than I expected, but it had a core metaphorical strength for that world. But now everything's playing like Chekhov. Stories turn on a ripped envelope.
Jon B. - Aug 12, 2008 4:43:21 am PDT #1150 of 11998
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
And they're subtle, little moments.
subtle, crotch-grabbing moments.
DavidS - Aug 12, 2008 5:27:55 am PDT #1151 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
subtle, crotch-grabbing moments.
Balanced artfully with a subtle hair yank.
Jesse - Aug 12, 2008 5:47:15 am PDT #1152 of 11998
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
BTW, Rich Sommer (Harry) has another job for the fall: [link]
Barb - Aug 12, 2008 5:57:30 am PDT #1153 of 11998
“Not dead yet!”
subtle, crotch-grabbing moments.
What I loved about that moment was that it was such a pure balance of Don behaving in a total alpha male sort of way contrasted by his treating her as an equal, i.e., she insisted on behaving in a typically male fashion, so he responded in a metaphorical, "Yeah? Well, I have you by the balls so you're going to do it my way" manner.
Moments like that are what makes this show sing for me.
quester - Aug 13, 2008 5:11:54 pm PDT #1154 of 11998
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I wish I'd seen this episode. I was doing family reunion stuff on Sunday and space out on taping this.