I could see S3 starting with (or immediately after) the JFK assassination and ending with the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. That would cover a brief period of time when a generational divide really came to the fore.
I don't really have a security blanket... unless you count Mr. Pointy.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
Jon B. - Sep 30, 2008 7:13:14 am PDT #1457 of 11998
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Barb - Sep 30, 2008 7:37:35 am PDT #1458 of 11998
“Not dead yet!”
That would be a really short timespan for the season, though, given how they've structured so far.
Let's see... S1 ran from March '60 to Thanksgiving of that year.
S2, so far has run from Valentine's Day '62 to currently, August of that year, with four eps remaining.
Not to say that Weiner wouldn't do it, because I think he's prone to doing the unexpected, but I'm not sure if he could get all the story he wanted into a little under three months of show time.
I could actually see him starting with New Year's Eve '63. Out with the old, in with the new, horrible things have happened, there's a change on the horizon and as Hec said, Don's going to be caught right in the middle of a cultural revolution that he's not exactly ready for.
Fred Pete - Sep 30, 2008 8:37:49 am PDT #1459 of 11998
Ann, that's a ferret.
Not to mention that Bewitched, with a main character working in an ad agency (that figured in a number of episodes!) premiered in the fall of 1964.
amych - Oct 01, 2008 6:02:35 pm PDT #1460 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Another big cultural moment for the '64 season: Cassius Clay. We just ran into Floyd Patterson in the gambling joint with a brief scene about whether he's about to lose the heavyweight title; in about a month and a half, he's going to lose the title to Sonny Liston in the first round.
Liston meets Clay in February of 1964, so if it's true that we'll keep seeing every other year for more-or-less the calendar year, I'm calling it now. (And I can even guess who's going to win the big fight).
Jon B. - Oct 02, 2008 1:12:46 am PDT #1461 of 11998
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Oooh, was I was watching that scene, I thought to myself, I wish I knew boxing history better because this could be significant later. Thanks for the mini-lesson.
amych - Oct 02, 2008 3:45:53 am PDT #1462 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'll admit that I had to turn to wikipedia for the exact dates -- but, yeah, Clay is just the kind of 1964 cultural moment we were talking about, and, of course, set to be an even bigger deal later in the 1960s.
Jon B. - Oct 02, 2008 4:36:14 am PDT #1463 of 11998
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Well then, thanks for doing the Wikipedia work that I intended to do, but forgot. Clay came to my mind in that moment as well.
sumi - Oct 02, 2008 8:11:03 am PDT #1464 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!
MI-5 series 6 is coming out on dvd on January 20th.
(BTW, did you guys hear that MI-6 is recruiting via facebook? I think I heard that on the Rachel Maddow show.)
Frankenbuddha - Oct 03, 2008 3:39:16 am PDT #1465 of 11998
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Just saw the latest Mad Men (instead of the debate). Nothing new to add, but I love this show.
SailAweigh - Oct 05, 2008 6:28:39 pm PDT #1466 of 11998
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Oh, crap. The creepy kid is back.