Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.

'Safe'


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 17, 2007 9:16:20 am PDT #308 of 11998
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I'm loving Mad Men, but I am kind of disappointed that they have made the divorcee's son a psycho, even if it is interesting to watch. I haven't seen this weeks episode yet though, but last week it seemed that they were trying to set it up as all the mother's fault. At least through Draper's wife's eyes.


sumi - Aug 17, 2007 9:18:13 am PDT #309 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!

Well, we don't have to believe what Mrs. Draper believes. (Do we know her first name?)


amych - Aug 17, 2007 9:21:29 am PDT #310 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

(Do we know her first name?)

According to amctv.com it's Betty, but I can't remember for sure whether I've heard it said.


sumi - Aug 17, 2007 9:23:37 am PDT #311 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!

Betty sounds right. Betty wants it to be the mother's fault because how can anyone that gets divorced be a good mother? I think she protects herself from having to know the real circumstances.


Wolfram - Aug 17, 2007 9:27:00 am PDT #312 of 11998
Visilurking

I actually guessed the whole money scene, figured it was cash but it was made to look like he was pulling a gun on him. I was trying to figure out what $5,000 then would mean today. $50,000?

Also liked seeing Christina Hendricks again. I hope they give her a lot more story - I find her character (and acting) more interesting than Don's secretary.


sj - Aug 17, 2007 9:32:57 am PDT #313 of 11998
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Betty sounds right. Betty wants it to be the mother's fault because how can anyone that gets divorced be a good mother? I think she protects herself from having to know the real circumstances.

Logically, I know your right, but emotionally, probably because I was raised by a single mother, I wanted to see her do the mother thing even better than the rest of them. Especially since most of the women in the town are just looking for excuses to hate her.

Also, I apologize for never knowing characters names. I really suck at it.

Burn Notice is really starting to become interesting for me. How are others enjoying it? I really want to know more about why he got burned, and it looks we might actually get some of that information.

I loved love loved last week's The Closer. I hate that all of these awful things are happening to Brenda at once, but I loved the way she is handling it. The elevator scene was excellent, as were her parents. I loved that we learned that she got her closer skills from her mother, and the actor who played her father was just perfect.

Saving Grace hasn't really taken off for me yet, but I am intrigued enough by it to keep watching.


Liese S. - Aug 17, 2007 9:37:41 am PDT #314 of 11998
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Mad Men: I bought the thing as a gun. And was surprised and relieved and horrified when it turned out to be cash.

I love this show so much now.

So, now, speculatively, the title sequence is perhaps Don's past? Thus the fall ending up in him as he is now? So interested in his backstory now.

And VK's character moved from benign if naive and arrogant and entitled to already completely suffused in ambition and jealousy. Desperate to be somebody; caught where what he is is not due to him at all.

I thought his wife's role was well played. She's in it all, too, ready and eager to play the role she'd chosen, putting on the false front so easily. And then discovering what she's put herself in.

I still like the secretary. I want to know more about her, but I find her interesting. I was thinking about when I was a secretary to a university VP and how much about his private life I really did know. He was quite dull, really, but if there had been juice, I would have known it. I don't know what I would have done if asked to protect him.


sumi - Aug 17, 2007 9:48:01 am PDT #315 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!

I thought that the title sequence is Don's future.

I'm guessing that we'll start seeing more of Joan (Saffron) - she seemed like she was so important in the pilot and then she pretty much disappeared.


erikaj - Aug 17, 2007 9:54:06 am PDT #316 of 11998
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)

I wasn't sure if I liked "Mad Men" but now I need to know what Draper is hiding.


sumi - Aug 17, 2007 10:05:19 am PDT #317 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!

My guess is that there was some ugly situation in Korea and the real Don Draper is killed - and he grabs his dog tags. And then Dick Whitman is listed as dead or MIA.