Dawn ,'Storyteller'
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
and if the Mad Men character had the same name as the actor who originally read them.
I wondered that too because in the credits she had a first and last name, which would be unusual for a walk-on character, but would make sense if they really wanted to tie it to the show.
I guess I could go look up the credits on IMDB...
I saw this video on Gawker, and it couldn't have been more Parkery without a social disorder.
Jilli may get a kick out of this Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon is now a "Dark Shadows" addict, thanks to the Mad Men episode: [link]
But in the lead-up to this, I realized I didn't actually know much about "Dark Shadows". The movie looks wretched,* but it turns out that the original series is streaming on Netflix. So I fired it up, figuring I'd start in the second season when things got good (which is actually where Netflix starts the series at all), and that I'd take in a couple of episodes to get a feel for it. What happened instead is a bit of a "Dark Shadows" binge. That show rules. It's like eating candy. Deliciously campy candy, replete with silly vampire stuff and great 60s hair.
Further on:
I think soap operas tend to be viewed as "women's entertainment", and so their self-awareness and their skill at story-telling is discounted. (As well as their ability to churn out an astounding amount of product with limited resources.) But "Mad Men" actually owes a great debt to soap operas. To write a great soap opera, you have to be able to go a long time onscreen with "nothing" really happening---i.e., lots of relationship-building and table-setting, but no big plot twists---without boring your audience to death. As is suggested in this episode, one way soaps do that is with delightfully hammy acting, which "Mad Men" obviously has to shun. But mostly they do it by making you care about the characters so that their little dramas seem as important to you as they are to the characters.
Leverage is on at 8pm now? Wasn't it on at 9 before?
I think so.
No Mad Men discussion at all? Not even anyone gleefully shouting "THERE'S AN AIRPLANE HERE TO SEE YOU!"?
Not even anyone gleefully shouting "THERE'S AN AIRPLANE HERE TO SEE YOU!"?
I'm still traumatized by Paul Kinsey as a Hare Krishna.
Though all the Joan and Don moments were nice.
Rich Somer has hit a rich comic vein just by playing Harry as a total schmuck. And yet, his odd sense of loyalty to Kinsey was sweet.
I need to see Sal with groovy sideburns now.
I'm still traumatized by Paul Kinsey as a Hare Krishna.
That was...unexpected.
Though all the Joan and Don moments were nice
I like when Don shows his sweet side.
(Perhaps he should show it to his wife. OH BUUURRRRNNN.)
Yes, that was really unexpected. I had managed to completely forget the existence of Hare Krishnas.
Joan losing it was great: it's so unlike her.
Did Lane actually steal the money? I was confused there.