I found them unlikable, but the writing was so sharp and the casting so brilliant that I stuck with it. I think you see as the series goes on that though the women may be hurting more obviously, EVERYONE is suffering because of the rigid social mores of the era.
What should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?
Angel ,'Just Rewards (2)'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
Scrappy - Jul 22, 2008 5:11:24 pm PDT #993 of 11998
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
le nubian - Jul 22, 2008 5:20:25 pm PDT #994 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
quester, yes. I couldn't get over the fact that Peggy went into labor and didn't know she was pregnant. What the fuck did she think was the baby kicking? I just don't get it. Yes, people have talked about women they know not realizing they were pregnant, but come on.
erikaj - Jul 22, 2008 7:25:05 pm PDT #995 of 11998
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, Scrappy, it does seem that Don suffers from having to be The Man all the time. And it's heartbreakingly easy for him to be a total fake because nobody's supposed to get close to him anyway... or is that too "Behind Blue Eyes?"
Frankenbuddha - Jul 23, 2008 2:46:10 am PDT #996 of 11998
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
My take on that, le nubian, was that I think people in that era thought the pill was infallible, so the pregnancy might have seemed inconceivable (no pun intended - ok, maybe a little) to Peggy. That with a heavy dose of denial, and a ton of conflicting feelings about Pete, makes it a twist I can deal with.
le nubian - Jul 23, 2008 3:28:18 am PDT #997 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Franken,
yes, I think that was what we were to conclude as an audience, but I'm still not very happy with that.
Jon B. - Jul 23, 2008 4:36:10 am PDT #998 of 11998
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
And yet, there are documented cases in real life of that happening. You may not be happy with it, but it's not unrealistic.
sumi - Jul 23, 2008 5:06:54 am PDT #999 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!
Pictures from the Mad Men season 2 premiere.
SailAweigh - Jul 23, 2008 5:18:59 am PDT #1000 of 11998
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
but it's not unrealistic.
Not at all.
I knew one girl (of 18) who didn't realize she was pregnant until she was 6 months or so along and her command forced her to go to the dispensary and get a pregnancy test. All because her boyfriend told her she couldn't get pregnant if they only screwed during the week (or the weekend, something ridiculous like that.) Now, we're talking someone raised in rural Alabama during the 70s when you can believe there was no sex education in schools and kids only knew what they heard from their peers. And they heard very strange things. I can only imagine what it was like in the late 50s, early 60s.
ETA: whitefont for questor as this post could give an idea of what has been whitefonted so far.
Vortex - Jul 23, 2008 5:56:39 am PDT #1001 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Is this thread not NAFDA?
amych - Jul 23, 2008 6:02:22 am PDT #1002 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The thread is NAFDA -- all the MM discussion lately has been of last season, but thanks for clarifying/reminding since season 2 starts EEEEEE!!!! this weekend.
It's in the homepage slug but not the header -- gimme a sec to edit.
(eta: done)