Official Mad Men™ Season 5 thread

[husbands]

i hope they get honda

[Broncobama]

s4 had some awful moments (the mugging, the ghost, secretary is old gags followed by her dying) and all w/out one memorable campaign will always make it worse than s1 to me.

s3 still reigns though.

oh god the old secretary

i had eliminated that from my memory of the show

shit was awful

[Gourmetbe]

yeah it was stupid when she died but we at least got this bert line out of it: "She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She was an astronaut."

[Feech La Manna]

The Blankenship thing had funny moments like the above and Roger's tape recording, but yeah they dragged it out too long

[the singularity]

two thoughts:
-Kiernan is getting very pretty, she looks a bit like Emma Watson in that photo
-how is Peggy riding around Hipinion not a banner yet?!

[starttomelt]

you guys hated ms. blankenship? what is wrong with you people

[delgriffith]

If we're gonna talk about shit we don't like, S2's whole horse riding thing just fucking sucked so much. Hated it.

[Gourmetbe]

i thought blankenship was great, it was just a terrible scene when she died at her desk.
agree about the peggy banner.

[carlperkins]

Yeah, there really has been nothing worse on this show than the horse riding storyline.

[Broncobama]

you guys hated ms. blankenship? what is wrong with you people

I guess if you find Mr. Magoo jokes funny she added to the show

[Gourmetbe]

i hope they get honda

i remember at the end of last season, the running theory was they were going to get a contract with disneyland. hilton and disney's wife were both on that anti smoking cancer board thing (in real life) that don meet with. the idea of a family oriented place aligning with an anti smoking ad agency seemed to fit. but yeah, honda would be much cooler, as disneyland would mean a lot more california.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

I liked the horse-riding storyline. It's probably the best thing they did with Betty.

[Feech La Manna]

That guy was basically an 80s romcom villain though

[Feech La Manna]

i hope they get honda

i remember at the end of last season, the running theory was they were going to get a contract with disneyland. hilton and disney's wife were both on that anti smoking cancer board thing (in real life) that don meet with. the idea of a family oriented place aligning with an anti smoking ad agency seemed to fit. but yeah, honda would be much cooler, as disneyland would mean a lot more california.

I thought that Connie Hilton would return, but I guess they're done with him

I guess it's still possible for Sal to come back in some capacity

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

I don't remember, was Judge Reinhold ever a villain?

He's just a prop anyway.

[Durham]

Was the premiere written to be two hours or is it just two episodes aired on Sunday

[delgriffith]

2 hours, I believe. Jon Hamm described it as "doublewide" and referred to the next episode as the 2nd.

[endless dave]

yeah it was stupid when she died but we at least got this bert line out of it: "She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She was an astronaut."

this is one of my favorite lines of the series

[Feech La Manna]

Weiner has a solo writing credit on both episodes so I'm guessing it was always intended to be 2 hours

[brentholomew]

2 hours, I believe. Jon Hamm described it as "doublewide" and referred to the next episode as the 2nd.

i think the premiere is structured like one episode but the network counted it as two, thus eleven more afterward

[patchperfect]

2 hours, I believe. Jon Hamm described it as "doublewide" and referred to the next episode as the 2nd.

i think the premiere is structured like one episode but the network counted it as two, thus eleven more afterward

yeah, Wikipedia lists it as episodes 1 and 2

but that's just Wikipedia so i dunno

[Feech La Manna]

2 hours, I believe. Jon Hamm described it as "doublewide" and referred to the next episode as the 2nd.

i think the premiere is structured like one episode but the network counted it as two, thus eleven more afterward

all indications are that this is correct

[Gourmetbe]

i hope they'll do it the way s2 of the walking dead premier was, 2 hours long and not a single commercial for the first 35 minutes or so. other than that, i hope its nothing like the second season of the walking dead.

[d2michael]

[husbands]

i played through the confidence storyline and lost in every possible way

[brentholomew]

from the premiere



that blazer

[ecto]

blankenship's "if i wanted to see two negroes fight, i'd throw a dollar bill out my window" was worth it

[Gourmetbe]

Looks like there might be an actual black character this season, according to slate.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/03/22/mad_men_season_5_gets_a_possible_spoiler_photobomb_in_the_new_york_times.html

[clown]

did Carla not count?

[Durham]

Brie in the premiere? Now I'm watching