You mean like “straight out of central casting” Jewish? Yeah, I got that vibe. 
Don has the best of everything-- latest phone, a COLOR tv, and the latest remote.
I got my first color tv in 1980. Back in the late 60’s they could cost well over $400. Considering the minimum wage was $1.25 (or $2,500 annually), that was one expensive set. I knew people in the mid '70’s who built Heathkit color tvs.
Gene tore the wallpaper off because the pattern didn’t line up. OCD in the making? It was sweet how after some of his comments, Don started to see him as an interesting, separate person, with his own worldview. My father said that about me. That when I was a baby, he just sort of saw me as a, well, as a blob. A cute blob, but nothing he could relate to. But when I started walking and talking, there was one day when he really SAW me as a separate being with an identity.
I dunno… didn’t he give her the Dick Whitman treatment at the drop of a hat?
I think it’s just kids being kids. When I was younger, there was a small bathroom tile with a pattern on it that looked like a face. One day I decided that it really bothered me so I hit it with a metal meat tenderizer. Why? God only knows… I was a kid. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Exactly. As in “maybe if you throw in a prayer shawl and have a Cossack chase him around the room while he listens to Molly Picon sing Yiddish love songs you can be slightly more clear”.
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I did like Don’s comforting of Bobby by saying “Henry’s not that important” and now Henry’s running for office.
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Speaking of, my reading of that scene was that after feeling that he’d sorta kinda bonded with his son he was hurt to realize that the kid, completely understandably, was closer to Henry than to him (or to Betty). Did anybody else read it this way?
Here’s an article by Roger Ebert about Campaigning With Paul Newman; Newman’s few lines last night could come verbatim from this.
Yes, Like a dagger to the heart.
I don’t think you’re going to like this season. Wiener said on Fresh Air that a lot of it is going to be about the chaos in 1968, which is only beginning, and the death theme of the first episode was no accident. Those of us who lived through that year (I was a junior in high school when it began) expect nothing less.
Straight out of 1935 Central Casting Jewish.
Color TVs were not that much of a luxury item in 1968. The first one I saw about 1957-8 when for school we watched Groucho Marx in The Mikado on a color TV someone down the block had. NBC had already gone to all color, I think. And its practically a work expense for Don.
He’s also said that he doesn’t want Mad Men to be a history lesson. So though of course we’ll see how these characters react to certain events, I’d be surprised if they’re as big as a focus as that statement makes it sound.
We’ll see. 1968 was the year when even people like Don couldn’t pretend that things hadn’t changed. We got hit by disaster after disaster - the King Assassination, Tet (already covered) the RFK assassination, the riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Apollo 8 (which I’m sure they will show) had such a big impact because it was about the first good thing to happen all year.
I’d think that ad men trying to adjust the delivery of the message to this new environment would be particularly affected.
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Loved the very awkward attempt by Joan to “console” Dawn. (But not that hideous getup Joan was wearing! Ugh, worst thing Christina Hendricks has ever put on.)
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Which contrasted nicely with Peggy’s sincere and received-as-such hug earlier with the same secretary with whom she’d once had a super awkward evening (remember the wallet?).
Unbelievable that in my lifetime you could buy a 2BR with a parking space in Manhattan for $28,000. (Even adjusting for inflation, that’s well under $200,000 today.) And man, her realtor was a bitch; I’d get another one on general principal.
Now that I think of it I wonder if her realtor might have sabotaged her bid to protect her reputation about avoid placing “undesirables” in the building.
I saw someone else mention this upthread, and was surprised to see that it was you posting the idea twice.
Something that I found interesting about the show was that every single person featured felt that the King assassination was an outright tragedy. Even Roger and Joan, two people whom I didn’t think would be very pro-civil-rights, were upset. I truly expected Roger, Joan, Don and Burt to be very “meh.” And I thought that Peggy would be a lot less concerned than she ended up being.
I wonder if this is because by that point everyone, even the old guard, in the North felt that the goals of the civil rights movement were a good thing? Or merely disappointment because a respected activist died in such a terrible way? Then again, I would think for any activist to be respected, people would have to agree with their message. It’s different than a president, who is both a head of state and a political entity.
I think for some of them the thinking was more along the lines, “Shit! This is just going to make everything so much worse” e.g. with the rioting etc. Plus while I think most people are taken aback when some prominent figure is just outright murdered, it says a lot about the society you live in, which can frighten and sadden people.
The outfit Megan wore to the awards dinner was hideous.
In 1968 any assassination was still a very big deal. It will be interesting to see how they deal with the Bobby Kennedy assassination.
WE had varnished blond wood doors with knots and whorls, and the one in the kitchen looked exactly like a demon. Screaming. With horns. I painted it over with finger paints and got several furious slaps from the assholes. Like I was just indulging in idle vandalism.
I don’t read the spoilers so I was surprised to see Harry Hamlin show up at the awards with Ted Chaugh.
I know a lot of you don’t watch scenes from next week. Let me tell you, you are missing nothing, they are the most obscure, useless previews ever produced. It’s actually pretty funny.