Starts up tomorrow night. Set your DVRs.
This is definitely a show to watch.
Don and friends are doing the start-up thing. Betty is remarried, Don single. I think a few years may have passed, so are they in… 1965? Can’t wait until they hit 1967.
I fell off the spoiler wagon earlier this week. From what I’ve read;
The show’s jumped ahead to November, 1964. Yes, Betty has married Henry and he’s still doting on her, but she’s also gained a mother-in-law that’s not very fond of her (at least Don “didn’t have any people”). Don’s struggling to adapt to the bachelor life and being set up on blind dates by Roger. He might also being resorting to “proffesional help”. The bottomless expense accounts are gone, old clients are leaving, the executives are going on cattle calls to try to recruit new ones, and the firm’s staging publicity stunts. Pete & Peggy are having difficulties working together (& from of the screenshots I’ve seen Peggy’s aged a bit, but that could just be her clothers & hair).
There’s also some new characters being introduced and Weiner’s apparently been rather brutal in purging alot of recuring, minor, & background characters. I doubt we’ll see Sal again, but you never know. Mad-Men is a very hard show to predict, and I wouldn’t put it past Weinter to have a bunch of false spoilers leaked.
I can’t wait to see Sally have a meltdown. That poor kid…
Sally is the only character on the show that I like as a human being.
Huzzah!
Are there any trailers at all of the actual new show? All I could get was people (Wiener etc) talking about the new Season 4 show.
The actor that plays Sal was on the View (I know, I’m sorry) past week, and he said he was told that Sal “isn’t dead”. That’s all the info he has on whether or not Sal comes back. I’m interested in Sally’s story myself - from interviews with the creator, she seems to be me, and I can’t wait to see how they show her development!
I’d hoped the first show would coincide with BeatleMania since that was in February 1964 which would be about the same amount of time between the last episode and the time it would take Betty to get a divorce.
Anybody else wish that Betty and her new husband would move to Puerto Rico or defect to the Soviet Union? I’ve always thought the show would get along just fine without her- just remember that Don has kids once in a while and work his having visited them (off screen) into the script.
He’s been promoting a memoir lately. He’s the only of the second tier characters I think they should bring back- most of them can be safely culled.
I read an interview with Vincent Kartheiser recently- that is one weird guy. At the time he was living in a shell of a house without a toilet.
Finally season 4 starts tonight at 10. Betty & Don are over, Sterling-Cooper is dead, Sterling-Cooper-Draper-Pryce is a struggling start up, Don’s living the bachelor life, and the cast has been purged of most of it’s 2nd tier. AMC has some photos online, and some cool videos re season 4.
I’m all excited. Adult beverages at the ready…
Are we going to have one omnibus thread, as seems to’ve become popular lately, or will we be doing individual episode threads? I rather like the latter, as it can be very difficult to find a specific episode in the omnibus threads, or to avoid spoilers if you’re behind a week or two. Whichever, though–half the fun is always checking out the chatter and reading Sepinwall’s reviews…
I vote for individual episode threads.
Although I do just want to say omnibus for no good reason.
Omnibus.
It held my interest. I’ll enjoy seeing were Don’s character goes this season.
It took a while to get going but loved the ending. Betty is still a bee-atch, poor Sally.
I used to like Cosgrove because he was the only character who seemed to enjoy his job without all the angst and pathos everyone else was obligated to carry around. Of course, this meant he never had any story lines of his own because no one wants to watch a guy be happy for an hour.
I liked it well enough. Wasn’t “perfect” but the season premieres always seem a touch shaky as you have to get up to speed following hints of what happened in the past year.
Don could use to buy a couple more lamps for his apartment.
It was pretty good, and I seem to recall last season starting slowly, too. I loved Peggy and (could it be?) her assistant, and Peggy’s new sunny and confident disposition.
gallows fodder, I think that’s Peggy’s art department buddy? She asked him to do a sketch of one of her pitches, which seems more art department than outright assistant.
My biggest complaint: Not enough Joan!
Slow out of the gate, but I liked it. And Betty’s nastyness did not fail to make my blood boil!
That’s what I thought; she’s paired with an artist ala Kurt & Smitty. I wonder who her “fiance” really was. Is she actually dating him or what? I like the new office, but the layout seems confusing. Was Don’s secretary the same one he had at the old agency? 
That would make sense that alot of the secretarial staff would be the same since Joan would be in charge of hiring them and she’d probally hire a couple of the girls she knew and got along with (hopefully not Lois). Speaking of Joan; does she have her own office now? :dubious: It looked like she did (or her desk could just be in a more private area).
Betty dealing with Mother Francis should be interesing. Don came by himself so Betty doesn’t have a clue how to deal with in-laws.
Funniest line of the episode.