Mad Men Season 4

Pete's a guy who I really, really want to like. He just makes it so hard.

 

Perhaps, but he's also falls in line with the pervasive anti-semitism. That being said, standing up to his father-in-law (per se; I mean he used his upcoming parenthood to leverage a bigger account) I think has given him bigger balls.

 

I'm glad this show has done well. I don't think there is a chance it would have lasted six episodes on broadcast.
And I can only imagine the changes they would demand on the producer to make it an easier sell.

 

Weiner's on the record about Grampa Gene not being inappropriate toward young Miss Draper.

One look at JJ on SNL, and it seems to me that she is very perfect for her role. She has limited range as an actress, so for her to be stoic and unexpressive, morphing into mean and angry, that's probably the smallest stretch an actor has to make.

She's very pretty. Don wanted pretty. He got pretty, but he got batshit crazy frigid freakazoid robot thrown in free.

 

AMC's on basic cable up here.

I assume it's the same down there. AMC also broadcast "Breaking Bad", which is in my top five all time favourite shows, along with The Wire, The Sopranos and The Shield. Oh, and Oz makes it six. And then Homicide makes it seven.

 

By "broadcast" I believe he meant network TV, i.e. NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox

 

This brings up an interesting point.

What changes do you think network execs would have made? It seemed like they let "LOST" run wild, but that's probably the exception, not the rule.

One thing I've noticed this season: Cursing. I don't think that anyone cursed the first three seasons. This season, we've heard some, like Don saying, "Shit" as he realized he forgot his keys.

 

Perfect contrast to Don/Dick's paranoid-schizophrenic, alcoholic, sado-masochistic, pyschopathic liar

 

I think it was maybe sometime in Season 2 when she was pondering screwing around with the riding guy and he may have said to her "Betty, why so cold" and she said "My people are Nordic." Still hysterical.

 

Loved that scene. Still hilarious. Rider Guy actually says "You're so profoundly sad" before she delivers her line.

 

FYI, the scene with David McCallum from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was from the show's first season, an episode entitled "The Hong Kong Shilling Affair." (He was tied up with guest star Glenn Corbett.)

This is what bugs me. U.N.C.L.E. aired on Monday nights in early '65. Why was Sally Draper on a sleepover on a school night, with no mention of school the next morning?

 

Spring break?
Teachers convention?