Mad Men Season 4

That show last night topped them all.

So intense.

Go ahead and give Hamm and Moss the emmy for next year. Wow.

 

That one scene with Moss and Hamm where Don tells her that the only reward she can expect is money was one of the best scenes on any show that I've seen for a while. Simply outstanding.

 

Not to split hairs, but it was the simplicity of the line itself and the delivery:

"That's what the money is for!"

And I don't know why it struck me as so cool (it certainly wasn't a surprise) that after all that, there Don was sitting at his desk looking typically perfect the next morning -- but it did.

It was just a great episode.

 

I didn't enjoy the episode, but I was really tired by the time I got home from work and watched it. I want the old Don back; this is just depressing.

 

The potential Samsonite pitch potentially featuring Joe Namath threw me. The show, chrono-wise, is in May, 65 (the 2nd Ali/Liston match was May 25). Namath was signed by the Jets on 1/2/65, as
Werblin stepped up when the Cards wouldn't. He was the second QB chosen, after Craig Morton.
He was a big deal because of his flashy college record and because of where he was going to play
(which was the whole idea), but were we looking at him as a potential ad-campaign keynoter, at
that point? Was around then, and don't believe so.

 

Don's a loser, he can't see the swing into the future, he's old fashion. He's pigeon holed himself as a man of the 50's, and the world will change faster from 65-68 than any 4 year period in history.
He's still wearing hats in 1965.
Liston v. Ali, he takes Liston.
Doesn't see the potential in Namath, though the younger ones certainly do.
Everytime Peggy says, 'but what will the commercial look like?', he get flustered.He still thinks in terms of 'print'.

 

Anyone else notice the bathroom fixtures in the episode. I thought the air-dryers for hands didn't come along until the 80s, and the urinals looked a little "modern" for 65.

 

Yes, he was already famous because of the $400,000 contract and because of how he'd played in the Orange Bowl the year before. Werblin, an old PR man, was marketing him mercilessly. And as Peggy said, he was handsome.

This was the cover of SI from July 19, 1965:

 

Yep . . . that point's been made. It's a large reason why he doesn't want to go forward w/o either
Pete or Peggy.

 

Did someone step on a duck?


Nah ... that was just Duck dropping a drunken poot.

 

According to this link, the hand dryer was invented in 1948:

http://www.weinvent.com/content/view/39/60/

Peggy did have a surprised look on her face, because it was probably her first time in a men's bathroom, and back then, I would think they really didn't show urinals on TV or in the movies.

 

Yeah, I had the same suspicions about the references to ATMs in "No Country For Old Men," which was set in 1980. Turns out they were invented in the mid-70s by Texas Instruments, and first used heavily in Dallas.

I would assume Weiner and company did their homework just as the Coen Brothers did. The attention to such details is one of Mad Men's calling cards.