Mad Men Season 4

Is there any way Sally DOESN'T become a cokehead during the late 1970s disco era? She'll even have a story about her mom forcefeeding her sweet potatos at Thanksgiving in 1964 to tell her therapist and everything...

I think Bobby ends up starting a cult. He'll enjoy actually getting to talk and have other people listen.

 

Mrs. W thought the same thing

 

But the game seemed to be at night. Not a lot of night time football in the 60's .

Will be interesting to see how they and if they deal with Viet Nam.

 

And there were usually maybe two live sporting events on TV per week. Baseball's Game of the Week and a college football. The NFL wasn't all that big a deal back then.

 

I think it has already happened. The man was a mess in last night's show. Blew up on Betty, blew up on the housekeeper, blew up at Peggy. Got pissed off at that little turd of an account executive who isn't as much of a turd anymore. He flew off the handle at the guys from the bathing suit company and also got mad with Bert Cooper. The only person he didn't get pissed at was Sterling, and the hot chick he set her up with.

 

Roger had a great line about the reporter with a wooden leg and his publication: "They're so small they couldn't even send us a whole reporter."

 

And IVY LEAGUE football at night? In 1964? Are you kidding?

 

Disagree. By '64, the NFL was up, up and away.

 

A few things: The line Sterling said about the Ad Age reporter, I believe, was "WE'RE so small they couldn't even send us a whole reporter."

I thought that woman Don was with on Thanksgiving night was the old girlfriend from the village. The one he was doing in Season 1. Maybe not but she looked like her.

Also, I didn't see the Don thing as yelling at everyone, I saw it as him first trying to play along and do things quietly and when that didn't seem to work, he laid it down to the Janssen guys and to Betty.

 

I don't think that was Midge, but I'm pretty sure we saw her in the previews for the next episode.

 

The NFL was in the middle of their first major growth, but night games were pretty rare back then on the weekends, which is why Monday Night Football grew into such a phenomenon in the 70s.

Rozelle originally tried for Friday night games, but people complained it would take away from high school games. There were some early night games in the 1950s, but the NFL didn't have televised night games until the late 60s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monday_Night_Football

 

Going to watch it again tonight (10 p.m. is way too late on a Sunday for me after chasing my kids at the beach all day), but I thought it was a great episode. The theme of what to reveal to your target audience was very well done.

Weiner trusts the intelligence of the viewer -- no longer explanations about who has joined. No long conversations about Betty's second wedding. Just plop us into the scene and let us figure it our for ourselves.