Mad Men Season 5 running thread

By the way, did anyone, just for a half second think something might have happened between Don and the teenager at the Rolling Stones concert? I wonder if drunk Season 4 Don Draper would've hit it. Or at the very least hit that joint. That's probably the more probable scenario.

 

No way. Don's such a square by 1966 standards that that girl wanted nothing to do with him. He might as well have been Bert Cooper to her.

 

One of the things I like about this season (and really, it started last year with him backing Liston) is the quiet reminders to how uncool Don is becoming in this changing world. As viewers, we think of him as the epitome of cool, but he's completely out of touch in his own world.

I enjoyed this week's episode, although at times it felt a little too on the nose, to be honest. (Probably didn't help that it aired on the same night as GofT season 2 premiere.) Betty's unhappy. Don and the rest of the agency are on the wrong side of the culture change. Pete is more important than Roger and wants everyone to know it. Harry is a soulless tool who feels uncomfortable getting older.

The most interesting thing, to me, was Don forced to contemplate what it would be like for his own kids to grow up without a mother if Betty did have cancer, because he realized what growing up without a mother did to him.

 

IIRC, in "Bewitched," the lead character Samantha started out married to a guy named Darrin. Later she was married to a different guy coincidentally named Darrin again.

 

Same husband, different actors as I recall.

 

It was. I think (or at least I hope) Joe was being funny ...

 

Trying to remember the name of the band Harry did sign (began with a T) ... any significance there? Probably not.

 

The Trade Winds.

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

 

Messed me up when I was a kid, especially since both actors were named Dick!

 

Just funnin'. Always preferred Dick York.

 

Sad story, Dick York. The reason he left Bewitched -- he had incurred a back injury while shooting a 1959 movie that got so bad that the final few scripts with him as Darrin Stephens were written so that he would be in bed or on a couch. And he lived with that the rest of his mostly bedridden life, adding an addiction to painkillers on top of it before finally succumbing to emphysema.