Mad Men Season 5 running thread

As this season progresses, I'm beginning to think the show's ultimate point will be in showing what happens when everyone tries to live like Don Draper...both good and bad.

Instead of Draper throwing himself off a building in a sudden dramatic end to his life, he'll instead live with the much slower pain of seeing what the world looks like when everyone is an iconoclast. He'll watch Pete re-live his marriage, watch Peggy drive herself to mental breakdown from overwork and watch the office break apart when it's left to those who aren't as diligent as Lane Pryce and Bert Cooper or as savvy as Don and Roger.

 

Let's make a baby!

 

Cup of what?

 

I thought the greatest moment in a show full of them is this.

Lane just won the fight, and he's sitting in his office and Joan comes in. And they're talking, and feeling his testosterone, he kisses her.

She doesn't react negatively but gets up to -- not leave, just open the door to the office so they're no longer in private. And she sits back down just as matter-of-factly.

I loved it.

 

I was just glad the disposed doctor didn't charge into the office with his bayonet.

 

My favorite minor bits: Don closing the curtain to the conference room for the fight; Roger saying he was professor emeritus of accounts.

Slattery did another great job behind the camera. I liked some of the cool transitions/fade cuts between scene.

 

Kind of agreed with the review that said this was an episode of great moments, but not a great episode. Not complaining, though, because the moments really were that great.

Sterling's already got the line of the season nailed down.

 

Bubble gum on his pubis was the line of the season so far.

 

Jesus, Don. Even in this place you're doing better than us.

Line of the night.

Oh, Pete is, and always has been, a little bitch.

 

I want so badly to like Pete. I'm hoping this was rock bottom and a redemption story is coming.

He has never faced a shred of real diversity in his life, and he somehow thinks he's earned the right to more angst than men who have been through so much worse.

 

Pete will have offed himself by the end of the season. He's a goner.

 

He met Dawn, Don Draper's new secretary.