Mad Men Season 5 running thread

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ktlincoln/the-mad-men-cast-goes-bowling

 

As to the LSD segment, I didn't realize Jim Boeheim dosed

 

Best line: "You look like the hobo that killed Pete Campbell".

 

Was Roger just being Roger when he said something along the lines of "thank you Dr. Leary" or was that actually supposed to be Timothy Leary at that party.
And I'm assuming the freeing of Roger means he and Joan are in the clear?

 

As to your first point, the AV Club reviewer addressed it and said the man in charge was not identified as Timothy Leary or Dr. Leary in the credits, so it was probably just a little snark from Roger Sterling.

On your second, I don't think Joan Holloway is going down that road for anything but sex. She knows how terrible Roger Sterling is as a human being.

 

And Weiner would not be so careless as to cast a guy who looks nothing like Leary.

Rarely does Mad Men put historical figures on screen. Wisely, I think. They invent Jimmy Barrett instead of going with Rickles. (Edit: I guess he's based on Joey Bishop. my bad) That's why introducing Conrad Hilton into the show's universe surprised me so much.

 

Great pull.

 

I wouldn't expect the show to go in a direction that's so obvious. But let's not forget who's Joanie's baby daddy.

 

Sometimes I wonder if Roger is really that bad as a human being.

He certainly does a lot of things that seem to qualify him as one, but I sometimes think he's got a better soul than that.

Or I might be full of shit.

 

He's charismatic as hell. It's tough to think about someone who seems so likable as also being a bad human being. But, he is. Some of the shit he says is incredibly offensive, but he says it in such a way as to take the edge off it.

 

In the Mad Men universe he's practically a saint. He's a tomcat who should have never gotten married (twice), but other than that he's a pretty decent, though flawed, guy.

 

He's also a product of his time. I'm guessing Roger is 50-ish during the current season of the show, which means he was born in 1915 or so (and he might be even older than that, though probably not much if he served in World War II). My grandfather was born in 1925, and he had some very similar attitudes about race and sex to those expressed by Roger even as an old man, let alone when he was younger.