Mad Men Season 5 running thread

Likewise. Exceedingly well done.

 

I thought Bert Cooper already knew Don's secret. No?

 

Yes he does. Don told him when Pete tried to blackmail him with the secret.

 

So the whole idea that Megan could take down the business with it is preposterous.

 

Dick Whitman is a deserter from the Army and any signatures signed Don Draper would probably be invalid - you don't think the other firms on Madison Ave wouldn't crucify him with that?

 

That was probably the worst episode of the season thus far, and it still had Sally Draper walking in on Mrs. Calvet (didn't catch a first name) giving Roger Sterling a blowjob.

Sally Draper continues to hit home runs — or whatever the Canadian equivalent of baseball is — every time she's on screen. Her work as Roger Sterling's "date" was fantastic. I would watch a miniseries devoted to Sally Draper and Roger Sterling playing everyone for fools.

 

The image of everyone sitting at the table at the end of the banquet with terribly disappointed looks on their faces was outstanding.

And Pete giving Megan's father a lesson in what an account man does was also great.

 

Noticed the cutaway shots right away in this scene. Nobody, and I mean nobody, could eat sherbet by the scoopfuls the way Megan allegedly did and not convulse in the world's worst case of brain freeze.

 

That's assuming, of course, that it actually is sherbet and not some kind of sherbet stand-in that could withstand multiple takes, hot lighting, etc.

 

Many film production crews use colored mashed potatoes instead of ice cream because of the heat from the lighting. My guess is she's eating orange colored spuds.

 

That basically sums it up for me.

That was as close to a sex act as they can show on a show like this, I thought.

Sally's last line was great.

But I loved the Pete-Megan's father exchange too.

 

Me, too. I've read where shortening is used as visual ice cream substitute, but it's hard to imagine she's shoveling Crisco into her mouth.