Mad Men Season 5 running thread

The amazing thing about that scene at the table?

The waiter asks Sally if "she's finished with that?"

It's a Shirley Temple that Roger brought her earlier. Last vestige of childhood going away symbolized pretty deftly.

 

I did not notice at first that Megan's mom is played by Julia Ormond.

 

Martin Balsam's daughter

 

Never would have believed Slattery is younger than Clooney, only a year, but still.

 

I hate watching these a day late, but regularly staying up past 11 on a Sunday is a recipe for disaster.

So, why was Megan so melancholy? Is it that she's sad that she's actually good at her job but that she isn't going to test herself and be a real career woman?

Thought the Roger-Ormond scene was gratuitous. Was waiting for the sexually explicit warning to be necessary and at least it deserved the warning.

 

Nicely read, sir.

Great episode.

I have to say, Kiernan Shipka has turned into quite the incredible actor for someone all of 12 years old. January Jones must look upon her with seething rage. I suppose you could marvel at the casting director, but how in the world could Weiner and Co. have known when Shipka was 5 years old that she'd be able to regularly hold her own with big-time actors like Hamm and Slattery? I hope she has a long career because she's been marvelous.

Roger's line about Jesus going for the loaves and fishes account will go down as one of my all time favorites.

 

Flashback to the scene with Peggy, who is trying to genuinely be nice when she says, "This is as good as this job gets."

That's not enough for Megan and her generation. And that's the source of your melancholy. She thinks her father might be right.

 

I missed the thing about the letter Don wrote about cigs. Can someone catch me up? Was that on a show during a previous season?

 

http://madmen.wikia.com/wiki/%22Why_I%27m_Quitting_Tobacco%22

 

Lucky Strike was going to leave Sterling Cooper Draper Price anyway, so Don decided to make it look like SCDP was "getting out of the tobacco business" in an effort to give the fledgling advertising company some kind of edge in the marketplace, and he wrote a open letter in a full page ad in the New York Times saying that if you were a tobacco company, don't bother talking to them. In fact, here is a list of our competitors you can call. He felt like they reeked of desperation after losing Lucky Strike (they got stood up by Philip Morris), so he made a calculated move that had nothing to do with morality to make it seem like they were taking a moral stance against tobacco.

 

Kind of like when Ms. Magazine launched and couldn't get any advertisers, so they decided to make a virtue of it by saying "we don't accept advertising."

 

Mad men / Watchmen mashup

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