Mad Men Season 5 running thread

Pete needs life insurance, all right.

 

Because you're going to murder him for boning Rory Gilmore?

 

It was the second episode in a row that Don was faced with a frightening realization. Sitting in the conference room while the young guys made the Hard Day's Night pitch it dawned on him he wasn't as good at this anymore because he's no longer the kind of person the campaigns are supposed to reach.

 

Megan leaves, and the first thing that happens is he almost falls down an elevator shaft. Is he in free fall in more ways that one? That was a very Sopranos moment.

 

"Pizza House!"

 

She's incredible. The character and the actress.

 

The montage at the end with "Tomorrow Never Knows" playing over it was a great few moments of television. That's one of my very favorite Beatles songs.

And poor Pete. He never gets what he wants, even when he gets what he wants.

 

She's gorgeous.

Alexis Bliedel still can't act for shit.

At this point, I think they might be just screwing with us with the Pete's about to die stuff, it's so over the top.

That was Don's picture-of-Earth-from-the-moon. Something familiar that is disconcerting when seen from a different angle.

This show is so good at that stuff.

 

I noticed this as well, but Sepinwall pointed out the brilliance of giving us an early scene where the characters discuss how expensive it is to use Beatles songs in advertising/media, then putting in a Beatles song montage at the end of the same episode.

 

"When did music become so important?"

"I was raised in the '30s. My dream was indoor plumbing."

Like someone else said, the foreshadowing with Pete is being laid on so thick I can only assume they won't actually follow through with it.

Also agree that Alexis Bledel can't act at all, but I don't care.

 

Ken's "I am SOOO thirsty!" was a great line delivery.

 

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