Mad Men Season 5 running thread

Can someone explain that plot point to me? As I understood it, the guy wasn't a Jaguar exec, but a local dealer with some clout?

 

He was the head of the Jaguar dealers' association.

 

Why would anyone get Dish? They sure seem to go out of their way to piss people off.

 

It's a hell of a lot cheaper than Direct, at least when we looked into getting satellite a few years ago. Split the bill with my landlord so I don't have a lot of choice in the matter.

 

Dish/DirecTV seemed like a natural option to me over cable 10 years ago.

Cable has made a comeback. From where I'm sitting, it has it all over the dish stuff now.

(Although my best days of TV were when the raw dish had the raw feeds. Those were great.)

 

Jared Harris kind of intimates Elisabeth Moss is off the show for good.

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/05/060512-arts-jared-harris-ruiz/

 

As a real-life ad guy, I can tell you that every car company has to answer to a group of dealers one way or the other. And there are two tiers of advertising, tier one: the national stuff. Just cars and roads. Tier two is the dealer stuff: the people in dealerships, lots of prices, et cetera.

For the larger car companies, the dealers get an FYI on what national Tier One ads are about to run and they get voting power on Tier Two-generally a board of 5-10 people who vote on ideas which are then executed. But if they don't like the national Tier One ads, they'll be quick to bitch about it/get them pulled or scrapped altogether.

It's been said that the true target market for car ads isn't consumers, but dealers instead. I've had enough experience with it to know that there's some truth to that. What was depicted there was dead on the money.

I will say that as someone who has worked on Jag in the past, the hilarious thing is, they do not want to reference the past whatsoever, because the cars were so gorgeous, yet so crappy. So that's why you never see Jag ads that reference their heritage in real life.

 

Man, sometimes it makes me grumpy that half the people here aren't journalists anymore, and sometimes (like now) I love that this site has such a broad collection of people so that westcoastvol can drop some knowledge like that. Gracias, sir.

 

We get a Dish package that's about $116 a month with two different HD DVR receivers (one downstairs in the landlord's; one upstairs with me) including HBO. I paid about that much myself the last place I lived for the local Comcast that didn't include some of the better sports stuff (NBCSN, CBSSN, MLB, NHL Network, etc.) and wasn't HD. Cable's just stupid expensive, which is why we opted for Dish.

 

I think it just depends on who is running a better special at the time. When we moved to our current town we originally signed up for Dish because it was cheaper. A year later DirecTV had a good deal that gave us a bunch more channels and a better sports package for the same price.

Direct has been much, much better and their house channel, Audience has some good stuff on.

 

I wonder if he knows. I'm sure he wasn't around for the last episode (assuming they shoot in sequence) and even then, there is next season.

 

Reiterate my severe doubts that you'll see her, next week. Next season? I'd say yes, but there may be overriding budget pressures I'm in no position to be aware of.