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MAD MAN recap ...

Men in suits smirk while women in bras made out of steel scaffolding teeter precariously on stilettos.

Don Draper says “no” 75 times.

Various characters briefly suspect the American Dream might not be what it's cracked up to be.

Shiny vintage eyewear inspires hordes of present-day hipsters to click on over to RetroDorkSpecs.com.

Betty doesn't smile, because smiling makes you fat.

Unfiltered cigarettes are lit, then sucked and finally stabbed out.

No one talks about their feelings, because talking about feelings hasn't been invented yet.

Omens are foreshadowed and symbolism is symbolic. Something or other represents death.

Joan dispenses motherly advice from behind her iconic shelf of Rubenesque bosom.



Fedora on. Fedora off. Fedora on. Fedora off.

Don Draper makes a face like his lower intestines are full of spackle.

Advertising is the sexiest, most exciting occupation in the history of human industry.

Peggy is liberated from ever being happy.

An obscure “golden oldie” is played that you will buy on iTunes.

Dreams are crushed. Hopes thwarted. Happiness smothered.

This smug jackass says something thoughtless and selfish and then bats his long ladylashes.

Corks pop. Glasses clink. Liquor pours. There is much swirling.

A man sexually harasses a woman. Everybody laughs.

No one in the 1960s realizes that everybody in 2012 is watching, and judging.

Roger Sterling cracks a joke and everyone briefly forgives him for being an alcoholic sociopath.
 
watched an episode of Firefly last night from 10 years ago with bigboob redhead christina hendrix in it, and she was sexy as hell. way hotter than she is in mad men with the 60s getup and crushing boringness of that show.
 
Firefly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mad Men even if the show paid my rent, got me drunk, and fellated me repeatedly.
 
this shit rules so far ... really tight ...

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you watched the second season?
Yes. The show has definitely hit its stride.

I never read the graphic novels. I try to avoid books, graphic novels and comics at all costs. I find they only lessen my viewing pleasure when they are eventually converted to moving pictures.


so up in PA this weekend I stopped by a tobacco store ...
there's a reason it's called Pennsyltucky.

MAD MAN recap ...
Awesome.
 
you watched the second season?
yes.

I thought the second season was just plain bad...but I'm one of those dorks who has been reading the graphic novel for years and am obviously biased. It's hard for me to tell it it's truly good or not. Seems to me though that the acting is bad, the dialogue is questionable and the plot is plodding.

Of course it will be different. I thought the first season of TWD was meh, as well as the first half of season 2, but the second half really made it for me.

Lastly, I think a lot of people forget that Andrea was annoying as hell until the prison, and Lori was always an annoying bitch. Carl was dumb and annoying until later as well. I think they are setting up the characters very well, albeit, the annoyingness of the characters is played up more because of the difference in dialog compared to comics to the TV show.

Tyrese is cool and all, but he's really not as ace as people thing. His gym (gyme) scene is about all that is ace. Abraham is far better than Tyrese. Michonne is pretty damn cool.
 
cool. had no idea Costner was in it.

so is this some mini-series? or is only up to Ep. 3 so far? as that is all I see on the show website.
 
You, McNulty, are a gaping asshole. We both know this. Fuck if everybody in CID doesn't know it. But fuck if I'm gonna stand here and say you did a single fucking thing to get a police shot. You did not do this. You fucking hear me? This is not on you. No, it isn't, asshole! Believe it or not, everything isn't about you! And the motherfucker saying this? He hates your guts, McNulty! So you know if it WAS on you, I'd be the son of a bitch to say so. Shit went bad--she took two for company. That's the only lesson here.
 
still need to watch the Hatfields and McCoys. Everyone has said that it was pretty good.
Cool and wierd that it was filmed in Romania, considering I drove through the Appalachian Mountains less than a month ago.