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anyone seen the 11th episode?

when that guy at the office went "oh i'm homosexual" and all those jaws dropped around him damn

can't wait for next week's episode

Don Draper =

These kinda pics should be forbidden.

HamsterHuey said:

i actually think there's a resemblance between you and the Don guy lol

and i've been wondering if that stunning actress who plays Joan is really naturally built like that, or she's got things stuffed



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Oh, how I adore this damn show!

I´m still on episode 4 of the second season and it does not disappoint!

garganta said:

Do you touch yourself when watching?

HamsterHuey said:

yes, I cover my eyes sometimes because I can not stand so much brilliance!

I couldn't post on this thread until now because I wasn't caught up, but I finished watching season two this weekend.

I laughed out loud when everyone was stunned because there was an out gay man in the office.

And in that scene, poor Sal realized that he was in love with a homophobe.

The finale did not disappoint. There are lots of questions for season three when it picks up in 1964, almost two years after the finale takes place.

PricelessHo said:

No. that's all Christina.

I wanna talk about the finale more!

Overall season two was even better than season one. And there were no unbelievable shockers like last season when Peggy suddenly had a baby. Excellent.

contrapposto said:

No idea what this show is about but i like it.

sextonseven said:

i just finished watching it a few minutes ago. i think it was so powerful. so consistantly powerful all the way through. esp. the dialogues!

and can i go an episode back and mention how damn mind blowing christina's acting was on that forced sex scene in the office??

PricelessHo said:

Yes, yes, YES! You could tell Joan was terrified as her fiance forced himself on her and because of the times she felt she had to let him do it and just retreated into herself as he raped her. Afterwards Peggy complimented her on how perfect Joan's life must be getting married to a doctor. I wonder if that scene will affect where Joan is when the series picks up again two years later in 1964 for season three?

sextonseven said:

do you think joan stayed with that doctor despite the fact that they apparently had no chemistry just because she was lonely? and btw, did we even get to see her reaction to the news of Sterling marrying that girl?

it's saddening the amount of punches she's had in the face this season. like the time when she worked that tv department like crazy only to be rewarded by having a new man picked over her. the expression on her face on that scene, damn! some seriously stunning acting there too.

and it's also interesting how the show started off with her being basically the IT woman in the office, whereas girls like Peggy had people walk all over them. and yet look how each of them ended now?

PricelessHo said:

Totally agree. Joan was satisfied at the beginning of the series with being head of the secretarial pool. She thought that was the highest position a woman could have in the office so she was doing really well.

Then Peggy came along and broke the glass ceiling by becoming first a junior copywriter and eventually getting her own office by the end of season two. I'm sure that hurt Joan and when she tried to be one of the boys too and help out in the television department, like you said, her job was taken away from her and given to a man.

I don't recall seeing a scene showing how Joan reacted when she heard Roger was getting married again. There was however, the image of her seething when Roger's future fiance, Jane told Joan that he was the one that overruled Joan's decision to fire her.

sextonseven said:

ah completely forgot about that one yea.

man they seriously withered joan's character this season. (her offering to fix peggy's door tag was another moving moment too).

so btw, what are some of things you think might occur when the show picks up in 1964? and how satisfied were you with the finale?

PricelessHo said:

I was VERY satisfied with the finale. More so than the season one finale where I felt Peggy's pregnancy was a little unbelievable.

Awesome stuff in the finale:

The look on Duck's face when he threatened Don to honor his contract for the upcoming merger and Don casually telling him he didn't have a contract. IN YOUR FACE, DUCK!

Don being the only man in the office to notice Peggy's new hairstyle.

Peggy finally telling Pete about their child and Pete's reaction.

Don's written note to Betty.



Questions for season three in 1964:

Will Don still be working for Sterling Cooper? Will Duck?

Will Don and Betty stay married?

Will Sal still be married? Will Joan to her rapist husband? Will Roger to his secretary?

If Marilyn Monroe's death had the office in tears, how will Kennedy's assassination affect everyone at the end of 1963?

Hope you enjoyed the first two seasons cause if Lionsgate has its way, its going to fall apart next season.

http://www.deadlinehollyw...y-mad-men/

EXCLUSIVE: It takes a lot to shock me when it comes to Hollywood business. But this is lunacy. Lionsgate execs are calling Hollywood agencies looking for a showrunner to replace Matthew Weiner, the brilliant creator of Mad Men. The reason is that they think Weiner's agents at CAA are asking for too much money for him. I hear CAA wants a multi-year deal that pays Weiner $10 million a year. Plus he wants control over promotion and advertising. Now that's consistent with a big hit on pay cable and what Darren Star or David Chase made on HBO. But it's way, way rich for a Lionsgate show on AMC, and execs are telling CAA it can't pay that. "The 'ask' was insanity," one insider tells me. "It's preposterous. AMC is a basic cable network. The economics don't support this. It's why Lionsgate is throwing their arms up in the air. And, remember, they got a two-year pickup for the show with or without Matt Weiner." So Lionsgate picked up the phone and began asking the tenpercenteries for a "general list" of possible showrunners, and about the availability of specific names (like Aaron Sorkin). Are these suits NUTS?

Of course, no one decent would ever trample on Weiner's toes unless he blessed it. But this is also the surest way to fuck up the first basic cable program to ever win the Emmy for best drama. And let's not forget that the AMC show ended its 2nd season Sunday with record ratings. Sunday's finale averaged 1.75 million total viewers for its 10 PM airing, an 89% improvement over the first-season finale's 926,000. Compared with Season 1, Mad Men 2.0 saw a 63% increase in total viewers (an average of 1.5 million viewers vs. 925,000), a 109% jump in the adults 18-49 demo (705,000 vs. 338,000) and an 81% increase in adults 25-54 (780,000 vs. 430,000). Those still aren't great numbers even if every thinking person loves the series. When I asked a Lionsgate source about this situation, I was told, "We're negotiating with Matthew Weiner. But we want him back..." Then why do this? My bet is it's a reaction to having Carl Icahn crawling up Jon Feltheimer's ass.

lazycrockett said:

I will be shocked if the series continues without Weiner. Someone will give in or the two sides will meet in the middle.