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Hollywood, 3:36 PM
Mon Nov 9
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I just don't see it. #tomcruise
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Pete: I have to admit I'm a little scared... #madmen
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He has failed so often -- sometimes its been his fault, other times not -- that with his home life going down the tubes, he was willing to make amends and eat substantial crow to gather his new loved ones around him.
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Best line for me: "Peter can I see you for a minute?" That chick is badass. Wouldn't have guessed that doing the Charleston at Roger's wedding would be foreshadowing of Trudy and Pete's teamwork. And damn it, if Pete hasn't really been the most progressive this season. Don nailed it on the head when he complimented Pete's foresight.
Yay Joan! Genius reentering of our favorite office gal. Was dismayed a little when they didn't elevate her role a bit for the forthcoming firm. Or maybe she just revels in running the show from behind the scenes so to speak.
Don and Betty...sigh. Knew it was coming, but damn, didn't expect Betty to be swayed so easily. She really is just a large child, and doesn't Carla have her own family to care for?! Blech!
Nice end scene with the new firm participants cramped in a small room with excited anticipation on their faces. An ending to one chapter and a start of another for all. Maybe we'll see Cooper be a Mad Man for once. Can't wait. #madmen
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Trudy is turning into quite the powerful one, but it makes sense, when you look at how Pete's shrewdness can often become unhinged and too all-over-the-place to do any good for him.
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Also, who else was excited that they poached off Harry Crane?? He is my favorite most under-appreciated character on the show...although, I love it how they always make a point to show how he "basically created" the Media Department, on his own. And Paul Kinsey's face when he see's he's been left behind by his would-be mentor Don in favor of Peter and *gasp* Peggy...priceless. What a badass episode, to be sure.
And who else is hoping that they save poor Salvatore from propositioning strangers in Central Park in Season 5? They still need artists, you know...maybe when the SCDP earns more rupees.
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It is an interesting move to slim down the cast like that. Was there some contract dispute that wasn't publicized? #madmen
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I also hope that annoying Betty moves to Albany with Henry and gets no further face time. (I can dream, can't I?) #madmen
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In that scene with Peggy and Don, I couldn't tell whether he was going to offer her a job, or profess his love and make out with her. It was... pretty awesome.
Thank you for crowning Joanie "St. Joan," Brian. It's one of the many reasons I love you. #madmen
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Oh well. The least we can do is sit back and hope for a Peggy tryst. #madmen
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Also, the Peggy and Don scene was utterly fantastic. The power and self-awareness that woman has drawn into herself over three seasons is inspiring to watch. #madmen
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I've come to the conclusion that Betty Draper captured his heart much the way January Jones landed this role: by looking the part. I can't believe JJ was cast for a pivotal role in this series w/o someone waking up to the fact that she cannot act. She can't even pull off a crying jag, which leads me to suspect that she is possibly not even female.
Similarly, I can't believe that HF proposed to BD without having had sex w/her or observed her with her children. If Roger Sterling is disillusioned with his child-bride, one only wonders how HF will feel in two years.
Well, actually, I don't. Neither is interesting and I hope they both bug off to Albany. #madmen
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Either way, I'm very curious to see how she performs on SNL this weekend. I'm hoping it'll give me more insight into how much she's really acting on the show and what she's like when she's not--if she's ever not--Betty Draper. #madmen
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But then JFK gets assassinated and she has to do a crying scene, and she can't. In this episode, where she tells her husband that she wants a divorce, (eventually) gets his consent, breaks the news to her children, - all heart-breaking things, she has to use her manicured fingernails to hide her eyes and the fact that she cannot emote.
I wasn't looking for a telenovela here, but ya know, some emotion was called for.
Also, since I watch this on iTunes, I got the 5-minute freebie after the finale when the actors discuss what happened to their characters. She was mono-tonal; either seriously in character or just boring.
I'll take a look at SNL and see if it changes my opinion. Thanks for the tip. #madmen
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Loved that whole urgent, secret meeting of the minds, an all star team for sure. It was such a fantastic thing to watch, the rapid forward momentum of all the character's lives, taking a risk, and giving us an idea of what's to come. Even in the cramped suite at the Pierre, the optimism was lovely. Exhilarating turn of events.
Sal's absence sort of registered as an unspoken presence. And Don's breaking open the door made me wonder if it was an allusion to another locked door of Sal's, the closet. He'll be back.
Just a superb finale, above and beyond. Hurry up, August. #madmen
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I don't; I like some of her dreamier sequences, she's a complex character. It was a very Betty-heavy season, I must admit I would have liked more office intrigue.
I suspect- and have read- that people dislike her because the find her petulant, sulky, childish. Not a great mom. Been in a bad mood for a few years. I thinks she has qualities and potential though, like in Rome.
Ultimately I do think it's that so much of this season was devoted to Betty's malheureusement. It seems repetitive, maybe. In smaller doses, perhaps people wouldn't mind her so ..pointedly. Don't know, just a thought. #madmen
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She's self-obsessed and not a good mother. She has a passing concern for her kids to the point that she's basically letting her nanny raise them despite that she's a stay at home mom. She doesn't compensate for that by being ambitious in a work-life since she doesn't have any. Her sole concerns are about herself and her happiness. Though she doesn't approach it in a mean-spirited way, the effects are not any less negative on her kids.
At least with Don, though his faults are abound, there is a greatness in things that he does. Also, he's capable of demonstrating that he's not as selfish as he often behaves. You don't see that with Betty. She's pretty much always thinking about herself in when doing things for others. #madmen
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in which scene? everything don did in the episode was to help him in the greater run. he had to apologize to all he wronged professionally because he needed them to accomplish his ultimate goal which was to be free again. if he had the money and the charm to start his own agency, do you think he'd had gone to roger and apologize? no. hell, it took peggy to reveal to him that he was telling rather than asking. and the scene with betts in the bedroom. he is still very much his father's son.
so, where is this greatness? don is just assuaging the egos, telling people what the want to hear. i don't think don has truly done anything to garner the sympathy from audiences over betty. he stole a man's identity because he didn't want to stay in korea, not because he was an orphan with a horrible father and bitter stepmother. whereas betty is a petulant child and horrible mother because that's exactly how she was treated. her actions, no matter how horrible, are a direct reaction to her childhood. dick whitman is a coward who will run at a moment's notice. that's not something he inherited from archie as evidenced in the last episode. that's just who he is. #madmen
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