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The Pete situation is, for lack of a better phrase, utterly, depressingly sad. Hope his suicidal musings don't presage something bad...
I'm afraid it might - but yes, it IS utterly sad.
The Pete situation is, for lack of a better phrase, utterly, depressingly sad. Hope his suicidal musings don't presage something bad...
I think they have a very special bond - almost like brother and sister, though that's not quite it, either. It's one of the best aspects of the show, IMO.
I think so too, but I hope they don't take it to the next level. I really don't want to see them in a romantic situation.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/how-mad-men-landed-the-beatles-all-you-need-is-love-and-250000/How ‘Mad Men’ Landed the Beatles: All You Need Is Love (and $250,000)
As with most transactions that involve the Beatles, that usage did not come cheap. According to two people briefed on the deal, who were not authorized to speak publicly about it, Lionsgate, the studio that produces “Mad Men,” paid about $250,000 for the recording and publishing rights to the song. That is an appropriately high price, several music and advertising executives say, since many major pop songs can be licensed for less than $100,000.
Mr. Weiner said he had been trying “for a few years” to get different Beatles songs onto “Mad Men,” but had been rejected by Apple Corps in the past.
[video=youtube;w_pSCCzuU4Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_pSCCzuU4Y[/video]Mr. Weiner pointed to another “Mad Men” episode from earlier this season, in which a Beach Boys song is played during a character’s LSD trip. “No one ever asked, ‘What does it cost to have that song?’ ” he said. “You think that that’s free?”
The Pete situation is, for lack of a better phrase, utterly, depressingly sad. Hope his suicidal musings don't presage something bad...
Sally herself - her "They showed me pictures and said nice things about her" when Betty asked how they responded
I thought the highlight of this episode was Betty's reaction to Don's drop-dead apartment and her glimpse of svelte Megan. Her typically childish response - a mixture of envy, anger, regret, selfishness, and rage - was palpable.
And her classic mean-girl method of getting back - striking at Don and Megan by telling Sally to ask them about Anna for the family tree project - was beautifully subverted. First, by Megan's wise, "She's trying to poison us from fifty miles away" comment that adroitly prevented Don from firing back in anger. Second, by Don's (unusual) honesty in explaining about Anna to Sally (to the slight extent that he did explain). And finally, by Sally herself - her "They showed me pictures and said nice things about her" when Betty asked how they responded - showed her to be a student of both her parents' manipulation skills, and it really shot down Betty. Wow, nicely played.
But I was disappointed that we didn't get a moment of Sally (or someone else) actually watching Dark Shadows, with a clip of Collins family melodrama that reflected on one of the MM plotlines. I really expected that, particularly after the brief conversation about the show between Megan and her friend the waitress/actress. (Of course, that a MM episode entitled Dark Shadows premiered the same weekend as the film remake is just plain bizarre!)
Oh, and I remember that horrible NYC smog! I was only 11, but it was big news.
Got to see Don's petty side.
He "accidentally" left Ginsberg's Sno-Ball pitch in the taxicab, and then later, in the elevator, lies to both Ginsberg and himself when he says he doesn't really think of Ginsberg at all. And Megan had to save him from his juvenile self over the Betty/Anna/Sally thing.
Dude has his insecurities, for sure. He covers 'em pretty well, most of the time, but that cool facade is just that, a facade. But then, he's in the facade business. It's all about how you can make things appear. Interesting that Betty's new husband is in essentially the same business himself.
So, Don's feeling threatened by this hot-shot Ginsberg kid, and Peggy hasn't produced anything of note in quite a spell. And Henry feels like he's tied his star to a rock.
Where's the Reddi-Whip?
Does anyone else having a stinking suspicion that Don and Betty will get together again?
Oh Lord, I hope not!
Does anyone else having a stinking suspicion that Don and Betty will get together again?