TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[Jocephus]

re: david spade

heres conan in cuba, at a paladar. other celebrities have been there and after discovering rob schneider had been there, conan says "so i'm literally the last celebrity to come here"

so...case closed.

[Jocephus]

speaking of conebone, that doc on him is on YT

[thrill]

Shades wearing, cigarette smoking, hang over having, tentacle porn carrying Peggy Olsen is a sexual and business dynamo that will destroy everything in it's path.

[thrill]

Oddly structured season, but I kind of like how Last Man on Earth eventually turned into a show where

[SHOW]

almost everyone but January Jones and New Phil is almost as pathetic as Phil.

The middle part was a struggle but it's finishing strong

Yeah. Couple annoying episodes but glad I stuck with it.

[heyzeus]

Shades wearing, cigarette smoking, hang over having, tentacle porn carrying Peggy Olsen is a sexual and business dynamo that will destroy everything in it's path.

The roller skates have powers.

Anyone else bummed by how they seem to have Joan going out?

[greenback44]

Shades wearing, cigarette smoking, hang over having, tentacle porn carrying Peggy Olsen is a sexual and business dynamo that will destroy everything in it's path.

The roller skates have powers.

Anyone else bummed by how they seem to have Joan going out?

Well, it was made clear in the first episode this season that she was going to be miserable at McCann (and I think the little conversation between Roger and the black secretary was supposed to reinforce the point that McCann isn't an enlightened group), and watching a show where writers torture their characters isn't any better for me. Even ignoring the standard sexism of the era, Joan seems like the kind of employee who wouldn't be appreciated much when Giant Corporation buys out Little Company. OTOH Joan really should have known there were risks to escalating both to Ferg and then to Hobart. That's just not how someone with Joan's savvy plays the office politics crap. That's a B- for Weiner.

I'm glad the show is ending, because if it went on much longer, I'd hop in my car one Sunday night, and drive to St. Paul or something and never go back to work.

[heyzeus]

I was really hoping Joan would lawyer up and file the EEOC complaint. Or, hire her developer boyfriend's hitman. Joan was a well written character - assertive, strong, but also vulnerable too. I would've rather seen her go out fighting, but Mad Men isn't about giving you what you want. It's about giving you Don's 430th soul-searching, aimless voyage to California.

[33anda3rd]

...if it went on much longer, I'd hop in my car one Sunday night, and drive to St. Paul or something and never go back to work.

[Freed Roger]

I'm more disappointed in Joan settling for the d-bag geezer guy than settling with McCann. is Joan done for the series now?

enjoyed the episode last night.

[33anda3rd]

I assume Joan is done. Small theme this year, with women getting swept out of the way for $$$. Draper didn't want to deal with divorcing Megan, so he wrote her a million dollar check to go away. McCann Erickson didn't want to deal with Joan being an empowered woman, so they wrote her a check to go away, which she did under the advice of Sterling, who has himself had some expensive divorces and who was completely blown away ("Is it something I did?") when a woman opted to not follow him to M-E.

The waitress thing is great. Her ex-husband feels the way about her that probably everyone in Don's personal life feels about him--he leaves them worse off for having had him in their life. They're a match made in heaven.