TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[thrill]

Mad Men is so god damn good. Jesus Christ.

[Schlich]

i keep hearing this but i don't get it. does it get *that* much better after season 1?

[Jocephus]

who are the ad wizards who came up with this one?!

[heyzeus]

Mad Men is so god damn good. Jesus Christ.

I knew when I saw that Weiner directed the episode that it would be an intense one. The VFW scene was about as good as any the show has ever done. The Betty plot seems a bit formulaic to me though.

[thrill]

i keep hearing this but i don't get it. does it get *that* much better after season 1?

If you don't get it, don't bother.

Mad Men is so god damn good. Jesus Christ.

I knew when I saw that Weiner directed the episode that it would be an intense one. The VFW scene was about as good as any the show has ever done. The Betty plot seems a bit formulaic to me though.

Oh man, that VFW scene. Generations of men, scarred by war with no way to cope with what happened to them except drinking with other veterans. No therapy, no PTSD programs because it didn't exist and if it did, it wouldn't be acceptable for a man to use. A time in human history where the biggest wealth growth for a population was primarily funneled to one demographic and that demographic was damaged and scarred or terrified of the bomb and didn't understand what was happening in the larger culture around them.

That moment when Don talked about dropping his lighter and exploding the fuel was probably the first time he had ever said it out loud to another person. Obviously the characters Weiner created are not your average experience of life in that era, but it's very powerful if you like thinking about that kind of thing.

I hope Pete doesn't [expletive] up his Lear jet job/second chance with his family, and that's something I wouldn't have imagined saying after the first couple of seasons.

[MrSaigon]

So the star of Scrotal Recall, which you will know from constantly being suggested to you by Netflix, is Johnny Flynn--who I used to listen to on Grooveshark (sad emoji):

First episode was alright, some good moments. But I'm not totally sure I can buy into a show with a serious long arc love story titled "Scrotal Recall"

[heyzeus]

i keep hearing this but i don't get it. does it get *that* much better after season 1?

If you don't get it, don't bother.

Mad Men is so god damn good. Jesus Christ.

I knew when I saw that Weiner directed the episode that it would be an intense one. The VFW scene was about as good as any the show has ever done. The Betty plot seems a bit formulaic to me though.

Oh man, that VFW scene. Generations of men, scarred by war with no way to cope with what happened to them except drinking with other veterans. No therapy, no PTSD programs because it didn't exist and if it did, it wouldn't be acceptable for a man to use. A time in human history where the biggest wealth growth for a population was primarily funneled to one demographic and that demographic was damaged and scarred or terrified of the bomb and didn't understand what was happening in the larger culture around them.

That moment when Don talked about dropping his lighter and exploding the fuel was probably the first time he had ever said it out loud to another person. Obviously the characters Weiner created are not your average experience of life in that era, but it's very powerful if you like thinking about that kind of thing.

I hope Pete doesn't [expletive] up his Lear jet job/second chance with his family, and that's something I wouldn't have imagined saying after the first couple of seasons.

Question about the VFW scene: When that dude is telling the story about finding the German soldiers in the forest, is he implying that they resorted to cannibalism to survive?

[thrill]

I don't think so. I think he was just saying they killed some guys they didn't have to so they wouldn't have to feed them.

[33anda3rd]

If anybody really really really wants to go down a rabbit hole of geeking out over Mad Men give a try first to

this

and then

this.

Those are both heavily spoiler-laden. And will have you, if you haven't read them and are a fan, slapping your head going "holy crap I didn't notice all that."

[Vidor]

If Don Draper turns out to be D.B. Cooper--well, that would just be the stupidest ending ever.