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“Mad Men” The Cure for the Common Show

2010 August 29
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by deez

I will be THOROUGHLY covering TWO episodes of Mad Men while TI is vacationing out in the deserts of Nevada (if she gets out of Reno). As promised, there will be HOT pictures of JOHN HAMM, like these:

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OK, that’s enough, finding attractive pictures of Jon Hamm is really not time-consuming or difficult. It’s rather enjoyable, actually. It could, however be distracting to me as I try to type this up and get it ready to publish in a timely post-show manner.

First, let’s quickly revisit last week. Don’s “new” secretary becomes increasingly inept; at her present rate of decay, I expect to find dentures soaking in Polident on her desk next week! Honda looks for an agency. Roger’s not having it. Pete grows a pair. Joan looks stunning. Betty is capable. Sally cuts her hair, and her crush on David McCallum manifests itself in an inappropriate manner. Betty is mortified by poor Sally’s complete lack of attention to social detail, and being a marginally adequate mother figure, packs her off with Carla to a Psychologist.

We finally got to see how Don was hired at Sterling Cooper! (juxtaposed with the hiring of Jane’s no-talent cousin) Isn’t nepotism(and alcohol) awesome!!!! The new Art Director is a major asshole. I want Sal to come back and jab him in the ear with a size 6 Rapidograph. That Shaw guy, whose name is apparently spelled “Chaough”, (did I get that right? or Chowgugga as Roger says, lol) is a jerk as well. Quite ironic that SCDP is attending the CLIOs while JON HAMM is attending the Emmy’s, no?   Also looks like Ken is coming back, and Duck has fallen off the wagon.

 Oh Peggy, Peggy, Peggy…I feel your pain. You get no recognition at all, while a drunk Don rips off cousin No-Talent and comes off smelling like a rose, THEN you get yelled at AND condemned to lockup with the repulsive Stan (While getting to witness  Don’s Secretary adjust her wig :) ). Could things BE any worse?  Peggy  is becoming my favorite character. (We just changed one small thing) Somehow, I think it’s going to be Peggy(or maybe Dr Bobblehead) who snaps Don out of his extended Lost Weekend…but, that’s probably just because she features prominently in next week’s scenes…I really have no idea, and that’s what makes this show so great!!!

Sneak peek:

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  • jukejoint

    Oooooh. I hope somebody comes back and looks at this thread. Cause I found a gallery of Mad Men pics from Rolling Stone and they are fabulous.

    http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/photos/17382/196362

    • deez

      Those were great! I like the one of Hamm in front of the mirror where he’s talking about not “being Don.” I know…it’s acting…but it’s really a transformation.

    • Lucky

      jukejoint, thank you for those pictures!!! It’s amazing how different Jon Hamm looks when he’s Jon Hamm. When I grow up, I want to be Christina Hendricks!

  • Lucky

    Hated: asshole art guy, short, fugly Jane cousin guy and smug, dickish ad guy.
    Loved: flashbacks of Joan and Roger and Don and Roger(amazing how all of them really looked younger to me) Kenny’s back! and Peggy calling asshole art guy’s bluff and everything that comes out of Lane’s mouth.
    Made me sad: Don’s decline. I was actually face palming at the scene after the clio’s with the Life people. Awkward!

    • deez

      Is it CLIO??? Thanks for the heads up! (had no idea what that stood for!)

      I thought they looked younger too! Roger’s hair would be easy, but how do they do the rest of it? Some sort of camera filter? (Sort of how they made Brad Pitt look 18 in Benjamin Button) If that’s the case, I want one of those for my bathroom mirror!!

  • jukejoint

    I am such a spoiler ho that, after seeing the sneak peek, I looked up who won the Sonny Liston/Cassius Clay fight.

    I hope Peggy enacts some major revenge against Don for being such a tool with her. I think she should open her own agency or jump to CGC (the one with Chaough).

    The weasel’s name is Danny Strong, and he played Jonathan Levinson on Buffy and Doyle McMaster on The Gilmore Girls, and he is hella short. Imdb lists him at 5-2, which means he’s probably 4-10 or something.

    (I hope TI is out of Reno by now. What a hellhole. I like Lake Tahoe [north side] but Reno is one of my least favorite cities on earth.)

    • deez

      I wanna know what was going on in next week’s scenes at the end of the show…what is this fresh hell that Peggy seems to be enduring next week? I thought things were looking up for our girl. She’s hanging out with a cooler crowd, escaping the police, meeting art film directors, photographers and writers….and now next week she’s sitting alone on a couch in the dark??? WHAT?

      I also need to be caught up with the creepy kid( Glenn) situation. Any more vandalism? I fear he will be the reason Sally gets into even more trouble. (are they both supposed to be 10/11?) Don (or was it Betty?) said Sally was ten, but I could’ve sworn that she said her age was ten last season, and it’s definitely been a year.

      • jukejoint

        I think they say Sally is whatever age Kiernan Shipka is in real life. Because I had her birthdate in 1953 with my older sister and then this year, if she’s supposed to be 10, she’d have been born in late 1954 or 1955. Given the fact that we saw her with a nice-weather birthday party, I think it means 1955. Same for Bobby. I thought he should be born in 1956, but here we are in Spring 1965 and he’s 7 1/2, which would mean he was born in Septemberish of 1957. So I think they’re fudging a year or two when the show leaps forward so the child actors are still the right age.

        The Simpsons do the same thing, only way worse. Homer and Marge used to be high school graduates in the 70s and then they leapt to the 80s and now I think they were high schoolers during the Grunge years, all to keep Bart and Lisa under 10. D’oh!

  • FreeDavidCook

    Miss Blankenship is the awesomely bad secretary. She has her own page on Facebook. I choked on my coke when she told Don “Your little friend is here.” long after Don arrived in his office and saw the interloper.

    Don waking up with a greasy spoon waitress is a new low. Wonder who the woman is that chased him down and slept with him from the Cleos. So many questions and now I have to wait a week to find out some of the answers.

    Both Peggy and Pete have grown balls. I like it.

    • deez

      BLANKENSHIP!!!! I was too lazy (and tired) to look that up last night!!!

      • FreeDavidCook

        At least we know no matter how drunk Don gets he will not sleep with this secretary.

        • deez

          LOL!!!!

        • On The Edge

          I don’t know…after this last bender who knows? Miss Blankenship could end up being his rock bottom!

          • FreeDavidCook

            Would the wig stay in place during that action?

          • jukejoint

            Rock bottom? Miss Blankenship seems like a top to me.

  • jukejoint

    This episode made me sort of dizzy, what with new weasel (who was very bad on Buffy and somebody on the Gilmore Girls) weaseling his way to a job because Don made a drunken mistake and then we find out Don/Dick weaseled his way in, too, because Roger was drunk and didn’t realize he didn’t hire him. And the Long Weekend. And way back when with Joan and Roger. Fur coats. Betty in the fur ad! Pete having to take Ken but making sure he knew who was boss. Peggy having to deal with the odious art guy but making sure he knew who was boss. Hee.

    But Don spiraling downward is really getting upsetting. Is Duck (off the wagon again) his future? Or his present? Is there anywhere left to fall? What is going to make him wake up and smell the coffee?

    I’m starting to love the secretary, who would’ve been played by Thelma Ritter in 1960 and Florence Stanley in 1975. At least there’s some comic relief.

    I just found out that the actor who plays Pryce is in real life the son of Richard Harris. Who knew? I don’t think they look anything alike. Or looked, Richard Harris being dead and all. I wonder how close the drunken goings-on at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce resemble his household growing up?

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      I know I should not have read your comment but I did. SANDS HAS NO AMC! And I just want to get the hell out of here.

    • deez

      Gah!!What is the secretary’s name???? I could not recall while typing this up!! LOL! I didn’t even catch that it was Betty in the ad!!

    • JaneRochester

      Thelma Ritter. Love her.

      I also love Lane. He is sooo good at picking up cues.