POLL: MAD MEN: Which tier?

[Emily]

I love Mad Men - it's like the Sopranos for TV (not HBO).

[wwwes]

GAH!!! I was all set to love that episode until the end, when Don Draper suddenly became Snidely Whiplash. Maybe that was meant to be the interpretation of Betty's brain, where the whole world is a cartoon.

[thom]

I hope this season ends with Kennedy not getting killed.

"Enjoy the world as it is. They'll change it and never give you a reason."
I really liked that line. This show is teetering on the edge of daytime soap, and will fall into the dish if this season doesn't end with something spectacular.

Perhaps an alternate reality isn't the answer, but something utterly ridiculous needs to happen.

[senorcorazon]

I hope this season ends with Kennedy not getting killed.

"Enjoy the world as it is. They'll change it and never give you a reason."
I really liked that line. This show is teetering on the edge of daytime soap, and will fall into the dish if this season doesn't end with something spectacular.

Perhaps an alternate reality isn't the answer, but something utterly ridiculous needs to happen.

something utterly ridiculous: See lawnmower foot.

[Kim Kelly]

Lawnmower foot was obviously foreshadowing the assassination. And the assassination is obviously going to happen at the very end of the season finale, you mark my words.

I miss Sal. I miss Joan.

[thom]

Lawnmower foot was perfectly reasonable because there was a lawnmower in the office and a drunken party. It happens.

I want utterly ridiculous.

[wwwes]

Ridiculous Plot Twists That Have Arguably Been Foreshadowed:

• Kinsey joins a violent communist group.
• Pete meets an attractive African-American woman, sleeps with her, then awakens to find himself covered in blood.
• Conrad Hilton inspires Don to become a born-again Christian.
• Betty accidentally kills their baby, blames nanny.
• Betty intentionally kills their baby, blames nanny.
• On November 23, Burt Cooper receives a short and cryptic phone call, takes a drink, and stares grimly into the middle distance.

[senorcorazon]

Lawnmower foot was obviously foreshadowing the assassination. And the assassination is obviously going to happen at the very end of the season finale, you mark my words.

I miss Sal. I miss Joan.

I still think they're going to deal with the assassination because of the wedding, but they have spent a hell of a lot of time walking in circles this season.

YES. More Sal. More Joan. Though it looks like she returns next week. When are she and Sal going to be hired by Duck for the Duck v. Don pitch-a-thon? Wes, somehow work in the birth of Billy Mays. It's time.

And maybe "pudding?" was Cooper's query to Sterling about if he was in on the assassination too.

[todd]

I still think they're going to deal with the assassination because of the wedding, but they have spent a hell of a lot of time walking in circles this season.

That's why I was excited last episode when it looked like something might actually HAPPEN next episode!

[Sarah]

Something did happen in this last episode:  Betty discovered Don's a fake (or at least found evidence that puts her on the road to that discovery).  Sure, nothing has come of it yet, but that was pretty huge, don't you think?

[todd]

Something did happen in this last episode:  Betty discovered Don's a fake (or at least found evidence that puts her on the road to that discovery).  Sure, nothing has come of it yet, but that was pretty huge, don't you think?

That's actually what I meant. I thought this episode was great because it laid the groundwork for major plot advancement.

[Sarah]

Yes.  I wasn't addressing that specifically to you, todd, but rather to those here and elsewhere on the Internet who found the last episode uneventful.

I think what I liked best about the last ep., though, was Peggy's instant understanding when Paul explained he'd had something but forgotten to write it down, her urging Paul to tell Don, and Don's just-as-instant understanding when he did.  There was a kind of camaraderie of the creatives that superseded the hierarchy.

[wwwes]

The title of the next episode made me consider another moment that would be sufficiently ridiculous:

We learn that Whitman was an assumed family name and that Don Draper is actually a Gypsy.

[senorcorazon]

Yes.  I wasn't addressing that specifically to you, todd, but rather to those here and elsewhere on the Internet who found the last episode uneventful.

I think what I liked best about the last ep., though, was Peggy's instant understanding when Paul explained he'd had something but forgotten to write it down, her urging Paul to tell Don, and Don's just-as-instant understanding when he did.  There was a kind of camaraderie of the creatives that superseded the hierarchy.

Yes, the Betty discovery is a nice bit of plot development, and it was good to see Don's reaction to Peggy be something other than "UGH. SHUT UP!"

[thom]

HOLY SMOKES!
That scene melted my face. I didn't blink.
I don't care about JFK anymore.

A+++++++ WOULD WATCH AGAIN!!!!!!