POLL: MAD MEN: Which tier?

[Sarah]

Oh, that happens all the time.

[B_Buster]

We get it, Mad Men, all white people were racists in the 60s. Do you really have to show a guy singing in blackface to make your heavy-handed point? What's next? Is Gene going to bring a watermelon home for the maid?

[Reeleyes]

Agreed Mike, that blackface scene was so superfluous and uncomfortable to watch.

[Jouster]

We get it, Mad Men, all white people were racists in the 60s. Do you really have to show a guy singing in blackface to make your heavy-handed point? What's next? Is Gene going to bring a watermelon home for the maid?

This is like The Wire all over again.  Check, please!

[Joe Rogaine]

How is Peggy going (more) nuts?  Sleeping w/ some random dude?  Doing an Ann Margaret impression in front of a mirror?  Hell, if those were signs of mental illness half of this board would be committed.   

Did you hear about the itunes screw up where they actually put episode 3 up? It was reported that episode 3 has something to do with Peggy and marijuana.

How was the black face not reported?

[B_Buster]

We get it, Mad Men, all white people were racists in the 60s. Do you really have to show a guy singing in blackface to make your heavy-handed point? What's next? Is Gene going to bring a watermelon home for the maid?

This is like The Wire all over again.  Check, please!

This is going to make you happy, Jouster: Mad Men isn't even in the same league as The Wire. There, are we friends again?

[jbissell]

Who knew Pete was such a dancer?

[Sarah]

I was going to post about that, jbissell.  I believe in those very words.

Clarification:  I wasn't so much impressed that Pete mastered that elaborate routine; what surprised me was that Vincent Kartheiser, who generally comes off as physically awkward, was such a flexible and graceful dancer.  Certainly, his little victory convulsion when he thought he'd landed a big promotion gave no indication of this.

[erika]

Agreed Mike, that blackface scene was so superfluous and uncomfortable to watch.

Wasn't it showing Roger's horrible sense of humor? And that it was still accepted, etc etc etc? I don't see why that was so out of place, much less a reason to be upset. I found Pete's dancing scene more gratuitous and silly.

(MAD MEN MAKE MIKE MAD. MIKE SMASH!! RAWR )

[Chris L]

Who knew Pete was such a dancer?

Frankly, I was more surprised Pete seemed uncomfortable w/ the blackface.

[thom]

[AllSussedOut]

through season one and early season two, mad men was more a museum piece to be admired than an enjoyable watch

since then, it's found heart (strangely, following the ice age-style makeover of betty).  i'm enjoying the show MUCH more nowadays than i was, initially.

[thom]

i liked when don went out to california. and i liked when don made me cry over a slide projector.

[Matthew]

Agreed Mike, that blackface scene was so superfluous and uncomfortable to watch.

Wasn't it showing Roger's horrible sense of humor? And that it was still accepted, etc etc etc? I don't see why that was so out of place, much less a reason to be upset. I found Pete's dancing scene more gratuitous and silly.

(MAD MEN MAKE MIKE MAD. MIKE SMASH!! RAWR )

I agree with Erika on this: The whole point of the blackface was more to show that this behavior was already unpopular to segments of the population that were more sympathetic to the civil rights movement (Both Don and Pete looked on Roger's performance with palpable disgust.) Roger's an old man in 1960's, he's from a different era and that's more to the point than the facile, blanket "People were more racist in the 60's" message y'all seem to be interpreting it as.

I'd like to believe Pete's whole issue with Admiral TV this past episode gave some added justification to the blackface sequence.

I suspect this season is going to get seriously 60's political in a hurry.

[screamdracula]

I agree with you Matthew and I think this last episode was the best episode since season one.