After seeing January Jones on Jimmy Fallon and SNL in one week, I don't know that I'll ever be able to enjoy Mad Men again.
The Today sketch at the top of the show was painfully awkward the way they were trying to cram January Jones into it. She played the animal handler and had about four lines in the whole thing. What a dud she is...
Yeah, on SNL she came off like an untalented dullard but on Fallon she came off more like a giggling ditz. Either way, I don't know how they get decent acting out of her on Mad Men.
i don't think they do. she's not particularly good on the show - i think a lot of the "coldness" people talk about in her character is just bad, wooden acting.
I agree. I posted this on the AV Club's comments regarding this SNL and Ms. Jones:
"Also, an article somewhere pointed out that January Jones is a bad actor on Mad Men and ever since then I've realized that her blank expressions work well for the character of Betty Draper but they're not by design, she just doesn't know how to act. So instead of the silent brooding emotions you can see roiling beneath the surface of Jon Hamm, January Jones's face is like a porcelain doll, it serves the story and is pretty to look at, but you can tell there's no thoughts going on behind the facade. But she's the lone weak spot on that acting slate."
