misterchimpy

Didn't see a thread for this. Is it the 6th episode already????



AMC preview:

http://www.amctv.com/mad-men/videos/...en-episode-506

DJariya

Thanks for starting this.

Yes, it's episode 6.

RoadToPerdition

Loved the scenes with Roger and the LSD. Very funny.

Don and Megan have such a weird relationship, I wonder how long it will last.

PopcornTreeCt

What a mindfuck of an episode!

RoadToPerdition

Things have really taken a strange turn ever since Don's fever episode. They really play with your mind a lot nowadays.

Jack Straw

So now Roger is "experienced" . Never would have guessed that he would have been the first one to drop acid.

Jack Straw

Loved Peggy getting stoned and then giving a stranger a hand-job in the movie theater. Now that's quality TV.

Tommy Ceez

Seriously, WTF was that?

anomynous

I think it was Peggy getting stoned and giving a stranger a handjob in a movie theater.

Fist of Doom

I'm surprised I never noticed until it was pointed out here a few weeks ago (I guess I haven't been paying close attention), but the "next on Mad Men" segment really tells you absolutely nothing about the next episode. It's just non sequiturs and moments with no context. It's hilarious.

I mentioned in another thread that I was never a Betty-hater, but man the show really cooks without her. They won't drop her character, but it would be good for the show.

Loved Roger hearing music when he opened the liquor bottle.

Patman

I never know where this show goes each week, but I find myself laughing quite a bit: Peggy trying to shake down the Heinz guy, Peggy taking the afternoon to go to the movie, Peggy jerking off a stranger in a movie theater, Roger on LSD, Roger using the opportunity to ditch his current wife, Don ditching Megan at a HoJo, Don and Megan fighting. Genius writing.

Mike86

Interesting episode tonight for sure. I liked Roger's reactions to the LSD and liked the music from the bottle. I also enjoyed Peggy's scenes in the episode where she freaked out on the Heinz guy and jerked off the guy in the theater . Don and Megan do have an odd relationship at times but I like them together. She's much better than Betty who I really don't miss at all when she's not on.

Decker

I wasn't crazy about this one. Some interesting stuff, but so weird and lacking any real playoffs.

Really confused about the stuff with Ginsburg. Are we supposed to think he was born in a concentration camp? The timing would be about right if he's 24-25. What to make of his orphanage comment then?

I was wondering if it was a coincidence that this story folds over itself chronologically and also features a scene in a diner that looks a lot like the one in Pulp Fiction.

Damfino

I'm not sure if you're being serious or sarcastic, but either way, it works for me!

DJariya

What a weird, yet really compelling episode.

I really enjoyed the non-linear storytelling and the different perspectives.

It was really interesting to see how Roger on an LSD high realized that his marriage to Jane was over.

at the music in the bottle and the shrinking cigarette.

and I don't know about all of you, but IMO Peyton List (Jane) is my vision of the perfect woman. Beautiful long hair, tall and pretty face and damn did she look sexy waking up in that bed.

I think we all know that Jane was nothing more than a young trophy wife and Roger never really liked her or had anything in common with her.

Don and Megan's storyline was also interesting as well. 1st he abandons her and they get into that weird scuffle at their home. To me it seems like he really wants this marriage to work. I know people here complained about how sudden they got together last season, but I like them together. I think what scared Megan was how controlling he can be.

at Peggy jerking off that guy in the theatre. I was sympathetic to her frustrations with the Heinz campaign.

Three Day Delay

After the drama of the last episode, this one just fell flat for me. It's like I was watching a completely different show. And I was.

No Layne, Pete, or Peg after cliffhangers for all of them. I didn't see any true character development from the featured characters. I doubt that Peggy giving a stranger a handjob at the movies is going to tell us anything at all about her when the series is over.

marty888

I think it already tells us a lot about her. Go back and watch the very first episodes, and you will see what a change there has been as she tries to establish herself in a male-dominated world. Can you imagine the Peggy of season one doing this? The movie theater incident was her desperate way to "control" a man, any man, and give her some sense of empowerment after her experience with the man from Heinz.

Red Dog

Roger will give anything a whirl.

Ah the HoJo - a quintessential part of family road trips growing up. Haven't seen one in years.

Astrofan

I don't get what this means. The show proceeds in a straight chronological progression, there is no "fold[ing] over." In the early seasons there were some flashbacks with Don, but I'd never consider a flashback a foldover. Also, there was no diner, it was a coffee shop/restaurant that was in all Howard Johnson's motels.

Geofferson

I really liked this episode. Not as powerful as last week's, but still entertaining. The non-linear storyline, Roger's humor and Don's suspense all worked for me.

WallyOPD

Huh? The show showed the same time span 3 different times from 3 different points of view, that's not a straight chronological progression.

CKMorpheus

Yeah. Astro, did you miss all the overlapping? I didn't realize it until Don told Dawn to cancel his weekend meetings twice, and called Peggy over the pay phone. It was clearly folding over several times. And what makes a coffee shop/restaurant different than a diner?

Turd Ferguson

Nice to see Bert Cooper come in at the end and set Don straight with a few sage words like the management Yoda he is.

RUSF18

It's a longer way to say it?

Doc Moonlight

If I were to pick a movie from 1966 to get stoned to, "Born Free" wouldn't have been one of the choices.

Similarly, dropping acid to "Pet Sounds" also seemed out of place. While the album has become a classic, and Brian Wilson has gone on to be recognized as a genius, neither he nor the Beach Boys had that kind of hip culture cachet in 1966.