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Hell yes!!!!! I am so glad this thread is finally here. First recap was great, and I’m really impressed at your perception. There were honestly moments where I was like are you SURE you haven’t seen this show before? Really good stuff. Bookmarking this thread so it doesn’t take me two days to notice it again
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By who? It’s great.
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Sep 30, 2020 09:15
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hmm, maybe we should not be having discussions about such major events given that the thread is for recaps by someone watching it all for the first time!
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Sep 30, 2020 21:51
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Ugh these reviews are so good!! Pete is such a great character and his rant in this episode is hilarious.
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Oct 4, 2020 18:00
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Him saying nobody ever told him he’s good with people before is such an amazing self-own too
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Oct 4, 2020 18:13
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Season 5 is probably my favourite season tbh, just barely edging out 4.
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Oct 5, 2020 06:57
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Funnily enough if I was gonna get into my proper season rankings I was gonna spoiler tag it but I don’t think just saying “I personally like this one the most” counts!
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Oct 5, 2020 07:49
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Yep!! When Community started she was “Pete’s wife from Mad Men” to me
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Oct 5, 2020 08:25
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GoutPatrol posted:4 is my favorite. Totally agreed with this. I also think (Jerusalem don’t read this seriously!) that 2 and 3 are probably the weakest seasons - they’re still great, especially 2, but I definitely had somewhat of a sense of it treading water. Then the s3 finale comes and gives the show a huge kick in the rear end and those changes really propel it to all-timer status for me. 6 also has a repetition feel at times but the difference is that it’s 100% intentional in that case imo
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Oct 5, 2020 09:49
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sebmojo posted:Another great one. This series really rewards your analytical style, I think, since it leans heavily on themes and nuance. Agreed! This is a fantastic episode and it has one of my favourite quotes from the series: quote:“Look, we’ve got oysters Rockefeller, beef Wellington, napoleons. If we leave this lunch alone it’ll take over Europe.”
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Oct 10, 2020 21:01
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I love Hildy
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Oct 12, 2020 16:52
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I’ve always been a bit confused as to whether they actually got two or not. Why would Trudy be so mad if they already had one? (I mean, obviously because of the rifle, but the specific wording she uses makes it seem like it was something she kinda treasured?)
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Oct 13, 2020 07:17
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Incelshok Na posted:I'm really conflicted about the Don-as-serial-killer line they dropped. You can still see a lot of it in S4. It would have been a . . . very different show. Dextermania was a part of the zeitgeist in weird ways because it was such a mediocre show. There’s no way this was ever going to be a real thing. My favourite finale theory that never happened was (Jerusalem, this is ok to read because it’s not actually related to anything in the show, but I spoiled it JUUUUST in case) that Don was going to turn out to be D. B. Cooper, the man in 1971 who hijacked an aircraft, stole $200k, parachuted out, and was never found.
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Oct 19, 2020 22:28
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This thread makes me want to continue my Mad Men rewatch SO MUCH but I also wanna wait until Jerusalem is up to where I was (finished s2) and then watch along with the reviews but ugh it’s so good
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Oct 21, 2020 11:03
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Gaius Marius posted:Ken certainly gains a different perspective of things by the end hahahahaha
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Oct 21, 2020 21:02
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JethroMcB posted:"Mr. Campbell...who cares?" is such a great moment. It really, really is. Unbelievably satisfying, and extremely Sopranos-esque as far as brilliant anticlimaxes go.
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Nov 3, 2020 17:15
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I agree, Mad Men IS a cool show!
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Nov 4, 2020 08:18
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Yeah, plus it’ll be cool for Jerusalem to read through the thread once he’s done!
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Nov 4, 2020 15:53
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It’s embedded in the post?
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Nov 6, 2020 15:41
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MAN what an incredible finale
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Nov 8, 2020 14:02
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Hildy is the best character
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Nov 9, 2020 03:18
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Excellent writeup. I will say, without getting too far into anything, that being meandering is kind of in this show’s nature. Some seasons have stronger arcs than others, but there’s mostly a “collection of thematically related short stories about the same characters” feel about them. I love that poo poo though
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Nov 18, 2020 12:22
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Just caught up with all the s2 recaps so far at once during a slow shift and drat this is such a good show and Jerusalem you capture it all so well. Three Sundays is definitely a season 2 highlight for me. An amazing episode.
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Dec 5, 2020 21:39
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lmao
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Dec 9, 2020 09:12
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Wow I finally caught up with this thread again!!! Obviously the recaps are fantastic but the rest of the discussion is excellent too. This thread is exhausting to read, but in a good way, because there’s so much to chew on, and so many thoughtful posts. Excited for Jerusalem to finish this season (the finale is SO good) and get onto s3 where I will be watching along with the writeups!
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Jan 28, 2021 01:37
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To me, Mad Men is about a group of men and women who work in advertising in the 1960s and run into various problems.
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Jan 29, 2021 10:44
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Viewers idolised Tony Soprano even after Chase started basically using the show to yell in their faces about what an awful piece of poo poo he was, it’s unfortunately no surprise they didn’t see that Don was meant to be a tragic character
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Jan 31, 2021 03:13
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VinylonUnderground posted:So you think Paths of Glory is an effective antiwar movie? This feels like a trick because.....yes?
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Jan 31, 2021 20:21
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gently caress YES he is
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Feb 9, 2021 10:32
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Mad Men is the first thing I and I imagine a lot of others really noticed Harris in, and it’s just one of the many gifts this show gave us
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Feb 9, 2021 10:46
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Yoshi Wins posted:Another little aside related to that: You'd think Shelley lived in Atlanta or something, given her thick Southern accent, but she says that she's "based out of New York." She is, in fact, someone he could bump into on the streets of Manhattan. His exposure isn't even limited! I noticed this too, and Don’s reaction to it. I think that while he was toying with the idea earlier, that revelation possibly that made him decide to take a step back and try not to sleep with her....which he obviously then backtracks on quite quickly. As for the opening to the episode, I really enjoyed it. There’s a lot of Sopranos DNA there.
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Feb 9, 2021 17:48
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Random fact: the actress who plays Shelly in this episode also played a flight attendant in mid-00s classic Snakes on a Plane.
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Feb 9, 2021 18:07
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that’s just the Sopranos-esque supernatural stuff working its way in
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Feb 10, 2021 01:41
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Jerusalem posted:Something I see happen a lot is people being worried about being "right", but if you can reasonably argue a justification for a reading then it is a valid one even if people disagree with it. Someone really needs to teach CD the “reasonable” part
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Feb 11, 2021 21:16
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poo poo yeah I can post this now: https://youtu.be/Pvo-4kCLAjM and the full Jon and January version: https://youtu.be/FV-IbKB5dlo
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Feb 16, 2021 13:51
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Just watched the ep and I saw it as a loving look too. Also I had completely forgotten that Sally’s teacher is played by Abigail Spencer from Rectify and Timeless!
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Feb 17, 2021 01:07
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there’s plenty of The Wire season 5 that isn’t poo poo, unfortunately the poo poo parts are most of the two main storylines
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Feb 19, 2021 01:54
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I thought these days it was generally accepted that 2 was one of the stronger seasons?
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Feb 19, 2021 11:08
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I loving love BB and it’s definitely unfair to say it’s just plot-focused because the character work is fuckin fantastic but it’s definitely more plot-based than Mad Men
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Prince Myshkin posted:It very obviously is and you're relying on people not actually having seen it to make your argument. I watched Come and See for the first time the other day and lemme tell you anyone who thinks you can’t make an anti-war movie after seeing that is insane
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