Reply With QuoteHow have you seen the show?Originally Posted by Satsuki
i drink it up!
How have you seen the show?
Roger killed Bert by not taking off his shoes.
It's on On Demand (the first ep anyway.) just....yikes. It should be seen to process how terrible it is compared to their winners -MM and Breaking Bad.
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That IPO fuck up cost Joan $1 million (in 60's scratch!) that'd piss anyone off.
It went up on the website too (probably geo locked). Really weird end and a terrible place to break the season in two. More annoying than anything to have to wait a year.
Breaking Bad actually filmed two eight episode seasons separately.
AMC is just splitting a Mad Men season in half for no reason other than they're greedy and want to keep it going another year.
i drink it up!
I was hoping it would be good. Bummer.
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http://www.vulture.com/2014/05/matth...per-dance.html
There's already debate online about whether Don’s vision of Bert singing and dancing to “The Best Things in Life Are Free” was a tribute to Robert Morse or an indication that something might be really wrong with Don.
It's within the language of the show, going back to "The Hobo Code" [when Don smokes kush and flashes back to his childhood]. We use the camera to tell a story of internal feelings. [The season-one finale] "The Wheel" ends with Don coming home and having a very elaborate fantasy that his family is still there, and they're not. All of these things are put in as storytelling. Does it coincide on some meta level? I guess. The fact that Robert Morse is one of the greatest song-and-dance men of all time and there was really never a way within the fabric of the show's reality to utilize that, yeah. I always wanted him to sing on the show. Roger says, "The last thing I said to him were the words of some old song." I guess that's sort of stuck in Don's head. Don would know that song. Don doesn't know that Bert dances. But for me, I picked that song and Bert's death during the moon landing from the beginning of the season to make a statement about the fact that this has been a striving for success on Don Draper's part in a very new way. He's working his way up in his own company and repairing his relationship with Peggy, which is where we started in the premiere, with them as far apart as possible. I wanted to add a little coda on the end of this event of selling the company. It's Don saying to himself, I guess in some weird way, money isn't everything.
That's all true but I still think he's going the way of James Sunderland.
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Halt and Catch Fire is SOOOOO FUCKING BAD. There's no thread for it so I needed to express how stupid the entire concept of the show is somewhere. Douchey sales guy who isn't written as clever as the writers think he is comes up with a bad fake idea nobody wants to see succeed.
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