Season 2 Scoopage!
Hat tip to our own Hullabaloo, who pointed out an EOnline scoop that we can all get excited about. Watch With Kristen says:
Sexy Joan has an honest-to-goodness boyfriend this season. As for the launch date of season two, we only know it’s sometime in July 2008. However, I can tell you that, just as the story of season one ended on a holiday (Thanksgiving), season two begins on another nonreligious holiday. Guesses?
First guess is Dan’s, who thinks it must be Valentine’s Day, and damn, I gotta say, it’s the perfect answer. Matthew Weiner said February or March, and in the realm of non-religious holidays that leaves Valentine’s Day, President’s Day (yawn), and Mardi Gras (which is religious but not really celebrated that way). Valentine’s Day is the perfect way to give us an update on everyone’s relationship status. Like, Don and Betty, Francine and Carlton, Peggy and Junior, Pete and Trudy, Roger and Mona, Margaret and Wristcutters Anonymous, Carol and Salvatore.
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:08 am
Well, technically it’s St. Valentine’s Day. But I’ll grant you , observed as non-religious. I wonder if Midge makes an appearance? She may have a new line of greeting cards rolling out…
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Valentine’s Day sounds good to me, too. Or maybe St. Patrick’s Day, which allows room for lots of drinking and debauchery.
I’m curious as to why my city’s film calendar doesn’t include dates for filming at the Draper house. It could be because it’s a private residence, and not public property…or Weiner is doing some guerilla film making…or the Draper’s have moved?
There was also a story in a local paper about some high schoolers who were given parts as extras in an episode of Mad Men. I don’t know if that means they’ll be filming at a school or the kids will be used as part of a crowd scene. Maybe they’ll be research subjects for the Clearasil campaign…
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I don’t see why the Drapers would move. To your point, it would mean the loss of Francine and Helen, and to what gain? Also, their house is enormous; I actually have a problem with how big their house is. Families tended to live in much smaller houses than that for the most part, I think. Anyway, it looks from the outside big enough to accommodate a couple more kids and live-in help.
Unless. wait. Now I have to go back and look tonight, unless someone can help me now. I am picturing the exterior from the pilot, when he gets home at night. Is that the same house they used the rest of the season?
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I don’t think it’s enormous.
Downstairs: Kitchen, formal dining room, living room (not a huge living room, if I recall correctly–unless, is there a den?).
Upstairs: 2 bedrooms and a master bedroom suite. I think that’s it. I don’t think there’s a 4th bedroom or any of the modern “extra” rooms (sewing room, office, finished basement, etc.). There isn’t a porch, just a patio, I THINK, but as you know, Marriage of Figaro is the episode that my DVR screwed up and I have only seen it once. That’s where you see the yard.
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
That’s what I’m saying… as we know, there is a front door disconnect from exterior to interior. I am speaking of the exterior, not so much the interior. The interior is sets. The exterior is location. So my question is, does the exterior from ‘Smoke’ match the exterior in subsequent episodes?
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I think the room where the kids watch TV is a den–it seems too casual and too small to be a “living room.” I remember my parents house and my grandparents house growing up; there was always a den where we watched TV, and a formal living room where the adults congregated. You know, wood paneling and plaid furniture=den, paint or wallpaper and more frilly furniture=living room. If I remember correctly, the Drapers’ hi-fi was in the living room (yellowish wallpaper, nice furniture), but the TV was in the den (small plaid couch, wood paneling). Don also has an office downstairs, and there is a powder room and laundry room/back porch, too.
Based on other houses in the neighborhood, that layout seems accurate. It probably has four bedrooms and 2.5 or 3 baths. That said, though, I think all the Draper interiors are probably a set, while the exteriors are on location at the house in Pasadena.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
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