Season 2: Cast listing, photos, guesses
(Blog note: Roberta and I wrote really similar posts at about the same time last night, so I’m splicing them together. This is our first attempt at a joint post so let’s see how it goes. —Deborah)
The lovely and talented dansj pointed out that IMDb has some Season 2 episode cast up. Not surprising, as actors often enter that info themselves nowadays. On the other hand, let’s remind everyone again, that IMDb is not totally dependable, because anyone can contribute.
Keep in mind when perusing the pages that the main cast is on the main Mad Men page, episode pages only show guests, infrequently recurring cast, as well as writers, directors, and crew. Also, there are two sections, episode cast and series cast, the latter are regulars that don’t make the main credits or aren’t on every episode, “Mail Room Boy” is a typical one. Ignore those because they’re not confirmed for any specific yet-to-air episode.
With all that said, here’s what we’ve got:
Episode 2.1
Molly Beck Ferguson … Secretary
Scott MacArthur … Jim
Jennifer Siebel … Juanita
Other than, wow is Jennifer Siebel ever gorgeous, I got nothing. (—Deborah)
Episode 2.2
Please allow me to thicken the plot.
The ‘episode credited’ cast for 2:02:
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Andrew Astor | … | Stephen Respola |
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John Patrick Jordan | … | Eugene |
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Audrey Wasilewski | … | Anita Olson Respola |
Anita Olson Respola. That sounds an awful lot like a married sister of Peggy Olson to me. Like, a married sister who has a son who might be willing to raise yours. Andrew Astor is 8 years old (and really cute!), so that fits.
(Also, the actress was the Star Trek geek in a West Wing episode that I was just telling Deborah about and even sent her the YouTube featuring the scene just last week.)
(Oh and it would have been so cute if it was an episode of West Wing that featured Elisabeth Moss as Zoey Bartlett but no such cute luck.) (—Roberta)
Episode 2.3
Patrick Fischler … Jimmy Barrett
Melinda McGraw … Bobbie Barrett
Looks like a young couple; new neighbors? Friends of the Campbells? Patrick Fischler I’ve seen in a million things, he’s kind of creepy looking with a terrifying huge unibrow. But they could be any young professionals. (—Deborah)
And the final piece to that puzzle (based on the few puzzle pieces we have)…
Here are two more from the S2 photos.
Peggy is slender and Peggy is employed. This much we know.
More will be revealed, as they say. (—Roberta)
May 29th, 2008 at 7:35 am
“Anita Olson Respola. That sounds an awful lot like a married sister of Peggy Olson to me. Like, a married sister who has a son who might be willing to raise yours.”
I realize that this scenario was not uncommon back then. In fact, a Fox news anchor in New York, Jodi Applegate, recently revealed a similar family situation (she was born in 1964).
But I so hope that MM does not become this type of soapy mess. And if it does take this plot turn, then maybe there’s some larger, better point to be made than simply watching Peggy Olson endure the emotional hardship.
The pregnancy itself was kinda much to begin with, for a series of this quality.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:25 am
I agree that the pregnancy is borderline, and that I don’t want the show to descend into soap opera.
But I do think that people’s lives can be handled without being maudlin, and I don’t think it’s at all reasonable to anticipate that Peggy will raise her baby as a single mother. In fact, I think that’s crazy. It won’t happen.
Plus, the sister appears only in episode #2, not #1 or 3, so it’s not a big drawn-out every week thing.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Okay so the only other thing of potential interest is that Bess Rous as Marjorie is listed under the ‘regular cast’ section under the episodes. That’s Peggy’s roommate.
Now it may be a total misleading error. Under Bess’s page, Mad Men is only listed as it relates to her S1 appearances.
So there you go. A lead or a mislead. Oh, this is gonna be a fun coupla months.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I really think we need to avoid the regular cast list. It looks, from poking around the site (and I contribute to IMDb from time to time, so I know how it works pretty well), that minor recurring characters get dumped into a per episode “regular cast” list and then it’s up to some clever user to actually affirm they were in the episode.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Is it me, or are they putting a little grey in Salvatore’s temples?
May 29th, 2008 at 10:24 am
It’s not you.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:34 am
It’s stressful having a beard.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:46 am
HAH!!
May 29th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Heh, dansj.
Wow, so much news, so little time to process.
“Anita Olson Respola. That sounds an awful lot like a married sister of Peggy Olson to me. Like, a married sister who has a son who might be willing to raise yours.”
Yep, I was thinking the same thing when I saw her name. I wonder where her husband is?
Looks like Peggy still needs a makeover. At least her bangs are a little better. Great pics, nonetheless.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I said the same thing about her bangs. But yup, still dresses more like Nellie Olsen than Peggy Olson.
(not really… Nellie was a town girl. Peggy is straight out of the prairie.)
May 29th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Don’t forget that Patrick Fischler was on Angel as Ted, the book story owner with all the conspiracy theories.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
It looks like Peggy’s ponytail is gone though.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
More pictures to come. But there is in fact a ponytail.
And good one on the Whedon connect!
May 29th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Oh! You see there? I saw he’d been on Drive and West Wing and said, oh, so that’s where I know him from and didn’t keep scrolling.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
“But I do think that people’s lives can be handled without being maudlin.”
Totally agree with you, Deborita. It’s all about the manner in which it’s handled.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
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May 30th, 2008 at 7:49 am
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June 7th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Looks like the S2-E1 cast has been updated to include Don, Betty, Pete, Peggy, Roger, Joan, Sal, Paul, Rachel, and…Midge.
June 7th, 2008 at 7:00 am
No shit?
I’ve posted at least twice that I don’t trust IMDb, but…
No shit?
June 7th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Huh!
June 7th, 2008 at 8:32 am
I know, huh! I agree that IMDB isn’t the most accurate of sources, but you have to admit it’s interesting.
June 7th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Actually, it looks pretty good. If you look under Rosemarie DeWitt’s page, she has 2. 01 listed.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1679669/
June 7th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Midge, back? Intra-stink …
June 7th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Wait, I get it now …
With Rachel gone, Don reverts back to the safe, reliable standby.
June 7th, 2008 at 10:19 am
They’re not necessarily together. It could even be work-related.
Holy fuck, can’t wait!!!
June 7th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Fingers crossed Don remains a sexy adulterer! He needs Rachel, Midge, somebody! It’s boring for him to become some Ward Cleaver/Cliff Huxtable daddy!
June 7th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Kay, you are so dependable!
June 11th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Now there’s a Judy Campbell listed in this episode, as well. Pete’s sister?
June 11th, 2008 at 2:46 am
i noticed judy campbell, too…as well as the absence of trudy campbell…
has sinister pete chucked the starter wife and moved on?
June 15th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
There’s no gain in Pete dumping Trudy, really; if nothing else, she’s the avenue of his largest account thus far. I think Judy Campbell is a sister.
June 15th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Also, episode 3 lists a character dramatically named Robespierre, played by Quebecois actor Philippe Bergeron. I hope that his ad campaign involves guillotines and tri-cornered hats.
June 15th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Heh heh… I saw that too. Your thinking is so very Larry Tate, S. Tar.
June 15th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
I hope that’s a good thing; I’ve never seen Bewitched.