I have ordered Season 1 from Netflix. I plan to watch the entire series anew. I can’t wait to see BettyDonPeggyPeteEtc from the perspective of knowing where they are now.
I’ll review the episodes I have on DVR, and try to get some goods for more articles for you. Of course I will cry myself to sleep every Sunday night! I wish a MM season was 20 episodes!
I am getting into other things. And liking the freedom of being able to do that.
Some of them are heavy (the movie Hereafter: nope, not ready to talk about it yet), and one might be saving my life: a novel called Generosity, by Richard Powers, the author I’d most like to be but never will.
In brief, it’s the story of a somewhat hapless collection of people whose lives change forever when they meet a young Algerian woman who is preternaturally delighted. It asks all those deep questions about joy, nature, and nurture: who’s in charge when we’re happy?
Reading Basket of Kisses, of course! I also ordered “Sterling’s Gold.” It seems to be written by Matt Weiner, so I expect a winter’s night made warm and glowy, full of giggles and guilty-pleasure horselaughs.
Endlessly checking BOK for new threads, of course. Real withdrawal sets in one hour from now.
Ha, I agree with all of this!!!
I’ve been getting into “Boardwalk Empire”–excellent show. It took a little while to heat up but by Episode 4 it started getting more exciting. Very interesting ensemble drama, I guess if I was going to compare it to anything I’d say it’s a cross between “The Sopranos” and “Deadwood,” yet still being very original and unlike either of them.
I also rent movies from Netflix. Currently I have “21 Up,” part of the Michael Apted series. He interviewed a group of 7-year old British schoolkids and then interviewed them again at age 14, and 21, and every seven years after that.
Cherylr, I’m looking forward to “Big Love” too. I heard that 2011 will be the final season. Last season was ridiculously short–8 episodes!!
Deborah, I’m glad you’ve watched the Up series, I haven’t met too many people who have seen it! I liked Seven Plus Seven (the one where they were 14), but I’m sure the later ones get even more & more interesting and I’m looking forward to seeing the kids mature & hear what happens in their lives.
Sorry if this is too off-topic, but I know some of you are Sopranos fans so I thought you might be interested. I just read that the actress who played Ginny, Johnny Sack’s wife on The Sopranos has died. She was only 46 but had liver cancer.
Pondering the fall of Don Draper. If you reflect on what has happened over the past 5 years, a case can be made that his fall started late in S1.
I too have been watching Boardwalk Empire and so far I enjoy it. However I am struck at the amount of nudity on the show. In most scenes the nudity feels gratuitous. If Mad Men were shown on a pay cable network, I suspect there would be nudity (hmmmm….Christina Hendricks and January Jones…..). But what would it add to the story ?
I follow the actors in their various non MM related activities. But this is a show that gets under your skin and into your head- it stays with you even in the off season.
I used to scoff at fans of Star Trek and the like, who could recall even the most minute details of episodes from 2 seasons ago. With regard to MM, I am now one of those fans.
Needless to say, I am looking forward to news regarding S5 and of course the premiere sometime next summer. In MW we trust.
I’m enjoying Sherlock Holmes on PBS Mystery, but there’s only one more episode left in this 3-parter. I recommend it. The actor who plays SH is so interesting looking. He’s strangely handsome, and I can’t take my eyes off him and his big Mick Jaggerish lips. After that’s done, Sunday night will be a Basket of Boredom.
The Apted series is a good suggestion. It’s on my list of movies I’ve been meaning to watch for years and years and years…
Boardwalk Empire. BOARDWALK EMPIRE. HBO’s answer to missing the boat so completely on Mad Men. I saw the premiere episode and I’m hooked already.
The Walking Dead! Oh. My. GOD. It was *amazing* tonight. I can’t wait to see the rest of the series. It’s going to be sweet.
How did AMC become so consistently excellent?
Non-TV watching… I have a truckload of books to read that I’ve been putting off. My activist side is about to dig deep into Matt Taibbi’s new book Griftopia.
I’m doing a part-time Masters degree here in Toronto, too. I’m also doing my hot yoga.
well, i thought i would be watching the walking dead, but it is so full of wall-to-wall misogyny that it makes sterling-cooper look like a rad-fem separatist colony; and i just read online that it gets much worse than the b-word, slut-shaming and blowing your undead head off in the latter issues of the comic.
the early scene of the two cop buddies talking about their wives made me anxiously await the nom nom nomming of them both by the zombies, but i don’t think i can hold out– SPOILER– they take turns infantilizing Sarah Wayne Callies, lest she get uppity enough to do her own thinking– BARF.
yes, this is a snap judgment, but so is changing the channel; i just did it the wordy way here, and to end on a positive note, amc’s sister channel, ifc’s dead set was much more to my liking.
Just after I typed my message at #16, I Googled Benedict Cumberbatch (the Sherlock actor) and found a photo of hm in a BBC period drama, standing next to …. JARED HARRIS (To the Ends of the Earth).
Maybe I should amass a master list of all the films and TV shows the MM actors have been in collectively, and plow my way through them. Robert Morse in particular has some fine credits to his name, being much older and having had a sterling (er) Broadway career with several Tonys under his belt.
jzzy55, I too had heard about the Apted/Seven Up series over the years and just never got around to it. Netflix is great for that. I have the one-movie-at-a-time so at the moment I’m alternating my picks. Saw Seven Up/Seven Plus Seven, then a more recent indie movie, then rented 21 Up, next will probably see a more contemporary movie, etc.
And yes, would be interesting to see Robert Morse in some of his earlier roles.
To all Giants fans — yes. Did MW write this? Makes me look at my Yankees’ losses in a new light. Strange how they shut the Rangers out twice. I’m loving the Giants.
Can’t watch horror movies. Sad to say, much like someone said recently in a quick comment on TV, having been raised Catholic, all those demon/devil movies? too many nightmares as a kid to the point where I still can’t watch anything of that ilk.
So, now, Sunday nights at 10, I sulk..and go to sleep sulkily. (is that a way to sleep?)
This week, I got my dose of Jon Hamm by watching SNL. Other times, there’s 30 Rock. I don’t have cable, so I rewatch all the episodes on iTunes. I, too, have watched the Up! series and reached 21 but put if off for now to watch Animaniacs (no, that is not a typo).
And going to ebay and vintage stores to get outfits. Found one similar to Betty’s blue fur and brocade ensemble at Margaret Sterling’s wedding, but was outbid. Grrr!
I’ll be rewatching all of MM of course, and then of course there is Boardwalk….it’s wonderful, getting very David Lynch like of late. Also guys and dolls, try this new BBC America mini series called Luther…..outstanding! It’s on demand if you have missed any of it, just a 6 parter. Oh, and of course, I will be checking my favorite site for daily news of our favorite show in the entire world!
I’m with you #26 Pete. I have no interest in seeing any of our MM family in anything else. I did see Hamm in The Town and liked him and was amazed at how un-Don he was. Sure sign of a good actor.
Other than that though I want my Mad Men and Women people to stay in character!
Lose 20 pounds. Worry what my Mets will do in the hot stove league. Read everything I can get my hands on by Christopher Hitchens (such a scoundrel). Watch 30 Rock Modern Family Boardwalk Empire Dexter Family Guy and my obsession with Rachel Maddow (goddess) will go unabated. I’m a guy so watching The Godfather n 2 is a spiritual pilgrimage hat has to be made every 6 months or so. I NEED to drink from its cold, black water. BoK is a lovely life raft. Can’t stop watching my fav ep in a loop “Love Among the Ruins”. I rake a special kind of pride in knowing that it was the LEAST requested S3 episode on the MM S3 marathon. Countdown to July 31, 2011. God.
Feeling restless and at loose ends last night while undergoing MM withdrawal, I mixed a gin gimlet with less than the prescribed amount of Rose’s Lime Juice, pulled a battered copy of “The Carpetbaggers” from the bookshelf and settled in to read the supposed ” ‘fourth most-read book in history.’ ” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carpetbaggers)
I’ve decided to spend Sunday nights drinking cocktails, munching on salted peanuts and reading bestsellers of the Sixties.
July 31 or August 7 would be the 2 most likely dates for the premiere iff you go by the ‘average’ starting date on the calendar for the previous 4 seasons. So only 272 days or 38 weeks 6 days till bliss.
Surely there will be more Sherlock episodes by then? O – wait, that’ll be in the fall of 2011 (so Mad Men will have to help me get past Sherlock withdrawal now… I feel strangely blessed by all this pain…)
I will be watching Sherlock vids, then. Reading BOK. Re-watching “A Little Princess” from 1986 for the umpteenth time even if the only version available is the one dubbed in German. Watching “Sophie Scholl – The Final Days” and hoping the story ends differently this time. Posting HP fanfic inspired by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Finally watching “Der Baader Meinhoff Komplex”. Watching “Janine”, a film about violin player Janine Jansen. More vids, probably Firefly. Watching Captain America because Joss Whedon had *something* to do with it. Reading “Het Diner” by Herman Koch because everyone seems to be doing it. Decidedly *not* watching “Oh, oh, Cherso” even if everybody seems to be doing it. Watching “Majesteit” about the Dutch queen. Seeing more plays. Seeing more musicals although I can’t afford them. Hopefully stumbling upon some great books. Starting “The Discovery of Heaven” again now that Mulisch is dead. And, of course, letting Tom and Lorenzo educate me about fashion.
Meowser #24: I love, love, love “Freaks and Geeks.” I discovered it earlier this year through Netflix. Rented all the episodes, loved all of them. Eventually I’d like to own the DVDs.
My own approach is to re-watch the DVD R+ I recorded in HD all season until my pre-ordered BluRay set arrives. I also have been purchasing most of the related books as they are announced.
I love Mad Men Unbuttoned. I bought it at a signing party on publication day. At the same time I bought from Amazon “Confessions of an Ad Man” by David Ogilvy and “From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor” by Jerry Della Femina. The Ogilvy book was originally published in 1963. My youngest sister got the copy he autographed for our late father. Femina’s book was originally published in 1970.
Next I received Dyna Moe’s “Mad Men the Illustrated World” which is as marvelous as “Unbuttoned”
A couple of weeks ago I received my copy of Janie Bryant’s book “The Fashion File” which is both entertaining and educational.
Last Friday (29 November) I received 2 more books while I was out of town teaching a seminar. So I have not yet started reading these.
The amazing story of Albert D Lasker is titled “The Man Who Sold America” written by Jeffrey L Cruikshank and Arthur W Schultz for Harvard Business Review Press. Albert Lasker started as a young man with Lord & Thomas in 1898 when it only had a single part-time copy writer. By 1912 Lasker owned L&T which during his ownership became the largest ad shop in the USA with branches in NYC and San Francisco. My favorite older cousin was recruited out of Dartmouth by Lasker and assigned to the NYC office as an accounts man, so I grew up hearing Cousin Richard’s stories in the 1930′s at L&T. As Lasker prepared for retirement, he promoted Fairfield Cone as head of the main Chicago office and Don Belding as head of the San Francisco. About the time my cousin was allowed to start as ad manager at a client’s corporation, Emerson Foote joined L&T as an account man. Foote had just been promoted to head the NYC office when Lasker sold the agency to his key employees, on condition the name be changed. The result was Foote, Cone and Belding (FCB) which in the early 1960s was a major ad shop. By then Foote was chairman of Macann Ericson, from which he resigned in September 1964 after taking out ads in the WSJ and NYT saying he would no longer work on tobacco advertising. In 1948 Foote had resigned from FCB for similar reasons, denouncing Lucky Strike. I look forward to comparing this scholarly book to memories of Cousin Richard’s tales.
To compare with the 3 books I own written by David Ogilvy I have just received “The King of Madison Avenue” written by Kenneth Roman. I have grains of salt ready, because Roman is a former Chairman of the Board (CoB) and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather.
Still on pre-order is “Sterling’s Gold” credited to Roger Sterling, clearly with help from Matt Weiner et al.
Reading all that and commenting here on BoK might just get me through until Season Five starts. I assume many more books about MM will be published between now and then!
#40, this is all we’re going to get of Sherlock. The BBC just ordered a second set of episodes. You won’t be happy to know that the version we’re getting is greatly truncated from the original that ran this summer on the BBC. People who’ve seen both say we’re missing about half an hour from each one. (Maybe that’s rectified on the DVDs).
I’d highly recommend you all check out Treme when it returns to HBO and get the first season when it comes out on DVD. It was beautifully written and the music! Much of it is by New Orleans musicians whose stories are as interesting as the show itself.
MadChick, I just bought the F&G set after having seen all the episodes on Netflix, and this is the only TV series set I’ve ever bought besides MM. I’m very selective about buying DVDs, and I felt like I had to have this one.
I know what you mean. I’ve been pretty selective with buying DVDs so far too. F&G definitely seems a worthy one to get, and the fact that it was pretty brief (18 episodes, iirc?) makes it even easier.
I’ve met a few other fans this year but no one in my family has ever watched it–I feel like I should get my siblings, and especially my mom, to watch it. I know my mom would love it! The family scenes especially.
I’m thankful that MM doesn’t take as long a hiatus as MW’s previous show. One time it went SIXTEEN months between finale and season premiere. Can you imagine? MW don’t get any ideas, or writer’s block……………..pretty please.
Oh gods yes, MC, the family scenes. “You know who used to cut class? Jimi Hendrix. Know what happened to him? He DIED!” I will probably pee myself laughing at that scene no matter how many times I watch it. If that role wasn’t written specifically for Joe Flaherty, he sure made it look that way.
But Sam and Lindsay’s parents were like Misterogers and Glinda the Good Witch compared to Kim’s mom and Nick’s dad. Hooboy. To paraphrase something Deb wrote here a while back about MM, “everyone on this show sounds like themselves,” not like some oh-too-clever writers’ wish fulfillment. How rare that is!
#43 Brenda, I feel for you: cutting Sherlock is a terrible crime. I’ve watched uncut versions on Dutch television, and hope to get the dvd as a Christmas present. If you have a dvd player that also plays region 2, the episodes are there in full, plus commentaries and the unaired pilot of “A Study in Pink”. The dvd is about ten pounds plus shipping. I hope the region 1 dvd’s have will have all these goodies as well, because they are worth it.
And I hope season four become available here quickly, as well, because keeping up with Mad Men had become a bit of an illegal activity since they have stopped broadcasting it in Holland (I have series 1 to 3 on dvd, though, and will buy the 4th when I can).
#48, thanks for the advice! I can play region 2 on my MacBook, but it only lets you play it five times. I’m hoping the region 1 DVDs will be as worthwhile.
The first 10 minutes of Sherlock confused me, but once I got the hang of it I was hooked.
I still have my West Wing DVDs (I’m watching season 5 right now). And then I have you guys of course…and here in Germany MM Season 1 is airing, so I rewatch it to keep up the thrill every week
By the way, I recommend watching Season 1 again to all of you! It gives you a bunch of insights now that you know what’s going to happen.
Oh, and I’m also going to do what I should do while I’m spending my time with Mad Men: study!
My motherboard died right after “Tommorrowland” aired, so am just now catching up on all the great posts and news.
I’ll be reading various books, watching vids of Joni Mitchell and Harry Nilsson, as well as lots of spooky Halloween stuff I recorded (two favorites: “Why We’re Afraid of the Dark” and “The Real Story of Halloween”, both from the History Channel…..and cating up on my sleep, as staying up till 11:00 every Sunday was fun but hard, as I get up so early..some traveling, too!
July will be here before we know it. Crimeny, it’s almost Christmas already.
One minute you’re drinking in a bar and they come and tell you your kid’s been born, the next thing you know they’re heading off to college. — Roger Sterling, Red in the Face
I have ordered Season 1 from Netflix. I plan to watch the entire series anew. I can’t wait to see BettyDonPeggyPeteEtc from the perspective of knowing where they are now.
Endlessly checking BOK for new threads, of course. Real withdrawal sets in one hour from now.
I’ll review the episodes I have on DVR, and try to get some goods for more articles for you. Of course I will cry myself to sleep every Sunday night! I wish a MM season was 20 episodes!
I’ll add all the actors from Mad Men to my tivo wish list and hope for guest appearences on Procedural dramas…
I’ll start writing x-rated Fan Fiction…
There’ll be a lot of HGTV and DIY network…
Then in January, Big Love is back. There is always a chance that last season was Barb’s horrible dream… I mean Lois chopped Hollis’s arm off!
The usual.
I am getting into other things. And liking the freedom of being able to do that.
Some of them are heavy (the movie Hereafter: nope, not ready to talk about it yet), and one might be saving my life: a novel called Generosity, by Richard Powers, the author I’d most like to be but never will.
In brief, it’s the story of a somewhat hapless collection of people whose lives change forever when they meet a young Algerian woman who is preternaturally delighted. It asks all those deep questions about joy, nature, and nurture: who’s in charge when we’re happy?
“Even a minute is more than we deserve.”
Beautiful stuff.
Reading Basket of Kisses, of course! I also ordered “Sterling’s Gold.” It seems to be written by Matt Weiner, so I expect a winter’s night made warm and glowy, full of giggles and guilty-pleasure horselaughs.
Tonight? Dipping into the Basket of Candy, of course!
Watching the Giants play in the World Series!!
Ha, I agree with all of this!!!
I’ve been getting into “Boardwalk Empire”–excellent show. It took a little while to heat up but by Episode 4 it started getting more exciting. Very interesting ensemble drama, I guess if I was going to compare it to anything I’d say it’s a cross between “The Sopranos” and “Deadwood,” yet still being very original and unlike either of them.
I also rent movies from Netflix. Currently I have “21 Up,” part of the Michael Apted series. He interviewed a group of 7-year old British schoolkids and then interviewed them again at age 14, and 21, and every seven years after that.
http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/upseries.html
New Sherlock Holmes on PBS. Pretty good – clever with good writing. Nothing like Matt Weiner though.
I come to this site regularly, and I have started watching the series “Damages” with Glen Close on netflix.
Mad Chick, I adore the Up series. 14 and 21 are probably the weakest entries, but 28 and 35 are amazing. I can’t wait for 56!
Cherylr, I’m looking forward to “Big Love” too. I heard that 2011 will be the final season. Last season was ridiculously short–8 episodes!!
Deborah, I’m glad you’ve watched the Up series, I haven’t met too many people who have seen it! I liked Seven Plus Seven (the one where they were 14), but I’m sure the later ones get even more & more interesting and I’m looking forward to seeing the kids mature & hear what happens in their lives.
Sorry if this is too off-topic, but I know some of you are Sopranos fans so I thought you might be interested. I just read that the actress who played Ginny, Johnny Sack’s wife on The Sopranos has died. She was only 46 but had liver cancer.
http://www.backstage.com/bso/content_display/news-and-features/e3ib62280ea3f23aba781508e924de050dc
Pondering the fall of Don Draper. If you reflect on what has happened over the past 5 years, a case can be made that his fall started late in S1.
I too have been watching Boardwalk Empire and so far I enjoy it. However I am struck at the amount of nudity on the show. In most scenes the nudity feels gratuitous. If Mad Men were shown on a pay cable network, I suspect there would be nudity (hmmmm….Christina Hendricks and January Jones…..). But what would it add to the story ?
I follow the actors in their various non MM related activities. But this is a show that gets under your skin and into your head- it stays with you even in the off season.
I used to scoff at fans of Star Trek and the like, who could recall even the most minute details of episodes from 2 seasons ago. With regard to MM, I am now one of those fans.
Needless to say, I am looking forward to news regarding S5 and of course the premiere sometime next summer. In MW we trust.
I’m enjoying Sherlock Holmes on PBS Mystery, but there’s only one more episode left in this 3-parter. I recommend it. The actor who plays SH is so interesting looking. He’s strangely handsome, and I can’t take my eyes off him and his big Mick Jaggerish lips. After that’s done, Sunday night will be a Basket of Boredom.
The Apted series is a good suggestion. It’s on my list of movies I’ve been meaning to watch for years and years and years…
Boardwalk Empire. BOARDWALK EMPIRE.
HBO’s answer to missing the boat so completely on Mad Men. I saw the premiere episode and I’m hooked already.
The Walking Dead! Oh. My. GOD. It was *amazing* tonight. I can’t wait to see the rest of the series. It’s going to be sweet.
How did AMC become so consistently excellent?
Non-TV watching… I have a truckload of books to read that I’ve been putting off. My activist side is about to dig deep into Matt Taibbi’s new book Griftopia.
I’m doing a part-time Masters degree here in Toronto, too. I’m also doing my hot yoga.
Oh, hot yoga. It’s like sweating out stress.
well, i thought i would be watching the walking dead, but it is so full of wall-to-wall misogyny that it makes sterling-cooper look like a rad-fem separatist colony; and i just read online that it gets much worse than the b-word, slut-shaming and blowing your undead head off in the latter issues of the comic.
the early scene of the two cop buddies talking about their wives made me anxiously await the nom nom nomming of them both by the zombies, but i don’t think i can hold out– SPOILER– they take turns infantilizing Sarah Wayne Callies, lest she get uppity enough to do her own thinking– BARF.
yes, this is a snap judgment, but so is changing the channel; i just did it the wordy way here, and to end on a positive note, amc’s sister channel, ifc’s dead set was much more to my liking.
they’re coming to get you, Deborah & Roberta!
# 8 BerkeleyMom:
I must admit, the Giants are looking like they deserve this one. The Rangers are breaking my heart.
Ha, MM is taking over my life.
Just after I typed my message at #16, I Googled Benedict Cumberbatch (the Sherlock actor) and found a photo of hm in a BBC period drama, standing next to …. JARED HARRIS (To the Ends of the Earth).
Maybe I should amass a master list of all the films and TV shows the MM actors have been in collectively, and plow my way through them. Robert Morse in particular has some fine credits to his name, being much older and having had a sterling (er) Broadway career with several Tonys under his belt.
Giants winning the World Series will help.
I read a lot of books.
jzzy55, I too had heard about the Apted/Seven Up series over the years and just never got around to it. Netflix is great for that. I have the one-movie-at-a-time so at the moment I’m alternating my picks. Saw Seven Up/Seven Plus Seven, then a more recent indie movie, then rented 21 Up, next will probably see a more contemporary movie, etc.
And yes, would be interesting to see Robert Morse in some of his earlier roles.
Season Four was an amazing season! I have the episodes on DVR, so I’ll re-watch those (which should hold me until the S4 DVD set is available).
Baseball. World Series for as long as it lasts, idle speculations about the Mets’ off-season after that.
Working on my novel.
Watching Freaks and Geeks on DVD.
Probably more movies.
I have just entered for a chance for a “stagger-on role” as a zombie in Season 2 of The Walking Dead. Liked it that much.
I am in a very good place with AMC right now.
Yeak, B of K for me.
and FWIW—I’m so hooked on the Mad Men narrative, that I can’t stand to see any of the actors out-of-character or in other roles.
Anyone else?
To all Giants fans — yes. Did MW write this? Makes me look at my Yankees’ losses in a new light. Strange how they shut the Rangers out twice. I’m loving the Giants.
I’ll be trying out Walking Dead after the Series.
Reading.
Anne B – I too entered for a chance to be a Stagger On, on Walking Dead. I told my husband he could call me “Stagger Lee.”
I really enjoyed Walking Dead last night, and the Halloween candy I was eating with it.
Meowser, I like the hiring of Alderson (sp?) as GM for the Mets. I think it’s a move in the right direction.
Greg H – LOVE yoga. I take Gentle Yoga, because I have certain limitations, but I love it. Namaste to you:)
I have a question – if Breaking Bad starts in July as is the plan I believe, where does MM fit in the schedule? Anyone know?
Can’t watch horror movies. Sad to say, much like someone said recently in a quick comment on TV, having been raised Catholic, all those demon/devil movies? too many nightmares as a kid to the point where I still can’t watch anything of that ilk.
So, now, Sunday nights at 10, I sulk..and go to sleep sulkily. (is that a way to sleep?)
Rewatching, ruminating and savoring S4! And treat of treats on 10/31, FINALLY seeing “The Town”! JH was yummy…
This week, I got my dose of Jon Hamm by watching SNL. Other times, there’s 30 Rock. I don’t have cable, so I rewatch all the episodes on iTunes. I, too, have watched the Up! series and reached 21 but put if off for now to watch Animaniacs (no, that is not a typo).
And going to ebay and vintage stores to get outfits. Found one similar to Betty’s blue fur and brocade ensemble at Margaret Sterling’s wedding, but was outbid. Grrr!
I’ll be rewatching all of MM of course, and then of course there is Boardwalk….it’s wonderful, getting very David Lynch like of late. Also guys and dolls, try this new BBC America mini series called Luther…..outstanding! It’s on demand if you have missed any of it, just a 6 parter. Oh, and of course, I will be checking my favorite site for daily news of our favorite show in the entire world!
I’m with you #26 Pete. I have no interest in seeing any of our MM family in anything else. I did see Hamm in The Town and liked him and was amazed at how un-Don he was. Sure sign of a good actor.
Other than that though I want my Mad Men and Women people to stay in character!
oops, scrath “people” from the above post.
Lose 20 pounds. Worry what my Mets will do in the hot stove league. Read everything I can get my hands on by Christopher Hitchens (such a scoundrel). Watch 30 Rock Modern Family Boardwalk Empire Dexter Family Guy and my obsession with Rachel Maddow (goddess) will go unabated. I’m a guy so watching The Godfather n 2 is a spiritual pilgrimage hat has to be made every 6 months or so. I NEED to drink from its cold, black water. BoK is a lovely life raft. Can’t stop watching my fav ep in a loop “Love Among the Ruins”. I rake a special kind of pride in knowing that it was the LEAST requested S3 episode on the MM S3 marathon. Countdown to July 31, 2011. God.
# 35 – tilden katz -
July 31, 2011 – is that the expected return of MM for S5?
Feeling restless and at loose ends last night while undergoing MM withdrawal, I mixed a gin gimlet with less than the prescribed amount of Rose’s Lime Juice, pulled a battered copy of “The Carpetbaggers” from the bookshelf and settled in to read the supposed ” ‘fourth most-read book in history.’ ” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carpetbaggers)
I’ve decided to spend Sunday nights drinking cocktails, munching on salted peanuts and reading bestsellers of the Sixties.
July 31 or August 7 would be the 2 most likely dates for the premiere iff you go by the ‘average’ starting date on the calendar for the previous 4 seasons. So only 272 days or 38 weeks 6 days till bliss.
Thanks for the break down, tilden:) I like the sound of 38 weeks better. Seems like such a small amount of time when it’s broken up into weeks!!
Surely there will be more Sherlock episodes by then? O – wait, that’ll be in the fall of 2011 (so Mad Men will have to help me get past Sherlock withdrawal now… I feel strangely blessed by all this pain…)
I will be watching Sherlock vids, then. Reading BOK. Re-watching “A Little Princess” from 1986 for the umpteenth time even if the only version available is the one dubbed in German. Watching “Sophie Scholl – The Final Days” and hoping the story ends differently this time. Posting HP fanfic inspired by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Finally watching “Der Baader Meinhoff Komplex”. Watching “Janine”, a film about violin player Janine Jansen. More vids, probably Firefly. Watching Captain America because Joss Whedon had *something* to do with it. Reading “Het Diner” by Herman Koch because everyone seems to be doing it. Decidedly *not* watching “Oh, oh, Cherso” even if everybody seems to be doing it. Watching “Majesteit” about the Dutch queen. Seeing more plays. Seeing more musicals although I can’t afford them. Hopefully stumbling upon some great books. Starting “The Discovery of Heaven” again now that Mulisch is dead. And, of course, letting Tom and Lorenzo educate me about fashion.
Meowser #24: I love, love, love “Freaks and Geeks.” I discovered it earlier this year through Netflix. Rented all the episodes, loved all of them. Eventually I’d like to own the DVDs.
My own approach is to re-watch the DVD R+ I recorded in HD all season until my pre-ordered BluRay set arrives. I also have been purchasing most of the related books as they are announced.
I love Mad Men Unbuttoned. I bought it at a signing party on publication day. At the same time I bought from Amazon “Confessions of an Ad Man” by David Ogilvy and “From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor” by Jerry Della Femina. The Ogilvy book was originally published in 1963. My youngest sister got the copy he autographed for our late father. Femina’s book was originally published in 1970.
Next I received Dyna Moe’s “Mad Men the Illustrated World” which is as marvelous as “Unbuttoned”
A couple of weeks ago I received my copy of Janie Bryant’s book “The Fashion File” which is both entertaining and educational.
Last Friday (29 November) I received 2 more books while I was out of town teaching a seminar. So I have not yet started reading these.
The amazing story of Albert D Lasker is titled “The Man Who Sold America” written by Jeffrey L Cruikshank and Arthur W Schultz for Harvard Business Review Press. Albert Lasker started as a young man with Lord & Thomas in 1898 when it only had a single part-time copy writer. By 1912 Lasker owned L&T which during his ownership became the largest ad shop in the USA with branches in NYC and San Francisco. My favorite older cousin was recruited out of Dartmouth by Lasker and assigned to the NYC office as an accounts man, so I grew up hearing Cousin Richard’s stories in the 1930′s at L&T. As Lasker prepared for retirement, he promoted Fairfield Cone as head of the main Chicago office and Don Belding as head of the San Francisco. About the time my cousin was allowed to start as ad manager at a client’s corporation, Emerson Foote joined L&T as an account man. Foote had just been promoted to head the NYC office when Lasker sold the agency to his key employees, on condition the name be changed. The result was Foote, Cone and Belding (FCB) which in the early 1960s was a major ad shop. By then Foote was chairman of Macann Ericson, from which he resigned in September 1964 after taking out ads in the WSJ and NYT saying he would no longer work on tobacco advertising. In 1948 Foote had resigned from FCB for similar reasons, denouncing Lucky Strike. I look forward to comparing this scholarly book to memories of Cousin Richard’s tales.
To compare with the 3 books I own written by David Ogilvy I have just received “The King of Madison Avenue” written by Kenneth Roman. I have grains of salt ready, because Roman is a former Chairman of the Board (CoB) and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather.
Still on pre-order is “Sterling’s Gold” credited to Roger Sterling, clearly with help from Matt Weiner et al.
Reading all that and commenting here on BoK might just get me through until Season Five starts. I assume many more books about MM will be published between now and then!
#40, this is all we’re going to get of Sherlock. The BBC just ordered a second set of episodes. You won’t be happy to know that the version we’re getting is greatly truncated from the original that ran this summer on the BBC. People who’ve seen both say we’re missing about half an hour from each one. (Maybe that’s rectified on the DVDs).
I’d highly recommend you all check out Treme when it returns to HBO and get the first season when it comes out on DVD. It was beautifully written and the music! Much of it is by New Orleans musicians whose stories are as interesting as the show itself.
MadChick, I just bought the F&G set after having seen all the episodes on Netflix, and this is the only TV series set I’ve ever bought besides MM. I’m very selective about buying DVDs, and I felt like I had to have this one.
I know what you mean. I’ve been pretty selective with buying DVDs so far too. F&G definitely seems a worthy one to get, and the fact that it was pretty brief (18 episodes, iirc?) makes it even easier.
I’ve met a few other fans this year but no one in my family has ever watched it–I feel like I should get my siblings, and especially my mom, to watch it. I know my mom would love it! The family scenes especially.
I’m thankful that MM doesn’t take as long a hiatus as MW’s previous show. One time it went SIXTEEN months between finale and season premiere. Can you imagine? MW don’t get any ideas, or writer’s block……………..pretty please.
Oh gods yes, MC, the family scenes. “You know who used to cut class? Jimi Hendrix. Know what happened to him? He DIED!” I will probably pee myself laughing at that scene no matter how many times I watch it. If that role wasn’t written specifically for Joe Flaherty, he sure made it look that way.
But Sam and Lindsay’s parents were like Misterogers and Glinda the Good Witch compared to Kim’s mom and Nick’s dad. Hooboy. To paraphrase something Deb wrote here a while back about MM, “everyone on this show sounds like themselves,” not like some oh-too-clever writers’ wish fulfillment. How rare that is!
#43 Brenda, I feel for you: cutting Sherlock is a terrible crime. I’ve watched uncut versions on Dutch television, and hope to get the dvd as a Christmas present. If you have a dvd player that also plays region 2, the episodes are there in full, plus commentaries and the unaired pilot of “A Study in Pink”. The dvd is about ten pounds plus shipping. I hope the region 1 dvd’s have will have all these goodies as well, because they are worth it.
And I hope season four become available here quickly, as well, because keeping up with Mad Men had become a bit of an illegal activity since they have stopped broadcasting it in Holland (I have series 1 to 3 on dvd, though, and will buy the 4th when I can).
#48, thanks for the advice! I can play region 2 on my MacBook, but it only lets you play it five times. I’m hoping the region 1 DVDs will be as worthwhile.
The first 10 minutes of Sherlock confused me, but once I got the hang of it I was hooked.
Can you download Mad Men on iTunes in Holland?
I still have my West Wing DVDs (I’m watching season 5 right now). And then I have you guys of course…and here in Germany MM Season 1 is airing, so I rewatch it to keep up the thrill every week
By the way, I recommend watching Season 1 again to all of you! It gives you a bunch of insights now that you know what’s going to happen.
Oh, and I’m also going to do what I should do while I’m spending my time with Mad Men: study!
Speaking of other TV shows:
I’m wishing this game existed.
http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/10/07/the-wire-monopoly-game-still-just-in-fans-dreams/
Well..I have Dexter for a few more episodes…by then the Mad Men Season Four DVD with commentary will be out…
I was wondering why Sherlock ran until 10:17. Thanks for the info about that it’s been cut down. Feh. I would have enjoyed lots more.
My motherboard died right after “Tommorrowland” aired, so am just now catching up on all the great posts and news.
I’ll be reading various books, watching vids of Joni Mitchell and Harry Nilsson, as well as lots of spooky Halloween stuff I recorded (two favorites: “Why We’re Afraid of the Dark” and “The Real Story of Halloween”, both from the History Channel…..and cating up on my sleep, as staying up till 11:00 every Sunday was fun but hard, as I get up so early..some traveling, too!
July will be here before we know it. Crimeny, it’s almost Christmas already.