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    Is anyone else watching this fabulous show?

    Until "Big Love" resumes someday, and until "Battlestar Galactica" finally starts back up in November and I can stop my prayer vigil at last, I wasn't planning on watching anything on TV save for the Food Network and the occasional Daily Show/Colbert pick-me-up . . . but then a friend got me hooked on this.

    What a great, matter-of-fact slice of life at the end of the 50's! On top of engaging characters and interesting storylines (though it's still not clear where they're going with a lot of it) I love how they're able to demonstrate just how much life has changed since then, and in a way that isn't hitting you over the head with it, but the impact is still there, simply in the contrast to everything we take for granted today.

    Like, people smoke. All the time. And everywhere. In the car with kids, pregnant, whatever. Doesn't matter, no one even thinks about it. Same with alcohol. No one even blinks at a hugely pregnant belly pouring a second or third cocktail, nor at someone pouring themselves behind the wheel.

    Child safety? Good luck even putting them in seatbelts, much less requiring car seats, much less regulation ones. A little girl walks up to her mom with a big clear plastic bag over her head. Mom's response? "You better not have messed up my dry-cleaning." Get out of line at a birthday party? If another kid's parent decides to smack you around, well, they just saved your own Mom some trouble, didn't they?

    Women in the workplace? Variations-on-Secretary only, please, with precious few exceptions (ones that totally prove the rule), and harrassment is just part of the package - and it's portrayed as just that in the show, which is something that I just love in the way it's directed. When it happens, there's no swell of angsty music, that's just the way it was. And you pretty much were expected to only work until you got yourself a husband (or resigned yourself to being a spinster, of course).

    Once you're at home fulfilling your destiny by pumping the babies out - having anxiety? Decide to see a shrink (a stigma in itself)? Rest assured that your psychiatrist will later call your husband and report to him on everything you confided.

    Jews? Considered a controversial oddity even in NYC. Blacks? Barely even register on the radar. Asians? Just the butt of jokes.

    And then there's the men . . . (In case you're wondering, "Mad Men" refers to the men of advertising agencies on Madison Avenue in the booming ad age of the fifties.)

    On top of it all, it's gorgeously styled, and also features one of the sexiest women alive, in MY taste & opinion (Christina Hendricks, a.k.a. Our Miss Reynolds from "Firefly" - only she's even more stacked-to-the-rafters here, if you can believe such a thing is possible). Also, for "Angel" fans - well, see if you recognize one of the stars. I totally had to have it pointed out!

    I could go on & on, even more than I already have, heh. So check it out! Tell me whatcha think!

    (Note to self: Write Betty Friedan a belated thank-you note.)
    "Before I conceived you, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of life." -- Maureen Hawkins

    "I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat." -- Anne Lamott

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    Ah, Saffron, she is beautiful. I like this show too though they seem a little too self-satisfied with all the "oh, look, pregnant women smoking and drinking!" "Above 83rd st? that's the ghetto!" hindsight humour. Lots of fun and great cast, though. Good arc so far for Don Draper.

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    Tonight's episode! Oh, pooooor Peggy. I just knew that wasn't going to go well for her. I loved how last week, in the very announcement of her new duties. there had been an undercut - of course you're not getting more pay, of course it doesn't mean a promotion, and you'd better be able to do your old job unhindered on top of it. Well, MAYBE we can get you some dinner money. Implication: you ARE just a woman, after all.

    So now, to get some small acknowledgement of her success, and then get cruelly snubbed by frickin' emasculated Pete in the midst of it all? Grrr.

    Also interesting that Don/Dick was revealed to be a "whore child". That adds a lot to the puzzle-in-process!
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    Yep, I'm in love with this show. It's so well done IMO, great TV!

    And did y'all know that Josh Groban's girlfriend is Don's wife, January Jones.

    So is Pete the Angel star? I'm completely at a loss!! I think his is the only face that seems familiar from Angel. Or maybe Harry?

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    I got hooked on this show while visiting my BF in LA, and now I want to buy a freakin' TV so I can keep watching it here at home! I've avoided TV for so long on the premise of brain-rotting, but I want one soooo bad now, for this show and for the new season of Lost!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guenevere View Post
    So is Pete the Angel star? I'm completely at a loss!! I think his is the only face that seems familiar from Angel. Or maybe Harry?
    You are correct! It's Pete. Picture him with long greasy hair and a really snotty attitude - he played Connor!
    "Before I conceived you, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of life." -- Maureen Hawkins

    "I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat." -- Anne Lamott

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    Quote Originally Posted by RoseWhite View Post
    You are correct! It's Pete. Picture him with long greasy hair and a really snotty attitude - he played Connor!
    AH!! I remember Connor!!!!

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    Season Finale next week, fellow watchers!

    I thought last night's episode was one of the best. Don's identity source revealed at last! Pete attempting to blackmail! Secretaries getting molested at office gatherings! And Kennedy winning! Incredible acting all around.

    And: Pete is evil. That is all.
    "Before I conceived you, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of life." -- Maureen Hawkins

    "I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat." -- Anne Lamott

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    LOVE LOVE LOVE this show !!!

    Joan is totally smokin', Pete is a dick, Don is hot, sexy and complex, and Betty is a Stepford wife.

    Good stuff

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