I haven't seen Sunday's Mad Men, only gifs of Don kissing Peggy's hand, and already I have FEELINGS. This episode will make me cry, won't it?
Still haven't seen Sherlock season 2. I think I have it downloaded somewhere, though. My mom and dad watched the first episode of season 1 the other night and weren't completely enamored with it, so your not liking the much-lauded season 2 didn't come as much of a shock.
Yeah, I was mostly surprised that the show went there so blatantly, not that the characters would do it. Obviously they are all scuzzbags. This is not new. Don being the "good guy" = hilarious. We all know that at least half the reason he's there is because he wants to win the account with his pitch - he wants to be the firm's savior, not Joan. And I kinda love the reveal that his attempt to stop it is utterly ineffectual because it's already done. If that isn't Don's entire character arc boiled down into one scene, I don't know what is.
Although I wouldn't really give Pete points for being honest, lol. Honest would've been straight up saying, "I think we should do this, morality be damned," not manipulating everyone by misrepresenting the situation to both Joan and the partners. But he wouldn't be Pete if he weren't a weasel. :-P
We all know that at least half the reason he's there is because he wants to win the account with his pitch - he wants to be the firm's savior, not Joan.
ooooh, I was so hung up on his creepy fixation with Joan's "virtue" that I didn't even think of that! New reasons to hold Don Draper in bitterest contempt = THINGS I DEEPLY CHERISH, lol. He is just so fun to hate!
I wouldn't really give Pete points for being honest, lol. Honest would've been straight up saying, "I think we should do this, morality be damned," not manipulating everyone by misrepresenting the situation to both Joan and the partners. But he wouldn't be Pete if he weren't a weasel.heh, true, but he's honest with himself and everyone else about why he's doing it. He doesn't approach it any differently than he would anything else. He's the accounts man, this is one hurdle that needs to be passed to get the account, he's going to make it happen. There's a straightforwardness to that which I really enjoy
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FALALALALALALALA NOT LOOKING AT ANY OF THE MAD MEN STUFF.
LOL so much word on Sherlock. I will never understand the overwhelming popularity of that show. And I really did enjoy it in S1. But what even is a Sherlock. I love unapologetic sociopathetic dicks. That is not how you write one.
I'll step up to the Desperate Housewives plate. Andrew definitely didn't die and I was surprised not to see him also since earlier in the season he had a ridiculous cameo when he brought home a girl he was gonna marry and Bree set everything right by reminding him he's GAY. I was really happy with how they ended it - kinda sad how they all ended up drifting apart but that's real life!
earlier in the season he had a ridiculous cameo when he brought home a girl he was gonna marry and Bree set everything right by reminding him he's GAY
AWWWWW, that's so sad. Especially since he'd always seemed okay with being gay? It was just being in his otherwise-dysfunctional family and being treated badly for being gay that seemed to bother him, from what I remember.
(Though, I love Bree and her fabulous nuttiness, but what the hell kind of sociopath can be a parent to a gay child and still make a political career by aligning herself with modern Bible Belt conservatives? At some point, don't people just *die* of cognitive dissonance?)
I was really happy with how they ended it - kinda sad how they all ended up drifting apart but that's real life!
Yeah, it's how I figured it was going to end, but still, it was a bummer.
I just saw Mad Men too (actually close to on time!) and watched it with my dad. The interesting thing that he caught that I didn't was that Don's mother was a prostitute - and his relationship with her much more than any of his various secretaries was what he was protecting on Joan in that moment.
oh, totally, this just woke up all his Issues. I had really enjoyed the scene of them being such comfortable old friends in the episode just before this one. I feel like this was Don getting smacked in the face with the realization that the women he cares about totally do get treated in the way he treats women as a rule.
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Still haven't seen Sherlock season 2. I think I have it downloaded somewhere, though. My mom and dad watched the first episode of season 1 the other night and weren't completely enamored with it, so your not liking the much-lauded season 2 didn't come as much of a shock.
And always add some Thomas. Just because.
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Thomas is the best.
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Although I wouldn't really give Pete points for being honest, lol. Honest would've been straight up saying, "I think we should do this, morality be damned," not manipulating everyone by misrepresenting the situation to both Joan and the partners. But he wouldn't be Pete if he weren't a weasel. :-P
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ooooh, I was so hung up on his creepy fixation with Joan's "virtue" that I didn't even think of that! New reasons to hold Don Draper in bitterest contempt = THINGS I DEEPLY CHERISH, lol. He is just so fun to hate!
I wouldn't really give Pete points for being honest, lol. Honest would've been straight up saying, "I think we should do this, morality be damned," not manipulating everyone by misrepresenting the situation to both Joan and the partners. But he wouldn't be Pete if he weren't a weasel.heh, true, but he's honest with himself and everyone else about why he's doing it. He doesn't approach it any differently than he would anything else. He's the accounts man, this is one hurdle that needs to be passed to get the account, he's going to make it happen. There's a straightforwardness to that which I really enjoy ( ... )
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LOL so much word on Sherlock. I will never understand the overwhelming popularity of that show. And I really did enjoy it in S1. But what even is a Sherlock. I love unapologetic sociopathetic dicks. That is not how you write one.
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LAWL, THIS.
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AWWWWW, that's so sad. Especially since he'd always seemed okay with being gay? It was just being in his otherwise-dysfunctional family and being treated badly for being gay that seemed to bother him, from what I remember.
(Though, I love Bree and her fabulous nuttiness, but what the hell kind of sociopath can be a parent to a gay child and still make a political career by aligning herself with modern Bible Belt conservatives? At some point, don't people just *die* of cognitive dissonance?)
I was really happy with how they ended it - kinda sad how they all ended up drifting apart but that's real life!
Yeah, it's how I figured it was going to end, but still, it was a bummer.
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