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and although I find it most compelling I still kind of want Don Draper to step in front of a taxi cab. He is about the most negative protagonist I've ever seen on television. It is amazing the staff writers have been able to suck us into watching year after year as one of the most self-absorbed human beings ever born gets laid, makes money, marries beautiful women, and generally has it his way.
Beyond Don is Roger who is the Larry Tate of our time. Gotta love a guy who's only job is to start drinking at 8:00 a.m. and smoke every available cigarette on Manhattan.
Bless the eye candy, also.
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...so when we are out of good films that's what I do.Am I surprised it is still on? Hardly. Between it and the Downton you have all the right elements.
Edits: 01/14/13
I recently watched season 5 on BluRay and really enjoyed it. I felt it was above average for the show. I am continually impressed with the authentic details - like the tax stamp on the liquor bottles. The show is so succesfull at immersing us in an authentic looking atmosphere. (For nitpickers like myself, there are often small details that aren't quite right. For example I watched an episode from season 2 last night that finished up with Don in a Japanese restaurant. The year was supposedly 1961, and nicely had "Sukiyaki" (1963) on the soundtrack). My mom's house is from the same era and had some of the same details seen in the Draper home -- stove, oven, style of doors and wood trim, etc. Without revealing spoilers: The detail about Lane's car not starting was perfect. My dad had that car and said "it wouldn't start if there was a cloud in the sky".
Edits: 01/11/13 01/11/13 01/11/13 01/12/13
The element of Don that keeps me mesmerized is his ability to reinvent himself. He just doesn't let his past define or limit him in any way. There's something very zen and compelling about that, despite all his character flaws, conceitedness, self-absorbtion, etc.
I love how the season ended, with him at a photoshoot of his wife, as two hot babes hit on him, echoing what must have been his experience with Betty, who also started out as a childish model. Deja vu all over again for Don. Just what he didn't want. Season 6 will either be the winter of his discontent or a return to form in extramarital fornication. Oh well, at least the new agency appears to be picking up steam as season 5 drew to a close.
Also interesting subplots with the other characters, most notably Joanie's failed marriage and her decision to use her body to become a full partner. And then of course there was poor Laine. Won't be seeing him again, which will no doubt haunt Don in ways he doesn't want to face. He's so logical about the people around him who have failed, and how he turned them away--including his own brother--but emotionally he just never dealt with the loss.
Roger is a crack-up. He always has the best one-liners and this season was no exception. His acid trip was hilarious, and he finally divorced that 20 yr old, which somehow inspired him to get his mojo back both personally and professionally. Then there is the new guy, Ginsberg, who seems to have a stroke of genius and became Don's new muse and whipping post, replacing Peggy who was fully justified in jumping ship. She seems poised to make her mark in branding Virginia Slims as the advertising campaign of the century. Hopefully Don will regret letting her get away.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
That was done with great restraint unlike the mind-numbing psychedelic renderings of practically all movies since 1965.
In bonus features I see the writing staff is YOUNG for the timeframe they are working in. I wonder who is keeping them on-track? Somebody must because the show pretty much hums of the time. I would have been pre-teen and teen during the episodes shown.
He was also involved heavily in Sopranos and kept that show fresh, too. He knows exactly where he wants the show to go and what he wants it to say and only hires the best writing talent to get there. Remind you of someone?
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
I thought the JFK episode was very well done. Kudos to Duck for unplugging the TV so's not to foul up his noon time activities.
It must have been quite something in the days when being able to throw back a few drinks in your boss' office was more important than showing up to work on time.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
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