To begin Week 23, we offer a picture of both Jan Jones and Christina Hendricks at last year's Emmy Awards ceremony. And that, naturally, segues us into Monday's official "Mad Men" recap (as always, any and all suggestions/comments are welcome in the forum below). Before I begin - and because this was brought to my attention by the better half of this blog - keep in mind these recaps will contain spoilers. If you don't want to know what's going on with the show, kindly scroll to the links. You there yet? OK. Good. So last night, we got to relive when Don and Roger first met, and this, to me, provided some of the greatest moments of the entire series. To see how eager and wide-eyed Don was initially, and to see how dismissive Sterling was to him, was simply fantastic. Now to the award. Oddly enough, I felt this was the first real time we got to see Don's drinking (kind of) get in the way of his professional life. When he rushes back from the awards ceremony to pitch ideas to LIFE, all you can do is cringe as he mindlessly throws ideas against the wall to have nothing turn out well. And yes, the writers are way too smart for you to even begin to think that showing that kind of episode on the same night as the Emmys wasn't done on purpose. Peggy continues her "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore" moments, but - and I honestly hate to say this - there are times when she simply becomes more annoying than confident or empowering. For as bad as she treated Don's former secretary when she "needed to get over" the fact that Don slept with her and she wasn't happy with the fallout from that, Peggy needs to consider getting over a few things herself instead of pouting all the time. Still love her, though. And finally, Pete stood up for himself and laid a little bit of the law down. "He always looks like he's over-acting," my roommate said. He's right, but at this point, you have to think it's done on purpose. Have to. Whew. That was a lot. As you digest that, take some time to click on a few links and enjoy the second to last day of August. Be happy, friends. John Wall gets crossed the eff up by Doc’s kid. Remember when I talked about ooking a kid a bunch of months ago? Yeah, watch this video. (The Big Lead)
A look at the best movies September will offer. Mildly excited for the new Clooney movie. (Popmatters)
Ooohhhh. ESPN travels to high school and treats everyone and the town like poo. You HAVE to read this. (Sacramento Bee)
So, exactly how many people turned out to that rally in D.C. over the weekend again? Depends on who you talk to, really. (Yahoo)
Emmys fashion. The young girl from “Modern Family” looked fab. Absolutely. (NBC)
It’s a Monday tradition. Your “Mad Men” recap. (Entertainment Weekly)
And speaking of both of those above things, Ms. Christina Hendricks talks about how hard it is for her to find dresses these days. (New York Daily News)
Tiger stumbled back to assure himself another week on the tour Sunday afternoon. Here’s a recap of the People article that his ex-wife granted. (Bleacher Report)
I enjoy the "numbers" controversy that is going on. But as someone who was out-n-about the area on Saturday knows that there was no way 500,000 people at this rally. Most rally-goers on the metro were boasting this but I know this can't really be true. I think the number was no more than 100,000 based on the crowded but not over crowded metro and slow but not stopped traffic around the tidal basin. We've seen crowds in DC and this one wasn't anything to boast.
ReplyDeleteP.S. The overacting by Pete is something that totally makes his character. I still am not sure I like him - but perhaps am starting to.
Same here. He is detestable on so many levels. But I am convinced that's good acting at this point. And the number that I keep happening across is somewhere around 96,000. Far from 500,000.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite part of the Mad Men episode is when Don goes to bed with one woman and then wakes up a day and a half later with another woman and he has no recollection of the time in between (apparently he took the first woman to a restaurant and then picked up the waitress telling her he was with his sister-smooth). Not that that has ever happened to me but Don obviously wasn't drinking top shelp tequila. It still gets you drunk but you remember it all and no hangover. The scotch and bourbon is a killer Don.
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