Mad Men – Just as I suspected, Don isn’t a member of PFLAG
While Don will surely keep Sal’s secret, his help certainly ends at the point where Sal’s homosexuality starts affecting the work.
That’s what I wrote about the season premiere, in which Don and Sal had their awkward adventure in Baltimore. Don knows all about wanting to keep certain aspects of your life private from those you work with, so he certainly wasn’t going to run around outing Sal to the rest of their Sterling Cooper colleagues. However, his willingness to keep Sal’s secret does in no way indicate that he’s down with the gays, as we saw last night.
As a viewer, I have a love/hate relationship with Don Draper. Sure, he’s smooth, charming, enigmatic, wounded, and obviously ridiculously good-looking. But this week’s episode makes it really difficult to overlook his more negative qualities. As I watched him in bed with that floozy teacher, all I could think of was the million different ways I would murder him if I were Betty and I found out my husband was cheating on me again, while I have an infant at home. Plus, when he was talking to Sal, and hit him with the disgusted, “You people,” it was a jarring reminder that Don Draper isn’t the hero we sometimes make him out to be.
Mad Men – When the cat’s away
Beware of those dog days of August if you’re married and it’s 1963. I never thought that I would be comparing Pete and Betty while watching Mad Men, but, by golly, they were certainly going through parallel plots in this episode, weren’t they? I didn’t think this episode carried quite the same gravity as the previous two, but watching Betty strut around Rome like she owned the place was worth the price of admission.
Ratings Clack – Is Dollhouse about to get pulled?
Week two of the full-tilt-boogie season brought with it some interesting things, including premieres for Animation Domination, The Amazing Race, Trauma, Hank, and The Middle. We also saw more huge numbers from House, NCIS, and Grey’s. But after all of that, the most interesting story again comes from the show with the worst ratings on all of the big four networks, Dollhouse. After season two premiered to a series low last week, things got even worse. Episode two just barely cleared the 2 million viewer bar, while falling below a 1 in the demo. Reached for comment, my BFF Jill said, “OMG! RLY!?”
Yes, really. The situation is dire. Even the hardcore Whedonites are now at DEFCON 1. Someone has got word that the show could be in danger of being pulled from the air. I don’t know anything more than they do about that, but I would expect it to get one more shot this Friday, before baseball takes over. If episode three doesn’t show some sort of improvement though, I wouldn’t be surprised if baseball makes way for a series of House and Bones repeats on Fridays at 9. Read the rest of this entry »
Sex and the women of Mad Men
Sex.
It was everywhere in this week’s stand out installment of Mad Men. For once, however, it seemed to not be focusing on Don (save for the awkward conversation with Sally’s teacher). Instead, it was the women of Mad Men, particularly Peggy and Betty, who were doing the deed, or at least thinking about it, in this episode.
Mad Men – It’s all fun and games until someone loses a…
Does anyone else find it curious that while Mad Men was busy winning Emmy after Emmy last night, there was also a new episode on over at AMC? I think it looks kinda bad, but I’m not going to argue in favor of a repeat when I can be getting a fresh episode of Mad Men. And what an episode it was.
This episode hit all the right notes, with a great blend of pitch-black humor and drama.
Ratings Clack – Heeere’s Jay Leno
After a summer of wondering what the result of NBC just giving up on the 10 PM hour would be, we now have our first look at the numbers. Jay Leno started with a bang (over 18 million viewers), and then quickly started the slow grind to reality. The week also saw the premieres of One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, Biggest Loser, The Beautiful Life, SNL: News, Parks & Rec, The Office, Community, Bones, and Fringe. Some of those were more successful than others. Read the rest of this entry »
Quotations Marks – Bones, Devito, and Dick Cheney
The fall season is not yet in full effect, but I could barely tell that from the way my mailbox blew up this week with tons of quotes. With so much fresh content, and so many great quotes, we’re back to limiting the amount of quotes per show … but that means we’d like to hear more from you about which quotes you liked this week.
“Well, they gave me medication. So, I imagine I feel how people of average intelligence feel all the time.” — Bones, asked how she’s feeling while on pain medication
“And that ladies… that is why they call me king of the lab.” — Hodgins
“Nobody does that but you.” — Angela
Quotes from the Ether
“Not at the show? Watch it tonight on FX. At 10:00! Balls heating up big time!!!” @Danny_Devito being … uh … Danny Devito
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