Linda Cardellini, because they DEFINITELY look alike.
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Jonesy passing out right after they get back from Hawaii was super weird. I think the first scene of the whole episode, where we see that from his perspective, was supposed to make us think that Don's the one who passed out and that it was still GOING to happen (like in the episode that opens with Don passed out in a hotel after those kids took his wallet). But instead it happened to Jonesy before they left, and right after that scene they cut to seeing him after they get back from the trip. It was definitely disorienting.
Or, that girl was a plot device for Betty to figure her own shit out, so it's fine with me that we didn't learn all about her background. Mad Men already has enough characters to keep detailed track of.
I think Betty identified with that girl (she mentions her mother is dead and Betty commiserates) and was affected by all the things she said (her desire to live in New York - like Betty once did - and not to go down the traditional 'city for a year, wife in the suburbs forever' route that Betty went down) and went to find her because of those reasons. At first she went because she was just worried about her I think, but after that speech from the rude guy in the house, Betty realized that she needs to let that girl make her own path, and Betty sort of does the same thing by dying her hair. That's what I got out of that storyline, anyway.
This episode was very good. Has Mad Men ever been darker than it has been this episode and the end of last season? Between Roger's "doors lead to more doors" speech and Don's suicide suggestive pitch and last year's "Everything you love turns to crap" line by creepy Glenn, it will be interesting to see what's on the other side of the darkness.
I liked all the Betty stuff this episode, which is the first time that's happened in a long time. I still get very uncomfortable when she's on the screen. "Betty! Don't go into that house, Betty! Don't cook goulash in that dirty pot, Betty!" I thought her leaving the violin and dying her hair was a nice touch and did a lot to make her seem less like a terrible person and more like an actual person.
When Don first bristled at the rearrangement of furniture in his office for his photoshoot, the friend I was watching the show with said in a sign-songy voice, "Don doesn't like change!", and we laughed a lot because Mad Men can be very heavy-handed sometimes, but I still love it because at least it's trying to do something interesting, I think.
Finally, Peggy rules shit and yeah, that new stairwell/second floor make the office look super great.
Plans and Narrow Stairs are better than you remember them being, especially Narrow Stairs (which I think has a great cover; it symbolizes all the different turns their music takes on the album and how the production is big and bright and beautiful).
OMF, just click on the green "Download (75.97)" link and you will download a .zip file of the album.
Father Time, I like your music! My first reaction is that it sounds like Interpol if they were still good. Thanks for posting it for us to listen to and good luck promoting it and stuff - I am part of a college radio station and we would probably play it sometimes if we got sent a copy (ooh, NOW look who's all selfpromotiongum).
The best part is how in the paragraph before the spoiler, someone is quoted as saying, "Obviously we hope they keep the spoilers to themselves as our US fans may not know about... well, you know what!” and then go on to clarify what that means, as though it were more likely we'd run into Michelle Obama and trick her into telling us the spoiler rather than read it on the internet (I mean, it was spoiled for me by looking at gifs on some Downton Abbey Tumblr page! The internet is everywhere!)
The first and only time I got punched in the face was a couple years ago, when I was a victim (?) of a failed mugging. It was not a very good punch and I did not insert myself into this situation, so Vincent Kartheiser probably would not think I am a man. Sorry, VK.
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