Premieres July 27th at 10 pm. There’s a marathon of the series that airs on the 20th starting at noon and running all 12 episodes.
Spoiler: No word whether or not they’re going with the “series jumps ahead three years each season” take that I heard talked about a while back.
If they do indeed do that spoiler, then there’s gonna be way too much to explain or fill in. I don’t think it’s doable.
I thought it was going to be seven more than that. Which would be very interesting. Damn solid show, despite the presence of the tobacco drug. Wait, wait. Dam solid show, INCLUDING the awesome presence of the tobacco drug.
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As to what Rath was saying Spoiler?: I thought the original plan was to have the series jump two years for each new season. Funny how there’s been no mentioning of that.
Ed’s right, it was spoiler: two years, not three. Which is kind of disappointing, because as much as it’s been done to death, I really would have liked this show’s take on the Kennedy assassination.
Not necessarily, Speculation: I think there are other events and trends that are just as important but not as covered as the JFK assassination. And really I don’t know what effect it had on the ad world. It would probably come up in reference to other things down the line if the show continues. Espcially, say this show makes it to 1968.
Major spoilers!: Weiner has finally revealed the show is jumping 14 months ahead, into 1962. http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/07/matthew-weiner.html
AICN states the show will run for five seasons and wrap up either in 1970 or 1969.
I never got that into the show in the initial run, but OnDemand has all the episodes up right now, so I think I’ll go through a couple of them tonight.
Upon rewatching the series, my gut tells me that the second season will open with Peggy and Don divorced. However, I know that would be the easiest way to go, and my other gut says that the divorce scenario is something they would build on through the seasons. (Other lame prediction: Roger will be dead/written out of the show.) But I do worry that there’s so much that they left open in the last couple episodes of season one that the first couple episodes of this season will be “here’s what happened in the last 14 months.” There’s one in particular involving a certain character that I worry about, although the finale made their intial reaction pretty clear.
The big thematic question is how they’re going to continue the series’ central theme, which is “Who is Don Draper?” (identity) There are certainly a lot of places to go, and my recent Season 1 marathon leaves me convinced that this is one of – if not the – best show on TV right now, and really, I haven’t been this excited for a returning series since “The Wire.” But I’m, you know, like that.
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| Originally Posted by RathBandu View Post my gut tells me that the second season will open with Peggy and Don divorced. |
Peggy and Don would have to get married first, which would be pretty crazy.
But seriously, that sort of runs counter to that last sequence in the finale. There’s a slim chance that Betty might take the kids and leave Don, but it’s not really in her character to do without proof that he’s cheating on her, and the worst thing she knows he’s been up to is calling her shrink. Rachel broke it off with Don when he tried to talk her into running away with him, and Don broke it off with Midge when he realized she was actually in love with the beatnik theatre guy, so there isn’t much in the way of ongoing infidelity for Betty to catch him at.
And in 1962 divorce was still pretty rare, especially for upper-middle/lower-upper class families like the Drapers. If a divorce is in the offing for them, I don’t see it happening until Season 4(1966) or Season 5(1968).
I don’t think they’re going to be a happily married perfect couple, though. It’ll probably have settled into a more traditional, sterile, going through the motions marriage, after Don spent the off-screen year actually trying to be the husband he thinks Betty wants him to be, and not doing a very good job at it.
Betty could continue her forbidden love affair with the dryer this season and I would be just fine with it.
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| Originally Posted by Fafhrd View Post Peggy and Don would have to get married first, which would be pretty crazy. |
Yeah. I’m a moron. I was trying to tip-toe around some of the larger spoilers in the first season finale and tired when I was typing that, so stuff got jumbled around in my mind.
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| But seriously, that sort of runs counter to that last sequence in the finale. There’s a slim chance that Betty might take the kids and leave Don, but it’s not really in her character to do without proof that he’s cheating on her, and the worst thing she knows he’s been up to is calling her shrink. |
I sort of agree with you, but I thought the point of the whole sequence where she tells Don (through her shrink) that she knows wasn’t her fishing for information, but that she’s realized all the signs that Don’s been cheating on her were there and she had been ignoring them or whatever.
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| And in 1962 divorce was still pretty rare, especially for upper-middle/lower-upper class families like the Drapers. If a divorce is in the offing for them, I don’t see it happening until Season 4(1966) or Season 5(1968). |
I agree with this too, it’s sort of what I was trying to say. I don’t think that the Drapers, if they do, will get divorced until later in the series run (if it makes it that long), I was just saying that that’s how my always-wrong gut felt. And on the other hand, having a couple on the show get divorced would feel like they were hitting the greatest hits of the decade (also why although part of me hopes that they do explore Sal’s homosexuality in future seasons, we won’t see him participating in the Stonewall riots, although that’s a case when it would be appropriate) and this show is so not interested in that kind of NBC-miniseries storytelling.
I FINALLY caught up with this series, and now I am frothing at the mouth for season 2. My god, I don’t think I’ve stopped talking about it to friends.
I’m curious if they are going to keep going with the Don Draper backstory, or leave it alone for a bit to focus more on the dynamics of the ensemble in the present (or the previous months since season 1). I’m not sure where else they could take it without HUGELY shaking up the show.
So excited for S2
Betty riding the dryer is nice and all, but how about Hildy side boob? Very nice.
In all seriousness, I dig the hell out of this show and can’t wait for more. I would love to some day know whether it was Chase or HBO who screwed up in this show’s embryonic phase. Both look like morons right now.
Chase was a long-time supporter of the show. The pilot script is why he hired Weiner for Sopranos. It was HBO that said “Not our thing.”
Hildy side-boob was unexpected and glorious.
Just an FYI for spoiler phobes – the recent review in EW is one of those that gives too much away. I wish I hadn’t read it.
Instead of starting threads and articles about lust for 13 year old Harry Potter actresses,
people around here should be talking about Christina Hendricks. Lust for grown-ups.
Read: THIS SHOW IS FUCKING AMAZING
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I was watching some of the marathon yesterday. Where was Sal? Does the guy appear for one episode and disappear?