Mad Men Season 6 Premiere Open Thread
WELCOME HOME, EVERYBODY, YOU ALL LOOK DIFFERENT! We’ve got a lot of new looks to talk about. That is mostly the take away from last night’s premiere of season six of Mad Men: new looks all around. The only person who seems to be keeping his shit together is Roger, everybody else is like I’M NOT SURE THIS BOLD PLAID BLAZER IS ENOUGH LET’S ALSO PAIR IT WITH SIDEBURNS AND A TURTLENECK or something. Whose new look was your favorite jk race to the bottom. Pretty good TV show, though! Last time things got pretty tense around here when I declared that the premiere episode of season five was bunk, an opinion that I stand behind 100%, but today we are in luck because last night’s episode was not bunk. Although is Don Draper–a 400-year-old war veteran who took on an assumed identity after the real Don Draper stepped on a land mine right in front of his very eyes and who also helped cut Lane’s dead body down from the office last season–seriously JUST discovering death? OK! You would think he would have encountered the stray thought about death here or there, but I guess back then it was different. You couldn’t think about death because you had too many martinis to finish before the lunch bell rang. Also, I enjoyed the scenes of Roger in therapy, but is he actually a stand up comedian now? How much time has passed between the end of last season and the beginning of this season? How many open mics did he hit up in the interim? Too funny, Roger, scale it back. Otherwise: hi everybody. This episode could have used a lot more Joan. They all could. But I’m loving the new staircase. I’m also very into the brewing conference call romance between Peggy and Zach Galifianakis. WHO WAS THAT VIOLIN GIRL THOUGH I FEEL LIKE THEY NEVER EVEN EXPLAIN WHO THAT GIRL IS?! LIKE THEY MAKE A GOOD RAPE JOKE ABOUT HER WHICH IS COOL BUT WHO ARE WE MAKING THE RAPE JOKE ABOUT REAL QUICK JUST FMI? ALSO WHY IS BETTY STILL FAT THOUGH? Big Sally keep on growing. Dope “grok” reference. I want to live in Roger’s mom’s apartment. Poor Megan. Poor Nerd Doctor. Smoke Weed. Happy New Year!