bumping and deleting other thread.
i still haven’t watched the first ep yet!
Could have brought our posts over. 
It was straight up I fell asleep during the second half. Peggy seems hotter to me this season. That is all I have to say.
I totally missed it last night! One of my coworkers asked me this morning if I watched it and my jaw hit the floor…I feel dumb…
Whoa. Got my old account back. I am debating whether to get back into this show, but I feel I should.
2 hours was a bit long for this ep. They could have done what they did in 1 hour. Definitely was a good re-acquaintance with the cast and feel of the show since it has been mad long since i watched the season 4 finale. Although we dont really know much about where the story is headed this season other then Pete movin up, Joan possibly getting squeezed out of a job, and race possibly playing a bigger part.
I missed bettys bitchface this episode
Pete’s fake business smile is so hilarious. He’s such a robot.
The show should be called- “Rich Men Who Are Unhappy With Their Perfect Lives and Wives.” Don and Pete are both living American Dream, yet still find time to create petty issues over nothing. Pretty soon the threads will tangle though, as always…
This is pretty much what they’ve done every season premiere. It’s just to set the atmosphere for more drama. Without precise knowledge of where these characters are and what their current motivators are, the show would be an empty, vapid drama like Melrose Place.
highlights from the season premiere
Spoiler
- The partners meeting in Pete’s office.
- Roger being Roger.
- The situation near the end of the episode, which was the result of the SCDP advertisement/jab at the Y&R agency event, and how it was resolved.
- No appearance by Betty.
i wants me some betty
Yeah, you can have her.
Pete is the only one at Sterling Cooper who actually does work.
The Roger/Harry scene wins the grand prize, but this ep was full of good stuff. For kids who think that the current era of The Simpsons is still good and have no idea what character-driven storytelling looks like, this is a good primer.
It’s not that their lives are perfect and they’re creating petty issues over nothing. It’s that they’re finding out that even when you have all the stuff that’s supposed to make up the perfect life, there is really no such thing.
Draper, in particular, is basically doomed by the towering pile of shit that was his life as Dick Whitman. He will never be happy.
I dunno, neither of them really created petty issues over anything in that episode.
Roger is trying to snake pete out of all his hard work and Don was like “Yo, I don’t want a surprise party” but she threw him one anyway. Other then Don being like “Hey, I didn’t want this” both of them were pretty fine in that episode.
Roger pulling 1100 dollars right out of his wallet killed me.
just caught it.
fyi for anyone who still hasn’t been able to watch it, you can catch it online for free at AMC’s website.
I’m pretty happy with it, I was real worried if after the delay there was going to be an effect on the writing, but it’s about on par with season 4 so far. I loved the scene with Don and Megan, where he turns the swag levels up to max and goes in for the kill.
Also Pete Campbell! i love this guy. as always, he’s working his ass off and trying to make shit happen while two of the other partners just wanna fuck around. the submissiveness with which Don took the bean criticism was surprising, that’s pretty unlike him and I’m glad the show addressed that
Pete’s evolution has been stellar. He used to be this pathetic little bug, but now he’s killing it with his hot wife, trolling his boss, and has a badass office to boot.
Weeks, me and you are like the only pete supportors. He is the MVP of SCDP. Everyone else is busy fucking up the company some how.
Ken is like the Ken to Pete’s supremely focused Ryu. He could be Pete, but he is like “Man, just chill out, I wanna live my life”
Then he writes poetry and everyone gets jelly.
I just started watching, I am through 3 episodes so far. Don is a fucking dick and Pete is the man.
But then when Don and Roger both go ruin the accounts he brought in because of their retardation they aren’t doing well as Senior partners.
Roger lost his only, and most important client, and then tried to quash the Honda deal. Then Don fucked up the whole American Aviation thing with his stupidity. With someone with a super secret life, he sure was careless with it.
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It’s all relative, but Don is essentially living the textbook “American Dream”- rich, successful, and handsome, with a doting and attractive wife who loves him.
Regardless of his inner turmoil, his reality already trumps most of the American population both then and now. “Dick Whitman” seems to be simmering down and showing at least some measure of contentment that was only seen in the beginnings of season one… although that probably won’t last for long.
God, I love Pete so much, he is such a smarmy asshole. No matter how good or competent he becomes he is still the guy you love to hate the most.
First time Sally spoke threw me for a loop. Current projections have her as a future Natalie Portman type, that is some scary amount of potential.
Don almost pulling the doctor rape move on the floor until it became consensual last minute, man the 60’s were so boss.
At first I thought it was some weird dream sequence where an adult voice was speaking through Sally, but then I realized we haven’t seen Sally in 2 years, so it made sense.