Comments on: Beehives and Butt-heads: Mad Men, season 3 (so far)

By: Sunday (Am I Really) Radical Roundup: The Resurrection And The Life Edition - Tenured Radical - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:34:46 +0000

[...] Have Rocked Sterling Cooper: I don’t know whether it is more fun to watch Mad Men or to read Historiann’s critique of Mad Men. We are not going to tell her that there are some big unexpected changes in the last disc — [...]

By: Betty Draper is a bad mommy : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Mon, 10 May 2010 14:23:02 +0000

[...] of the twentieth century, and the one character in popular culture who dares to embody “The Problem That Has No Name” in a plausible manner gets judged because she doesn’t behave like a woman of 2010. [...]

By: Mad Men season 3: trauma, narcotics, and a low-tech startup : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:49:43 +0000

[...] I stayed up late (until 10:30!) watching the last two episodes in the third season of Mad Men. (I reviewed most of season 3 last week, as you may recall.) For those of you who haven’t yet seen the whole season and don’t want to have some [...]

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:04:39 +0000

I think I might get there tonight–I’ll at least get to see the penultimate episode, if not the final episode. That might have to wait until Thursday night.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:50:16 +0000

Just keep watching, the payoff is all in the end of the season. And then you look back and realize it was all headed there all along.

By: Janice

Janice — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:08:07 +0000

I like to think that I’m depicted with a cup of tea, actually, not coffee. But thanks for the summary and analysis of season three. This show still isn’t ringing my bells, even though it’s reached the year of my birth. When I’ve watched bits of it, I’ve been filled with a combination of righteous anger and angst on Betty’s behalf (and other women in the cast) so I can’t work up an ounce of empathy for any of the guys in the agency, I’m afraid.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:08:16 +0000

Heh. Mad Men, the board game–that would be hillarious! And of course, it would have to be a drinking game. The dice would look like ice cubes, and they’d come with a highball glass from which to toss them. Plus one of those little cars from the Life game in which to “drive” drunk. Awesome! Nice pickup on the DD “coincidence.” Or, instead of Drunk Driver, do his (assumed) initials mean “Dark and Dangerous?” “Dastardly and Deadly?” “Dunkin’ Donuts?”

When we play, can I be Roger Sterling? None of the women seem to be having much fun. . . not even the mistresses this year.

By: Fratguy

Fratguy — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:25:34 +0000

Personally I have started fast forwarding until I see headlights panning across a darkened road. This is my tipoff that DD has gone into MADD poster child mode and crazy hijinx (getting rolled when high on phenobarbital, crashing the car with the other woman in the passenger seat, skipping Sally’s birthday and randomly buying a puppy, skipping a discussion with Betty and randomly picking up the second grade teacher ) are guaranteed to ensue. Seriously, do the initials DD stand for drunk driver ? Sure these scenes may all be an allegory for American wanderlust and Don’s itinerant and feckless nature, but the setup has become so pervasive that Don simnply getting behind the wheel, at night, should be a mandatory category for any Mad Men dinking game.

By: truffula

truffula — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:22:47 +0000

RMG: it’s meant to recreate the experience of living in that particular wealthy, overwhelmingly white American world.

So it’s a show about rich white people written for rich white people? Super.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:41:39 +0000

I tried to scuff-up my avatar yesterday, including something a little more two-fisted in the drinkables category, but it didn’t quite pull together, as it were. Now I have to head out of town to peddle some product, so will have to wait for the Season 4 review for redress. Maybe I’ll have actually seen the thing by then. Have a good road trip, in the meantime.

In partial defense of my wimpy drink, though, I associate those classic blue “accropolis” paper coffee cups which are now universal with the Viand Coffeeshop, 61st & Madison, and it’s hard to imagine they did not have an open tab with the mythical shop in this series!