Monday, September 27, 2010
I AM THE BEST GODDAMN DANCER IN THE AMERICAN BALLET ACADEMY. WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? Very nice riveting and nerve-wracking Mad Men, as usual, and as usual, Sepinwall has the postmortem (celebrity endorsements: Jon Hamm! Bill Simmons!). I'm only here to tell you that the mother in the waiting room was played by Susan May Pratt, Center Stage's own prima ballerina.
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Can I be a little surprised (a) that Pete backed down like that and (b) Don didn't back him up in the boardroom?
ReplyDeleteAlso, any chance Joan didn't have the abortion?
Two things:
ReplyDeleteFirst I love you Issac for posting that title. My facebook status says I am the best damn crier in the New Jersey Abortion Clinic (this may weird out my mother).
And second, I wondered that exact same thing Adam.
That Mad Men last night was crazy good, and kept getting better and I really needed to be watching it with someone else who is a fan instead of alone.
I have a standing date to watch every Sunday night with a dear friend and fellow Mad Men fanatic. It's fabulous to be able to dissect it right then and there (and to figure out who all the guest stars are).
ReplyDelete@Adam, yes, you can be surprised about Pete, though I suspect it's building to some huge confrontation/concession that Pete will extract from Don. And I was fully expecting Don to say something and was very surprised he didn't. Thought the same thing about Joan. "We avoided a tragedy" is very ambiguous.
They've really done a great job making Kieran Shipka seeem younger than she was in previous seasons, and now older than she is in real life. Sally seems very much the teenager to me now. I'm wondering how they're going to deal with this if they keep jumping ahead in future seasons - it'll be awfully hard for her to play 17 when she's 13.
I cannot imagine how much you have to talk about every week!! I am trying to get my dear friend caught up to Mad Men for next season. We are working through season two right now.
ReplyDeleteThank you for that, Isaac.
ReplyDeleteI could've sworn I saw Susan May Pratt in previews for this week's "The Defenders." Glad to see her getting work. Loved her in Center Stage and she was strong in 10 Things I Hate About You.
ReplyDeleteCenter Stage is so good. If they did it now, they'd probably do it in horrible 3D, and feature Cooper Nielson in 3D, riding his motorcycle straight at the audience instead of onto the stage. I'm glad that Susan May Pratt has jobs!
ReplyDeleteIsaac, thank you! It was driving me crazy trying to figure out where I knew the woman in the waiting room from.
ReplyDeleteRe: discussing Mad Men with a fan - I watch with my husband, and for a while we had a tradition of watching, and then he'd go to Alan's site and read his review out loud, and then we'd discuss it. Alas, Mad Men isn't sending out early screeners anymore, so we have to discuss it on our own.
Um, that would be awesome. You know what's not awesome? Center Stage 2. (I mean, I've watched Center Stage probably 100 times, and Cooper Nielsen is even in the 2nd one, and I couldn't make it through.)
ReplyDeleteThanks to the ThingThrowers and Netflix Instant, I finally saw Center Stage this summer. So good.
ReplyDeleteWhen the woman in the waiting room asked Joan how old her daughter was, I looked at my husband and said, "I bet she doesn't go through with it." I knew something like this would end up being an issue after her scene with her doctor about getting pregnant.
ReplyDeleteMy only problem with Mad Men is that it's on so late, and I have to get up so early for work. I stay up to watch it, and then it gives me so much to think about that sleep is impossible. It is just so. damn. good.
I loved how juvenile Lane acted around his father, including ordering whiskey sours, often an adolescent's first cocktail. The moment with his dad ranked up there as one of the more shocking/unexpected moments I've seen in TV, along with that scene toward the end of Terminator: Sarah Conner. I think Joan's action was supposed to be ambiguous, as was Don's meaningful glance at Megan at the end. Is he wondering at her innocence, or eying her wolfishly? After last week, I was surprised that Don didn't step up, too. Looking forward to what comes next.
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