Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums
Welcome to Our Forums. Once you've registered and logged in, you're primed to talk football, among other topics, with the sharpest and most experienced fantasy players on the internet.
Mad Men on AMC (3 Viewers)
- Thread starter Red Apples
- Start date
jamny
Footballguy
In the speed episode, she was watching Don's kids and also was at the apartment when Don came home to the police in his house before passing out.
I don't see the "Megan is dead" angle at all.
Zegras11
Footballguy
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
jamny
Footballguy
Hellfire Snail
Footballguy
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
People think Megan is dead? Why?
zamboni
Footballguy
Maybe because it's taking place in 1968.I'll believe it when I see Megan cross the street barefoot alongside Don.
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
The nerds in the GOT thread might like it better, though 98% of them probably don't watch MM.
Premier
Footballguy
I don't think Megan is already dead, but I do think she dies in the next two weeks. All of this they've shown so far is just foreplay.
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
PlasmaDogPlasma
Footballguy
Prime suspect: Glen
pantherclub
Footballguy
That wouldnt be great. This show shouldnt rely on gimmicks. Its based on the dialogue and character development. IMO it would be cheap and a cop out to go into a lost style storyline.
Premier
Footballguy
I don't see how it's necessarily a Lost or Twin Peaks thing if Megan is already dead. Don saw the ghost of Anne in his office the night before he got a call that she was dead. He's seen his dead brother numerous times. I think it's already been established that Don has some kind of visions of dead people who he loves.
pantherclub
Footballguy
He knew Anne was dead based on the message from her niece. He delayed all day to call and confided in Peggy during that time.
Seeing Megan dead would be a premonition and as I said we be kindof gimmicky for this show. Its not really about that.
Seeing Megan dead would be a premonition and as I said we be kindof gimmicky for this show. Its not really about that.
Premier
Footballguy
I don't necessarily disagree; I think Megan is still alive, at least for now. I just don't think it would be preposterous either.
Right, but I doubt in the heat of the moment they put it together that Peggy was going to go in Joan's office and flip the switch on
pantherclub
Footballguy
Personally I would like to see Don's world unravel again with Megan finding out about his cheating, the business start to take a hit, those types of things. Having Megan die would just be a cheap soap opera type way to create drama.
anakin
Footballguy
Abraham
Footballguy
Agreed. Mm is so good because it doesn't use cheap if last tricks. Truthfully, I thought the drug episode - as good as it was - was pushing it.
pantherclub
Footballguy
Like I have said earlier this season, the writers seem to be running out of steam. This show was money in seasons 2-4. And the dialogue and storyline was pretty breathtaking from halfway through the second season to the middle of 4. Like Breaking Bad, I am glad they are ending it instead of making this a mockery.
The drug episodes, like you say, are pushing it a bit.
Premier
Footballguy
We've already seen this. Why would they do that again?
pantherclub
Footballguy
I see your point but some of the best acting and storylines was when he was cheating, the business sucked and he thought the feds were on to him. I also like Pete and Cooper playing verbal combat with what they know about Don.
In short Don doesnt handle pressure like that very well. Kind of opposite of how he is with clients.
Last edited by a moderator:
Premier
Footballguy
Yea that was great but they're not going to do the same thing with 16 episodes left in the series. I think the real pressure starts to get ramped up on Don's life. Having a wife murdered is not unrealistic in 1968 New York and shows us another angle of Don dealing with trauma. And probably the beginning of his descent.
Righetti
Footballguy
I wonder if Bob Benson's fortuitous opportunity will now mean that he leaves the day-to-day office scene and spends more time in Detroit (a la Kenny Cosgrove)
it was sort of foreshadowed by Joan saving him, saying that they agency would need him because Ken would be tied up with GM.
it was sort of foreshadowed by Joan saving him, saying that they agency would need him because Ken would be tied up with GM.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
I'm pretty sure Don already knew Anna was dead when he saw her in his office. At the very least he was pretty sure she was dead since he had the phone message from California.
Either way I don't see them pulling some "Sixth Sense" type of stuff.
The Hank
Footballguy
IIRC, There was a scene where Bob and Ginsberg were in a hallway (Ginsberg is freaking out), that afterwards panned out to Bob standing next to Cosgrove's office. I could be wrong but I'm almost certain that's where he was standing next to. May have to rewatch to verify
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
Yeah, same here. Not to mention that they'd have an entire season left of Ghost Don in 1969.
I don't think Megan gets killed either.
Righetti
Footballguy
From Grantland
With Bob Bensonmania reaching such a fever pitch that answer-crazed Mad Men fans are injecting vitamin shots into their posteriors and rioting in the streets to demand any crumb of information about whether the charmingly wrong-floored enigma from Accounts is a government spy, time-traveling ******* (hi, Molly!), or a budding psychopath who always carries two severed heads in case someone needs one, showrunner Matthew Weiner briefly stepped out of his Internet-proof mystery box to address the hysteria surrounding his most baffling creation. He tells The Wrap:
I'm basically convinced from my Internet reading that he's a government spy.
[Laughs.] Okay.
He's always in everyone's business, he's always on the wrong floor, he never seems to be really jockeying for a better job, and he seems to have completely lied, about his father, for example.
Yeah. He's definitely a liar. I hope that you caught that. And I hope that you caught that he — you don't think he seems like an ambitious person jockeying for a job?
I thought he was at first, but then he made so little progress. But then he did in the last episode.
Uh, yeah! With Chevy? I think he's making a ton of progress. [Laughs.] I don't know, you know? We'll see. I'm not going to comment on whether or not he's a government spy, but James is a great actor, and he is definitely mysterious. And that's deliberate.
He has very good manners, and that seems to be working for him.
So there you have it: Bob Benson is definitely a time-traveling ******* spy carrying two severed heads around in case somebody needs one. Weiner's on the record about this. Now we can all safely put on our tiny white bathing suits and spend a relaxing weekend at the beach, insinuating ourselves into a busty, vulnerable partner's family, confident that the mystery has been solved.
With Bob Bensonmania reaching such a fever pitch that answer-crazed Mad Men fans are injecting vitamin shots into their posteriors and rioting in the streets to demand any crumb of information about whether the charmingly wrong-floored enigma from Accounts is a government spy, time-traveling ******* (hi, Molly!), or a budding psychopath who always carries two severed heads in case someone needs one, showrunner Matthew Weiner briefly stepped out of his Internet-proof mystery box to address the hysteria surrounding his most baffling creation. He tells The Wrap:
I'm basically convinced from my Internet reading that he's a government spy.
[Laughs.] Okay.
He's always in everyone's business, he's always on the wrong floor, he never seems to be really jockeying for a better job, and he seems to have completely lied, about his father, for example.
Yeah. He's definitely a liar. I hope that you caught that. And I hope that you caught that he — you don't think he seems like an ambitious person jockeying for a job?
I thought he was at first, but then he made so little progress. But then he did in the last episode.
Uh, yeah! With Chevy? I think he's making a ton of progress. [Laughs.] I don't know, you know? We'll see. I'm not going to comment on whether or not he's a government spy, but James is a great actor, and he is definitely mysterious. And that's deliberate.
He has very good manners, and that seems to be working for him.
So there you have it: Bob Benson is definitely a time-traveling ******* spy carrying two severed heads around in case somebody needs one. Weiner's on the record about this. Now we can all safely put on our tiny white bathing suits and spend a relaxing weekend at the beach, insinuating ourselves into a busty, vulnerable partner's family, confident that the mystery has been solved.
jamny
Footballguy
He blends into the woodwork and before you know it, he's somebody. Barely see it coming.
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
On the next Mad Men...
Peggy frantically leaves an apartment!
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
Also:
-Don's not really dead.
-Megan is not going to be murdered.
-Bob Benson is just some dude who works there. HTH.
-Megan is not going to be murdered.
-Bob Benson is just some dude who works there. HTH.
Aerial Assault
Footballguy
Yup, good eye. I had to freeze it on rewatch and look closely to make sure, but the plate said it was Ken's office. Incidentally it appeared from the architecture that they have Kenny in a windowless office, which was strange to me. I totally do not get all the spec on Benson. Just seems like a noser to me. I'm far more intrigued by the possibility of Megan dying, even though I like Megan and Pare quite a bit.
Premier
Footballguy
Agree with 2 of those, but Megan is about to be as dead as tupac dude.
PlasmaDogPlasma
Footballguy
anakin
Footballguy
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Agree with 2 of those, but Megan is about to be as dead as tupac dude.And if you're wrong?
Premier
Footballguy
Agree with 2 of those, but Megan is about to be as dead as tupac dude.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
And if you're wrong?
Premier
Footballguy
Umm. Nothing?
PlasmaDogPlasma
Footballguy
Well then...Draper is going to come out of the closet.Pete is really an alien from the planet Melmac.Peggy starts doing donkey-shows for extra cash in Times Square.And Roddy Piper makes a guest cameo as "Chad, the negro CEO of Datsun".Are we under some obligation to be correct here? This is a message board right?
Premier
Footballguy
Umm. Nothing?
Similar threads
- Poll
