TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[jim]

Finished season 1 of Mad Men. Really enjoyed that. I wonder about stuff that writers do - for example in the very last scene of the entire episode, do you think they planned this from day 1:

[SHOW]

The entire 10 episodes, Draper has been a chain smoking fool never turning down a smoke. Then, at the very end of the last episode, the girl he is sleeping with offers him a smoke and he turns it down. Do you think the writers had that in mind from day 1, or did that come to them as they were thinking about how to end it? Because I thought it was a pretty powerful symbolic move

[Freed Roger]

I'm ok/don't care that the supposed greatest male athlete (Bruce Jenner) of my golden youth years is switching genders. I'm more bummed that he's made a mess of life in the Reality TV/Kardashian BS, and the magazine world behind it. Blech. That's much worse than chopping your genitals off.

[ghostrunner]

The two "60s parenting" episodes of "Mad Men" that jumped out at me:

1. When the kids are running around playing with plastic bags over their heads.
2. When somebody feels free to slap somebody else's kids for misbehavior at a party.

3. Kids would stay in the car while Mom runs quick errand into the bank or grocery store
4. You would be a hobo for Halloween, parents had no input.

Not sure if it's just because I'd never seen it on TV, but the picnic littering is the most shocking thing I've seen on Mad Men. More jarring than shocking maybe. I'm still wondering how accurate it is. I grew up in the 70s/80s ( which admittedly is post-crying Indian commercial), but I never knew anyone to blatantly and openly litter like that.

[Freed Roger]

The two "60s parenting" episodes of "Mad Men" that jumped out at me:

1. When the kids are running around playing with plastic bags over their heads.
2. When somebody feels free to slap somebody else's kids for misbehavior at a party.

3. Kids would stay in the car while Mom runs quick errand into the bank or grocery store
4. You would be a hobo for Halloween, parents had no input.

Not sure if it's just because I'd never seen it on TV, but the picnic littering is the most shocking thing I've on Mad Men. More jarring than shocking maybe. I'm still wondering how accurate it is. I grew up in the 70s/80s ( which admittedly is post-crying Indian commercial), but I never knew anyone to blatantly and openly litter like that.

I remember that scene and was half expecting this to get worked into the show, but probably came along too late

First Earth day was 1970. Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act were in 70s.

I know we were preached on pollution a lot as a kid of the 70s. Littering became taboo, so much that I can hardly walk past it without picking it up even to this day.

[haltz]

ellie kemper is just a doll

I was dating a girl recently whose sister is friends with her from high school. She said the toasts at Ellie's wedding consisted mainly of professional writers and comedians killing it and that it was the hardest she's ever laughed.

UBS is great. I miss the joke-joke-joke pace of 30 Rock.

[Jocephus]

yeah i still cant get over that she's part of the kemper banking family, just 'cause growing up in topeka, we'd always hear about shows at kemper arena. also that jon hamm was one of her teachers and that she married a conan writer.this one in fact

http://old.noob.us/humor/conan-obrien-v ... ck-writer/

[haltz]

And Jon Hamm was best friends with Joe Buck in high school who introduced him to his college roommate, Paul Rudd, who eventually convinced Jon Hamm to move to LA. Or something like that.

[Vidor]

So I'm watching the Amazon series "Bosch". Did not realize until the closing credits that Mimi Rogers is the attorney suing Bosch in court. I remember when Mimi Rogers was just about the sexiest woman alive.

[Schlich]

The scene in better call saul with the toilet was [expletive] hilarious.

[Vidor]

Four episodes through "Bosch". It's a little sad seeing Old Mimi Rogers, and the actor playing Deputy Chief Irving is shockingly wooden, but otherwise, it's a pretty solid show. Of course, I'm a habitual reader of Michael Connelly novels so this show is right up my alley.