re: Mad Men 4/19 The Forecast

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And what about net of 1970's tax rates

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I do not know what the capital gains tax in 1970 was.

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I prefer when we discuss her bosom and bottom instead of her net worth and tax bracket.

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I like money...a lot. So discussing it is as much fun as discussing sports or her t&a.

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Someone told me that she was married to a guy named Greg and that she mentioned it in season six

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Greg WAS the doctor she was married to. The husband we actually saw.

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No. I just want dialogue between actually important characters. These three episodes have had hardly no memorable scenes between essential characters. Every character is either not on screen at all or wasting all of their lines on some extra we just met. This season has had absolutely nothing that made me enjoy the show in the first place. I was entertained enough by episode 1, but it has gotten old. It's crazy, but part of me is starting to believe that Burt Cooper was more essential to the show than I thought. At least he seemed to be able to keep all of the characters in the office. And I miss partner meetings, even when they were short and in the fricking hallway. Why in the world have we not had a partner meeting? I literally have no idea what is going on with the company. That has never been the case.

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Then maybe that's the finale.

Weiner is showing that work friends are not actually your friends. You cannot create a happy life by committing yourself to the workplace. The career is not the avenue for zen.

The end of this show will be a bunch of people who have seemed so close for so long simply going in opposite, sad directions.

The "bootstrap" mentality, the meritocracy myth that was so prevalent in the 1960s is being mocked. Torn down. Stripped to its sad, empty-apartment truth.

It's not a bad message. If that's where he's going, I do wish he was making it a bit more heavy handed. Right now, it's just a bunch of random scenes with random extra characters that are just like every other extra character in the past.

Acting and story were shite in this episode.

What's the point of all this?

I hope there is some kind of payoff for suffering through this season

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Sally crying on the phone probably could have used another take or two

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Absolutely. I was thinking that while watching. She was fine during the conversation, but she was horrible when she hung up. I get that everyone has loved her acting ability because she has been great for a child actor, but that was a terrible scene.

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I can't believe we've had a scene with Lou fricking Avery but no Cutler yet

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I thought Roger purposely left Cutler out of the new SCDP. Cutler only voted for it because he stood to make a lot of money.

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Wasn't she married to the Army guy, or did I imagine that?

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Greg was an Army doctor. Do you people even watch this show?

Spoiler. Don Draper's real name is Dick Whitman.

In the episode where Joan's college friend who sells Mary Kay comes to visit, Joan mentions getting married after college. She says the marriage lasted 6 months.

Y'all probably don't remember that dialogue because right after she said that, her friend tried to make out with her. The potential of Joan kissing a hot blonde woman fried y'alls memory.