tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post8060800773558326142..comments2024-02-04T05:13:04.501-05:00Comments on Nik at Nite: Mad Men: The SuitcaseNikki Staffordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463618183850438914noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-55620878258248021882010-09-13T06:52:14.511-04:002010-09-13T06:52:14.511-04:00I'm a week late on this, but I've just fin...I'm a week late on this, but I've just finished the episode, and wow. It's my favourite of the entire series so far, if not the entire run of the show. Jon Hamm was brilliant, I had tears in my eyes when he broke down. Matter of fact, I think that this episode featured the best performances this show has ever seen, and the best in any series I've seen in a long time. I love it. Nik, your description of the episode as a play was spot on, it was an episode that you couldn't look away from, and I loved every minute of it. I so hope that this show doesn't go the way of almost every show I fall in love with (I'm still mourning Deadwood and Carnivale), because I could watch quality television like this for years (and I probably will, over, and over, and over). Please, Nik, keep the great posts for different shows coming. The Mad Men posts are great, I'm REALLY looking forward to the S3 Fringe posts (and to know what you thought of season 2), and I'm hoping that you might start blogging about Supernatural Season 6. Perhaps Dexter as well? Hell, whatever you blog on, I'm gonna read it. :)Batcabbagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609077644806458692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-80657416595831914632010-09-09T08:24:19.301-04:002010-09-09T08:24:19.301-04:00Being a new blogger, I would like to tell you that...Being a new blogger, I would like to tell you that you have given me much knowledge about it. Thanks for everything.This is indeed a fantastic resource. Thank you for making this publicly available.Travel Suitcaseshttp://www.luggagevalues.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-79215879604107099492010-09-07T22:56:46.200-04:002010-09-07T22:56:46.200-04:00Nikki: Now I get it! I watched the scene again fro...Nikki: Now I get it! I watched the scene again from the perspective you mentioned and I see it now. Thanks for leading me through the darkness...I guess I am rusty picking up on things now that Lost has ended. =(DCoutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933785363862588339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-88960191765821375722010-09-07T12:47:04.949-04:002010-09-07T12:47:04.949-04:00It was hard to pay attention to what anyone said o...It was hard to pay attention to what anyone said once Don had that vomit-splash on his shirt. <br /><br /> -Tim AlanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-15987292394330376612010-09-07T10:23:39.561-04:002010-09-07T10:23:39.561-04:00David: That is the same scene I saw. Stephanie mea...David: That is the same scene I saw. Stephanie means she wasn't really there mentally, but there's also something in her voice suggesting she was making an excuse to make Don feel better. When we first see the note, I took it to mean she was already dead, but when Don calls it sounds like she died only a few hours earlier, and would have still been alive if Don had called earlier. <br /><br />And yes, you're spot-on in your comments that no one needs him. Especially when he says, "I'll come out and deal with everything" and realizes that everything's been dealt with and there's nothing more needed from him in that world. It's a devastating conversation.Nikki Staffordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04463618183850438914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-71198719417407967532010-09-07T10:15:05.967-04:002010-09-07T10:15:05.967-04:00Wow, I just watched this episode and it is amazing...Wow, I just watched this episode and it is amazing, probably the best of the series! One odd thing, when Don called Stephanie, Stephanie answers, 'She's gone'...Don says, 'I know', obviously remembering the vision he had during the night of Anne in the office. Don then asks if Anne had wanted to talk to him, but Stephanie says 'She wasn't really there.' So, was this an alternate scene to what you saw Nikki? It made sense I suppose as Anne always seemed to not want to burden Don/Dick and did so right up to the end. He cries pretty hard after hanging up for the reason he states about Anne being the only person that really knew him, but also I think because he realizes no one really needs him anymore...if Peggy had not been there in that moment, Don may have dove out his window....Great episode!DCoutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933785363862588339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-62419388637470102162010-09-07T09:35:46.241-04:002010-09-07T09:35:46.241-04:00I couldn't help but feel that when Don was yel...I couldn't help but feel that when Don was yelling at the radio for Liston to get up...he was really yelling at himself to pull up his socks and get out of his depression.<br /><br />Great episode, I agree. I hope that Don makes a turn around before the end of the season, I can't stand seeing him so down and out.Fiveagainstnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-65500302526260449482010-09-07T06:06:31.147-04:002010-09-07T06:06:31.147-04:00I loved this episode too. I was worried that it wo...I loved this episode too. I was worried that it would somehow become romantic. Not only do these two need a friend more than a lover, they need each other as friends, the only other person (and oponion) they respect.<br /><br />I thought Don was right that if she wanted to go she should have said something; but like other super ambitious people, she chose work. <br /><br />And of course Don is a hold out, continuing to call him Clay, after he has changed his name to Ali. <br /><br />Edna's a hellcat! Cooper has no balls! Sterling is writing a book!!<br /><br />Roger - "they are self so righteous". Great!JShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06219841452322761803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-77453637297631430372010-09-06T23:38:54.158-04:002010-09-06T23:38:54.158-04:00Mad Men is next on my list of shows to start watch...Mad Men is next on my list of shows to start watching or catch up on. I was behind on LOST (watched all 3 seasons two months before 4th started) and just now watching Friday Night Lights Season 1 (but probably won't finish before Season 5 begins this fall)...Really good post. I'm intrigued even more about this show.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12064955492335124696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-67314444177051306082010-09-06T23:18:16.987-04:002010-09-06T23:18:16.987-04:00I think you are spot on with most of this. There a...I think you are spot on with most of this. There are also some great moments that recall earlier seasons. When Peggy goes to the bathroom and cries it is just like the beginning of the series, when she goes into the bathroom and sees another girl crying and decides to toughen up. But what has all her toughness gotten her? It's taken her far, but she is still fighting with Don. And in this episode she has to renegotiate and redefine herself again. It's a testament to how different she is than some of the men in her office that she is able to continually do so.<br /><br />Also, when Peggy wakes up disheveled, Don is already clean and fresh. Peggy even comments on this. and for a moment it's as if it is back to business as usual. Don gets personal during a drunken night but in the bright light of day he puts on a new shirt as if nothing ever happened. But he invites Peggy around to show her his work. Because they are colleagues, more than anything else. And then he puts his hand over hers, just like she once put her hand over his. But when she did it, in season one, it was out of confusion and because she thought it would help her. But now it is a sign of friendship and an acknowledgment of what happened between them. I think Don and Peggy are the only real <i>friends</i> that we've seen on the show, with the complicated exception of Don and Anna.<br /><br />I also think it's important that Peggy is the one Don looks up and sees when he thinks everything is lost. He thinks he is alone, he thinks he needs drinks to get through it, but Peggy reminds him that there is another way.<br /><br />And god, that door open line at the end. Killer.margositahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06432497140892679276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30892649.post-73753050188705344622010-09-06T22:12:54.175-04:002010-09-06T22:12:54.175-04:00I just watched it On Demand (I think I missed it l...I just watched it On Demand (I think I missed it last night because I thought today was Sunday - silly long weekend) and I was thinking the same thing - what an extraordinary episode. <br /><br />I think Don and Peggy have a brother/sister vibe and I like it.<br /><br />There was that moment with what I'm sure was a ghost that seems genre yet universal - I had a similar moment the night before my grandmother died. <br /><br />Wonderful stuff, and as much as I love Lost, I never quibble when Mad Men wins the Emmy. Every episode is like a finely cut gem, but this one was a diamond.Colleen/redeem147noreply@blogger.com