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11/04/09
We've all got that box, locked up somewhere. It may just be inside us. Mine are my journals, where I rage, cry, wonder, don't understand, write about how hard life is and how I don't think I live for another 40 years. Some of us never let anyone inside that box. I don't. I've always been an intensely private person, and I try very hard not to allow anyone to review my true thoughts and emotions until I have a change to go over them.
This requires planning. Constant maintenance of the facade. Constant repairs of cracks and holes and leaks
I GET this character.
And yes, I have a shrink. #madmenrecap
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I always thought he loved Betty, the best way he knew how. Even though he sleeps around, his family was his rock. My heart broke when he watched her from afar before he entered the kitchen and she just gave him an icy stare. So sad :-( #madmenrecap
11/03/09
I thought the whole "I don't love you anymore" scene was brilliant. #madmenrecap
11/03/09
Very sad.
I also wish they'd stop with the stupid - "don walks into a room, sits down, defeated... camera slowly pans out...." its so "acting class..." it's so annoying. I find it distracting now. #madmenrecap
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:-) #madmenrecap
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And can I just say- wow. I cried at this episode. I was born 20 years after it happened but seeing it in this show, all the news footage and people's reactions- I cried. #madmenrecap
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She's not 100% brat, but this episode painted her that way. #weddingskennedy
11/03/09
She doesn't want the step mom to come to her wedding, and why would she? Margaret says "I don't want to get married!" and her mother says "He is not your father." Jane represents a huge fear of the soon-to-be married.
I was really pleased with how talented the two of them were in conveying that. I am forgetting the character's name, but Margaret's mother, really grounded that scene. It was so good! #weddingskennedy
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I think we ended up with fewer than 20 people there. #weddingskennedy
11/02/09
Henry proposing to Betty is thus starting the cycle all over again. It's another man telling her that she'll never have to be a grownup. Married women in this episode are the ones who live in the real Camelot and are the ones most threatened when it starts to fall and they are expected to be adults. It's not Betty, or Jane, or Margaret's fault; however in Trudy's maturing transformation in this episode, we see their peer surpass them and move towards a jaded, yet adult, independence. #madmenrecap
11/03/09
Personally, I'm hoping in light of all this in the finale Betty takes the kids leaves Don but doesn't go with Henry Francis. Perhaps that's the realization that she came to after leaving Henry. #madmenrecap
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And, also, I realize I would probably hear about it first from Facebook statuses. How awful is that?
@TheWordstoCome: Such a good point. Thank you for bringing it up. #madmenrecap
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I laughed out loud when Jane said "He was so handsome. And now I'll never get to vote for him." Hilarious on so many levels. Clearly she's not one for politics.
Who was Betty referring to when she said he's 24 years old? #madmenrecap
11/02/09
And I think Betty was referring to Lee Harvey Oswald.
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I know a couple in LA that got married during the riots. The police issued a mandatory lockdown of the city, and curfew. Instead of the hotel she had planned, and all the accoutrements, she used someone's backyard instead, and everyone had to hurry and attend before sundown. Whoever was in walking distance, that is. #weddingskennedy
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Also, I remember reading in a book about how after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake marriages went through the roof the week after. #weddingskennedy
11/02/09
The idea of the creepy Congressman wanting to MARRY(?!?!?!?!) Betty just seemed so ridiculously out-of-the-blue. As my Mother put it: "I get it. She's very pretty. But she's incredibly dull. What's the big appeal?"
Especially juxtaposed to Roger's call to Joan, the scene rang even more false. With Roger and Joan, they had an affair, and I think they realized too late that they really did work together and may have really cared for one-another and now both are stuck with these very pretty but very insubstantial people. Well, unfortunately Betty just seems like another one of those plastic figurines.
January Jones's terrible acting in reaction to Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald live on TV was atrocious. The scream, and the "What is going on?!?!?!" was just cringe-inducing. She's just such a weak link on this show that it's becoming distracting and I honestly cannot muster up the ability to care about her or any of her creepy, weepy storylines.
Sigh. Unless Matt Weiner gives me a whole big heap of the delicious, sexy Paul Kinsey soon, I feel like I'm movin' on from Mad Men. It just feels so hollow right now. #madmenrecap
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11/03/09
I think it's unfortunate that they're not really using Michael Gladis -- and that MG hasn't done much work prior to this. He is quickly becoming my favorite character on the show, because they haven't corrupted him yet. #madmenrecap