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Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss and Jack McBrayer at the Golden Globes.
I would like this photo of Jon Hamm recreated in an oil painting so I can hang it over my fireplace.
Don Draper: Peggy, I’m glad that this is an environment where you feel free to fail.
“The Suitcase” is perhaps the most sustained time between Don and Peggy that the show has ever granted the audience. It’s also, not coincidentally, one of the best episodes the show has ever done. Even its weird, off-format elements feel of a piece with its melancholy tone. This is the kind of episode that, years from now, we’ll think of when we try to remember just what it was we loved about Mad Men, an episode that uses virtually every weapon in the show’s arsenal, yet leaves almost all of its moments and scenes unexpected. It’s so good that I want to call off the rest of the TV season and say this is as good as it’s going to get.
—- Todd VanDerWerff, The A.V. Club
I think it’s telling that my last few posts/reblogs about Mad Men have been about this particular episode. It is perfect.
(via havisham)
I always thought Jon Hamm would be the perfect Superman.
Talking to Justin Timberlake (I think), Jon Hamm makes this face. :)
Favorite Shows of 2010 - Mad Men
Mad Men is always the definition of a slow burn. It always takes a season for the season finale to effectively implode everything. This season’s finale was no different, but rather than the supreme wish fulfillment that was last season’s epic finale, this season, the show surprised most by imploding and then revealing that Don Draper was exactly the same guy he was when the season began. After a season of Don Draper essentially growing up and awaking from his dream-life into the cold reality of sad, lonely bachelorhood, I think we all assumed Don Draper would change. He tried to fill the void, even more with booze, women and work, but then, it seemed, he wanted to be a better man. He established an almost civil relationship with Betty. He was trying to be a father to his pre-teen daughter (an A for effort, Don). He was dating a woman every part his equal who he even let in on his most damning secret. This was Don Draper, a changed man. Of course, we were lulled into this expectation when the finale came and tore this assumption apart. Don Draper chose to have another dream life with a “dream” girl who would never challenge him or make him question himself. Same old Don Draper, but with newer model wife. As for the rest of the characters, Peggy continues to grow into her role as feminist prototype BAMF. Joan continues to be HBIC. It is becoming clear that the women are the real brains behind the operation at SCDP and I have a feeling next season, they won’t let the men forget it.
