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Mad men bottle episode12/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Jon Hamm's drunk act is absolutely peerless, that mix of confusion, brio and weird smiling.īroadly, Don's hurtling to rock bottom I do see that when that happens, it's with a gravitational urgency. I have to say, he gives the lie to the line that it's impossible to act drunk. I'm trying to match him, fuddled inconsistency by fuddled inconsistency. One minute I hate ambiguity, the next minute it's all I want. Number two, what does the memory of Lane actually raise in him? A sense of mortality, a carpe diem style thing? A crushing feeling of being dragged beneath the wheels of commerce? Or does he just remember that he quite likes the Mets? Part of being arthouse is at least keeping this in mind. In real life, you find a ball of dust and a fork. A cough always means cancer, a long look always means suicide and whenever you reach your hand under an item of furniture, you find something like a memento or a skull. Number one, it annoys me when they succumb to a screen-trope, because they're better than that. It was a little neat for my liking, distilled in the moment where, in his office, Don drops the thing under the cupboard and reaches under it, to find Lane's beloved Mets flag. Bold moves with obvious ends, impressionistically described, which only makes you realise how little description you really need in life. It looks like a game of chess, played on Twitter. It seemed to me to be a bit by-numbers: Lou deliberately puts Don under Peggy to make him flip his lid he duly flips his lid Peggy duly realises that was the purpose. Yes, I'm mixing it up with King Lear because so have they. It all happened so fast: one minute they're giving him these unacceptable terms and he's accepting them the next he's on his knees outside the castle, and his fool has been put in the stocks and all his knights have been fired. I know he will come undone, but when? How the hell do you think that's going to happen when you're at the bottom of a bottle?īefore all that, though. People who seem careless don't really not care they're just … I don't know … disassociating …. It is one of the verities of drama, as women fall, as Icaruses (Icarusi?) burn, people like Pete get their comeuppance. She'll probably turn up on Orange is the New Black. Trudi might have joined some totally other show by now. The fact that he finds that out from a regular Joe in a restaurant gives us some clue as to the status of his estranged marriage. His father-in-law has had a heart attack. Pete is still with his beautiful girlfriend, and still introducing her as his real estate agent, and still doesn't have the first ounce of wisdom, so that every drop of human news bites him on the arse like a beaver in an arcade game. I wish you would stop introducing me that way. ![]()
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