TV

Is it wrong to say that the Sterling figure looks more like Don and that the Don figure looks more like Pete in the face department?

For all his talents as an Ad guy, Don is on the verge of being left behind by the culture, and the ennui of being a well edcuated but unfilled housewife is just the kind of thing that could move Betty into the women's lib movement.

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This would make for a nice dynamic change as the series progressed; Betty gets involved in the feminist movement and becomes something of a minor celebrity as far as being a notable in the movement and it's philosophies. Which contrasts Don becoming a stick-in-the-mud type outcast who can't relate to the fact that modern society has passed him by and is basically marginalizing himself as THAT GUY at the new ad company that only does work for companies that make products for those old folk who hate hippies, the Beatles, and watch Lawrence Welk?

Here, have a video of most of the cast of Mad Men drunkenly singing "Bye Bye Birdie."

I've started reading Charlie Brooker lately, and his review of Mad Men S3 made me chuckle:

Mad Men (Wed, 10pm, BBC4) is one of those rare shows you just don't want to end. Thankfully its pace is so languid, it almost doesn't start, let alone finish. 85% of each episode consists of Don Draper staring into the middle distance through a veil of cigarette smoke. Sometimes so little appears to be happening, you have to fight the urge to get up and slap your TV to make the characters start moving again. Hypnotic visuals, lingering pace: Mad Men is television's very own lava lamp. I'm exaggerating, of course, as anyone who's been absorbing the show on a season-by-season basis will attest. And I use the word "absorb" deliberately: you don't really "watch" Mad Men: you lie back and let it seep into you. It works by osmosis.

You know, I was watching some of the rerun after BB last night, and that scene where Gene lets his granddaughter drive is just hilarious as it is totally insane. But totally keeping in with Gene's character.

This blog takes a critical look at how costuming is used to create characters on Mad Men.

Unrelated to costuming, but I liked this analysis of Sal. The post in question discusses what might be a casting spoiler, so proceed with caution.