Megan Will Be Back To Annoy You On The Next Season Of Mad Men
Bad news for those of you who were hoping that an anvil fell on Megan's head and she moved to Kansas to milk goats, because she got a case of amnesia and suddenly thought she was a farmer's wife. That didn't happen. Megan is back (and is looking like Lana Del Rey), so prepare your eyeballs for rolling. I see Megan leaning over Don Draper and whispering, "Yes, honey, the drip is back," at him as he tries his hardest to control the explosive diarrhea that wants to shoot out of his ass. Megan has that effect on a ho.
Mad Men is back on April 7th and AMC pushed out these season 6 promo pictures that aren't awkward at all. They all look like me when I went to this sober dude's party and he refused to let anybody drink or bring booze into his apartment. We all tried snorting soda water through straws, thinking that the bubbles might take our heads higher, but it didn't work.
Anyway, Megan is back, Skinny Betty is back and Peggy's Peter Pan collars are back! I would spend my time wondering what in ten shades of satin hell is that on Christina Hendricks' body, but I'm too busy feeling sad over the fact that there's zero appearances from the Hammaconda in these pictures. AMC needs better marketing people who understand that the Hammaconda should be getting top billing now.
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Submitted by FreakGeek on Fri, 01/25/2013 - 12:11am.
salty, I read somewhere that MW fired his son. Now that they have that "recent articles" feature on Facebook, I clicked on the Mad Men ones yesterday & that's where I read it. Now I can't find the link, & I'm wondering if it was a joke?
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That was a story on Hollywood and Swine, a satire site like the Onion. Not true.
Kiernan reminds me of a young Drew Barrymore - and that's not a good thing. She can be such a brat that I want to take her over my knee!
Submitted by louise_brooks on Fri, 01/25/2013 - 10:34am.
I read the theory about Wiener being sort of obsessed with Jessica Pare before, too- I think on the AMC Mad Men boards. I thought it was weird, because I he seems um...well, kinda...um ghey.
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Louise, I always thought MW was gay, too! I was quite surprised to learn he's married with four kids (not that that necessarily means he's straight but I believe he is).
Submitted by WendyNerd on Fri, 01/25/2013 - 11:06am.
I want to see Megan leave and Don begging Peggy to come back to SCDP after she creates the biggest ad campaign of the year. Also, MORE KIERNAN SHIPKA!!!
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I feel the exact opposite way--I'd like to see LESS KIERNAN SHIPKA!!! ;)
She's better than most TV child actors but that's not saying much.
Mad Men is at its least interesting when the storylines revolve around her. JMO.
I want to see Megan leave and Don begging Peggy to come back to SCDP after she creates the biggest ad campaign of the year. Also, MORE KIERNAN SHIPKA!!!
Please, Dr Freud, help us out. We desperately need to see Casper [the Friendly Ghost] fuck his mother! --- Cinema Snob
Why am I getting the impression that Megan just suggested to Don that they swing with Betty and the senator (or whatever he is)?
I read the theory about Wiener being sort of obsessed with Jessica Pare before, too- I think on the AMC Mad Men boards. I thought it was weird, because I he seems um...well, kinda...um ghey.
Sarah - OMG! I had completely forgotten about that! Yeah, I hope that they seriously address that! We all know now that Joan can be bought. Gross. Poor Joan, I guess she figured it couldn't be worse than Dr. Rapey.
Miz - to say nothing of Joan getting a board position because she banged a potential client.
Sarah Smile
Wow! I hope that I haven't missed out on all the Mad Men talk! Anyway, I wonder if Matt Weiner did in fact fire his own kid, is it because the audience was receiving him as super creepy and future serial killer? Bad actor on a good day? And if that's the case, maybe Weiner as a parent couldn't take the criticism? Hmmm..
Saltydog - so, so jealous that you had the opportunity to see/work with the cast! Awesome!
I like Betty's character, too and wish that she was more multi-faceted. She has one mode- bitch. We don't know what motivates her, etc. I've said it beofre here & of course, I'll say it again - Betty's character rubs people the wrong way & we let Don off the hook for being equally as shitty, if not worse, of a parent than Betty. I think that its hard for ppl to realize that not every woman wants to be a mom (certainly in Betty's case), she's not maternal & if she had a choice, motherhood wouldn't be in her plans.
If we're honest with ourselves, Don's a dick & sucks as a parent! Philandering, lack of discipline, absentee Dad, all of it but we look past it. Even now, he's pawning the kids off onto new stepmommy Meghan.
Oh and I also agree with whomever said this past season has been grating 'cause of the Megan/Don show and how perfect she is. If I were Peggy I'd be a bit salty to if receptionist fucked boss, married boss, gets a promotion & gets to come & go whenever she wants.
All that said, still love me some Hamm!
Sarah Smile -- the way you just described the way Weiner portrayed Betty reminds me of the way Hitchcock was rejected by the blondes he idolized. I recently saw "Hitchcock" and the HBO movie about him, "The Girl." Especially in "The Girl," he tried to put the moves on Tippi Hedren and was rebuffed by her. Though what he sees in Megan, god only knows. I can't stand the character and I can't stand the actress and her hideous teef!!! I adore Joan and Christina Hendricks. I think Elizabeth Moss does a good job with Peggy, but Peggy's career trajectory hasn't exactly been believable.
CATSeyezzzz -- I LOVE John Slattery's bad boy quality; so hot!
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TwatM - I never thought Peggy gelled as a believable character. Moss does a nice job with her, but I always found Joan the more believable character. As to Megan, I completely agree on the Weiner besottment theory. I also thought the fat Betty storyline was really creepy in that it seemed a way to disgrace the pretty blonde who ignored nerds. I actually found it bizarrely misogynist and, again, not believable for somebody like Betty.
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I don't think Megan (Pare) is a good actress. She grates on my very last nerve. FYI... it was Julia Ormond that played her mother.. not Juliette Binoche. Love Don though.. and John Slattery... i love a good smart ass with a touch of bad boy!
I bet Kiernan Shipka is going to be gorgeous when she's eighteen. No pedo.
Please won't someone purchase the URL Hammaconda dot com so there will always be one place we can get our Hammaconda Fix when we so desperately need it?
I'd say much of what made Megan annoying was Don's all-consuming infatuation with her, and her characterization as Miss Fairy Tale Princess Perfect (so kind and good and caring and hip and talented and cheerful and spunky, etc.). All the the other characters have heavy-duty personality flaws, warts, kinks, a darkness and complexity Megan lacked. It's like Matthew Weiner was equally besotted by Megan and portrayed her through rose-tinted glasses.
Given the last scene of the last season, my guess is that will no longer be the case. (After all, if Megan finds success as an actress, she's sure to be corrupted.) A more fucked-up Don/ Megan marriage is likely to be more interesting to watch than last season's extended honeymoon phase.
Submitted by saltydog on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 11:10pm.
@literarylioness? WTF are you smoking? The first season was 1960, they worked on the Nixon campaign even and Kenedy was shot in season 2 last season was 1968 I think.
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The charm of the series is how much the early 1960s resembled the 1950s. Many critics have commented on how Mad Men looks much more like a series set in the 1950s and it does. Do you really think Dan Draper is going to put on bell bottoms and neru jackets? The last season was 1965 to 1966.
Jon has no neck!
(Please post link to nude photos of Jon presenting beautiful hairy hole)
Pete has aged 20 years since the first season. He looks absolutely revolting in the one photo here. What happened!?
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Megan looks like a reject from Valley Of The Dolls.
I love bitchy Betty. And her batshit mother-in-law, especially in that episode where she is holding the knife sleeping.
Megan is back, but for how long? THAT is the question.
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salty, I read somewhere that MW fired his son. Now that they have that "recent articles" feature on Facebook, I clicked on the Mad Men ones yesterday & that's where I read it. Now I can't find the link, & I'm wondering if it was a joke?
Gotta go to bed, peeps -- I could talk Slattery & Hamm all night; have a good night, all! Love, Twatty
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Puppy Love -- oh, tons of charisma & sex appeal. Funny, my late mom really liked him in an old ABC show called "Homefront." It was a show set in the 40's and he played an organized labor leader; she thought he was really cute. Back then I don't remember thinking much one way or the other, but I definitely took notice of him when his hair turned really grey.
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"I'm from Chicago, bitch!"
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Submitted by Twat Muffin on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 11:37pm.
Puppy Love -- I remember you saying that about your SIL. Slattery has always been cute, but he's really hot now.
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Twat Muffin, I almost typed that I'd mentioned this before, then thought that no one would recall it! You have an excellent memory. :)
Agree that JS is hot now--he also has charisma to boot, which cannot be faked and totally adds to his hotness.
Puppy Love -- I remember you saying that about your SIL. Slattery has always been cute, but he's really hot now.
saltydog -- that's weird you mention Eric Dane, because I'm probably about the only woman who doesn't find him attractive at all, he & his fish-eyed wife, blrrrggghhh.
skabazzle -- I'd give anything for the Hammaconda to come out & play. Come & play with us, Hammaconda, come play with us, forever, and ever, and ever . . . (c/o "The Shining")
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"I'm from Chicago, bitch!"
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I think Sally is destined to become a hippie, to Betty's chagrin. I bet they pick up Season Six at the Summer of Love. Sally will run away to Haight-Ashbury and become a promiscuous, pot-smoking flower child, just to piss her mother off.
Submitted by saltydog on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 11:27pm.
@FreakGeek - where did you hear that? It'd be interesting to find out what the process of firing the creator's kid is.
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Seems like no one but MW himself would have the power to actually fire his own kid, no matter how bad (and it is god-awful) the kid's acting is.
I wouldn't miss the character/"actor" at all. He makes the almost-as-bad AJ Soprano look like Daniel Day-Lewis.
@FreakGeek - where did you hear that? It'd be interesting to find out what the process of firing the creator's kid is.
Not that this is any great, revealing insight, but my SIL went to private high school with John Slattery and says that he was a complete party boy who always hung with the "cool kids." She says he seemed pleasant enough but definitely had an edge, even then.
He's a nice-enough looking guy; too skinny for my tastes but I like 'em big & beefy. His RL wife (who of course, plays his ex-wife Mona on MM) has the distinction of having once been married to George Clooney. Not a bad marriage history! Love her in MM.
Submitted by Twat Muffin on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 11:18pm.
saltydog -- how do Hamm & Slattery look in person? Please tell me fabulous (but be honest, please). And who is the hottest.
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Honestly everybody looked pretty good I thought, nobody was like weirdly ugly in person (like Eric Dane from Grey's Anatomy who looks pretty broke down) and nobody was freakishly sort or anything. I mostly worked with Harry and Paul, who both smoked about as much as their characters, that was kinda surprising. Oh and Ken Cosgrove is pretty dang tall haha.
If it's going to be another season of the Don + Megan hour, I don't know if I'll even watch the final season. There were about 3 good episodes last season...the rest were boring as shit.
Kinda sad that creepy Glen will be gone, or at least Matt Weiner's son who played him got fired between seasons. I'd rather see more Betty & Sally...hell I'd even watch Peggy at this point, as long as it isn't Megan every 5 minutes.
MK if you squint and believe hard enough at the pic with Peggy and her Peter Pan collar it looks like the Hammaconda is coming out to play!
That said yay for Season 6!
I think the last season was 1966 because Don was listening to the Beatles' album Revolver, which came out in '66.
saltydog -- how do Hamm & Slattery look in person? Please tell me fabulous (but be honest, please). And who is the hottest.
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que cochina -- I'm sorry, hon, forgot to respond to you sooner. Oh, yeah, Roger can just whip out a line and I'd be all over his hot ass.
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"I'm from Chicago, bitch!"
"Two eyes, two eyebrows."
When I worked on it I saw all of the men in person but none of the women. I REALLY wanted to see Christina Hendricks in person just to like see how that all actually looks hahaha
Megan-I expected more. Her friend kept hinting before she got married that she had some dark past... "some people are good actors". I thought we were going to find out she used to be a whore like Don's mom. If that happened, excuse me. I have to wait for this season to come out on NF.
As far as her looks...I like her. I'm happy to see some pretty looking people on TV and not these fucked up plasticized orange skinned kardashian types.
@literarylioness? WTF are you smoking? The first season was 1960, they worked on the Nixon campaign even and Kenedy was shot in season 2 last season was 1968 I think.
Gosh, Harry Crane?! Fuck yes, a million times over!
"This fuckery could also double as an anthem for cats in the workforce." - Michael K, 5/1/12.
Sarah Smile -- Peggy is overrated, IMO. I don't get the big whoop over her either.
crazyinjapan -- oh, god, I hope he did. I hope he brings an STD home to Bucky!!!
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"I'm from Chicago, bitch!"
"Two eyes, two eyebrows."
It's Peggy I can't stand.
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Twat Muf: you know and I know he banged those chicks.
crazyinjapan -- "when he murdered the ho" -- LMAO!!!
Louise -- basically Don needs to get down with his bad self. Remember the last scene of the last episode? Bucky (thanks, Dawn!) was filming that commercial and Don wandered off to that bar and he had an opportunity for a shag or two with the two young broads?
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"I'm from Chicago, bitch!"
"Two eyes, two eyebrows."
Louise, "The Don and Megan Show" states it perfectly--DD is a his most interesting when the personal stuff is a sideline, not the main event.
And as for Betty, I admit that I find her "ice queen" character extremely interesting. When she's on-screen, I can't look away, no matter what. Megan and her puppy-dog instincts to be the perfect, loving wife and stepmother just doesn't have that kind of charisma, or cache, or whatever it is.
Submitted by Twat Muffin on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 10:15pm
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YES, a happy DD is also VERY unproductive, as well--I forgot that part, Twat Muffin! They're already getting side-eyes after coming in all cheerful at 11am. I think Peggy threw threw them some hate at one point. LOL.
On another note, I was psyched and surprised (for some reason) to see Jared Harris/Lane Price playing Ulysses (sp?) Grant in "Lincoln"--I wasn't sure it was even him until the closing credits. A Brit playing an American icon and not missing a beat--what a good actor he is.
I like Betty, too. I think parenting was radically different then and she does a really good job of reflecting that.
Sarah Smile
Everybody hates Megan. I think that is why they are keeping her around. Maybe Don will kill her! Remember that dream he had when he murdered the ho and hid her under the bed? Maybe Don will strangle Megan to death, and we'll get to watch!
Puppy Love- I second everything you said. She's not a horrible actress just not the same caliber of everyone else. I probably wouldn't hate her as much if they didn't make 75% of season 5, "The Don and Megan Show!" But I did love that scene where Don threw the pasta at the wall.
I agree with whoever said content Don is boring Don. He needs to get uncomfortable real fast. He kin of looks like he wants to barf in the main picture, so hopefully that's a good (for us) sign.