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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Madmenlogo.jpg) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Men)
Seasons One (http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4351348/Mad_Men_Season_1_Complete) and Two (http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4487026/Mad_Men_Season_2_Complete) are available on BitTorrent.
Season Three starts Sunday, August 16th, at 10PM on AMC (http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/).
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Missing option... Never heard of it.
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Well, you have now, so "didn't see any of it" would apply.
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I wanna see some gay action this season.
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The word "gay" doesn't get its new meaning until 1965 - that'd be around Season 4. :lol:
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The word "gay" doesn't get its new meaning until 1965 - that'd be around Season 4. :lol:
"Bachelor."
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[S03E01 (http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5057190/Mad.Men.S03E01.HDTV.XviD-XII.avi)]
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[S03E02 (http://www.mininova.org/tor/2882583)]
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Thanks for this Alex. Had never heard of it. Am really enjoying it.
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[S03E03 (http://www.mininova.org/tor/2902876)]
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[S03E04 (http://www.mininova.org/tor/2926184)]
The Q2 ranking (excluding non-option and non-votes) currently averages 4.0 stars, nice.
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[S03E05 (http://www.mininova.org/tor/2951361)]
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[S03E06 (http://www.mininova.org/tor/2973792)]
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So can anyone tell me what is the appeal of this show? I watched about 5 minutes the other night to see if there was anything that might be interesting. It was some guy being moved to a new office and a board meeting of sorts with some employees being surprised about who was and was not promoted.
Why would I want to watch an hour of office politics when I already get about 40 hours of it a week?
Is there more to this show?
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starting in the middle of the series probably isn't best, the middle of a season is less good. It's not as great as you might expect. Just compared to other free TV offerings.
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So can anyone tell me what is the appeal of this show? I watched about 5 minutes the other night to see if there was anything that might be interesting. It was some guy being moved to a new office and a board meeting of sorts with some employees being surprised about who was and was not promoted.
Why would I want to watch an hour of office politics when I already get about 40 hours of it a week?
Is there more to this show?
It appeals to upper-middle-class America (and those who admire that lifestyle) on many levels: nostalgia for the office environment where men were men (and secretaries could be fucked without rubbers) as it's slowly being watered down by the 1960s, Apollonian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonian_and_Dionysian) business ethic (Ayn Rand mentioned early in season one - see below), the mystique of Madison Avenue and cultural significance it had the world-over, transgressional heroics, adventures in capitalism, being able to relate to the tribulations of an overstretched work-life balance, and so on.
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So can anyone tell me what is the appeal of this show? I watched about 5 minutes the other night to see if there was anything that might be interesting. It was some guy being moved to a new office and a board meeting of sorts with some employees being surprised about who was and was not promoted.
Why would I want to watch an hour of office politics when I already get about 40 hours of it a week?
Is there more to this show?
There is a lot more to that show than office politics. First off, notice the treatment of children. Notice how the women were treated. They all smoke in the office, they all have cocktails at all time while at work. It basically shows what life was like back in the 60's. Homosexuality was a very dangerous thing back then for the homosexuals, so you see how they had to deny themselves, and now they are starting to show the gay guy's problems surfacing with his wife when he did the showtunes commercial.
I mean Brian Doyle Murray had a part where he passed out from drinking so much in the office that he pissed his pants and lost an account.
Believe me, if you can get into it, you will know how good this show really is. The 4 best drama's on TV in the past few years have been, Mad Men, Nip/Tuck, Breaking Bad, and the Sons of Anarchy. Sons of anarchy's season premiere ended with one of the most shocking endings I have ever seen on TV.
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[S03E07 (http://www.mininova.org/tor/2994928)]
Oh, and don't forget that last night was also the season premier of The Simpsons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Simpsons_episodes#Season_21) [BT] (http://www.mininova.org/tor/2994562), Family Guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Family_Guy_episodes#Season_8:_2009.E2.80.932010) [BT] (http://www.mininova.org/tor/2994669), American Dad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Dad!_episodes#Season_5:_2009-2010) [BT] (http://www.mininova.org/tor/2994733), a spinoff The Cleveland Show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Cleveland_Show_episodes#Season_1:_2009-2010) [BT] (http://www.mininova.org/tor/2994610), etc.
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[S03E08 (http://www.mininova.org/get/3016432)]
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I tried it when it first came on, but was bored stiff and so gave up after the first episode. However, my daughter loves the show, and so has convinced me to give it another go.
I have Disk One from Netflix sitting on the TV right now, and may watch it tonight.
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I like the office scenes. Family life bores me.
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I loved the John Deer episode... now THAT was hillarious!
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That John Deer scene has been overpsychoanalyzed as foreshadowing the JFK assassination, etc (http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/mad_men_blogging_the_joke_isnt_funny_anymore/)... :roll:
[S03E09 (http://www.mininova.org/tor/3037564)]
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That John Deer scene has been overpsychoanalyzed as foreshadowing the JFK assassination, etc (http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/mad_men_blogging_the_joke_isnt_funny_anymore/)... :roll:
[S03E09 (http://www.mininova.org/tor/3037564)]
Well, I can't speak to that because the way I look at it, anytime a kennedy dies, it's a cause for celebration.
but last nights was pretty good too. The whole disgust in don's voice about supporting rockerfeller was awesome.
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In semi(un)related news, from AFP via Breitbart -- Venezuela seizes a landmark Hilton Hotel (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.641f6a1ace6620056b73f6b56e7b6cd8.b31&show_article=1) --
President Hugo Chávez (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez) has ordered the "acquisition by force (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft)" of a landmark Hilton Hotel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Hotels) on Venezuela's Margarita island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_Margarita), the government's Official Gazette (http://www.tsj.gov.ve/gaceta/gacetaoficial.asp) announced Tuesday.
The facility, on the Caribbean resort island of Margarita in Nueva Esparta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueva_Esparta) state, was targeted for state takeover less than a month after it was used to host the Africa-South America Summit.
"The acquisition by force of the real estate, furnishings, and related assets (...) of the Margarita Hilton & Suites Hotel Complex, along with the Marina owned by Inversiones Pueblamar y Desarrollos MBK, have been ordered," a presidential decree in the official register read.
The sprawling complex includes 280 rooms, 210 suites, a casino, stores, restaurants, offices and meeting areas, as well as the adjoining marina.
The assets will be held by the state tourism corporation Venetur, which reports to the Tourism Ministry, as part of an "urgent" effort to boost "the social development side of the tourism and hotel industries in Nueva Esparta state," the Gazette said.
It is not the first time Chavez's government has checked into a Hilton and stayed for good.
Caracas has already seized the Hotel Hilton in Caracas, rechristening it the Hotel Alba, a reference to the Venezuelan-led leftist regional alliance Alianza Bolivariana para las Americas (ALBA) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarian_Alliance_for_the_Americas).
In the past four years, Venezuela has implemented the nationalization of industries it sees as strategic including electrical utilities, cement, steel, oil services and banking.
I'll always use and even pay 200% the price to any energy company that has that Hugo thug's severed head on display in their corporate HQ! :x
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[S03E10 (http://www.mininova.org/tor/3058855)]
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[S03E11 (http://www.mininova.org/tor/3085556)]
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Watched the first three episodes last night. Liked them. The show's a keeper, I think.
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[S03E12 (http://www.mininova.org/tor/3111540)]
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[S03E13 (http://www.mininova.org/tor/3132719)]
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[S04E01 (http://eztv.it/ep/21631/mad-men-s04e01-public-relations-hdtv-xvid-fqm/)]
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The most notable "new" thing that I noticed in last nights show was the dominance and confidence exuded by Peggy. She was talking to the men on an equal footing ,that is until Don laid down the law after her & Petes debacle with the supermarket "Ham fight" scam that went sour. Something they didn't touch upon was what is happening with Joanie and Dr. Nobody the Jerk.
A dark horse prediction : Salvadore is brought back, hired into the new company to bolster the flagging Creative/Art department....
And a not so far fetched prediction: Betty's new Beau, the Politico Homewrecker, will throw some weight against Don using his political connections with Rockefeller, whom Don despises as much as Henry - who stole his wife. Henry might even find out about Don's false identity and use that against him. Something that dramatic might be the anchor for a season-ending cliffhanger. How about a dead Henry for a season ender predicament for Don?
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The most notable "new" thing that I noticed in last nights show was the dominance and confidence exuded by Peggy. She was talking to the men on an equal footing ,that is until Don laid down the law after her & Petes debacle with the supermarket "Ham fight" scam that went sour.
Peggy was still talking with Don as colleagues after the Ham Fight debacle. It was a conversation with her boss about something that got out of her control, but it wasn't the old executive / secretary dynamic. Peggy even managed to convey her disapproval with some of his recent business decisions... about the firm's reputation being right where Don left it.
Secretary Peggy or Jr. Copywriter Peggy would never have called Don on the way he handled the magazine interview, let alone point out that he'd let down every single person in that office. People who were only there because they believed he had the creative talent & drive to make them very successful.
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Too soapy.
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[S04E02 (http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5733058/Mad.Men.S04E02.HDTV.XviD-NoTV_%5BTZ%5D)]
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[S04E03 (http://eztv.it/ep/21896/mad-men-s04e03-hdtv-xvid-fever/)]
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Have pot of tea, iron/board, stack o'shirts, and a bottle of starch. All I'm missing is the team from Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, and then I can wrap up my weekend chores in style.
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Started Netflixing it a few months ago, and am nearly through the second season. It's one of my favorites!
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s04e03 and s04e04 were two of the better episodes in the past ten or so.
They change writers and directors a lot, per episode. I wouldn't be surprised to see that these two episodes were written and directed by the people responsible for previous episodes I really liked.
Its nice that they're steering away from the Betty Draper (January Jones) divorce drama. I think that was dragging it down, but was probably necessary for series development.
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Oh, yeah, forgot to add my usual [S04E04 (http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Mad-Men-S04E04-The-Rejected-HDTV-XviD-FQM/43587ee965a6637102620e4cccf0a3acdf6740643fe6)] linkie thingie, not that anyone really needs it. I think I was going through an "I must quit 100% non-copyFREE code cold turkey, even ffmpeg / mplayer" phase that Sunday. :lol:
I enjoy the office part of the show - the work culture, the 1960s atmosphere, the inside look at the movers and shakers on Madison Avenue, the cultural changes you know are coming... Don's family has gotten boring a long time ago, and that California fling was the low point for me. Also, where's Bertram Cooper? I think they just photoshopped him sitting on a couch in the background without any lines, what's up with that? I probably wouldn't even be watching this show without the Ayn Rand reference in the beginning.
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Oh, yeah, forgot to add my usual [S04E04 (http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Mad-Men-S04E04-The-Rejected-HDTV-XviD-FQM/43587ee965a6637102620e4cccf0a3acdf6740643fe6)] linkie thingie, not that anyone really needs it. I think I was going through an "I must quit 100% non-copyFREE code cold turkey, even ffmpeg / mplayer" phase that Sunday. :lol:
Linking through a meta tracker search engine like www.torrentz.com would be much more effective than linking to one small ad infested tracker website.
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MM s04e05 was fuckin kickass. I think its 1965, and I like how its ramping up the undertones of the counterculture. The coup with the Japanese from Honda was brilliant.
Hands down, they should get every award possible for set design and camera work.
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Unrelated, Weeds is running again. Good stuff. Not nearly as good as Mad Men, but its a fun show. You have to watch Weeds from the beginning if you want to dig it. Weeds is totally impossible to begin watching mid-series.
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Yeah, [S04E05 (http://www.torrentz.com/33526847a04337e0cf9c7eb6e0bebbffc6cf8391)] was one of the best episodes of any show ever!
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[S04E06 (http://eztv.it/ep/22194/mad-men-s04e06-waldorf-stories-hdtv-xvid-fqm/)]
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So can anyone tell me what is the appeal of this show? I watched about 5 minutes the other night to see if there was anything that might be interesting. It was some guy being moved to a new office and a board meeting of sorts with some employees being surprised about who was and was not promoted.
Why would I want to watch an hour of office politics when I already get about 40 hours of it a week?
Is there more to this show?
There is a lot more to that show than office politics. First off, notice the treatment of children. Notice how the women were treated. They all smoke in the office, they all have cocktails at all time while at work. It basically shows what life was like back in the 60's. Homosexuality was a very dangerous thing back then for the homosexuals, so you see how they had to deny themselves, and now they are starting to show the gay guy's problems surfacing with his wife when he did the showtunes commercial.
I mean Brian Doyle Murray had a part where he passed out from drinking so much in the office that he pissed his pants and lost an account.
Believe me, if you can get into it, you will know how good this show really is. The 4 best drama's on TV in the past few years have been, Mad Men, Nip/Tuck, Breaking Bad, and the Sons of Anarchy. Sons of anarchy's season premiere ended with one of the most shocking endings I have ever seen on TV.
I watched some episodes of Mad Men but found it a bit too soapy. However, it is very well researched and beautifully filmed. For nostalgic reasons it is worth watching.
Didn't make it through one episode of Nip/Tuck. Never got the appeal of wanting the watch a bunch of vain people being obsessively vain to the point of surgery by equally vain doctors.
Was totally addicted to Breaking Bad until season 3 it got a bit to real to watch. I enjoyed it some much more as a socially naive but brilliant chemist manages to make some serious money and save himself by cooking meth. I even liked that he grew more confident in himself. But now the main character has transformed from confident to cocky and controlling. It is just getting too real. I liked the idea of a meek person getting over. Now the shit is hitting the fan. I can't get over the cringe factor to watch. Which is really weird as I have never had that happen before.
Never have watched Son's of Anarchy. Which season premier had the shocking ending? I want to check it out because you placed it in a league with some quality shows.
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Hard to believe HBO and Showtime both turned this series down.
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Never have watched Son's of Anarchy. Which season premier had the shocking ending? I want to check it out because you placed it in a league with some quality shows.
Season 2 - not the premiere, but the finale.
You know that rocking motion you make with your hand, comse-comsa? Meh. Thats kinda how I feel about SoA. Its a cool show, but its a little far fetched. I watch it, but with a grain of salt. I think a lot of people gravitate towards anything with the word "anarchy" in it.
If you actually know anything about biker gangs, theres some rather large holes in it. Not big enough to destroy the show, but enough to annoy the purists. I'd like to see the writing of SoA get a complete overhaul.
I also like the Peggy Bundy character, whatever her IRL name is. She's cool. In the first season, she sings the exit song in one episode "Son Of A Preacherman", and blows the doors off it. She's an accomplished singer. They smoke a LOT of weed on TV.
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Breaking Bad is way better. And I actually disagree with your assessment, as per the later seasons. I think its extremely well thought out how The Teacher (whos name escapes me) [Walt!] is maturing into a badass.
I can understand how this may seem fucked up to you, as a woman (no offense), but I totally "get it". Its really not beyond the impossible. They are slowly leaching the situations into him, which he deals with, and the next thing is an escalation from that previously impossible pinnacle. I find it extremely life-like how situations are progressively tolerable. What would have phased him in season 1 is like a piffle now. Thats actually how life goes, to a man who is slowly submerging into a foreign world.
I think that facet of the show is perhaps the most intriguing part, to me. I follow that more closely than the details of the story. His (Bryan Cranstons) character development is amazing.
I watch a lot of these series with a jaded eye, can't help it. Because I have a (very) amateurish writer streak in me, which I really try to turn off when watching stuff. It comes out like gangbusters when something sucks. I don't think I've ever once got my hackles up on Breaking Bad, imagining I could've written it better - except for a few minor sub-plot details that were essentially worthless.