impatiently waiting.....

The ads I have seen on AMC say, "...Coming in 2012."
Hope it's before the world ends...

I need a drink

i want to see more of "joan" on the new season.

swearin' ta Gawd..that woman has a fugure and hair that is "Period Perfect" for the early 1960's !


ohh yehhhhhhh!!

yeah, well I'm over her big ass and orange hair introduce some class please! Maybe a new glamorous blonde or two for Don?  Which makes me wonder why Don has never ventured into Joan territory. Hmmmmm?

the "joan" character has "had it bad" for DD since the very first episode.  she also has a highly developed sense of what man/men she can "have" and she knows that she and DD "ain't gonna happen".

"aint gonna happen"

not even ONCE behind closed doors?

Roger and Joan were a "thing" long before Don ever arrived. They still were until enough time passed that Joan realized he would never leave his wife for her. I think that's why Roger marrying Jane was such a shock to her. But it was really just a "mid-life crisis" Roger on the rebound from Joan.
By then, Joan had soured on illicit office romances, and Don had his hands full with his own affairs.

And btw, I can't get enough of "big ass and orange hair".
Much more feminine than Twiggy, who'll be coming along soon.

Clever choice for comparison

Twiggy!!  as we know there is no comparison

The previews I've seen for Playboy Club make it look like a VERY pale imitation. The people just don't look like they're from 1965.

Hey they said something about an educated guess that the show will resume in 1966 or 1967 -- I forgot what last year was?

The "financial rape" of Mad Men continues.

Ironic, no?

"Weiner also denied that he's asking for $30 million. In fact, he said, "I offered to have less money".................

and then surprise, surprise .....

"The announcement of Matt Weiner's lucrative new deal, which a source said was worth $30 million over three years"

Los Angeles Times

Ah... the benign Mr Weiner.

Remember Season 4, Joan griping to her husband in the army, about DD's ridiculous engagement?  I read that as more of her bitterness about Roger and his young thing, plus the overarching unfairness toward women "of a certain age." Referring to that one ep where her age was revealed to be "over 30" and all the secretaries titled and giggled. 

Sure, Joan is married to Dr. Hottie... but he is not The Man.  He's consumed with his own problems, to the point of running off to war.  She can't really have the full intimacy, revelation, truth, bonding with him. She's always more or less faked with him, an extension of her office role which is to make the men happy even though she thinks they're overgrown babies.

Joan is at the stage in her life where "why go out with a boy, when you can have a man".  But, where is that man?  I envisage Joan with an older man.  A man who has experience, is worldly and protective towards her, who can gently tame her need to be always in control.  She has such beauty and sex appeal, most men would die for just one night with her.

She has found an inner strength, when she decided to end her "marriage" and I for one, looked at her with new respect and admiration.  She is on her way at last, to get what she really wants and deserves.

Is that man Roger?  Somehow he doesnt fit my description above and I dont believe it will be him.

I can't picture Joan with some old oiled-up fossil, rich or not.

A good plot for her would be to have her grab the attention of a rich client.

Or the president of a big competing ad agency.  Now that would be awkward.

"some oiled up fossil" is what I consider Roger to be.  I was thinking "older" not 30 years, but older and sophisticated.  How old is she, around 36ish.  So I think around ten years older than her would be ideal.  She has been with boys and Roger, who by now would be considered a "wrinkly ass" (did anyone see that episode of Sex and the City with Samantha and the old guy, hilarious) and I dont wish that on our Joanie.

Haha, Max.  I can't resist giving my opinion.

Yes, reason, I think that would make sense.

Joan is in a different league than Roger now.  Christina H is showing real power.  When she told PotentiallyGayWeirdassHubby to get out, she was like Elizabeth Taylor.  Just that certain presence  where she can say nothing at all and we are mesmerized.  She may be the best part of the show now.

"PotentiallyGayWeirdassHubby"

yeah, that just about covers it all!

Have you noticed how glamorous she is.... no postpartum stress, no excess weight and no breast feeding, no dark circles under the eyes or lack of sleep.  The morning she told Greg to GO, she never looked so attractive! I can understand why they want her back in the office, she is a wonder woman.

Yeah, no kidding.

I also noticed her deep decolletage in the restaurant with her IN-LAWS.  Yikes.  She's always been kind of scary in some ways, that Joan, and still is. 

Not many people were breast feeding in those days.

Some flippant research.....
Breastfeeding Your Babywww.hugs4kids.com/health/breastfeeding.htm

"Now, let’s talk about being modest and non-offensive if you do choose to breastfeed. In the sixties when nursing baby came back in popularity BIG TIME, there were a whole bunch of moms sitting in restaurants, in lounge chairs on the beach, or at the dinner table at their in-laws with a naked breast flung out for all to see while feeding their love-child. Come on, girls, you were just asking to stir up controversy with your actions!"

"Love-child" Joanie was the perfect candidate!

Not in 1966.

Too early.  We're not even seeing bell-bottom pants yet in the show.

Where did your research come from, re?

Uh, other than hippie-chicks in the park, I don't think that was happening in '66. Heck, not even in 2012.

Before 1900, most mothers breastfed their infants. Breastfeeding rates declined sharply worldwide after 1920, when evaporated cow's milk and infant formula became widely available. These were promoted as being more convenient for mothers and more nutritious than human milk.

Breastfeeding rates began rising again in the late 1950s and early 1960s

http://www.faqs.org/nutri ...

In the 1950s and 1960s, American women began reclaiming their breasts from this vestigial wasteland. The breastfeeding advocacy and support group La Leche League formed in 1958, and in the decades that followed, feminists declared that women's breasts served a purpose other than pleasing men. 

health.howstuffworks.com › ... › Baby Health › Baby Care

Rates may have begun to rise, but that doesn't mean it was widely accepted. Later in the decade, when hippies appeared and all things "natural" were championed, you started to see it everywhere.

But not this early.  Not in mainstream, non-activist demographics. And of course I'm not saying that no one did it.

The changes that came along in the sixties were huge, jarring, and swift.  They divided families.  By 1970, America and Madison Avenue looked very very different.  One of these days on the show, we'll see somebody smoke a joint and it won't be a beatnik.

Cant argue with that Becky!  Not being a resident of the U S of A and never have been, I will leave that matter of contention to those who live there and most probably witnessed actual events and changes in their country.   I stand corrected.

Re. lack of romance between DD and either Joan or Peggy, -I just simply put it down to lack of chemistry. For all his skirt chasing, DD comes across strangely discerning. It doesn't appear that he put the moves on Anna either. To use an uncharacteristically crude metaphor for me, DD doesn't feel compelled to conquer it, simply because it's there.