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Mad Men, Season 4, Episode 2 (Patreon)

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2023-09-07 02:17:46
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Christmas Comes But Once A Year

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Mad Men, Season 4, Episode 2

Christmas Comes But Once A Year

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Chris

Freddy Rumsen!!

Weird Magic

Originally airing on August 1, 2010, 'Christmas Comes But Once a Year' is Episode 2 of Season 4 of Mad Men. It is the 41st episode overall and has an IMDB rating of 8.2, placing it as the #12 ranked episode of this season and #18 out of all the episodes shown so far.

Chris

I agree that Mad Men is better than Breaking Bad though they’re both excellent shows.I prefer shows like The Sopranos or Mad Men that have a lot of stand-alone episodes that focus on character development to shows like Breaking Bad that are a little more plot focused (though Breaking Bad also has excellent characters). I think Mad Men holds up better on repeat viewings than Breaking Bad because of this. West Wing is great for a network show but isn’t as good as BB, MM, Sopranos, The Wire, Better Call Saul, etc.

Chris
>>116975210

Wow, 12th ranked of this season seems surprisingly low. Great episode though the last 1/4 is depressing.

Maxxie
>>116975741

I might be inclined to agree if Mad Men was a 4 season show, but as it stands I think the quality falls off hard in the later seasons, whereas Breaking Bad was consistently great. All subjective of course, but I think that's why Breaking Bad is generally deemed superior.

Actuarial Lurker

Freddie is back and sober and we see him in the bright light of Roger's office where one can fall into one's subconscious in the painting made of dots...and Freddy's sober view on advertising is the realization that he and his ideas are out of date when measured by the 18-34 purchasing group represented by Peggy- that is what Don told Peggy when he asked her to join the firm in the last episode of Season 3 in the "heist". He says "something happened (after JFK)- people are different- other people don't see it- but you DO" to paraphrase

Denisse Brito

I enjoyed this episode so much! From the older men talking about Medicare being socialism, to Freddy telling Peggy to not sleep with her bf, to Don and Roger making that joke about “the fuhrer” (Lee G.), this episode is just great and everyone felt so old. This show is so well made that I feel like I could talk about the history and cultural references for hours. This episode is also a set up for the rest of the season and I can’t wait 😋

Actuarial Lurker

Sally turns 10 in early 1965, Glen was 8 in 1960 in season 1, so is turning 13 in the soon to come 1965. Glen is a vehicle to contrast Sally's "broken home" with another child of divorce

Actuarial Lurker

Don's secretary Allison is the person in the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy election night episode from season 1 who Ken pulls up the skirt of to confirm the panty color AND emerges from Ken's office half-dressed the morning after the election- so it "worked"- in the short run. That's the same night Harry slept with Hilde- just before being thrown out for confessing the affair which inspired the Carousel ad with the handprints through time idea. Allison and Hilde both run half dressed from adjoining offices.

Actuarial Lurker

Lee emasculated Roger in front of his "trophy wife"- if you watch Jane's facial reaction when he emerges with the Santa suit on...Jane realizes Roger is NOT the rich company founder that saved her from Joan firing her- he is just the lackey of a repugnant Tobacco exec...who has to grovel to keep the new SCDP's lights on

Actuarial Lurker

Betty DID just swap one man for another hoping it would fix everything- a man 10 years older than Don- almost like a father. Henry is an adult Gene to nurture her since the baby Gene didn't work to replace her dead father since the baby requires HER to be nurturing and she is the one who needs to receive nurturing ...Glen is flirting with Sally to get to Betty since he is looking for a mother since he is a latch-key victim of divorce...many parallel themes. Even Peggy's wimpy boyfriend thinks he is a man of the world about to be Peggy's "first" when Peggy has already been pregnant and told Pete at the end of season 2 that she could have forced him to marry her. So Season 4 dives deeply into the masks we wear and how they DON'T work in the long run...even the psychographic test that Faye Miller gives the staff asks about one's father to just build fake intimacy for a market research question about who is the purchasing decision maker in the home....its all a lie. Faye's claim to fame- convincing women having their period that they can wear white and nobody will know their "secret" and all can be "whitewashed"- that is NOT lost on Don since Betty learning his secret basically broke him and he is now a spiraling alcoholic- Can Faye being a psychologist sanitize Don?

Actuarial Lurker

We even see some humanity from Lee Garner Jr of Lucky Strike- the camera is an actual gift he wanted and he surprisingly says that it feels like he got what he wanted from Santa for the first time. But he can't let Roger exploit that after he blurts that out- so he then uses the camera to humiliate Roger with instant pictures of his low status as client pleaser

Actuarial Lurker

Dick/Don was born in 1926 so is 38 soon to be 39, he is 10 in the mid-30s dust bowl with the Hobo being cheated by his dad and drawing the "bad man" graffiti on the mail box pole

Ben Clifford

S4 is the best. There’s an upcoming episode with Don and Lane hanging out (no spoilers, it’s nothing dramatic) and it’s my favourite for some reason.

Youtalkingtome
>>116982548

It feels set upish. Yes you really can feel the age of everyone. It's a very different vibe from the first 3 seasons.

Youtalkingtome
>>116983727

That's even grosser. I feel so much worse for her. That explains why she types, what I'm assuming is her resignation letter.

Actuarial Lurker

Something to stick a pin in- alcoholism, war, untreated PTSD, and what it means to be a man. Betty's dad Gene was in the WW1 trenches and kept the helmet of the German soldier he shot, Roger Sterling tells Betty and Don (when he hits on her at their house) about how his dad Sterling Sr. was a real man for bayoneting people in the trenches but then recounts his own trauma running fuel in the brutal South Pacific subject to suicide torpedo Kiton attacks. When they fired Freddie in 1962 Roger related how Sterling Sr and Jr both thought Freddie was just a radio signal man, but then gained respect for him when they learned this was respite care after being on the front lines killing Germans like from Saving Private Ryan. The CEO of Mohawk Airlines who they fired in Season 2 to go after American Airlines was Roger's poker buddy from the South Pacific Theater so saw nasty stuff. In Season 1 Roger tells Don after they don't fire Pete that Don's generation is "licking an imaginary wound and his generation drinks because that is what men do". The first scene of Season 4 is the wounded veteran with the wooden leg who interviews Don and says "who is Don Draper" and is dismissed as "half a man" and not a real reporter by Roger since he fought in Korea and was injured. With that background- we have NOT seen what drove Duck to alcoholism and we don't know what Lane who is in his 40s did during the war. We know Cooper who must have been born in the 1890s would have been 20 during WW1 but was rich and din't fight. Pete, Kenny, Harry are all too young to have fought in Korea and are too old and married to fight in Vietnam. We now have the idea that Season 4 is about Don's "non-functioning" alcoholism after his prior "functioning alcoholism" in Seasons 1-3 so it might be good for Joe and Kevin to think about the male characters through the lens of trauma and how it turns into alcoholism as they watch season 4

Youtalkingtome
>>117067896

That's an interesting point to make. Obviously a lot of them had seen combat, but it's just an environment where drinking is encouraged. They have meetings with a pitcher of a Bloody Mary sitting right there. They even have a liquor closet. Now trauma is different, they all have it but in different ways.

sam bristow

The Roman Orgy line cutting straight to the maalox on Roger’s mouth is next level hilarious and genius for basic cable standards and practices.