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Sylvia Plath in Mad Men
Julia Turner was onSlate’sFacebookpageon Monday to chat with readers about the latest episode ofMad Men. The following transcript of the discussion has been edited for length and clarity. To see the full conversation, click on this link.
Julia Turner: Hello, all! I’ll just be listening to the Beatles over here!
Julia Turner: Here’s my take on why Rory Gilmore is not the girl for Peter Campbell.
Jamie Harding: I’m trying to figure out whether Pete is going to kill himself. That reference to his life insurance covering suicide after two years was a little *too* obvious. But he still looks like he’s in a severe downward spiral that he won’t be able to pull out of.
Julia Turner: Jamie, I agree that the foreshadowing about Pete and suicide—the gun, the insurance policy, the depression—is so heavy-handed as to make his actual suicide unlikely.
Jamie Harding: And when I saw the empty elevator shaft, I als
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Mad Men recap: Rory Gilmore joins the cast.
See Slate’s interview with Alexis Bledel about this episode.
Oh, Pete. I’m afraid I can’t defend his lovesick attachment to Beth, his utbildning buddy’s wife. If Pete is determined to have an romantisk händelse , this woman is a more palatable prospect than the bobby-soxer from driver’s ed. And Pete relates to Beth’s loneliness—she’s lost, and sad, and caroming around a big Connecticut house too. But it is jarring to see Alexis Bledel in the role. As much as I loved her on Gilmore Girls, her character here felt false, like a ung girl broadly pantomiming suburban ennui. It made me appreciate anew January Jones’ formidable talents. Even the dialogue—including that post-coital conversation about the immersive beauty of Vincent Kartheiser’seyes—made her seem miscast.
(Bledel’s character on Gilmore, however, was not unlike the one Alison Brie, Pete’s wife Trudy, plays on Community—high-strung good girl with a screw loose—so maybe he has a type
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“Please Keep Punching Pete”
Mad Men TV Club regulars Julia Turner and John Swansburg chatted with readers about the season finale, the highs and lows of season five, and what to expect from Season 6. An edited transcript of the conversation is below; read the complete conversation here.
Julia Turner: Good day, Mad Men fans. I’m still humming the tune to “You Only Live Twice.” What did you all think of this season’s finale?
John Swansburg: Greetings from the Metro-North platform in Harrison. Long story. Looking forward to chatting with you all. Julia and I were underwhelmed—anyone here care to defend the episode?
Marc Naimark: It was a letdown, yes, but it’s hard to beat the interest of the previous two episodes. Contrary to the TV Clubbers, I think Don loves Megan and falls in love with her again. She is full of life at the end of the episode, and I think he’s charmed. He goes to a bar, because where else is he going to go?
John Swansburg: I hope you’re right. It