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Mad Men season 2 is a little weak + dropped story threads [season 2 spoilers] by Fussbett 08/05/2009, 3:30pm PDT Season 2 is still enjoyable enough, but has veered very far into soap opera territory now, and I'm less interested as it becomes a treatise on marital affairs instead of a look into the (imagined) world of early '60s Madison Avenue. I've got two episodes remaining, and I really don't care if Don and Betty get back together (and I'm embarrassed to even type that out) especially as Betty's thought process and emotions are totally opaque to us. That's fine that this is how her character behaves (her people are Nordic after all) but it's hard to feel any investment when her next action is determined by a dice roll. Additionally anything with Peggy and the Priest is absolute fun poison. DROPPED STORY THREADS: 1) Betty's Numb Hands -- Two episodes, causes a car crash and worries her enough to push her into shameful shameful therapy. Never mentioned again, I guess it cleared up. Personally, I would be happy about being cured. 2) Betty Tells Don She Knows He's Cheating Through the Therapist -- Looking for proof of affairs, Betty instead discovers that Don calls her therapist late at night and looks very sad about this. At her next therapy session she tells the therapist, with a devious look, about Don's affairs and how she's known for a while. This was a bombshell in both her knowing for certain AND the fact that she is doing this to tell Don that she knows. But it's never mentioned again! 3) Don and Pete War -- After many battles between Don and Pete, each one making Don furious, we get to one of the climaxes of season 1: Don's most important and terrifying secret is revealed, the secret he doesn't even tell his wife... And neither character mentions it again. Just two episodes later Pete is as lippy to Don as ever. Pete doesn't tell other co-workers or use "going more public" as further blackmail. It's dropped and they go back to normal co-workers, never mentioning it again. Weird. My favourite character on the show is Harry Crane the media buyer. My girlfriend said that he sticks out on the show because he's never shown to be good at his job -- but that's just it, he's the only realistic character. The other characters are magically great at their jobs, inspiration out of thin air like a Matt Damon character, where Harry Crane is competent but imperfect. The casting agents on this show sure know how to pick beautiful women, but they're very bad at siblings. Betty has a short weasel face brother and Pete has a fatso brother.

Mad Men season 2 is a little weak + dropped story threads [season 2 spoilers] by Fussbett 08/05/2009, 3:30pm PDT     testing a reply to this now that it's been moved NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/06/2009, 10:29pm PDT