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[shadowkat]

1. I'm enjoying True Blood more than the critics and everyone else is apparently. I actually liked last year better than the previous years, and this episode better. In part because I'm really NOT a Bill fan, so the direction they've taken with the character works for me - it is more or less how I saw him. And, well, I adore the introduction of Rutger Hauer - he's in some respects playing a much much older version of the character he portrayed in the film version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or at least as far as I can tell.
I'm admittedly a Rutger Hauer fan - yes, I've watched all of his B movies including The Osterman Weekend and Flesh and Blood, I think it was called Flesh and Blood, it's been a while. And my favorite Hauer films are: 1) Ladyhawk, 2) Blade Runner, 3) Nighthawks, and 4) The Hitcher. He plays the villain in the last three films.

The other reason I love True Blood in the later seasons is what they've done in regards to Tara and Pam, who have become wickedly cool.

2. Mad Men is good, but can Don Draper be any more of a misogynistic ass? He's a nasty piece of work this season. I feel sorry for his wife. Morale? Don't marry pretty men or women for that matter. Everyone else, on the other hand, is rather interesting.



I'm still way behind. Currently on the episode where Joan is taken to the hospital and Peggy has moved back to Draper, Sterling, Campbell, Price - because they merged with the firm she was head copy editor at.

In this episode Don asks the woman he's sleeping with (the actress who was on Freaks & Geeks and ER) to basically be his sex slave. I'm wondering if Matt Weiner read 50 Shades of Grey during the summer? He tells her to stay in bed all day naked and wait for him. He buys her a beautiful red dress to wear but just for him. And tells her that she should live only to please him and only to need him. While he's doing all this, it's hard not to remember that he slut-shammed Megan two episodes back - when he watched her do a fake sex scene for a soap opera. Telling Megan that kissing guys for a tv show was similar to prostitution. Then he turns around and has sex with her next door neighbor.

I so want him to get caught. And have Megan take him for all he's worth.

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I agree with your analysis of Don Draper. In the episode I just watched, the writer attempts to provide insight to Don's character - with a series of flashbacks to the whorehouse in which he was raised, and an abusive mother - who ran the whorehouse, who looks quite a bit like the woman he was having the affair with. To such a degree, that his treatment of that woman during and after the affair is unsettling.

I used to find the character somewhat attractive, now, I find him repulsive.

Adored Joan's statement to him - and how she rips him apart at one point.
Along with Peggy's.

It's weird but I actually think Pete Campbell is more likable than Don Draper.

Thanks for the link, will check it out.