The "actress", Kiernan Shipka, was born November 10, 1999
We know a little bit more about the writer of this show, don't we? A little bondage, maybe? Like getting turned on by the effeminate character from a sixties spy show?
I find the show philosophically Nihilist.
I can’t watch.
I am seriously considering not watching that show anymore. At least when Peter Weir directed “Witness” he told the child actor playing the Amish boy viewing the crime just to look through a door; the rest of the scene showing the murder was filmed separately and not mentioned to that juvenile thespian. But this most recent episode was despicable and at the very least I am complaining. It is one thing to have an adult actress portraying self-gratification, but showing a little girl is, well, child pornography. Unsurprisingly some men lust for this subject. (I turned off the sound during those scenes once I realized what was going on...ugh.)
I was wondering what they told her. It’s entirely possible they directed her to act more ‘sneaky’ than ‘naughty’. Clever editing takes care of the rest.
Mad Men is fiction. On cable. Don’t like it? Don’t watch it. You seem to be advocating censorship, yes?
I watch the show with a one week lag, but I don’t mind the spoiler.
The best scene in the previous episode was when Draper asked his secretary to type her own letter of resignation. They had developed his passive-aggressiveness well.
As for the most recent episode, sexual awakening occurred then for many of us who read FR. I hope they used a double for this little girl.
The era was most interesting, but much of the liberal disease that afflicts us can be traced to 1963-1969. I love the details: the wall hangings, lamps, buzzer to the secretary, typewriters with ribbons, liquor in the office, chain smoking, dead from lung cancer at age 52 etc.
She was sitting on the couch, fully clothed. The only direction would have been, “Sit there and stare into space”. Nothing was shown. It was all covered in the reaction of the friend’s mother and the subsequent conversation with Betty.
Criticize the subject matter, but don’t imply that Miss Shipka was somehow shown on-screen ‘in the act’.
I was enjoying the precise art direction. However, I got to the place where the characters were so nauseating, that I couldn’t care about them any more.
That's been bothering me as well. I really think they could have come up with another vehicle to illustrate Sally's growing disfunction stemming from her parents' divorce, although, I suppose it wouldn't win them an award for being "cutting edge".
Only idiots. Period.
I eagerly bought the first season. Watched it expecting it to be wonderfully nostalgic and stylish. But the stories turned out to be lame sex soap operas, not the culture, business, and creative side I wanted. Never thought once about picking up season two.
I am still watching the first season. I especially like the very first episode. It seems like a good show but there are so many people to figure out....lol.
I watched it, and I love it.
About time the toll of divorce gets a public hearing. My mom was Betty Draper. Period. My mom, however, was stoned a good bit of the time.
Dad worked three jobs.
Thank God for the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America. I avoided the meth and coke habit my younger brother picked up. My youngest is five years younger, and had the benefit of some correction enforced by my Dad on my mom.
I hope the touch on all the new age crap that made the rounds at the time. EST and TM were big in my house. I have friends in my company whose parents were part of a Christian commune, which was more commune and less Christian.
I walked in on my parents once when I was little. I thought they were “wrestling”.