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The lovely missus and I are of two minds (does that add up to four?) on the season premier.
The obvious thumbs down: Waaay too many "house" ads. Has any network even approached the level of self-promoting we get from AMC?
And, what's with that ending? Is that "for real"? Or is it another of Don's quasi-hallucinatory vision things? You know, like those encounters with the ghost of Adam? Or those dream sequences?
I wasn't of an age to detect anything but the most obvious signs of marital infidelity in 1968 (I assume it's New Year's Eve '67/'68, although if it were made explicit in the episode, I didn't catch it), but I'm left wondering how a person couldn't know his or her spouse was "seeing" someone else, especially if said spouse was engaging in that canoodling with a neighbor in the very same building, and, on top of that, a neighbor with whom one is one friendly terms. Seems to me a person would have to be either extraordinarily naive or willfully ignorant not to know it.
A thumbs up for what's happening in Life of Roger. His late middle-age existential crises ring true with, uh, certain people of my age. (Gulp.) He doesn't suffer illusions over what he means to the others in his personal orbit, or in the wider world. The death of his mother and then the shoeshine man brought that into focus. The Roger character wants to understand more. He doesn't wish to suffer illusions. No Pollyanna, he. And while he sometimes behaves downright shabbily, he's a quite sympathetic character.
The obvious thumbs down: Waaay too many "house" ads. Has any network even approached the level of self-promoting we get from AMC?
And, what's with that ending? Is that "for real"? Or is it another of Don's quasi-hallucinatory vision things? You know, like those encounters with the ghost of Adam? Or those dream sequences?
I wasn't of an age to detect anything but the most obvious signs of marital infidelity in 1968 (I assume it's New Year's Eve '67/'68, although if it were made explicit in the episode, I didn't catch it), but I'm left wondering how a person couldn't know his or her spouse was "seeing" someone else, especially if said spouse was engaging in that canoodling with a neighbor in the very same building, and, on top of that, a neighbor with whom one is one friendly terms. Seems to me a person would have to be either extraordinarily naive or willfully ignorant not to know it.
A thumbs up for what's happening in Life of Roger. His late middle-age existential crises ring true with, uh, certain people of my age. (Gulp.) He doesn't suffer illusions over what he means to the others in his personal orbit, or in the wider world. The death of his mother and then the shoeshine man brought that into focus. The Roger character wants to understand more. He doesn't wish to suffer illusions. No Pollyanna, he. And while he sometimes behaves downright shabbily, he's a quite sympathetic character.
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