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Uh... Where were we? ... Oh, January Jones has amazing t*ts.

...Amazing photoshopped t*ts that is.

Her rack really isn't that big - let's be real. Personally I find the pic a bit much and in the interview it seems like she's trying too hard to be appealing. I don't think she needs to stoop to that but to each his own.

If this pic were of Christina Hendricks, hell yeah that bosom would be believable. With January, not at all.

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Her rack really isn't that big - let's be real. Personally I find the pic a bit much and in the interview it seems like she's trying too hard to appeal to the male crowd.

Yeah, they def. photoshopped them. But what don't they photoshop these days?

I don't think she's trying too hard, though. It's not like she's Megan Fox who says whatever kind of crap that pops into her head so she looks cool.

I agree, Megan Fox was desperately trying to appeal with her fake story about sleeping with a stripper. Besides, the article is the most in-depth anyone has done on Jones. It also proves how much of the Mad Men cast was composed of people who needed a big break and received it with these amazing characters.

Who cares - photoshopped or not - JANUARY JONES IS THE HOTTEST WOMAN ON TELEVISION!!!

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Who cares - photoshopped or not - JANUARY JONES IS THE HOTTEST WOMAN ON TELEVISION!!!

She always looks way better in the show than in real life or magazines.

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Originally posted by bocaboy7:
Who cares - photoshopped or not - JANUARY JONES IS THE HOTTEST WOMAN ON TELEVISION!!!

She always looks way better in the show than in real life or magazines.

I saw her at the AMC Emmy party and I can say with 100% certainty that your statement is untrue.

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Originally posted by thedemonhog:

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Originally posted by bocaboy7:
Who cares - photoshopped or not - JANUARY JONES IS THE HOTTEST WOMAN ON TELEVISION!!!

She always looks way better in the show than in real life or magazines.

I saw her at the AMC Emmy party and I can say with 100% certainty that your statement is untrue.

I have searched her on Google Images and I can say that that is my opinion.

Your opinion is wrong, sir.

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Am I the only one who has found this current season of Mad Men to be a dissapointment? While I think the acting is great on the show, I think the writing and storylines have been a letdown.

I thought "My Old Kentucky Home" was a knockout episode. But I did not really enjoy the parts as much as everyone else here seemed to with Peggy and the pot. I thought those jokes and the writing surrounding them were childish and amateur. I did not find the statement "I'm so high" that funny at all. If anything, I always thought that type of humor was beneath Mad Men and the crowd who watched it.

I thought it was very generic and lazy the way Sal's wife realized he was a "fairy". Oh, lets have a previously thought strait man prance around and act real girly. Again, this reeked of laziness and something we have seen a thousand times before.

I have also not cared for the fantasy/dream sequences this season has so readily used. I honestly couldn't tell what was real and what was fantasy a few episodes ago when Betty had her baby. I thought that episode was terrible. That is the first time I have ever said that about an episode of Mad Men.

I think the fantasy sequences are uneccessary when their was so much going on in reality back in the 1960's. Use more of that to spice up the show.

Don sleeping with the bohemian teacher is another example of laziness. I think all of us here saw that coming a mile away. While I find her interesting, I do not see what real purpose she serves. I think the writers could have done more than "let's have Don have another affair".

I personally do not feel they have truly blended the English and PP&L into the story. They seem to come and go, here and there. I like the character of Lane, but his character, story, and company need more attention and inclusion.

I also do not understand what happened between Roger and Don. I think it was a mistake to dissolve what was one of the stronger relationships on the show. They also did this in a very quick, almost unexplained way. I personally wish Don and Roger were still friends.

I am also curious as to what is going on with Roger and Joan. Roger had been pretty absent the past few weeks. As east/west refers to her, we need more Big Red. I miss Joan and she seems to have become a fan favorite. I wish they would give her a bigger storyline. Especially after knocking it out of the park in certain episodes earlier this season. I also agree with east/west the show is stronger when John Slattery is involved.

While the daughter is a good actress, I almost feel like they are sacrificing other characters time and stories to make her a focal point. I would rather see more of Joan and Roger than Sally at home.

While the show is by no means terrible, I feel the writing has been off and very lazy in several respects this whole season. I hope they get back on track and somehow include all their characters and make their storyines cohesive and interesting again.

Please let me know if I am the only person who feels this way about this season so far.

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I thought it was very generic and lazy the way Sal's wife realized he was a "fairy". Oh, lets have a previously thought strait man prance around and act real girly. Again, this reeked of laziness and something we have seen a thousand times before.

We don't even know that she knows that he's gay. I suspect she was disturbed, but really isn't sure of what's going on with him, and will probably ignore his behavior for years or at least a while before exploding.

And, with Don and the teacher. Of course we saw it coming a mile away, that's why they had him feel the grass. It's not like they wanted that to be shocking, they built up to it.

I also think the dissolution of the Roger/Don relationship is really important in terms of the mixing of friendship, business, and aging.

I'm not sure how I feel about all the fantasy sequences. For me, some of them work and some of them just don't.

I agree in general that this season has been weaker than the past two, but that it's still far and away the best thing on television right. I also think the show has done a great job this season in not only showing us the "60s" but making us actually feel the transition from the 50s conservatism to the 60s liberalism. For me, it feels like I'm not just watching the transition, but actually experiencing which is a hard effect to pull off.

I think this season so far has been excellent, and I'm enjoying it more now than I did during the past two seasons. The writing's richer with the characterizations, and the direction has been riskier and more experimental. I'm excited to see where the season ends up for the finale, and for the first time, I'm as interested in how they get there as I am what actually happens in the end.

I'd say so far this is my least favorite season of the three, but I would have said at this point in Season 2 that it wasn't as good as Season 1--but now I believe that Season 2 is one of the masterworks in TV history. I think we have to look at each season in its totality due to the fact that the show often doesn't make its real point until after the fact.

Last year, I was completely thrown off at first by the arc starting with "The Jet Set" and really questioned why you would suddenly pull Don out of the mix. But looking at it in hindsight, I kind of view the final three episodes of last year as the Mad Men version of A Christmas Carol, with Don looking at a potential future in "The Jet Set", revisiting his past in "The Mountain King", then returning home to deal with the present in "Meditations in an Emergency". The point being that it was impossible to judge until it was over. I think this season's legacy rests on where we end up--so far, the word I would use to describe the mood of Season 3 is unsettling. Whether that atmosphere ultimately takes us to some big-picture epiphany is still up in the air.

I would agree with espnfan that Don's relationship with the teacher has so far been weak and that Sal's "Bye Bye Birdie" scene was too on the nose. I preferred the more subtle signs like the fawning over Ken in "The Gold Violin" last season, and that a collective few of that kind of thing would have been a more subtle and believable realization [?] arc for Mrs. Sal.

In kind of a derby scorecard comparing the seasons to this point, I would say by episode 9, Season 2 had had three absolutely stellar [for me] episodes: "Three Sundays", "The New Girl", and "A Night to Remember". At this point in Season 3, we've also had [for me] three stellar episodes: "My Old Kentucky Home", "Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency", and "Seven Twenty Three". The weaker episodes of Season 2 ["The Benefactor", "Maidenform"] have been about on par with the weaker ones of this season ["The Arrangements", "Wee Small Hours"].

The Third Season is Always risk-taking

The first two seasons of most shows feel like two sides of the same coin. The end of the second season tend to work as a bookend. Most television auteurs (especially ones on cable) begin to take huge risks with the narrative of their shows, because they feel as if they’re beginning all over again. They start messing with the style, structure and pacing a bit more, typically resulting in an ambitious, uneven, sparsely fantastic season. That’s how I feel this season of ‘Mad Men’ has come out.

‘The Sopranos’, ‘The Wire’ and ‘Battlestar Galactica’ all took leaps in their third year, which ended up being the most muddles seasons of each of those shows, but also contained some of those shows most brilliant moments.

Some shows don’t creatively recover from their risky third years ala ‘Six Feet Under’ and ‘Rescue Me’. But I don’t think ‘Mad Men’ is in that position. No, season three- no matter how good the last four episodes are- is not gonna be on the same level as the first two. It’ll likely be viewed as a transitional season with some great episodes (“Seven Twenty Three, “Guy…”).

This season has often been either too vague or too on-the-nose, but Mad Men will still likely end the year as the best show on TV, and this season is not so far off from the quality of the first two seasons.

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I would agree with espnfan that Don's relationship with the teacher has so far been weak and that Sal's "Bye Bye Birdie" scene was too on the nose. I preferred the more subtle signs like the fawning over Ken in "The Gold Violin" last season, and that a collective few of that kind of thing would have been a more subtle and believable realization [?] arc for Mrs. Sal.

But Kitty was there for all the fawning and she's lived with him for two years. I think if we saw their wedding night and she realized it then it would have been eye rolling.

I sometimes think its hard to judge the way things happen in the minor character's lives because we only see the big moments so there is less build up like there is with Peggy, Betty, and Don.

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agree in general that this season has been weaker than the past two, but that it's still far and away the best thing on television right. I also think the show has done a great job this season in not only showing us the "60s" but making us actually feel the transition from the 50s conservatism to the 60s liberalism. For me, it feels like I'm not just watching the transition, but actually experiencing which is a hard effect to pull off.

I'm with you. I love that this show takes time to develop its storylines. The point is not knowing that Don is going to sleep with the teacher, it's the journey of how he gets there and each episode builds on his frustrations to this culmination which as we're told is different from the others. I am very willing to take the time to see how and why. I have this patience for all these characters and I feel that this season is pretty great.

Episode Title: "The Color Blue"

Synopsis: Sterling Cooper celebrates a company milestone; Peggy competes with Paul for an account.

Discuss.

This teacher woman is a nutcase. DNW her around much longer.

Holy sh*t, they didn't fire Lois.

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This teacher woman is a nutcase. DNW her around much longer.

Holy sh*t, they didn't fire Lois.

I noticed it too. But she didn't cost them potential money. lol

Teacher woman is a step away from boiling a bunny. Drapers need to ask themselves "where is our dog right now?"