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I found her acting to be great because I hated Betty. I think she is a child, dumb, mean, and hurtful. She is hurt by Don because she is so self-centered she didn't see him for what he was. And she is spoiled. Spoiled people always fail to see that they live on shifting sands. And Betty is that sort of person. So Jones did an excellent job of bringing those traits out.

On "Mad Men", she was stunningly beautiful and damn good at her job, a lovely face concealing infinite layers of unhappiness and madness.

Yet everywhere else, she's been stiff and bland and her face is nothing special!

I've never been able to figure out how the "MM" people managed to make her seem so much better than she is everywhere else. Did the writers, directors, and cinematographers do everything for her? Or was that just the one show that really suited her talents?

R3, I think everyone gave their best performances on that show. Jon Hamm, same thing. I haven’t seen him do anything close to his Don Draper. Or Christina H.

The supporting cast was excellent, too. And I absolutely loved the cameos by unexpected actors (Juliette Binoche, Linda Cardellini).

She can be a very good actress in the right role with the right director. Mad Men was magic for her. Unfortunately, it appears she doesn't have much range otherwise. In addition to the X-Men movies, she was one of the worst SNL hosts I'd ever seen.

Btw, I loved her on MM.

R4 You're confusing Juliette Binoche with Julia Ormond.

I think she was pretty much playing herself on MM. Wasn't exactly a stretch.

A dummy could have played that role.She is a vapid and silly little homewrecking cunt. She is also another bisexual hussy who would do anything for a job. Just ask Matt Vaughn.........

Jones has been the third lead for four seasons of FOX's Will Forte sitcom, The Last Man on Earth. Network sitcoms don't have the audience they used to, but as an actor, you can't say she's barely working when she's been a regular on a network sitcoms for the past few years. I don't think there was even a year between finishing Mad Men and starting this sitcom -- she was never really out of work.

I think she was incredible in Mad Men, but I've never been too impressed with her elsewhere. You wouldn't think she'd be fantastic at comedy, and you'd mostly be right, but she doesn't embarrass herself on the sitcom, and she holds her own in a very talented cast.

The clothes and hair of that era (1960-1970) made her a beauty.

Yes, she really suits that era perfectly.

Anyone who has fucked the equally icky, Jeremy Piven and Bobby Flay, deserves to be ridiculed beyond belief. She has terrible taste in men and when she lezzed out she made a strange choice as well.

She's no great actress, but I have to say that MM lost a certain quality when Don and Betty divorced and JJ's screen time was drastically cut. I I found their dynamic and that whole '60s suburban vibe much more intriguing than the office politics or Don's marriage to Megan.

I wonder if she was creating problems on the MM set when they wrote the divorce storyline? Divorce in the 60s was a huge taboo and didn't really become acceptable until the 1970s. And when she became pregnant, she didn't lose the baby weight quickly and so that's why they wrote in the Weight Watchers storyline.

That's not true, R14. She found out she was pregnant during the off season, but knew that she would be quite big by the time they were back at work to film the next season. She told Weiner and he came up with the storyline. She said in an interview that she filmed one episode in the fat suit while still pregnant, then had the baby after that episode was filmed. For the rest of the season, she was losing the baby weight and they had to re-fit the prosthetics regularly because underneath it, she was headed back down to her pre-pregnancy size.

I think she's really good on Last Man on Earth.

What R7 said. Very limited actress. Mad Men worked for her because Betty Draper was a very two-dimensional, one-note character. Bored housewife, jilted wife, lather, rinse, repeat. Not exactly Shakespeare. She was fun to watch, but half of that was the costumes and just her physicality. She’s very pretty and she looks frozen in that era, but she’s not the most compelling performer.

Drab, icey cunt

[quote]I wonder if she was creating problems on the MM set when they wrote the divorce storyline? Divorce in the 60s was a huge taboo and didn't really become acceptable until the 1970s.

Oh, yes, Mary, so sharp of you. Matt Weiner actually wanted Don and Betty to stay married forever and live happily ever after in wedded bliss, but then January Jones acted up one time too many and Weiner had to pull that whole “Don Draper is a serial philaderer who mistreats all women, always” storyline out of left field to cover it up. Mad Men was supposed to be a family drama about a long-married couple until January Jones fucked it all up.

[quote]Mad Men was supposed to be a family drama about a long-married couple until January Jones fucked it all up.

Betty's character was reduced in the later seasons. She had zero growth as a character. All her scenes consisted of her screaming at Don. Gone were the coffee chats with the next door neighbor and the new husband they brought in had to be interesting because she wasn't. They even had to bring in his mother to spice up those scenes.

I found Betty the most interesting of all the female characters, certainly more interesting that Megan, Joan, or Peggy.

I was being facetious, R20. Another poster suggested Don and Betty’s divorce was only written because JJ might’ve been difficult on the set. Now you’re saying her role was “reduced in later seasons.” Well, yeah, her character divorced the show’s lead. Not because of some off camera drama or the actor’s lack of talent but because that was the natural progression for her character.

I think a big issue was her apparently being a mean and icy bitch in real life.

Why, R21?

[quote]I found Betty the most interesting of all the female characters, certainly more interesting that Megan, Joan, or Peggy.

Well pardon me all to hell!

She has Matt Vaughn’s son / I wonder how much he has to pay her each year. What does Vaughn’s wife, Claudia Schiffer, think about the whole situation?

It's odd because today, soon after waking up, I had the image of Betty Draper in my mind. Where she is in a nightie and an overcoat, cigarette dangling from her lips and she is shooting out of the air the pet pigeons of her obsessed neighbor who had been mean to her kids.

It is such a great scene. The imagery is great and the whole thing catches you so off-guard.

I loved her in Mad Men -- but when I saw her on SNL, I realized she was as dumb as a box of hair. So much for that fantasy.

Betty Draper makes me think of what Melania Trump must be like in her day to day life. Silly, childish and extremely shallow.

No, sorry, I think she essentially played Betty with super powers in X-men. She doesn't really emote. She's very one dimensional. Ashton Kutcher is a douche, but I agree with him saying to her she can't act.

Her name is stupid.

R31 Fun fact! She was named after a Jackie Susann character, the lead in Once is Not Enough.

Love her, I don't know how good she is in other roles but I love her as Betty. Betty has been sheltered and January sometime does this look where she smiles to herself when she's proud of something she'd done that is just so girlish. Of course she is beautiful to look at, especially the clothes of that era - especially when she'd go riding - there is a scene in the kitchen when Sally wants to help take off her boots I remember Betty looking stunning! Speaking of, when people say what a bad mother Betty is, it is validating to me because my mother, also named Betty, was a thousand times worse than she was. Besides, Don is a shit husband to her! I won't spoil the series end for you OP, but I've said it here before that I think Betty is the hero of that series.

She’s no Elisabeth Moss.

Played SO memorably in the trenchant film version by MOI, r32!

She’s such an awful actress. She plays the same character over and over.

Who’s her baby daddy?

I agree, a limited actress, but excellent in Mad Men.

I was really disappointed that Betty got so little screen time after the divorce. She had a hot new husband in Henry Francis and a fabulously quirky old house (the Stimson House in LA). Plus a troubled teenage daughter and a creepy teenage admirer. Lots of potential for stories.

R36, Matthew Vaughn, director of X-men first class. Explains why he didn’t attend the premier. Jason sudeikis is wishful thinking on a lot of people’s part. Jason would have stood up and claimed him as his son, don’t think he was really with anyone at the time. Vaughn is a sniveling grasping coward, married to Claudia Schiffer mother of his 3 (legitimate) children. Hence why paternal identity is hu$h hu$h.

she was generally considered by critics to be the weak link in the show, called a bimbo, her diction and acting style is one step above jayne Mansfield. its often wondered how, hmmmm, he even got the role.

she done little since, as she has zero acting chops.

WHT KIND OF MOMMA WONT TELL HER KID OR THE PUBLIC WHO THE DADDY IS

SCREAMS WANTS ATTENTION.

POOR KID

R38, interesting when you look at Vaugh's own life:

"Vaughn was born in London. He had thought that he was the child of an affair between his mother, Kathy Ceaton (died 20 July 2013), and American actor Robert Vaughn. A paternity investigation[3] subsequently identified his father as George Albert Harley de Vere Drummond,[4][5] an English aristocrat who is a godson of King George VI."

Xander is Vaughn’s. Fits in so many ways. He clearly loves blondes. What’s so interesting is the similarity to Vaughn’s own upbringing. His mother Kathy Ceaton was a socialite whore and total slave to the dick (NOTHING wrong with that). She didn’t know who exactly matt’s daddy was so fuckbuddy and actor Robert Vaughn stepped up and gave him his name. But true to character, later when Matt found out his real father was a married titled aristocrat, he legally changed his surname to the fancier double barreled de Vere Drummond. Of course still uses Vaughn professionally. Wonder if Xander does the same some day.

January uses frequent pap photos of her and Xander to taunt Schiffer and Vaughn, passive aggressive to say the least.

I don't care about JJ, but I LOVED Betty Draper, Joanne and Trudy the Park Avenue Princess.

I was sad when Betty started receiving less screen time and I was hoping she wouldn't give up on Don's big dick and bigger paycheck. So much of his marital issue could have been swept over if he would have thrown Betty a fuck here and there. I know Don was a cheater but her really started to downgrade after the split. Like everyone else I adored her clothing and the bitchy looks those secretaries gave when she showed up at Don's job in season one. Her hair was always laid to the Gods; Meghan was pure trash compared to Betty.

This and the outfit she wore to slap that woman at the supermarket are my favorite Betty looks.

My other favorite.

I like Betty Draper more than I like January Jones.

I always confuse her with Elizabeth Banks (who's a better actress, BTW.)

Betty reached her peak when she shot her neighbor's birds.

[quote] She is a vapid and silly little homewrecking cunt.

If there is one thing all Dataloungers can agree upon, it is the SANCTITY of the heterosexual home!!!

I don't know her -

Her kid looks just like Bobby Flay. That's her baby daddy

Betty character and the actress were NOT weak links in that show. Many of us have known Bettys. She was a very vivid character in the golden age of "quality TV"

I wish they killed Meghan with the cancer. I hated that character. Her and her big teef.

The biggest mistake the show made was killing off Mrs. Blankenship.

Matthew Weiner was obsessed with the actress who played Meghan and ruined the last few seasons of the show with her storyline.

R55, I was sure that Meghan was going to be killed by the Manson family when she moved to LA. SO disappointed that she wasn’t.

The woman who played Meghan was so dull and annoying I was ready to leave the theater when she popped up in the movie Brooklyn, but she was really good in a small role. Regardless, it is never good when a showrunner gets a proverbial hard on for a certain character or actor and ruins a show to relentlessly highlight/push him or her despite audience and critical push back. See also Alan Ball with Stephen Moyer on True Blood, or Negan on The Walking Dead. They are their own worst enemy.

I loved Betty's character. Everyone hates her for being a bitch, but i'm sure if any one of us was trapped in a boring housewife role with a cheating husband we'd all be pretty bitchy.

Betty was educated, she spoke Italian. I wish the writers of the show would have done more with her character. I always thought that she should've escaped her boring subrurban life and moved to Italy to become a courtesan. How fabulous would that have been?!

Meghan's character was awful, she looked like Freddie Mercury in drag. I think Betty remained beautiful throughout all seasons of Mad Men. Even Joan began to look very matronly towards the end of the show.

Who did she piss off? Because the exile of Betty seemed so much more than story driven.

she is going bak to acting school. she decided that all the bad reviews of her thespian skills were right and now will learn to act like a proper tv lady....

TOO LATE BITCH

I was flipping channels last night and stopped on the 'Jet Set' episode when Don was in California and now I remember why I thought he was so handsome in the beginning. The last 10 years have taken their toll on his looks.

[quote]I've never been able to figure out how the "MM" people managed to make her seem so much better than she is everywhere else

Ditto for Jon Hamm and the actress who played Joan

[quote]Who did she piss off? Because the exile of Betty seemed so much more than story driven

Mathew Weiner had a crush on Betty, he got pissed when she got pregnant and then turned his favor on the Meghan actress.

Zou bisou bisou

The show was about Don, and when Weiner decided to have them divorce, Betty was much less in evidence on the show. She was mostly on the show after season 3 in relation to Sally, Bobby and Gene since they are Don's children.

Though divorce was not widespread among the general population in the 1960s, it was much more common among the Madison Avenue elites during that time (divorce was indeed more popular among wealthy people since the 19th century than it was among average folk until the 1970s). Keep in mind that, of the major ad agency characters, Roger Sterling, Duck Phillips, Joan Holloway Harris, and Peter Campbell all were divorced or separated at one time or another on the show. So it was not unusual for Weiner to have Betty and Don divorce.

Finally, Weiner has said multiple times in interview that January Jones was one of his favorite people to work with in the show. He did not consider her unpleasant to work with.

Last Man on Earth is a really underrated show. It's funny and subversive and way more racy than I'd have thought would be allowed on a network show. My partner and I just discovered it recently on Hulu and we've been binge-watching it. I love Melissa, January Jones' character on the show.

January Jones was Betty. A hard nosed, bitchy, two faced slut.

Remember when she got in a car accident and fled the scene? Or about her not naming her baby's father because she didn't know who it was.

She's a difficult mess.

She was good on 'Mad Men" because I dont think it required much of her to get Betty Draper. I think the actress is close to the character.

I have to say, I'm surprised this thread is still going....

r69=Mother Francis

The scene when Don and Betty were flirting and acting as if they were strangers at the cafe in Italy stunned me. My sisters too. We have a picture of my parents at Pat O'Briens in New Orleans, about 1963, and they look so much like Don and Betty. Slyly flirting with each other - and the photographer. It's a great image.

I think we read much more into her portrayl of Betty than January's actual level of talent. Betty was cold, denying and aloof - it seems like it would take a great actress to pull that off, but January's minimal talent perfectly coincided with the character she played.

This is why they were so good together and Meghan's character ruined the series.

That scene was way too short.

R69 - No, but good one!!

I've often seen a lot of hate for Megan on the Mad Men threads and always wondered if it was widespread or just one person who repeatedly posted. (I'm not computer adept enough to know how to block posters in a way to find out like some on here are).

I loved Megan. So did most of my Mad Men buddies. I thought she was a perfect foil for Don, and loved how Matt Weiner developed her character. It was only in the last couple episodes I was disappointed. Her selfishness seemed to come out of nowhere.

Well, Betty certainly had the ability to pull in some good dick. I loved the look of her second husband. I liked Megan initially. When Don sees that she can be sane and sensible when it comes to the kids. But I didn't really like her looks or her character. I think they could have paired him off with someone a lot more attractive and interesting.

I loved the Betty Draper character and agree that the show lost something when the focus moved from her to Megan. I also hated that Don never learned anything and kept making the same mistakes over and over.

January Jones is beautiful and a good fit for the role, but I believe Matt Weiner and the show's director's likely had to coach her big time to get the performance they wanted. This likely got tiresome as her character became more complex and they realized January couldn't really keep up with that - her performance was mostly one note after season 1/2.

I also do believe she was not really well-liked on set. She is one of the only cast members who is not featured on the DVD commentaries.

yea, matthew musta crushed on her, dats the excuse for her fug ass bein on da show....

"I also do believe she was not really well-liked on set."

I don't think that's true. She didn't have much rapport with the other actors because she didn't work with them. Although she was a prominent character, her scenes were solely with Jon Hamm, their kids, and her second husband. I think once a season she'd visit his office or his NY apartment. I've seen interviews with other actors commenting that they only got to see January at the parties and promotions. There didn't seem to be any dislike. And the actress who played her daughter had often claimed that she adored her.

There was a scene where Don and betty look at an old photograph of the two of them together, and whoever made it up backstage using photos of the actors when they were younger, used a photo of JJ before her drastic nosejob.

She's no natural beauty.

There's nothing "there". She's mediocre in every way.

Interesting how ugly little E Moss is now a much bigger draw/name.

It's funny because I thought she was terrible at the time but now I see the brilliance in her performance. And she was the only thing that made me cry during the finale.

Didn’t Jones have a child with (allegedly) a well known producer or director who is wealthy and married? No one knows the identity of this mystery man, however, from what I understand, he financially provides for her and the child, even though they are no longer having an affair.

Allegedly, the wife knows, and is fine with it, as long as his name isn’t “out there”.

Any guesses on who the child’s father is?

She was great in that role. I loved her. Visually she was stunning.

most think its director matthew Vaughn, distant 2nd choice is Jason sudakis...tho she fukd around a lot, even Adrian brody and Jeremy piven: wtf??

Sounds like she was fucking Bachelor Nick too

She one of those 'stars' who resorts to prostitution to pay the rent ?

I loved her as Betty. I follow her instagram and she's really witty and has a dry sense of humor - very entertaining. She NEVER shows pix of her son so I don't know how anyone could say who he looks like. I love the name Xander too. Great name for a boy!

Wouldn't most gals have a go at Adrian Brody?

R51 NO. Negan and Bill are/were not problems on their respective shows. I think January Jones was a weak link on Mad Men though. It didn't take much to play the Aryan goddess at all. A mannequin could have played her.....

Jessica Pare has been better in other things to be honest. She was OK on Mad Men. She is a better actress than the cunty and not too bright low class Hollywood strumpet January Jones.

R89 There are pictures of her boy all over the place. People say her son looks like one of Matt Vaughn and Claudia's Schiffer's kids. Matt and Claudia have a lovely family whereas January is a lonely woman paying for her heterosexual promiscuity.Only we gays should be wanton sluts.

R89 I checked it out. She posts some pictures that make her look like a horny 18 year old girl. Vapid is too kind a word for that empty headed thing...

looks like a whore ad...

She has such a hungry butt at r93.

Or someone gave her a wedgie.

[quote]I think she was pretty much playing herself on MM. Wasn't exactly a stretch.

No, I’ve has dealings with her on two or three occasions. She’s wonderful. She is self-deprecating, very funny, quite droll, and kind.

Jealousy doesn’t have a slimming effect on you, r93.

I loved the whole run of Mad Men but it really did lose a lot when the divorced Betty and Don. I really missed regular Betty.

When Betty and Don divorced, the more interesting storyline would have had Betty move to New York City also and try to make a living. She could have been a salesgirl like Joan. She would have totally fit into the swinging 60s NYC life. And it would have been interesting to see her try to get back into modeling, etc. And of course, it would have given an extra layer of tension between Don and Betty as to who should be watching the children. I think they didn't go with that storyline because JJ couldn't act.

JJ is no great thespian, but let's face it, she's really no better or worse than Christina Hendricks, who seemed to get tons of screen time.

It's always shocked me the way DL denizens mock Jessica Pare. I know you probably don't know this, but in 2001 JP starred in a very good lesbian-themed movie called Lost and Delirious. It's about two boarding-school girls who are in love and about to graduate (the other girl is played by Piper Perabo). But the Pare character's parents would never accept her being a lesbian so she decides to go out with boys to please them and dumps the Piper character.

It's a very sad movie, but I could really relate to it, and it was very courageous of both women to play those parts. So I don't care what JP has done since then, I'll always respect her for being in that movie.

Also starring Mischa Barton back when she was just a pup.

R93 Stupidity doesn't make you witty either......

R101 JP can actually act and January Jones can't. JP posts pictures of herself like the naked untalented narcissist she really is.

R96 Some people like Zach G beg to differ deary......

Zach G had a strange encounter with the dim witted nothing burger named January Jones. She really showed her cluelessness and narcissism when she dealt with him.

She was perfect as Betty.

This BI might be about her. But I don't think any of the rumored baby daddies are Oscar winners. She really did whore around. It could totally be someone completely off the radar.

You bitches are such hypocrites. Some of you proudly claim to have been with thousands of guys, and you label HER a whore? If she were a man, you'd be applauding her real or perceived sluttiness. And whether she is or isn't a slut is not even the point. Your ludicrous hypocrisy is the point. Double standard much?

Some whores are apparently easily triggered.

R106 She is such a dumb and vapid whore. That is why we hate her. There is nothing fabulous about her. She is the typical boring Middle American dumb Aryan type.

This proves how white trash she is. She does a parlor trick with her foot and a beer. A shitty one like Amstel Light no less.

I agree calling her a whore on Datalounge, where posters regularly trumpet how much they've slept around, is ridiculously hypocritical.

[quote] When Betty and Don divorced, the more interesting storyline would have had Betty move to New York City also and try to make a living. She could have been a salesgirl like Joan. She would have totally fit into the swinging 60s NYC life.

That wouldn't have made any sense. That simply was not what wealthy NYC women did in the 1960s when they got divorced.

If you are offended by calling a whore a whore you are the one with the problem. She slept around a lot. I don't think anyone is shaming her because of it, it's just speaking the truth.

Actually, someone is shaming her because of it, but ok.

On a website devoted to gossip and pointless bitchery you better not call a whore a whore! There are very delicate readers here!

She's an artless,vacuous and corny whore. The vast majority of gay men are intelligent,talented, artsy and edgy whores. Big difference....

^Honey, you've obviously have never been to Chelsea or Hell's Kitchen, or any other other urban gay enclave.

[quote] The vast majority of gay men are intelligent,talented, artsy and edgy whores

You sound like a 16 year old mean girl, you deluded bastard. Nothing edgy about that.

Was the double identity of Don Draper originally supposed to have more of a plot than it did? The show could have left the double identity completely out and it would have been a good show.

JJ lezzing it up with Jessica Carpenter. They made a cute couple.

Don't care about her morality or her baby daddy issues; Hollywood is a swamp filled with slut monsters so she's keeping up with her surnames. I've never found her engaging as an actress, not even as Mrs Draper. I imagine I'm not alone in that, even among Hollywood types, hence her lack of work post-MM.

Best comment about January Jones comes from Miley Cyrus(whose guy Liam Hemsworth cheated January Jones), JJ came home to LAX and was tight lipped about slutting around. :

"Oh now that home wrecking hussy whore keeps her slut mouth shut.”

I meant: cheated with January Jones.

r99 I doubt Betty would like living in NYC after divorcing Don; she was too weak to handle the laddies who lunch crowd and could hardly manage raising a family in the burbs, with hired help! Almost every business dinner she went to made her come off almost embarrassingly vapid and immature compared to the wives of Don's associates. Her arrested development even extended to her "night out" outfits which were always a bit behind the times for the city. These minor details are a part of my love of this show and her character.

She did moved to NYC when she was young and quickly caught a husband before fleeing back into the comfort of the burbs where she belonged.

The first few seasons were like watching a more sophisticated version of the Dick Van Dyke Show through a fun-house mirror. I missed that element after the divorce.

I also loved that in the first two or three seasons, it seemed Betty longed for something more than suburbia and raising the kids while her whore husband fucked around and got drunk all the time. I did think JJ did a good job at portraying this under-the-surface feeling, but it kind of fizzled out and she just became mean, spoiled and unhappy Betty.

r125 why did she marry Henry, they seemed like a terrible match and had zero chemistry (or she couldn't act). I thought she was just doing it for attention.

R126 because she wasn’t gonna be a single mother in the 60s even if Don set her up nicely. I think Henry really loved the idea of who Betty was. And she didn’t know how to live without having a man take care of her.

I get that r127, but the only reason she left Don was because she had Henry waiting in the wings. She even had the nerve to move him into Don's house. If Henry wasn't around she would have stayed with Don. Again, I don't understand why she threw away her life for that wet noodle. I can't remember but did he come form serious money or something?

Zach and Jennifer did like each other at one time. Color me surprised.

I think nice and boring and safe was a nice change from Don. Henry had a prestigious career in state politics. He was good looking and he adored her.

Don was a liar, drunk and a cheat. He completely lied about who he was. The bigger question would have been why she would have stayed with him. It was tough to be divorced then but since as you say she could pretty much just pick up with her old life with a different man who wasn’t an asshole, why not?

Great comment on JJ from Damon Lindelof:

Relying on trusty Twitter, he wrote: 'Emma Frost's (played by Jones) THREE mutant powers: Telepathy, Transformation to Solid Diamond and last but not least, Sucking at Acting.'

Three vapid cunts. She hangs out with one half of Kimye. As if we needed reasons to hate her already.......

Starlets like her don't age well, career wise. She has not real training or chops to fall back on. She'll be peddling autographs on the con floor soon... or maybe she'll marry well.

Love this! Love Betty ! Love JJ ! These two had incredible chemistry.

I actually liked Jones and what she did because I *knew* that woman.

And while I do think the character suffered a bit after being sidelined, the Betty episodes at the end were heartbreaking. After Don and Peggy's journeys, I was most affected by what happened with Bets.

And she did a fun turn on that Last Man on Earth show - as fun as one can be with such a nihilistic premise....

She married Henry because he was fucking HOT.

I'll say this - bitch has had some of THE finest cock ever to walk this earth.

Betty seemed like one of those “Refrigerator Mothers” or an aspy herself.

frog pussy was her nickname on set....

I only find Jon Hamm attractive as Don Draper in the clothes of that era.

The only good thing about the divorce was it brought on the fat mother in law. She was some funny shit. "what kind of man wants to roll around in another man's garbage?"

Jon is sexy as Don Draper.

Because Don would have fucked anyone with that monster dick.

She is one of the worst actresses ever, I stopped watching MM because her line readings were bad community Theatre actress. She seemed to have no idea what she was saying. Some think it was a character choice but I believe she has no idea what she is doing or saying.

The shameless hussy! The jezebel! She's absolutely no better than she should be! The cheap whore! the harlot! She's the town tramp!

Tsk, tsk, tsk!

Slut frau detected at R144. Don't throw a tantrum just because no one wants your busted snatch dear.

R125, I think many women were in Betty’s position during the 50s and 60s, which is why I loved watching her portray Betty.

She was absolutely gorgeous as Betty, and I loved her wardrobe. My favorite time was when she accompanied Don to Italy. She was simply gorgeous.

At least she wasn't as bad as Jessica Pare. Shudder.

Matt Wiener was backstage busting a load every time January or Jessica pouted.

His creeptastic son was probably doing the same.

I loved Jessica Pare.

I definitely loved Don and Megan's apartment!

[quote]The only good thing about the divorce was it brought on the fat mother in law

The best scene was when Betty and Henry came home and the MIL was asleep with a knife in her hands and Sally was sleeping under the chair because they got freaked out over her telling the story of the guy who raped and killed the nurses.

No she didn't. Please tell me she wasn't one of Heavy Whalestein's playthings now was she?

I muted the tv when she was on

sounded like a hick

Loved JJ on Mad Men and have followed her on Instagram for 3 years or so?

She appears as deep as a plate. But she did want to have a child, so she must have some good qualities.

She is aging amazingly well and has great skin. But again, I have grown to like her less and less based on her Instagram. Agreed that she has a subtle sense of humor, so she's not a complete dumb-dumb.

Some of my favorite scenes were Betty and Sally at the Thanksgiving dinner at Henry's mother's house. Betty and Glenn in that supermarket parking lot (stunningly photograph and I cannot deny her heartbreaking performance- I think it is my favorite scene of the entire series). I liked later Betty just as much as early Betty. And she MADE those last few episodes. I thought she was lovely. I loved her walking up those university stairs while Sally read that letter.

Betty was my favorite character on MM. I don't think JJ just "lucked" into that performance. She was perfect, and I always missed her on the episodes she wasn't in. I loved the ep where she and Don hook up at parents weekend at summer camp. They had amazing chemistry, and even though they didn't last, JJ and Hamm really make you believe, even at the end, that Don and Betty never loved anyone else as much as they did each other.

God, I miss Mad Men! I haven't gotten as deeply into any show since.

R155 Yes she had a great quality about wanting a a baby....she fucked someone's else's husband to get one!

She comes across as a complete narcissist on her Instagram. She is so impressed with her looks. 18 year olds girls act like this. Once she opens up her mouth she sounds like Johanna Hayseed to be honest.

R156I never bought into that Don and Betty thing at the end. Betty wanted the kids in a better home environment. So Dick Whitman(AKA Don) was out. However I do think that JJ has a thing for Hamm in real life. She can't stop posting pictures of them together. I wonder if he fucked her as well.

I SEEN HER WALKING ON SUNSET BLVD I SWEAR !!!

AND AT THE BAR AT THE MARMONT: GAL NEEDS CASH N QUICK

r155 damn she came off crazy in this scene. Betty should have forced Don and her to take an adults only vacation and laid out her feelings about everything. Such a shame.

r157 John Hamm is available at the moment so anything is possible, don't forget the toupee.

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[quote] [R155] Yes she had a great quality about wanting a a baby....she fucked someone's else's husband to get one!

The homewrecker! The Delilah! The trollop! The good-time girl!

R157. I agree. She is supremely vain and narcissistic. I will say she is extremely photogenic. And knows it. That is why I said that she appears as deep as a plate. And if someone who looks like that cannot maintain a longterm relationship, it does make you wonder. She does appear to be very close with her sisters who I think are in the business behind the scenes.

I was thinking that if she wanted another kid she should try to have one with Hamm now that he's single since he's so damn good looking they'd be sure to have a beautiful child together. But then I remember that sometimes nature is cruel an a lot of time two very pretty people end up having a kid like the girl who played their daughter on MM.

Hambone has the best toupee in history. He went all out for that. Looks like he scalped a 16 year old and made it out of his hair.

JJ doing the walk of shame after a night of whoring.

R162 shame on you. You forgot strumpet and hussy!

R164 Their daughter was kinda cute on the show.

R163 yes she can't sustain a long term relationship at all. She even dabbled in the lez lez and that didn't work out. She had to fuck a married man to get a kid. Very screwed up of her. She could have had someone better than that(Matt Vaughn) for sure.

I wanted to post those walk of shame pictures but I knew someone else would! That harlot couldn't have worn sunglasses....how tawdry of her.

r167 forget the sunglasses what's up with them damn shoes, just tragic. P.S. there is no such thing as a walk of shame. Sex is not shameful; own it!

My parents were really good looking. I am average looking on a good day. Almost always the case when two really attractive people have kids.

[quote]The best scene was when Betty and Henry came home and the MIL was asleep with a knife in her hands and Sally was sleeping under the chair because they got freaked out over her telling the story of the guy who raped and killed the nurses.

Don’t forget, they were knocked out on Seconal!

You all say you missed Betty Draper after season three, but that would have gotten tired much beyond 39 episodes. I prefer the first three seasons too, but Don and Betty divorced at the right time.

In other obvious news: yes JJ is a slore and yes she is a one-dimensional actress (that worked well in MM, but elsewhere, no so much).

It really sucked when they wrote off Sal.

You bitches forget what she did to me and that bastard of hers looks a lot like my ex!

I was sorry they never brought Sal or Carla back. They brought back Paul Kinsey (whom no one ever particularly cared to see again) and Midge--why not Sal or Carla?

Sal who? Bob Benson was the one that got away...

P.S. I would have loved a threesome with Bob and

I always suspected that Don was gonna get a little brown sugar from Carla but it never happened. I loved Bob too but he was never very central to the show as Sal was in the beginning. I loved the scene when Joan straightened out to Bob who he was when he proposed marriage to her.

I wanted Bob Benson to turn out to be Don's long-lost son. And remember all that foreshadowing to someone falling off the balcony/ That would've made a great season ending cliffhanger.

Speaking of Sal, remember when the hot French guy came out in front of Sal. This scene makes me feel so bad for all the Sals of previous generations.

Sal’s last scene ever was cruising in the Ramble wasn’t it? Unfairly terminated and never seen again. Like many others, I had hoped he’d be seen again as a commercial director—even as a freelancer for one episode—after Lucky Strike was gone. Nobody wanted to see Krishna Kinsey in that fucked up ponytail with that bitch who looked like a bag lady Juliette Lewis.

R172 The last time we saw Sal he was cruising. What a cheap end for the character he deserved a return of sorts. It would have been fun to have seen Sal return from San Francisco with his twinky partner. Instead we got more of Betty.

R171 A slore? I've heard her called a whut before but not a slore........

January claims that she spent the night at a girlfriend's house. The blurb is bitchy about her claim BUT JJ could have been doing the lez lez.

r178, I think Kurt was German, not French.

"slore" is now an official go-to Datalounge term!

R184 Use it in good health!

How can someone be absolutely beautiful in one tv role me utterly meh irl? It helped that she had a beautiful body perfectly suited to those outfits—tiny waist and flat stomach, big boobs, no fat but no too thin. I’ve never found her attractive except in that role. One year for Halloween I dressed in a 70s outfit and everyone repeatedly told me how amazing and perfect I looked in that era of dress so maybe some peeple’s looks are more suited to,certain decades.

Bob hits on Pete LOL

Poor January no matter what she does she is always slut shamed. She can catch a break if she would just stop posting these risque pictures of herself. What a vapid,vacuous and irrelevant cunt she is.

[quote]She does appear to be very close with her sisters who I think are in the business behind the scenes.

Are her sisters named February, June and July?

An actor is a narcissist? Aren’t they all?

she was great in two tricky plots: the "fling" with the neighbour kid (her last convo with him in the parking lot was beautiful) and the cancer one.

Mad Men was special. Any actress could have done well in that show.

R190 She takes the cake. Posting very revealing pictures of oneself on Instagram is deplorable. She is a 40 year old not a twenty year old. Though I like the dig she takes at herself in one post. She is reading a book in Spanish called : The Adventures Of A Crazy Gringa. she mentions that they wrote the book about her!

people ask how such a bad actress got that plum role

well....mmmm, ask the maker of the show,...mr weiner. ....yep

How did JJ get the role? Are you saying that MW is like Heavy Whalestein? Pare' was another one of his favorites........

didn't some woman say MW made advances to her? I could be wrong....

she ruined mad men for me also. every other actress was so very accomplished: she stood out like a sow's ear...

seemed like someone from community theatre who slept her way into the part.

who did she sleep with to get madmen??

She was far and away the weakest link in MM. Thankfully the show was sooooo amazing she couldn't ruin it for me. I felt bad for her, she really gave it a go. Honorable Mention must go to that fat, ugly little son of MW who played Glenn. Terrible actor. MW should have known better

I remember having a weirdly strong crush on Rizzo. Sexy beast that he was

I don't care if she's a bit slutty or that she's a so-so actress, it's her reportedly being a mean girl on top of all that is what makes me not like her.

At least she's never broken a toilet seat -- unlike Hendricks.

[quote]And she was the only thing that made me cry during the finale.

That turned me into a wreck. My mom died of cancer when I was 15, it was so hard to watch.

R197 I'm not saying a damn thing.......

If she can withstand the ladies' room after Hendricks comes out, she had handle Weinstein.

I hear you're a filthy slut January. How about you come and sit on my face and jack off my shriveled cock. I'll make you a star. I'll even father your shitty little bambino. I just hope my cock will touch the sides because you're so much of a loose slut. Now, now don't talk. All I'm interested is in you sucking and fucking my cock. Your tits aren't much to look at. In fact you're pretty ugly. A fuck's a fuck I guess and you do look better than that bush pig McGowan. Just put that paper bag on your head and bend over. That's a good girl.

R205 Whalestein I agree with everything you said except for the pretty ugly bit. She ain't ugly deary. She might have a sloppy flabby ass but she looks damn good.

I love Mad Men, but i'll never understand why they spent so much time focusing on Paul Kinsey and that fat guy with the glasses (I cannot even remember his name he was so forgettable). Did anyone really give a fuck about those two characters?

Sal and Bob were way more interesting. And cuter too.

I just really loved Sal. It was nice to see a homosexualist that was an integral part of the show. Was really sad to see him going. Don seeing him with the bellboy at the hotel was one of the best moments of the show.

if weiner had not let the show drift.....it would still be on.

shows must be produced with the head, not the xxxx.

even tho ms jones' poor talents were apparent, she stayed in the scripts, bad energy, yet there she was.

hmmmm

Miss January is certainly an actress of limited range. But that range includes being able to play an ice princess blonde like Betty. I agree, Betty was probably fairly close to January's real personality. so it wasn't much of a stretch.

A lot of actors have a limited range. If the writers like the actor, they write the character to the actor's strengths.

But Jan, as well as Jon, both looked FANTASTIC in 60s outfits, which I'm sure contributed to them getting cast

she came up short for rent

is a gofund me for her...

I added $.50 cents to her coffers.

FER DA KIDS

How do we know she's anything like Betty in real life?

JJ should have played Grace Jones in that movie they did about her a few years ago. She would have been perfect. I don't know why they chose Nicole Kidman to play her.

Grace KELLY, not Grace Jones. My bad.

I would watch January Jones playing Grace Jones anytime.

R214 Didn't Nicole pump Whalestein for that role? I think JJ tired of Heavy so no more fooling around with him if she did.....

I would LOVE to see Grace Jones as Princess of Monaco! OR Betty Draper!

[quote] JJ should have played Grace Jones in that movie they did about her a few years ago. She would have been perfect. I don't know why they chose Nicole Kidman to play her.

Because Nicole Kidman can act, and JJ cannot.

She's had way more success than most.

She'll have syndication/streaming residuals for both a drama and a sitcom.

And child support plus hush money.

Syndication and streaming from Mad Men? Probably a pittance. She might have done better on Last Man but she's not the star.

Child support? From whom? Hush money...what hush money from Whalestein?!

Yeah, I don't see her getting any MM residuals. Even it were syndicated, one-hour dramas almost never do well in syndication. The key is to get on a successful sitcom for 5 years and hope it's successful in syndication. If it is, you can pull up the brinks truck.

You do get residuals for streaming. I was in an episode of a Netflix show and I get my $11.13 every six months! Mad Men is likely inifinitely more popular in streaming than the show I was on and she was in a majority of the episodes AND Mad Men is available on other platforms. She probably does OK with residuals - not enough to let her retire, of course...

I doubt many people are streaming Mad Men. Like most esoteric series, you watch it once but never really go back to. It's not comfort TV that you revisit over and over.

Maybe so, but I know a lot of people who have revisited iconic recent period series like Downton Abbey. Mad Men is not exactly "feel good" TV, but I can also see people who missed it the first time around checking it out for binging.

R224 Yes. It has cult status. It is coffee money to JJ no matter how you spin it. Last Man might prove to be a bigger financial windfall for her.

There will always be renewed interest in Mad Men for the legendary production design. Just ripening baby gays will always be drawn to it like moths to a flame.

R227 Wishful thinking. I like the show but the retro thing is a hard sell when platforms like Netflix,Hulu and Amazon are doing spanking new shows set in the present or beyond. Baby gays will be revolted by January Jones' wretched acting and turn away.

what kind of a goofball has a baby with a man and refuses to name the daddy.

sad

dumb

go back to Utah hun

She is from South Dakota deary. Which is even worse than Moronland,Utah.....

but we in Dakota don't want the shame of it bein the home state of miss jones.....

R231 That curse laden piece of shit show , Deadwood, was shameful and was based in South Dakota. At least January is the biggest whore to come out of SD. That is better than nothing..

That is RACIST, R229.

Wait, you were talking about me, right? Please talk about me.

R233 JJ is vapid, a single mother and beautiful. You are vapid , a single mother and ugly!

Betty and Don in the first 2 seasons of Mad Men were golden. I see it being rerun on the AUD channel

random but Stormy Daniels always reminds me of a busty blonde version of Rosemarie Dewitt aka...Midge Daniels. I'm just going to assume Stormy is Midge's daughter.

don't diss her for sellin her poon

she gots diapers to buy....

I dislike her...boring, vapid, droll. Even her name... she was decent in one role and that was it. She’s a plastic surgery disaster waiting to happen. Give it another 10 years when her looks start to fade...

how long can her vag last for rent?

[quote]I doubt many people are streaming Mad Men.

Actually, I am this month. I wanted to watch the whole series all over again--I just finished season 4.

[quote]I love Mad Men, but i'll never understand why they spent so much time focusing on Paul Kinsey and that fat guy with the glasses (I cannot even remember his name he was so forgettable). Did anyone really give a fuck about those two characters? Sal and Bob were way more interesting. And cuter too.

Ken Cosgrove was the hottest thing on that show. He burned up the screen so much with sexual heat, that in the later seasons, they made him wear an eyepatch because he was sexier than Jon Hamm.

I have nothing but praise for January Jones portrayal of Betty on Mad Men. Stellar performance from beginning to (sad) end.

Betty was a one note performance. Weiner's writing made that character not even ruined by a terrible actress like JJ. Charlie Mc Carthy would shine in that role.

Selling her poon? Is she escorting? Otherwise she is posting very slutty and risque pictures on Instagram. She can't get a big payday from Playboy because she basically shows everything but her poon on Instagram!

yes, cosgrove was hot !!!! even with the patch....

she pushin 40...

I like Joan's husband. I nearly blew a load when he took her on the office floor.

but she had vag rejuvenation, so she has a good nother 5 yrs of.....use.

Joan jugs?

[quote] I love Mad Men, but i'll never understand why they spent so much time focusing on Paul Kinsey and that fat guy with the glasses (I cannot even remember his name he was so forgettable). Did anyone really give a fuck about those two characters? Sal and Bob were way more interesting. And cuter too.

They were more interesting to you BECAUSE they were cuter.

Dataloungers like you want all TV shows to approximate gay porn as closely as possible. All that interests you is how hot the male actors are.

jj only hope is to have huge jugs put in like old joan.......

Who would pass on a roll with Liam? Of course she rode that.

R249 is a closet case who would rather watch a show about Paul and Harry who were fat, pasty straight guys with boring backstories.

Sal and Bob were gay characters, and i'm somehow supposed to be ashamed for wanting to see their characters develop more?

How come this broad cant get any work??

r210 I though Jon looked bloated after season 2. I was just never sexually attracted to him. January looked amazing. Sad that they didn't cast a heartthrob.

imdb show she has done almost no work since, and has nothing planned in 2018

I may contribute to her GoFundMe....

R255 Who JJ? She has Last Man ON Earth with ex-Will Forte on.

I watched that show and never saw her fug ass

she living off $ from her baby daddy, whom she wont name, crazy fuk she is.

When she came on mad men, the show stopped. her dead voice and eyeballs were grossly out of place.

bored, stoned, horney, whatev

weiner diserviced her and the show with her appearance.

weird director

Notice though that there's no Peggy or Pete thread.

Betsy and Roger were my favorites on MM and the main reason I watched

I like Duck a lot too. Especially when he kicked Don's ass. Don't get me wrong I loved Don but he was really due for an ass kicking.

More about her foray into lesbianism? I was not aware of this.

[quote]I though Jon looked bloated after season 2.

Was that a character choice or was that Jon not being able to handle stardom?

[quote]Notice though that there's no Peggy or Pete thread.

When Mad Men was being broadcast, there was a DL troll that kept starting threads about Pete's feet.

Did he beat his meat to Pete's feet?

I don't know why they killed Mrs. Blankenship. She was the funniest fucking thing on the show. Plus she came on when the show really needed that.

R262 JJ was lezzing around with Michael C Hall's ex-wife and Dexter co-star, Jennifer Carpenter. JJ looked like such a boy when she was younger. I'm surprised she didn't turn out as butch as she did.

Peggy's insecurities and bullying of her staff people were both irritating and pathetic to watch. She was a Don wannabe but forgot that image was everything in that line of business; she always looked lumpy and boring in those junior high '60s-era clothes. A bow-shaped barrette?! Her taste in men was also bad of course, but then she was no prize either. I was kind of skeptical though that she had no idea she was pregnant in season 1 ---how stupid is that? Peggy got the happy ending though which pissed me off.

As for JJ, I think she played Betty perfectly---that odd detachment of hers along with that innate cold selfishness was very effective as a foil versus the other earthier/lusty women Don fucked with. I also agree that she looked fantastic in those clothes and accessories.

Just as an aside, the plot line with the pudgy and ugly Glenn kid was weird, especially when he was spying on her when she was on the toilet and then later when he wanted a lock of her hair ---not to mention the handholding they did. Somehow it seemed that she showed more sincere emotion with Glenn in the parking lot scene than she did berating Don for all his infidelities. I actually thought that she would end up fucking the teenaged thuggish Glenn, as some kind of finished business to do before she dies of cancer. What was the point of Glenn's character anyway?

It showed the deep longing in Betty for some closeness. Where she wasn't afraid of being rejected, left, or judged. Plus he was innocently taking her love. Not like Dirty Don.

[quote]Betsy and Roger were my favorites on MM and the main reason I watched

Betsy?

[quote]What was the point of Glenn's character anyway?

It gave Weiner's kid an acting job

[quote]I though Jon looked bloated after season 2.

I caught the show midway through the first season and became obsessed with the show and Don, but unfortunately Hamm's/Don's looks went further south with each season.

Don is so fucking hot that I still wanted to fuck his ass no matter how bloated or south he went. He really embodies the gorgeous man who never works out...ever persona. That is a tightrope that most men can not ever walk. As for the lovely January Jones - she is stunningly beautiful and she played the role of Betty to a "T". I highly doubt that she will win any Oscars, but most of those PR campaigns are over-hyped anyway. She did a great job - beautiful, annoying, hypocritical, somewhat loyal, often weak, and a somewhat terrible mother who still remained relatable.

I was born in the 60's and Betty was very believable as a type of mother back then, my mother could be cold like that too.

[quote]What was the point of Glenn's character anyway?

[quote]It gave Weiner's kid an acting job

Lucy did it. Until Gary talked her out of doing it.

JJ's show was canceled, so let's see what her next move is.