The Kennedy Assassination
November 22, 1963 was a very dark day yet I'm finding myself looking more and more forward to how it will be handled by MW. The Kennedy Assasination has been a subtly growing tensile thread through the narrative of the entire season but it seems there is no good way to approach it. I think that it will have to be as Fred2 said a sort of backdrop to the story but with the characters so heavily involved in their own lives I can't see it being more than that, and yes it has to happen in the first 5 minutes or the last 5. And if in the first five we will catch the action after the fact mid crisis. Perhaps season four opening with the Beatles Feb 9, 1964. But I think that would be a bit too "Wonder Years" .
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Wow! Really?Is that how you think it happen? Do you think that people, Americans,The World, the characters would be so heavily involved in their own lives? That day in history can be recalled by anyone you ask, and it's always the same. Everything stopped. The world glued to radios,and TV. Absolutely stunned,and devastated.
Will it be in the show? Well, it maybe the up coming ,or not up coming wedding of Roger's daughter that trumps JFK.
The Beatles? I keep hearing this. What you mean like Pete will start wearing bangs? I don't know The Beatles, maybe. Depends if the writers are fans?
Sorry if that's poorly written. I am so high...and I'm not as cool as Peggy.
One of the great things about the show is that it does keep you guessing. I think what I mean is that they have to address the Assasination but it won't be the central focus. I mean were not going to see the Zapruder film "back and to the left" or anything. It will have to be more of a focus on the emotion and surprise of that day and how it effects the goings on of the characters. Peggy rules!!
Hi JasonLloyd73!
The topic of JFKs murder has been covered so much in previous posts. The only thing I can say is it will be covered, but, not the primary focus of an episode. I gave my predictions a while ago.
As far as the opening of the next season, I hope the first episode will at least have Sally begging, and then watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show.
We'll see...
'60s child: Me too.... I was hoping for a montage of the Beatles landing at Idlewyld or traffic being clogged etc. I for one, would not care a whit if the JFK assassination was not addressed at all! It's been done, and done, and done to death, pun intended.
Keep in mind the MM world is comprised, by and large, by establishment, conservative people.
No doubt the MW will reconstruct the JFK assassination as it was viewed by the conservative press, rather than the emotional recall as we see it today.
Yes, people were crying in the streets; yet many did not cry over the loss of this president, just shocked at the violence of the act.
How do people perceive the news events in real time that are later portrayed as cataclysmic is at issue here.
Matt Weiner has indicated in a number of interviews that they will not be directly addressing the assassination. Margaret Sterling's wedding is the day after, and for those who WERE married that day, it was subdued, solemn, and sad but life went on and I suspect THAT is what we will see (if anything) regarding JFK - that, and radios and the TV on in the background everywhere.
...I don't want to see any of the assassination. I think it's an abomination to bring it into the story.
I don't want to see any assassinations either.
Loves but on your other post's you show a violent nature,whats up with that ?
I've seen MW's comments on the Kennedy assassination and I can only hope it is a head fake to surprise his audience. I certainly don't want to see him remake "JFK" and have that overwhelm the story and narrative of MM, but it would be interesting to see characters reacting to it. Arguably, the Sixties don't start until the assassination and don't end until Watergate. I don't expect an abrupt transition but I think the show should noticeably change and evolve over Season 4 into a whole new beast-- one just as well written and compelling.
@carella: It wasn't the violent act but the assassination of our President that had people, men included, crying on nationwide TV. That is literally the first time I ever saw a man cry.
@BlueRunner: As shocked and saddened as people were and glued to their TV's, life in fact DID go on. Regularly scheduled football games were played, the stock market stayed open, people did what they were scheduled to do that weekend, attend a wedding, church function, etc. The world actually did not stop - like it did after 9/11.