MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

TV guide was right

why is it whenever a TV or movie character shares autobiographical data he must break down?

It's a painful part of his past. He didn't break down, tho, really.

Obviously, he couldn't take it anymore. My guess is he's about to tell Sally about his past.

I mean he got overwhelmed but that was no way a breakdown

i don't know why don did that! a couple weeks ago i thought don should just move to california, but how would they do that. it's hard to look forward to another season of his toxic behavior though

pete's mom/manolo story is enjoyably batshit

what would sally's reaction be to hearing don's whole story?

shrug, right?

Don would share a beer with her.

or he's gonna tell Megan

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What if the entire series of Mad Men has just been the backstory leading up to the formation of The Doobie Brothers.

HOLY SHIT

That didn't look like a shrug to me.

"You're free of everything"

"That's not what I wanted"

"Well, now you know that"

Ted and Peggy are both idiots, btw.

Peggy turning her head in Don's office matching the silhouette of:

http://www.theinternationalman.com/img/categories/mad-men-title-card.jpg

Ted and Peggy are both idiots, btw.

Kind of a great direction for next season I think--

Good call, whoever mentioned Joni Mitchell upthread!

how did Ted know Don had just "stopped cold" with his boozing?

Tivo description was "Don has difficulties."

is Pete *also* going out to California? darn thing moved so fast this week.

We rewound when Ted said that. Before he comes in, Don's holding a paper and it's shaking. Then when he points to the bar to offer Ted a drink there's the MOST subtle movement, but they focus on Ted staring at his hand awkwardly.

ah right yeah.

can't believe they brought Duck back. man that was cold.

They didn't bring Duck back. They used Duck to potentially fill Don's vacancy.

No one is going to agree with me but this was by far the least interesting, most over the top season. The show has gone from soap opera to super saiyan soap opera. I have lost any semblance of giving a shit about these characters in any way, given that weiner enjoys batting them around like a cat with string. All the jokey "here's what happens in the finale" posts above are virtually indistinguishable from the actual plot. Manolo married Pete's mother then lost her at sea! Don punches a minister, quits drinking and is movin' to California with an aching in his heart! Megan quit her job and then walked out on Don when he predictably fucked her over! Peggy fucked her boss and then recovered from a confusing break up in ten minutes and something something women are making decisions mumble mumble! Joan, Roger and Bob are gonna be a circa 1968 Modern Family and Bob's carving!
Pretending that all this has deeper meaning and shows a mind carefully cultivating complex characters just because there's excellent direction, occasionally fun character acting and period clothes/set dressing is beyond me at this point. And when I try to say "fuck it all in" and just enjoy the pure silliness of it all, I get hamstrung by sequences like Pete stroking his child's hair while Trudy looks on stern and lovingly. I don't mind it being nonsense. I don't mind it being weighty. When it does one or the other, I'm cool. But this show has its cake, eats it, wears it on its head and then black grandma steals the cake. I think I'm full.

i tell you Harry Crane's had a lousy season.

Stan Rizzo got fucked over three ways in this episode.

At least he got his sandwich (presumably)

Maybe I'm a sucker, but this whole episode just did me in in a major way.

Forks otm

Don's total personality turnaround after he stopped drinking -- his move to sincerity, his desire to connect with people instead of just repressing everything -- was abrupt but, in my experience with ex-alcoholics, pretty accurate. Good job, Mad Men.

I understand the inclination to give up on a series before its final season, because I certainly did that with House, M.D. Mad Men hasn't fallen off like House did, though. Some? Yes. Off a cliff? No way.

i watched the shit out of house, and even watched all of the depressing last season - but that wasn't enough to push me all the way to watching the finale

lol. i used to love house but i stopped watching after chase murdered the african dictator.

i was oddly satisfied with the partners giving don "some time off." now he's basically on par with freddy rumsen.

pete's mom/manolo story is enjoyably batshit

yes! so well backgrounded too; that and the burglary scene lent such a feeling of creeping terror to this season in an odd and yet very specific way. both really felt like nightmares, plausible but weighted and inescapable.

also loved the extravagance of both pete's parents dying in spectacular international transportation accidents.

is Pete *also* going out to California? darn thing moved so fast this week.

― piscesx, Sunday, June 23, 2013 11:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pete would be Ted's accounts guy in California, no? All in context. If they bring Stan along, they'd be the three amigos of Peggy's failed suitors.

Kind of wondering if this is the Tusk of seasons, what with all the odd pacing, sprawl and general lunacy.

Pretending that all this has deeper meaning and shows a mind carefully cultivating complex characters just because there's excellent direction, occasionally fun character acting and period clothes/set dressing is beyond me at this point.

haha this is the most bizarre criticism possible of this show at this point.

also at least three of the examples that you give don't actually happen in this episode

Thanksgiving backdrop gave it a weird treacley "tonight on a very special Christmas episode of Mad Men. Don stops drinking! Ted takes his family to the vahalla of California" vibe. Judy Collins' Joni cover symbolic I suppose.

No one is going to agree with me but this was by far the least interesting, most over the top season.

Nah -- I agree.

For a show that depends on infidelity for plot lines, the move away from that during the finale was kind of surprising.

had its moments, but yeah this season was not great

Nope it wasn't.

Definitely my least favourite. My least favourite series moment to-date was the last four eps of Season 1 (Don's Vietnam experience explained and Peggy didn't even know she was pregnant!)

I knew Draper was talented but it takes some real time-traveling powers for him to explain his Vietnam experience in '60

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I disliked Season 2 a lot more

Feel like lots of exciting things happened this season. It felt chaotic, but I think that was intentional.

clothes are going to get really fucking ugly next season. is it the last one?

I liked this season pretty well. I had sort of tuned out the last two, only watched bits and pieces of them. (Granted this was as much due to life circumstances as the quality of the show, I didn't watch TV much at all for a few years.)There was enough in this one to keep me interested, though I agree with pretty much everyone that there was too much Don and not enough everybody else.

Peggy and Stan just need to hook up already and get busy making the next generation of hipsters.

xp lol whoops

Good and bad things about this season

+ Sally's new attitude
+ My favourite regular characters Joan, Bert and Roger
+ everything Chevy
+ Harry Crane
+ Bob Benson
+ The neighbour-doctor
- The neighbour-doctor's wife, bad plots for Linda Cardellini :(
- Pete's mom and Manolo
- Betty and Don getting back together for sentimentality's sake
- Megan becoming 2D
- Peggy becoming 2D
- Don's whorehouse flashbacks
- Ted and co.