MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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

The Ugly Ad Man

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.

Oh the subplot about Peggy and her boyfriend moving to the upper west side (?, did I get that right?) was really painful imo

Don and Betty having sex was pretty lame. And comes out of nowhere.

pretty sure we know where he came out of

I did like Megan's line last night about "you can just stay here with your booze and your ex-wife and your screwed-up kids" -- pretty otm.

yeah that was a good dig

i just loved how all of Don meeting's this season have become progressively more and more facepalm. the Hershey meeting the pinnacle of watching through splayed fingers

well he did save baby tylenol in the last ep but yeah between Hershey and the GM meeting he's totally been, how you say, shitting the bed

sickest season yet -- h8rs gon h8

Also Bob was str8 fire, setting up Pete in camaro. Every moment of that was gold.

*the camaro

The Hershey meeting was the inverse of the Kodak slide projector pitch in season 1. In both cases he trots out this fantasy version of his own life to sell the thing, but this time he just can't do it anymore.

'80s Don Draper

There Peggy. We put a bow on Pacman. Happy?

It was just pointed out to me (I didn't pick up on it last night) that Sally had changed her last name. I dunno if she just did it, or if Henry has adopted the kids. I would think I full adoption would've played into the series, though.

And yeah, you have to think this is intentional.

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I've been saying for how many years now that I'd suspected the show would eventually focus on Peggy rather than Don, and transition of a woman into the pivotal character on a show called Mad Men. I thought that would've happened sooner, and it still may not even happen at all, but I'm glad Weiner threw me this bone.

I think it kinda silly to think that Pete would work so hard to get Chevy and think he'd be able to fake his way out of not even knowing how to drive a car.

Pete is an entitled WASP

Pete is the best

He's arrogant! What else was he supposed to do? He was stuck. So great.

whenever pete is cornered by life, circumstances or people, he reacts in the most amazingly terrible ways

I love him

Scene with Pete and his brother writing off their mom was pretty funny.

otm

she always loved the ocean

My memory of past seasons is really poor. What happened to the Campbell family money?

I lol'd hard at pete's reaction to Don's california rec

on their father's death, Pete's older brother Bud examines their father's finances in relation to their inheritance from the family trust. Bud discovers that their father depleted the money put into the trust through years of a lavish lifestyle. When Bud tells Pete the news, they both seem unsurprised by their father's actions. Following this, Pete states that he in fact hated his father.

thx

ya

I think Sally was my favorite character last two seasons. She's a badass. I think she's gonna be alright.

yeah they need to dream up some way for sally to have scenes w/ bob benson nxt season. include glen too plz

When I was looking through Kiernan Shipka photos to make the Sally Draper/Ariel Pink side by side upthread, I'd totally forgotten how little she was when the show began. It has been seven years already, though, even if it doesn't seem like it.