MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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.

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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.

imo the bags under Ted's eyes are mesmerizing

not sure what i think yet of this season, maybe it's in the lower half, but it's still such a strange, compelling show for me. even in its plotting, in which things are brought up and then cast aside, as aspect which could be carelessness but is frequent enough to seem deliberate and therefore an especially odd quirk. this season has *undercurrents* i haven't pieced together yet.

i think in the general scheme of things the second to last season is probably short-changed in a lot of respects. any REALLY good ideas would be saved for the last season, i assume. we'll see.

Weiner won't commit to the last season happening in 1969, but c'mon. We all know that's when it will happen. It began in 1960, it will end in 1969.

when don said they were going to california, and assuming that next season would be 1969, i though the Megan/Tate theories were gonna go into overdrive. though i guess it's implied she's going anyway? but it's funny how "california" is often signified all season, in both dark ways and light ones.

i hope it's in 2013. don's still trying to make it right.

Manolo subplot was basically Jack Black/Shirley McClaine in "Bernie"

that was a strange capper to the death by ocean themes early in the season.

via Sepinwall: And as noted by several commenters, the song at the bar when Don punches the minister is "Band of Gold," which was also playing in the very first scene of the pilot.

also, what happened to Ginsberg? did he have a mental breakdown and leave?

can someone explain why the F bombs are in the show if they get deleted?

now that I think about it it is pretty lol that the season ended with both Don and Megan unemployed

xpost, the fbombs go out on itunes and the dvd/blurays.

xp dvd release presumably
which betrays the "this is meant to be watched as a complete work" mentality because the bleeping out of words is far more ludicrous than any dumbing down of language that would happen otherwise

"BLANK YOUR WORK" not very effective at holding the moment

I think it works. they use it so rarely that it kind of underlines it even more.

finale felt sort of all over the place to me. like they left too many balls in the air and had to hustle to finish. not one of the season's best episodes.