MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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.

one wonders how Roger knows nothing of Don/Dick's past. i always assumed that maybe Burt would have had a word about it at some point with him on the sly. seems astonishing how many people know about 'who he is' yet his best/only friend on the show is in the dark.

Why do the wives on this show never notice the smell of sex on their cheating husbands when they hop into bed with them after having JUST come from adulterous liaisons?

Yeah, I thought the Chanel No. 5 mention was gonna foreshadow Ted's wife smelling it on him.

I've wondered about that before, but was really wondering last night when Ted crawled into bed with his wife.

ted and peggy looked pretty gross post-coitus. all sweaty with red mouths.

prbly made some smells

just two clowns, havin sex

lol

I was sure Ted's wife was going to smell the Chanel No. 5...they had made such a point about how much she smelled of it.

Why do the wives on this show never notice the smell of sex on their cheating husbands when they hop into bed with them after having JUST come from adulterous liaisons?

egg burrito iirc

http://i.imgur.com/AD7Lvzh.jpg

I was sure Ted's wife was going to smell the Chanel No. 5...they had made such a point about how much she smelled of it.

just some product placement probably

I imagine the standard procedure is Don/whoever sneaks away from the scene of the crime and drowns their angst in booze for a few hours before heading home to the wife, the stench of liquor conveniently overpowering any sex smells.

Ted showered when he left Peggy's bed, remember?

"There’s no way to talk about this without being defensive. What would you do with the show? I don’t know. Where is your show? (laughs).. "

you tell em Matt!

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/matthew-weiner-discusses-the-mad-men-season-finale/?_r=1&

omg thankyou JF for that gif

I've been trying to recall it all morning

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2013/06/23/mad-men-gifs/turkeybob.o.jpg/a_560x0.jpg

Did the unaired episodes of Lonestar ever come out? Because I really want to see it now.

I don’t know how he knows Manolo.

haha wtf dude. that kind of kills any benefit of the doubt I was giving Weiner.

I guess I underestimate how much they just wing this stuff.

xp I am with waterface re. Sally. She seems to be adjusting well to her revelation, which has been a long time coming, that she can't depend on her parents and needs to figure shit out on her own. Very relatable portrait of a 14 year old.

haha wtf dude. that kind of kills any benefit of the doubt I was giving Weiner.

Weiner is kind of a liar though. A week ago he said "No one's going to die" in the finale. Unless Pete's mom is a great swimmer this wasn't true.

tvline: "The Season 6 finale of Mad Men on AMC, meanwhile, drew 2.7 million viewers — the show’s most-watched closer to date. (The Season 5 climax drew 2.6 million viewers)."

Weiner is kind of a liar though. A week ago he said "No one's going to die" in the finale. Unless Pete's mom is a great swimmer this wasn't true.

Yeah, maybe he meant it in the sense of "I'm not going to say" or "we as an audience don't know yet, wait and see."

idk, pete's mom is a secondary character -- when you say something like 'no-one's going to die', personally I'm really only thinking about the main cast.

i imagine leaving things indeterminate whenever possible is a good way to avoiding painting yourself into corners. and as the audience, we're in a "need to know" position as well i guess.

RIP Miss Blankenship

Joni Mitchell. Called it.

I dunno, I wasn't feeling this season at all to begin with, but I came around to it in the latter half; the super strange Twin Peaks-y episode was the one that really pulled me back in, I think. And I've pretty much enjoyed Don's season-long tailspin, in retrospect. The show has definitely felt askew this year, though.

Funny that people have been speculating whether or not the opening titles of a body falling from a skyscraper would actually happen in the show, when, in actual fact, it was the programme's LOGO that would be emulated.

Weiner doesn't know how Bob knows Manolo because it doesn't matter and no one cares.

Great finale, hit-and-miss season. Bizarrely paced.

The speed episode was pretty great. Ken's tapdance was the only one of those dumb "for your consideration" ads where I was happy to see the scene again.

i liked virtually all of the episodes this season.

it's weird how when nothing overtly crazy happens on the show people say it's it's boring then when shit actually happens people complain about it being like a "soap opera".

just proves that no one knows what the hell they want. which ironically is one of the major themes of the show!