MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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!

I don't think the Peggy/show logo thing was all that special, not the first time they've done it either iirc

You say that now, but just wait til next season and it's a woman falling out the window in the new opening credits!

it's true i think that this is the first season with no episodes i didn't like. Season 2 has easily been the worst imo; i mean all those subplots about horses and priests oyyy.

The season of Colin Hanks: Folk Rock Priest.

"Nixon's the president, everything's back where Jesus wanted it"

Just saw this, finally. Fucking great season finale imho. All over the place, tying knots, surprises, what more could one want?

Also, hello awesome elevator scene:

Bob: "How are you?"
Pete: "NOT GREAT BOB!"

finale was great, I found pete's silent goodbye to daughter the most moving scene of the finale.
and this season wass great because it seemed like there was only one betty centric episode (beaty and the hippie squatters)
that we had to suffer through.

lol LBI. i agree with you, i thought this was great. it will be crushing, next season, when don finds out it is too late, and he has already missed his chance at redemption.

like, with his kids i mean, and in the ad industry. i am an atheist.

Smiley Bob reminds me of those Enzyte commercials

lol totally. when he let the mask slip, briefly, two episodes ago it was the best thing. "you should be careful what you say to people, pete."

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100901222316/muppet/images/7/79/GuySmiley-2009.jpg

nice.

Haha, Bob really reminds me of The Sidler from Seinfeld

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=NKx2Ko6HJc0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNKx2Ko6HJc0

The best episode of the worst season. Maybe second best, I enjoyed the amphetamines one a lot.

I will rank the seasons so far: 1>4>5>2>3>6

This is where I came from, Sally Draper, and if you don't straighten up you're going to end up back here.

Don's Bill Hicks moment was was fine.

maybe that is the finale: don looks in the mirror and realizes that he looks like bill hicks, and what we have been seeing is his idealized self-concept. he has to reconsider his ugly behavior with the new knowledge that he is also physically unremarkable.

that was the judy collins recording of from both sides now, wasn't it? I wouldn't know since I hate that song

yep

that song is good. it's very shallow lyrically, but i sort of like that about it for a reason i can't explain.

they should have gone with the hole version from pretty on the inside.

Electric Circus/ Gainsbourg moment could well be the best ever music bit on MM which is really saying something.

i liked when found love by the fly bi nights played when don was at that LA party and almost drowned

"I'd tell you to go to hell, but I don't want to see you again."

ginsberg is on some show called major crimes on tnt right now

wish they'd had more of ginsberg this season

great episode

loved how the weird don flashbacks totally slid into place with the hershey meeting and the last scene

I do this show's patience often really pays off in episodes like this.

so the last we see of Ginsberg is Bob talking him out of his breakdown right? Such a weird arc for his character.

Cutler's been angling to get Ginzo out of the picture.

so the last we see of Ginsberg is Bob talking him out of his breakdown right? Such a weird arc for his character.

― ryan, Monday, June 24, 2013 9:11 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Actually, Ginsberg was back last week with the Ocean Spray meeting trying to get Ted to respond to an idea "that wasn't (Peggy's)."

oh yes. Totally forgot about that.

i know this won't hold up to scrutiny but since

a) nobody mentioned pete going to california

b) pete told trudy he was going to california

c) pete is basically at rock bottom

i kinda thought maybe pete was going to off himself? that would be too easy i suppose

...

do we think don was about to come clean about his infidelity when megan decided to bail? probably not. even the post-sobriety truth-telling has its limits.

also his "megan, i love you" was kind of half-assed. she's gone.

i like this show.

Weiner has sort of hinted that Megan will still be around, although perhaps not as Don's wife.

I think Pete's going to Cali w/Ted. He's the only free accounts man (Bob's w/Chevy, Ken's fixing to be a dad, Roger ain't going anywhere), and also his move could be another facet of Cutler's plan to phase out any SCDP stalwarts (Don's fired, Ginsberg's a pussy hair away from getting fired without Ted's veto power around, Ken has one eye).

On an unrelated note, I hope Ken buys some Hathaway shirts next season...

http://boozeblogger.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/cherry-heering-shirt-ad-1969-SM.jpg

some show called major crimes

that is the spinoff of the closer, or not exactly spinoff, since it's the same cast w/o sedgwick, and mary mcdonnell taking the lead

does don even still want megan at this point?

Megan gets a day job as a creative w/Ted

Don now has two pissed-off ex-wives who know his secret, plus an off-the-rails Pete Campbell (who probably doesn't give enough of a shit at this point), plus Sterling and Cooper who are maybe cutting the strings now. It's as precarious a situation as he's been in regarding the whole desertion + forged identity thing. If Sally finds out he's probably fucked.

I thought Pete (and by extention Bert & Rog) misinterpreted the infomation as a mere desertion case. They don't know who Dick Whitman is, or what really happened.

What his wives or Pete or Bert or Roger or anyone's incentive for revealing this? It also doesn't need to be anything more than desertion in a time of war.

Do we not think Don is on the verge of telling his kids "the truth" or some variation thereof by taking them to the house where he grew up?

He totally is! I don't see how he's fucked if Sally learns, unless Sally and Roger have gossip sessions on the phone every day, and Roger doesn't know. At this point he's more fucked if Sally doesn't know.

Sally is kinda fucked regardless isn't she? What a messed up set of parents to have.

He's fine if he tells her, he's fucked if he keeps it to himself and Sally finds out by some other means.