MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

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

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.