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.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 24 June 2013 06:46 (eleven years ago) link
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
― j., Monday, 24 June 2013 06:52 (eleven years ago) link
lol. i used to love house but i stopped watching after chase murdered the african dictator.
― Treeship, Monday, 24 June 2013 07:20 (eleven years ago) link
i was oddly satisfied with the partners giving don "some time off." now he's basically on par with freddy rumsen.
― paula deezen (get bent), Monday, 24 June 2013 07:22 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― discreet, Monday, 24 June 2013 08:36 (eleven years ago) link
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
― 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.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 24 June 2013 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
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
― discreet, Monday, 24 June 2013 08:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:36 (eleven years ago) link
No one is going to agree with me but this was by far the least interesting, most over the top season.
Nah -- I agree.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 June 2013 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
For a show that depends on infidelity for plot lines, the move away from that during the finale was kind of surprising.
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Monday, 24 June 2013 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
had its moments, but yeah this season was not great
― johnny crunch, Monday, 24 June 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
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!)
― align="justify" font="ancient" (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
I knew Draper was talented but it takes some real time-traveling powers for him to explain his Vietnam experience in '60
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
The Ugly Ad Man
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
I disliked Season 2 a lot more
― copter (waterface), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― akm, Monday, 24 June 2013 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
xp lol whoops
― align="justify" font="ancient" (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― align="justify" font="ancient" (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
Oh the subplot about Peggy and her boyfriend moving to the upper west side (?, did I get that right?) was really painful imo
― align="justify" font="ancient" (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
Don and Betty having sex was pretty lame. And comes out of nowhere.
― copter (waterface), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure we know where he came out of
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that was a good dig
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
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
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
sickest season yet -- h8rs gon h8
― 69, Monday, 24 June 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Also Bob was str8 fire, setting up Pete in camaro. Every moment of that was gold.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
*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.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
'80s Don Draper
There Peggy. We put a bow on Pacman. Happy?
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Monday, 24 June 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
Pete is an entitled WASP
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Pete is the best
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
He's arrogant! What else was he supposed to do? He was stuck. So great.
― copter (waterface), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
whenever pete is cornered by life, circumstances or people, he reacts in the most amazingly terrible ways
I love him
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Scene with Pete and his brother writing off their mom was pretty funny.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
she always loved the ocean
My memory of past seasons is really poor. What happened to the Campbell family money?
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
I lol'd hard at pete's reaction to Don's california rec
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 24 June 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― copter (waterface), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
thx
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
ya
― copter (waterface), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
I think Sally was my favorite character last two seasons. She's a badass. I think she's gonna be alright.
― copter (waterface), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
yeah they need to dream up some way for sally to have scenes w/ bob benson nxt season. include glen too plz
― johnny crunch, Monday, 24 June 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link