MAD MEN on AMC - Season 6

'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.

thx

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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.

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

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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