MAD MEN on AMC - Seasons 7(a) & & 7(b)

i meant 7 as a whole; like last "season" as well.

hey guys at the end of the first-season finale they used Dylan's "Don't Think Twice" prematurely in a 1960 milieu, you've had 6 years to lose your anality.

that wasn't diegetic

possible local FM stations played it in 1970 Yeah, especially in Manhattan. Also, promo copies would circulate in Advertising.

Don was somewhere between Racine and St Paul

the season/midseason premiere was decent, the second and third ones were a little weak (although "the forecast" had some good scenes), but 4 and 5 are all time classics imo especially last night. if I think of this as a whole season (which I kinda don't want to), the first half is stacked and it makes sense then that there was the middle doldrums period to the whole thing

the middle doldrums being episodes like "severance," "new business," "forecast" etc

curious what the weird little japan motif amounts to.

OK...I liked a number of episodes in 7-A.

7A was almost wall-to-wall greatness wtf

a few of the earlier eps were minor-key mad men but hardly out of step quality wise with the rest of the show (which means they were pretty good to really good).

yea I don't think the show's had any legitimately bad episodes since season 6, that one did have a few clunkers

question - don's hitchhiker was heading to saint paul, would that be saint paul minnesota, meaning don was heading west (way west) from wisconsin, or is there another saint paul it could be?

yeah he's going west.

my tweet about meredith got fav'd by the actress who plays her #madeit

haha i think i am one of 2 others who favorited it.

yes, esteemed company you keep

as someone who's always harbored a cliched not-so-secret desire to drop everything and reinvent myself in california i will especially happy if that's how this turns out for don.

Joan and Don = near-enemies almost all of S6 and 7a. 7b = best of mates again! i'm pleased for them like, but.. o_0

also, when did Diana give Don her address?

She didn't. He was trial and erroring based on last name.

ah got it.

I guess the show will end without Don revealing to the others that he's not Don. I guess the argument can be made that it really doesn't matter, but I still feel cheated.

Has he been Don Draper at this point longer than he was Dick Whitman?

he kinda has in all but the most technical sense - everyone closest to him knows about the poor whorehouse-life thing

(xp)

xxp not quite. he's like 46/47 and has been draper since the end of korea (1953?)

do we think Roger knows who he is? there was all that stuff in episode 1 of 7b where he seemed to be referring to it while they were sat in a diner.

roger knows he was poor and sad and unfortunate, as do most of the sc&p partners. I don't think he knows about dick whitman or anna draper

I'm sure that when Pete revealed Don's identity to Cooper, Roger was in the room.

nah he wasn't.

i always just thought Coops would have.. mentioned it to Roger on the sly.

wild guesses at the closing song for the final ep?

going with g lightfoot's "if you could read my mind", peaked on billboard in feb 1971. tragic man wanting to break free from a long relationship he no longer understands, but the chords and strings give his quest to understand how it all went wrong a slice of nobility. last few eps have felt a little like that's what they're building to with don.

A friend and I started working on a piece about this very thing a week ago. I've got lots of thoughts, but I'll hold off until that goes up (in a day or two, not sure where yet). "If You Could Read My Mind" is a great pick.

theme from shaft or wild world imo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1971

think they need to get maggie may and it's too late in there somehow. don't think they can get away with "what's going on" - could imagine "my sweet lord" working but prob not with the stories they have left to tell.

a bearded don astride his cadillac in denim, wielding a guitar as "won't get fooled again" roars into life, and he nods to the camera and says "guess i'll see ya around some day"

richie havens here comes the sun has a decent chance?

no Sly Stone yet. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) might be tasty but i guess it's not Mad Men's style.

andy williams "where do i begin" would be kind of cool

anachronistic possibilities can also not be ignored

agreed, they were strong at kempton

Considering how much shitty quasi-lounge music (that was massively popular at the time) they've thrown at us, what makes you think Weiner's gonna close with some Canonical Boomer Rock Classic? It'll probably be the love theme from some movie no one's watched in 40 years, but which inexplicably swept the Oscars, or something like that.

i guess it's just a fun game - i don't really mind if that's the way it goes

what if Don gets a dog and meets a woman at the dog shelter and falls in love with the woman and the dog and the final song is me and you and a dog named boo

It's killing me not to jump in here, but I'll just end up prefacing everything with "As I wrote..." Someone's already named maybe my #1 pick.

doesn't quite fit time wise but I'm thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzxLxoyoCRI

I predict a Bread song for the finale...or "Take It Easy".

Phil Abraham looks back at his final of 15 episodes at Sterling Cooper

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/05/mad-men-lost-horizon-director?mbid=social_twitter

https://41.media.tumblr.com/bcd7febbb6f2c71648aff3113031c39d/tumblr_nnuapdSIXH1qdbluio1_1280.jpg

i got so much secondhand embarrassment from Don's Racine adventure. He's such a putz!!! Like dude what are you even doing

also: Go Joan!!

also i thought the Racine ex husband was Clark Gregg for a minute & got suuuuper excited

Joan and Don = near-enemies almost all of S6 and 7a. 7b = best of mates again!

I took the swift change in their dynamic as a result of them both being swallowed up into the corporate behemoth of mccann. even though there was a fair amount of rancor between them at one time, they're still familiar faces to each other, which would be a rare and welcome sight in that hive. and besides, neither of them is otherwise making a smooth transition to the new office.