Mad Men

[Shoes]

https://medium.com/sterling-cooper-draper-pryce/e96804523838

This is a pretty interesting essay, on the similarities between season 6 and the first, and a lot of other stuff.

[Vespa Alex]

I never watched S1.

Is it worth going back to now?

[Mr Cochese]

You should watch all of Mad Men repeatedly.

Except maybe for bits with Megan in.

[Shoes]

And Glenn.

[whizzo]

You have watched it wrong. Never do this again

[Treble]

I like Megan. She’s a bad soap actress playing a bad soap actress, yes, but it’s worth having her in there just to illuminate how every single person in her life is completely fucked and morally compromised.

[Vespa Alex]

You have watched it wrong. Never do this again

We started watching it on the BBC, and as I'd not seen it advertised before, assumed it was Season 1.

I thought it was great, so bought the S2 DVD set to follow and then couldn't figure out what was going on. Turns out we'd watched S3 on the beeb!

[Mr Cochese]

I like Megan. She’s a bad soap actress playing a bad soap actress, yes, but it’s worth having her in there just to illuminate how every single person in her life is completely fucked and morally compromised.

I think the writers also hate her now. The last few episodes gave her a few particularly gormless clunkers to honk through, as though in an attempt to undermine any remaining credibility.

[Timbuktu]

It might be just me but Pete's delivery of the "NOT GREAT BOB!" line sounded just like that insure care manger character in The Incredibles.

[Pete]

[Cheeko]

Well it was a low key end, but I loved the last shot. I think it will leave a lot of people unsatisfied though, particularly those who were expounding more dramatic turns of event.

Those people need to pay more attention, some pretty major events happened in that episode.

A great interview with Weiner about the season here http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3473171

It's funny, even as an outside viewer, the way Don just does things without consulting anyone he gets away with murder. It's not until I read Weiner's listing of the stuff he's sabotaged for that company this season did I realise the ridiculous scale of the problem that he is for them.

[Meh]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-mad-men-final-season-two-halves-20130917,0,1564180.story

Oh fuck you, AMC. Fuck you.

[Vespa Alex]

That's ridiculous. They really don't like their viewers much.

[Mentazm]

Not too fussed. Means those characters are about longer.

[Sir DangerM]

It's actually a very smart way of doing it.

[Mentazm]

[Professor Puzzles]

So, the press photos for this season are set in airports, on planes, in bus terminals and in taxis, the publicity blurb on Facebook mentions 'journeys' and one says 'where will Joan land?' There's one particular shot of Don posed in an airport with a plane outside that will send the DB Cooper theorist's hearts a flutter. What could it all mean?

[K]

If Don Draper ends up hijacking a plane and bailing out over the Pacific north west, never to be seen again, then I will put my foot through the TV and send Matthew Weiner the bill. I can't even imagine the narrative contortions they'd have to go through to make that happen, although it seems pretty unlikely anyway given that the "evidence" that points towards this ending being some planes in previous series and the fact that DB Cooper liked bourbon.

[Professor Puzzles]

The police sketch of DB Cooper also looks remarkably like Don Draper, in that he is a white man with neat, dark hair wearing a suit and tie. I'm not a fan of this idea either, I'm still in the 'he jumps off a building because that is the title sequence' camp.

[Lag]

He runs away and becomes a lumberjack.

[Mr Cochese]

My theory is that he ends up in a loveless marriage with Peggy, because he respects her as an equal and she's the only person who can keep him on the level. I guess that would be a pretty open marriage, but it makes sense to end the series on a new status quo.

Of course, there's no way that will happen.

[:mediadavid:]

If Don Draper ends up hijacking a plane and bailing out over the Pacific north west, never to be seen again, then I will put my foot through the TV and send Matthew Weiner the bill.

lol what? Is this even a theory?

[Professor Puzzles]

Google 'D B Cooper' - a crazy subset of Mad Men fans think that Don will end up being him, whoever he was.

[K]

The police sketch of DB Cooper also looks remarkably like Don Draper, in that he is a white man with neat, dark hair wearing a suit and tie. I'm not a fan of this idea either, I'm still in the 'he jumps off a building because that is the title sequence' camp.

It's a man in a suit with brown hair, that's far as the similarity goes. It's as likely to be Pete Campbell as Don. Or Bob. Or Ginsberg.

Actually, that would be pretty good.

[Professor Puzzles]

I must try harder to express an amusingly ironic tone.

[K]

No, that was my fuckup.

[Lag]

Pam Ewing wakes up and it turns out the entire series was her dream.

[Professor Puzzles]

No, that was my fuckup.

Well that's okay then. Wait a minute, are you being ironic?

[JohnC]

Hamm on a dating show in 1996. Oh god, the hair

[Mr Cochese]

Still waiting for "Confessions Of A Hamm Actor".