Mad Men

[Captain Novaforce]

Just beasted seasons 5&6 on Now TV, now up to date with season 7. Wow. Genuinely don't know how I forgot about this show after season 4 but has been amazing catching up.

[Kingpin]

Loved the latest episode - not sure about spoiler etiquette in this thread/UK airing dates so thoughts below:

Weird to see Don in that sort of low power position when he's waiting around the office and then meeting with the partners. Peggy was particularly nasty too (she's a right wagon this year). This surely ends with Don losing his stake in the firm (reporting to Lou, no booze, pre-approved pitch patter, no being alone with clients). And he's been assigned Laine's haunted old office.

[Mentazm]

He's going to jump out lanes office window in the last episode after taking one nasty comment from Peggy too many.

[Pob]

I loved the latest ep. Don is starting to remind me of David Brent in the Christmas Special of The Office.

[Mr Cochese]

Shit is about to get real. I loved all the scenes of Don in the office.

[Captain Novaforce]

There is no way his ego will handle working for Lou, I'm expecting fireworks!

[Sabreman]

I seriously thought they were going to push in and cut to black before the answer. I was counting down the last few seconds on the video. In hindsight though, it doesn't seem Mad Men's style to pull that kind of a trick.

[Kodamarama]

I don't see Don killing himself. It's always been a narrative of reinvention, rebirth, redemption - don't see it going that dark.

[Mr Cochese]

It's 1969 in the show, so we're about due a Moon Landing.

[11 Herbs 'n' Spices]

I seriously thought they were going to push in and cut to black before the answer. I was counting down the last few seconds on the video. In hindsight though, it doesn't seem Mad Men's style to pull that kind of a trick.

It's exactly Mad Men's style. Remember the end of Season 5?

I don't see Don killing himself. It's always been a narrative of reinvention, rebirth, redemption - don't see it going that dark.

Yeah, I can't see it either. In fact, I'd find it rather cheap.

There's so much speculation about what will happen to Don in the end (and to a lesser degree, Pete and Roger) but I've always felt that Mad Men has never needed anything so 'final' or such a definitive ending. So far, I think every season has always ended in a way that could have been a great finale to the series.

[Sir DangerM]

It was good to see Roger sticking up for Don. I can't imagine that Don doesn't have a plan to come out on top.

[Jack Walsh's coffee shop]

Is it possible for Peggy to get anymore sour this series?

[Girth Certificate]

Roger was great this week, I hope

Harry isn't actually sacked

. Also Joan's boots

[Lag]

i love the face Bert pulled when Joan told him she was wearing boots.

[grounded_dreams]

Another great episode.

Interesting to see Josh McDermitt on the show, interview about his time on The Walking Dead and how he got the part of George Payton in Mad Men.

http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/2014/05/qa-josh-mcdermitt-george-payton/

If looks could kill:

Loved this scene:

[whizzo]

It's exactly Mad Men's style. Remember the end of Season 5?

Thats completly different. The answer to that question wasnt relavent.

[Mentazm]

What was the significance of the Mets banner and it's various positions through the episode?

I like this berated down-at-heel Don, it could go literally anywhere in this last series.

I don't like how Peggy has become the replacement hate figure - Betty to Megan and now her.

[Lag]

apparently the Mets were shit but that was the year they became the Miracle Mets, after winning a ton of games.

[Kodamarama]

Also, I think Laine had it proudly displayed in there - I think it reminds Don of the cursed office he's in and the destruction of his friend.

Peggy and Don will come good. They're both being chewed-up and spat out by SCP - I smell a breakaway agency ending. Draper-Olsen. Or Olsen-Draper. Or Draper-Draper, if they go totally mad and make her wife no. 3.

[11 Herbs 'n' Spices]

Thats completly different. The answer to that question wasnt relavent.

Accidently pos'd this but I don't think it is much different and it was certainly relevant to Don's character, or at least a possible change in his character. He'd been faithful to Megan for the whole season and it was geniune moment of 'will he or won't he'.

[Jack Walsh's coffee shop]

Well, that's Bert Cooper ruined for me. I really liked him, now he's a cunt.

Isn't he just. The writers are really doubling down on how unlikeable he is.

[Teabag]

Hamm's said this season is about how Don rises to the occasion when he's down-and-out. I'm well up for that instead of emotional breakdown no #3.3. Haven't seen the latest ep yet but loved the end of the last one when he accepted their terms. They have no idea what they're up against.

Also what's with Joan's hatred of Don now, they used to have a lot of mutual respect. Is it all about him throwing away Jaguar last season, ruining their chance of floating the company and becoming millionaires?

[Pob]

Also what's with Joan's hatred of Don now, they used to have a lot of mutual respect. Is it all about him throwing away Jaguar last season, ruining their chance of floating the company and becoming millionaires?

Yes, but probably more to do nullifying the reason for her prostituting herself for Jaguar.

[Teabag]

Oh yes, that too.

[Mentazm]

Poor Ginsberg! I knew he was going scizo right at the start.

But lucky Don, WAHEY! etc

[Sabreman]

Superb episode.

Went dark pretty damn quickly, great performance on Peggy's reaction. I loved the scene between Betty and Sally, on equal footing in the venom department. Triumphant episode for Don in several ways

[grounded_dreams]

Another incredible episode, this is my favourite show I'm watching at the moment.

[Mr Cochese]

Don was looking incredibly shark like at the end. Poor Ginsberg, though!

[Kodamarama]

Threesome was the death-knell for Don and Megan, I reckon.

Also poor Ginsberg

Did love Peggy's only friend now being her 12-year old neighbour/tenant, though.

[Comrade]

This episode is really cutting into my dreams of a spin-off sitcom starring Stan and Ginsberg.

(They would ride around in a VW camper van and solve mysteries. Julio would drive the van. They would call Peggy on the phone every week and she would give them sarcastic advice, but it always inadvertently leads them to solve the mystery. I can have a spec script ready in one week. Call me, Matthew Wiener!)

(Alternatively I have a show called GINSBERG VERSUS THE MACHINE, but that's just a title right now.)