Realized that Megan didn't break Don's heart when she left advertising, she did it when she used him to get the commercial.
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 11 June 2012 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that just occurred to me as well.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 June 2012 05:56 (eleven years ago) link
I'd have been much happier with Don walking off the set being the closing shot.
― Simon H., Monday, 11 June 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, and him watching Megan's screentest w/ forbidden smoke in the projector light was just as gorgeous.
― Simon H., Monday, 11 June 2012 06:06 (eleven years ago) link
best season
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
I think that title still goes to 3, but this might be second-best.
― Simon H., Monday, 11 June 2012 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
Though I do think the first 10 eps felt much more solid to me than the last few.
Pete took a lot of punches this season
many lolz this episode - Pete fight, Peggy + dog-fucking, Roger the acid-head
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 06:17 (eleven years ago) link
"Pete took a lot of punches this season"
Both literal and metaphorical. My favorite is still when he ran off to get his tools while Don just stripped down to his t-shirt and fixed the sink like it was no big deal.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 June 2012 06:21 (eleven years ago) link
Weird motif about sunlight in this ep.
On second viewing lots of funny lines, esp Don's "we can do that?"
― ryan, Monday, 11 June 2012 06:45 (eleven years ago) link
…and Don never came to a meeting again
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 11 June 2012 06:48 (eleven years ago) link
I just hope there's no Inception/Sopranos-like agonizing about what happens after the end of the finale of this episode.
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 11 June 2012 06:50 (eleven years ago) link
welp there goes my 'this is still don's gas dream' suggestion.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 11 June 2012 06:52 (eleven years ago) link
Don never left California in season 2, everything since then has just been a coke-fueled reverie
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 11 June 2012 06:53 (eleven years ago) link
by the way I've never rewatched that, was the person who was hanging out with the woman he was sleeping with her dad or what?
heh someone on tumblr pointed out that pete's sister-in-law (presumably trudy's sister) is named judy.
when i was defending the episode earlier i had kinda forgotten about pete's "here's my entire season's character arc in monologue form", that plus dead adam making "hang" puns was nagl, writing-wise.
― the bibles fake lol don't trust a book (reddening), Monday, 11 June 2012 07:33 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like the pete plotline could've been saved if beth had been played by a different actress who could better convey the intensity of manic-depression.
― the bibles fake lol don't trust a book (reddening), Monday, 11 June 2012 07:36 (eleven years ago) link
Really liked the way they came back to the photo in Lane's wallet from the premiere. Something basically innocent that became damning outside of context.
Nancy Sinatra's Bond theme: A+
It seemed like they were over-stuffed w/classic closing shots (Don leaving the set, the partners in the new office, Roger's ass) before landing on one that was less-so, but both more in character and boring.
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 June 2012 10:07 (eleven years ago) link
plus dead adam making "hang" puns was nagl, writing-wise.
could have tqken this if he'd just raised his eyebrows, not gone "geeeet it?!?!?!"
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 11 June 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like Weiner should have stuck to Don thinking he saw Adam in that office, the dentist scene was overkill.
― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Monday, 11 June 2012 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
Glen Bishop is basically Bobby Hill after puberty
― la musica de harry frogbs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 11 June 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
sadly i think this is pete's brother's wife who appeared once ages ago. could still make for some good dinner table farce next season, though.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 11 June 2012 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I think Trudy is an only child (feels like she should be one anyway.)
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 11 June 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
"I'm the president of the Howdy Doody Circus Army!"
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 June 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
don't get why people are hating on the last shot - serial philanderer Don has been on his best behavior all season, the shot + the Bond theme were great "that chapter is OVER" signposts
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
mad men season 6: return to whore island
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
Next season Don Draper will be played by George Lazenby.
― dan selzer, Monday, 11 June 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
wanted to second this, brought the whole bit from the first episode into sharp relief.
also lol'd at Trudy's "not ANOTHER car accident"
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
so many great lines.
"This is what happens when you have an artistic temperament but you are not an artist." Megan's mother is so cold and awesome.
and lol at how Weiner feels the need to flag Pete's Democrat credentials ever so often: "You just hate him because he voted for Goldwater." Has any other character been identified by their politics on the show as much as Pete?
― Roz, Monday, 11 June 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
ugh yeah Megan's mom is assuming monstrous proportions
Cooper's politics have been referenced a number of times - re: civil rights, Nixon etc.
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
it is sort of weird that Pete is a Democrat, seems more likely that a scion of blue-blooded east coast waspishness would be a Rockefeller Republican...
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
kinda disappointed that we didn't see Abe after the episode where he and Peggy had their shacking-up party; he's p. dreamy in a yiddy kind of way
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 11 June 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
pete's fam is broke and he hated them all anyway
― goole, Monday, 11 June 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
having him be a bleeding heart is just a fun thing to put next to him being a psycho
― goole, Monday, 11 June 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
one thing that seemed a bit off to me in this episode was Ginsburg - he was really foaming at the mouth in that Topaz scene, struck me as a bit over the top.
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
xposts right Cooper the Randian.
Yeah I was wondering where Abe was too, especially now with Peggy making bank as copy chief.
― Roz, Monday, 11 June 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
that one ginsburg line made me lol though - about Don not letting a day go by without calling him an idiot.
Don seems more troubled by the spirits of the dead than the average person doesn't he?
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 11 June 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
he was really foaming at the mouth in that Topaz scene, struck me as a bit over the top
Ginsburg is very near the edge at all times.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 June 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
tbf he's left behind a lot of corpses
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
his mom, his dad, his brother, Don Draper, Anna Draper, Ms. Blankenship, Lane
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
The girl he strangled and hid under the bed in what was already a dream.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 June 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
...and although we just haven't seen her lately, I assume Midge has probably OD'd by now. xp
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 June 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
walking off set show was too sirk for me
yeah my wife didn't really like that scene, felt it was too canned and perfect. that's kinda how I felt about the lining-up-at-the-new-office-window shot tbh, kinda cool but it looked like they were all lining up in perfect place for next season's poster.
― dmr, Monday, 11 June 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
i can see the poster:"Next season on Madmen...<window shot here>find out who Don kills next.<logo>"
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 11 June 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
My architect friend commented on Joan's marking on the carpet "the stairs will go here."
Uh, think again.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 June 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
right. the slide is going there. *smacks head*
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 11 June 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
wtf was roger doing at the end? yoga or something?
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Monday, 11 June 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
He's tripping on acid.
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 June 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
NAKED
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link