Mad Men on AMC • Fifth Season Thread

Yeah, that just occurred to me as well.

I'd have been much happier with Don walking off the set being the closing shot.

Oh, and him watching Megan's screentest w/ forbidden smoke in the projector light was just as gorgeous.

best season

I think that title still goes to 3, but this might be second-best.

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

"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.

Weird motif about sunlight in this ep.

On second viewing lots of funny lines, esp Don's "we can do that?"

…and Don never came to a meeting again

I just hope there's no Inception/Sopranos-like agonizing about what happens after the end of the finale of this episode.

welp there goes my 'this is still don's gas dream' suggestion.

Don never left California in season 2, everything since then has just been a coke-fueled reverie

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.

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.

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.

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?!?!?!"

I feel like Weiner should have stuck to Don thinking he saw Adam in that office, the dentist scene was overkill.

Glen Bishop is basically Bobby Hill after puberty

heh someone on tumblr pointed out that pete's sister-in-law (presumably trudy's sister) is named judy.

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.

Yeah I think Trudy is an only child (feels like she should be one anyway.)

"I'm the president of the Howdy Doody Circus Army!"

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

mad men season 6: return to whore island

Next season Don Draper will be played by George Lazenby.

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.

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"

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?

ugh yeah Megan's mom is assuming monstrous proportions

Cooper's politics have been referenced a number of times - re: civil rights, Nixon etc.

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...

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

pete's fam is broke and he hated them all anyway

having him be a bleeding heart is just a fun thing to put next to him being a psycho

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.

xposts right Cooper the Randian.

Yeah I was wondering where Abe was too, especially now with Peggy making bank as copy chief.

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?

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.

Don seems more troubled by the spirits of the dead than the average person doesn't he?

tbf he's left behind a lot of corpses

his mom, his dad, his brother, Don Draper, Anna Draper, Ms. Blankenship, Lane

The girl he strangled and hid under the bed in what was already a dream.

...and although we just haven't seen her lately, I assume Midge has probably OD'd by now. xp

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.

i can see the poster:
"Next season on Madmen...
<window shot here>
find out who Don kills next.
<logo>"

My architect friend commented on Joan's marking on the carpet "the stairs will go here."

Uh, think again.

right. the slide is going there. *smacks head*

wtf was roger doing at the end? yoga or something?

He's tripping on acid.

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