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

so they're going to be flying a lot in this episode or

lovin stan's jacket game

yes!

it reminds me of this though & it makes me lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNc9phYujWY

Xps I think the planes symbolize the Ad world's gradual move to LA at the end of the '60s; it could also mean Don & Roger double team some stewardesses in the premiere.

mad men: exploring new horizons *sound of plane taking off*

interesting 'recaps' of Season 6 from the 'orange couch' people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG0K1aYFL3Y

Pete's hairline has been receding in exactly the same way (and general timeframe) as mine since 2007. :/

xps didn't they just get a plane to advertise? wasn't that part of the plot?

new season definitely set in the 70s? hmm

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/mar/28/mad-men-meets-70s-don-draper-final-season

what a bullshit article theyre going by the pictures????

Pretty sure these pictures are about as revealing as the "What?" "But...no!" "How DARE you!" *door slam* *exasperated sigh* "on the next Mad Men" teasers.

UK/ US 'simulcast' alert

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/01/mad-men-final-series-simulcast-uk-us

i don't recall there being press screenings for season premieres before but anyway. mild spoilers ahead

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/546465/20140403/mad-men-season-7-final-episode-1.htm

great recap of the season 6 finale here http://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/mad-men-season-6-finale-season-7-premiere

Is tonight's ep 1 or 2 hours?

it's a shorter season (or longer 'half season') so i'm guessing only one

i like the painting in ken's office

Spencer Davis Group!

i have a serious crush on megan. her idiosyncratic teeth seem very period-appropriate.

man it's amazing how much these older guys look like Nixon men (Haldeman was in advertising).

this ep was abt don biting into sandwiches

I think this was the first time I've ever not had a negative reaction to Neve Campbell.

i can't believe i'm going to keep watching this

pete seems happy at least

true, impressive anyone could be happy while having that hairline

the sideburns aren't doing him any favors either.

pete's contentment in this episode reminded me of the ending of madame bovary, where the narrator relates that in the wake of doctor bovary's downfall the sleazy, opportunistic pharmacist achieved major success and added that it was his type -- the schemers of the world -- who are posed to inherit the earth. or something.

cad otm

i can't believe i'm going to keep watching this

― call all destroyer, Sunday, April 13, 2014 8:25 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this just seems like a chore tbh

This really needed to be a 2-hour ep, just to get the rhythm going and the characters more in motion than what we got. Loving California Pete & Drug Orgy Roger already tho.

I shall celebrate this, my post 11,000, with some Vanilla Fudge:

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

Off to a brisker start than last year's filler season, even if the "meaningful" moment (disheveled Don's final moment on the balcony) felt forced as usual and the camera lingered a bit too long on the young man in bed with Roger and his tryst.

Man I can't believe they are stretching this thing out over two "seasons" when does season 7b begin?

Oh and this was awesome

man it's amazing how much these older guys look like Nixon men

I was thinking about something I saw on Pawn Stars (!) when Don was riding the people mover with his hat on. The old man in the pawn shop said Kennedy never wore hats and by doing so pretty much killed off the trend of men wearing hats by the early 60s. So here's Don, in 1969, still wearing hats like a throwback to another time.

so does Megan not know that Don isn't working?

Sorta get the sense Megan doesn't really care much what Don's doing, period. So it's not too hard for him to keep her in the dark about his not-job.

she's gonna die

7(b) is spring 2015 iirc

ugh

I am pretty dense when it comes to symbolism, but last night even I understood how that damned door to the balcony is just like Don Draper's life right now: It's broken, the pitiful effort he is giving cannot fix it so he deals with the misery it causes him starkly alone.

Draper for all of his faults always at least had sex to fall back on but now even that doesn't work for him anymore: His hot wife lays back and thinks of England and he rejects his emotionally vulnerable, cooing co-pilot, using the same lie about having work to do to explain brushing both of them off.

If the show was taking place now, Don would either be self-medicating himself into a coma (Roger Sterling has morphed from an anachronism to a man ahead of his time in this regard) or breaking down (Peggy Olson is going that route, but in private since the times mandate that she - and Joan Holloway for that matter - cannot dare show weakness).

Don is either going to hit rock bottom and start to fight to regain all of the things he has lost (which is pretty much everything when you get right down to it - he symbolically can't get it up and his advertising brilliance is relegated to trading pitches to Freddy Rumsen for sandwiches) or the fall will continue and then it's only a matter of whom he takes down with him.

I hope it's the former since, for all of Dandy Don's faults, which have seemed to be exacerbated every season, I still liked him best when he was he was able to pull the wool over everyone's eyes (including his own) but a case can be made that watching his character implode would make for even more compelling viewing as the season and series winds down.

I think this 1/2 season will be his rise up and then the next one he will head down again--

Neve Campbell was good enough to survive her character saying her husband "died of thirst."

that scene was so bad

I think it was supposed to be? One critic suggested in might have been a Don fantasy/daydream

Really good description here of the whole (Don)-Freddy-Peggy-Lou dynamic, re the way Peggy, "improves" the proposed Accutron slogan and then pushes it (acting first in reflexive self-protection, also like "doing it because I can" male manager reflex, then with self-righteous inadvertant self-parody of her signature professionalism/idealism)---also the shit Joan has to deal with, though I followed that better while watching: http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/mad-men-recap-season-7-premiere.html He doesn't mention that this is probably the first time Draper's ever turned down a proposition---does the fact that the woman's the one putting the moves on him, rather than the other way around, tip the scales, turn him off? Especially since, as this recapper enumerates, Megan's been tossing off a bunch of house rules for her hunka-hubby guest. Of course the world's *still* grooving past him...

they seem to be treading a lot of water thematically (what, Don's down and out AGAIN? how many times have we seen this arc w him by now) but it's still a joy to watch. genuine lolz at Ken's earring toss. and enjoyed the Don/Rumsen front reveal. That "conversation piece" tag is from a real ad, isn't it? sounded familiar.

Cosgrove gets hotter every season.

I appreciate that Cosgrove doesn't get overused, but I do wish they'd use him a little more often than they do.

He's kinda one note though

Stan is too, but I feel like they use Stan just the right amount.