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

I got the feeling she was!

Note the efficiency with which she dispatched Draper's "niece." Even Betty might've been impressed.

yeah, that seemed like a nod.

Could never see Megan shooting a bird

was just scanning the death wish thread and maybe they should consider taking the show in that direction.

someone shop jon hamm into this

http://cf.badassdigest.com/_uploads/images/deathwishfinale.jpg

maybe Ginsberg comes back and murders everybody

with Pete's rifle

you know what they say about a rifle in the drawer in the first season...

...everyone forgets about it by season 7b.

when were the Manson murders in relation to where we are now in the timeline?

can't tell you, since we don't know when the last episode took place

Spanish. I think it's still late spring '69 on the show.

Soon-ish. Stupid phone.

Manson Family starts offing folks in May '69 tho fwiw

let me guess, a montage with numerous characters glued to their TV sets

David Crosby and Stephen Stills show up at Megan's brandishing guns and telling her, "They're killing everyone with estates!"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-1983/dp/0571119603/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387266627&sr=1-1&keywords=not+1983

http://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/madmen-emmy-poster-pete.jpg

more pretty incredible Emmy 'For Your Consideration' ads right here

http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/05/mad-men-just-launched-a-vintage-for-your-consideration-emmy-campaign-that-would-make-don-draper-proud/

no-one seems to have mentioned that the guy Megan was dancing with looked a bit like Manson so i'm guessing that means it definitely wasn't meant to be him.

no, that was dennis wilson

yeah Manson is tiny. that dude was not tiny

a montage with numerous characters glued to their TV sets

they've never done this iirc?

btw did kiernan shipka's voice drop six octaves between season 6 and season 7? or even between the last episode and several episodes before it?

http://i.imgur.com/mVM83nF.jpg

haha okay that does seem intentional

or even between the last episode and several episodes before it?

This, I think.

Part of me hopes Weiner totally skips the moon landing between 7a and 7b.

i guess this makes don draper roman polanski

xxpost

I hope there's an episode where we learn how Ken is dealing with one-eyed life

xxp yeah i totally hope he just skips the moon landing.

more kinda fascinating/ kinda lol Manson connection stuff here
http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/05/matthew-weiner-is-still-trolling-mad-men-theorists-with-even-more-charles-manson-allusions/

to wit:

In last night’s episode, we also see that Stephanie is 7 months pregnant, and she mentions to Megan that the father is a musician she met in the Bay Area who spent some time in jail. This describes Charles Manson (a musician who lived in the Bay Area who was arrested in 1968 for possession) perfectly. This doesn’t fit the timeline exactly, but interestingly, Charles Manson did rape and impregnate a woman in 1967.

They need to end an ep with "Never Learn Not To Love".

I kinda doubt Dennis' estate would let that happen...? altho I dunno who owns the rights to that one exactly.

"You shouldn't be with a woman."

"A clean well-lighted place"

http://www.mrbauld.com/hemclean.html

Even though Pete Campbell is gross, I did get a nice feeling with the three of them sitting at a table together.

Yeah, me too. Also the Don/Peggy brainstorming and dance scene. Thought this was the best episode of the season -- it had more of the stuff I like about Mad Men, less of the stuff I'm tired of.

I didn't...like the dance scene? Their relationship is too poisoned to support such a scene. She just endured another series of humiliations because men in power won't take her seriously, so now she has a tacit reconciliation with her former mentor? I didn't buy it.

Otherwise, yes, a good episode.

the dance was sweet and tender--they've worked together for a long time.

def. best ep. of the season

so what happens next?

don, peggy, pete kill the burger chef presentation

roger gets chevy

cutler gets philip morris

don, peggy, pete, roger start a new agency?

megan and pete's g.f. die on the plane when godzilla eats it?

gotta keep in mind--peggy wants to please don no matter how much she hates him

also she has zero love in her life, and is def. searching for it

I liked Don and Peggy. Of course I wanted a confrontation between them, I always want the blatant exposition "Don, they don't trust me, you're undermining me!" but I'm glad they're not that obvious. When Peggy said "what would you do" and Don said "first I abuse the people's whose help I need", that was such a good line, cleared up years of baggage between the two. In one simple phrase Don acknowledges both how difficult a boss he was and how important she was, and how the rolls are reversed here and allowed it to be ok.

A bit soap-opera-y though, back to back with Joan's "I don't want a beard I want love!" and peggy's "what have I done wrong". Then Don's stark acknolwedgement "haven't done anything or have anybody). Both Don and Peggy did it their way, the only way they know how, and they're both unhappy and that's the series. I've been waiting all season for this because the history of the show has always seemed to be about Don and Peggy so for them to finally come back together in this context I think is getting us set-up for the final episodes.

Don peggy and pete definitely had a bit of that "get the band back together" vibe.

love this exchange:

Pete: "Don will give authority, you will give emotion."
Peggy: "Don has emotion. I have authority."

I saw the Don and Peggy dance scene as an answer to her question "what did I do wrong?" You fell in love with advertising/an image/an idealized projection as personified by Don (who, as pointed out, is also not happy).

The closing shot with the 50s nuclear family replaced by a corporate chain restaurant facsimile was amazing

I want the poster in Roger's room, does anyone know the name of it?

it's http://www.weidmangallery.com/cgi-local/poster_detail.cgi?i=2930

My God it's even more amazing up-close. I love the pixelated mouths. Humanity screaming into the future, Satan as salesman, the fires of hell engulfing all.

wow

Here's another of his, for Forbes. LOL at "Capitalist Tool" being the tagline!

http://p2.la-img.com/1021/23072/8125905_1_l.jpg

Seymour Chwast of Pushpin, which was cofounded by current Mad Men poster artist Milton Glaser.

Still with the Dante references...

Stan's beard is reaching Beach Boy proportions

I barely even remember this Stan

https://scontent-b-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/10341578_10152103569422078_475685226318574831_n.jpg