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

what did we think of Coop's soft shoe routine?

Soft sock routine!

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I'll just let that be. Great ep.

Can someone explain the "pete is pregnant" line? It wasnt especially significant but idgi

Don got him pregnant.

Yeah he said it last week as well, didn't give it much thought but now curious

The client is Pete's baby, is kinda what I thought they meant? Bringing the client on board = delivering the baby. etc etc and he's kinda loopy with planning preparation so it's up to them to make the last minute decisions so that things go smoothly

Brilliant episode.

so are they all millionaires now? or just some of them. i missed the finer points of the deal in all the excitement.

odds on Neve Campbell coming back to hook up with Don?

i think so, yeah. joan was set to get something like $1.5m from her 5% share.

neve ain't coming back, i'd say she was there to demonstrate how don had grown but casting neve campbell qualifies it as a red herring i think. one of joan's many issues w/ don was that he cost her a million bucks by scuttling scdp going public (also threw away the months of work she had done on the offering cuz he had a whim), she still hasn't forgiven him but she's got her million dollars so she can deal. even cutler was able to get over it when there's that much money in play. lol at harry for fucking himself, he should've taken don's advice. i know ppl are sick of mad men dealing w/ history w/ 'ppl watching television' but i liked the moon landing, loved the excitement in the air beforehand, the families together, esp loved the cheer from another hotel room when it happened. loved the happy ending, hoping that doesn't mean we don't get one next year.

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and this was when $1.5 million sure meant sometehing

yeah Mad Men going 'happy' is the best thing ever.

So we still have half of 1969 to go - what else happens besides the manson murders?

mets

and this was when $1.5 million sure meant sometehing

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 26, 2014 2:00 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

About $9.5 million in 2014 dollars.

my lai, altamont, woodstock, nattering nabobs

"Sugar Sugar" going to #1 in Billboard.

Looking forward to Megan insisting Don listen to "Her Majesty."

Seems like she'd make him listen to Tommy, or at least the debut effort of her new friends David, Stephen and Graham.

Cannot imagine what next year is going to be like. Don and Peggy are happy creatives. Rogers in charge. Everyone's rich. Sally's a young woman. How are we going to get 7 episodes of drama?

Even Cutlers happy.

Dramatic return of Sal.

who hooks up with Bob

the previous few episodes i had a sense that maybe bert wasn't long for this world, was there foreshadowing to that effect or was i doing nothing more than observing him being really quite old?

Xp which reminds me, they missed covering Stonewall this season.

Can't believe they skipped over the Rally for Decency.

last episode was as close as this show was gonna get to covering stonewall

Morse's exit interview: http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/2014/05/qa-robert-morse-bertram-cooper-2

I didn't know Morse had a background in musicals - halway through the routine I was like, wow this guy can really move and sing.

Also - a great payoff to the seven-series-long sock gag

One of the best moments: Don Draper looking proudly at Peggy during the pitch, then when she mentions going home to a ten-year old boy his brow furrows. And Pete is lost as well.

Pete looked more uncomfortable to me than lost.

Maybe they're going to throw a real curveball next half season and set it at the end of the five year contracts?

whoever said pacing upthread was otm, that was just really good television.

XP: I was thinking that too! The biggest issue would be making up Sally, and of course they'd need a new Bobby and Gene.

Jumping ahead 5 years would put them in the neighborhood of the Nixon resignation.

supposedly Matt Wiener made some reference to the setting it in the 70s in that Colbert interview but it isn't anywhere online in the UK so i haven't seen the damn thing.

i'm trying to figure out how sincere don's pitch to ted was--he seemed to rediscover some love of work this half-season and also has seemed genuine abt passing the torch to peggy.

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'How Much Money Did Each of SC&P's Partners Make Last Night?'

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Xp which reminds me, they missed covering Stonewall this season.

i feel like it was subtext to the conversation between bob and the account guy he rescued from jail.

also, re cougars tee, i thought this too!

also this season has been excellent, and this episode was just wonderful throughout. i don't want this show to end.

H'mmm, from miracle $ave of all (Roger most improbably rising to the occasion and then some, but death of Bet, his father's partner and original agency's co-founder, was a huge change, demanding a huge response), to Draper's being told "The best things in life are free" by a dead man (the first dead man he's seen who is happy): that's quite a change too--and seems like a challenge, maybe. Last glimpse of D.: sitting down and thinking about it; looks like he may be caving in a little? This whole ep is its own kind of happy, happy, happy (clap along)cliffhanger.
So Cutler warns Ted, "Remember what happened the last time you took Don's advice!" What is he referring to, and why, in a previous ep, did he declare, "Don ruined Ted?" Ted insisted on going West, instead of Don (said he owed him, for saving the neighors' kid from the draft, and maybe other stuff)? Went to get away from Peggy, save his marriage, and now he has neither, apparently. But that was his own choice, so what is Don being blamed for?

What is he referring to, and why, in a previous ep, did he declare, "Don ruined Ted?"

Isn't it that pitch/meeting last season where he humiliated ted about his relationship with peggy?

"Remember what happened the last time you took Don's advice!" What is he referring to

i assumed this was referring to the original idea to jointly pitch to chevy.

Yeah thats what I thought too

Ted hates his life and it's pretty much as a direct result of everything that's happened since that moment.

Harry Hamlin has also been fantastic this season - Roger's become more serious-ish (in an interesting rather than bland way) and Cutler's been providing all these lovely grace note laughs in his place.

had no idea Hamlin had such good, dry timing.

his yea vote was lol

Harry Crane constantly being reminded he's not a partner yet

What are the chances they take it away from him?