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

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?'

http://www.vulture.com/2014/05/mad-men-how-much-did-each-of-the-partners-make.html

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?

Hamlin has been so good this season. The line this week about "You're a football player. You're a bully and a drunk." was so cutting but also so revealing that there was something akin to deeply rooted jealousy and insecurity borne of his personality? Nature as an intellectual v. a jock? Patrician looking down on a self-made scrapper of a man? Like, he would have been willing to take a punch from Don NOW because he can look past the immediate humiliation and pain to the fact that it really would be shortest route to getting rid of him, but that he would NOT have made that decision prior to some point in his life. Kind of like he's in his prime, and sees Don as someone who is past his, for whatever reason.

So, looking at the money earned per partner - That is an insane amount of money for each person, especially the senior guys. But Joan is set, even at a 5% stake! Stoked for her. All she's ever wanted is to be truly self-reliant and not dependent on anyone else to make her way.

What are the chances they take it away from him?

A little late for that now. He missed his golden ticket because of indecision.

i love that joan has 1.5m dollars

yah and it's like 11 million dollars in todays dollars

cutler seems to want to cultivate this image of being above it all (i loved his line to harry from earlier in the season--the one about his self-pity being distasteful) but he's prob the worst opportunist of the partners.

in addition to the musical number, the two other delightfully indulgent things from this episode were fucking over harry yet again and the don/meredith scene.

meredith so obviously not anyone's source of strength

also so obviously not don's type

he was very kind in his dismissal of her affections, tho.

lol 'you're right, not now'

whenever I see her all I can think of is Joan smashing that plane on her desk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b93d782eOMQ

i don't remember everything everybody says otm

even before the musical number, i was already thinking this was one of the best episodes ever. So many unexpectedly lol moments, like Pete's delivery of: "Marriage's a racket!"

Genuinely wondered in that split second from the shot in the cockpit to Cutler making the call in his office, whether Ted had crashed the plane. Oddly disappointed to find him at the other end of the line.

Sally lighting and holding her cigarette is 100% Betty Draper.

Loved that he was going to crash the plane into claremont, my hometown (well ok upland but still)

My favorite part of this great episodes was Pete's "10%!"

"episode"

"What do I do now?" was another big lol

I like this piece from Margaret Lyons about how the show treats death:

http://www.vulture.com/2014/05/what-has-each-death-meant-on-mad-men.html

My favorite part of this great episodes was Pete's "10%!"

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, May 27, 2014 1:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ugh. So gauche after hearing that Joan had 5%. Awesome.

Yeah, it was his utter glee with total disregard for minimizing Joan's lesser good fortune.

Don hasn't flipped his lid Matt Wiener confirms!

http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/mad-men-dance-scene-robert-morse

Weiner even goes so far as to say that he has experienced visions himself: “I’m a person who frequently sees things that aren’t there. I don’t know if they’re as elaborate as that, but I don’t question the reality of the emotion . . . a big part of that sequence is the look on Don’s face . . . I hope people can see how deep the feelings were for the character and the person.”

That is cool, as I was watching that scene I kept thinking it was weird they were showing Don's reaction. Was it really happening? Was it taking place all in his head? This show is really great at pulling this kind of thing off, walking the line between objective and subjective reality.

don/megan breakup was incredible :(

also, for some reason, when it started with bert watching the moon landing, i was like, bert's gonna die this episode.

reminded me of his speech about the older secretary who died "she was an astronaut!"

funny that this episode is called waterloo too. not what i expected from a "waterloo."

there were a couple of great scenes in this episode where the dialogue did double duty--don/meg breakup being the most obvious.

so intense that scene.

How many times have they broken up now?

It was the most intense tho, yes.

just them both realizing at the same time... shit, this is over isn't it

felt the most final.

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lol

here's a thing.. does finding out that Don isn't Don, eventually kill you off? Anna, Bert, Dick's brother etc.. i guess Pete and Betty are the only other ones who know, that are still alive.

meagan knows, anna's niece knows. i have wondered if that might come into play again, anna's niece mentioned it to megan (i think that was one of the things that shook megan, that there was someone else out there w/ that level of trust from don) but the last time i can really remember it coming into play w/ the plot was when pete deliberately scuttled the deal they had w/ a defense company cuz don wouldn't pass the background check. then again when the preview for this episode said 'don receives a disturbing letter' my first thought was dick whitman.

yeah the whole Whitman thing seems to have been forgotten about since around the time the G men were after him i guess. oh Faye Miller knows some of the details too but not the 'Dick' part.

i actually forgot Meagan knows.

He told her right before (or after) he proposed iirc.