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

I need to see another Pete tantrum, or total freakout before the series ends.

If they do a time jump, it's possible my series-long theory of the show starting with Peggy's first day and ending with her having Don's job could come to fruition. I'M A GENIUS!

loud ditto to that last one. i'm fine w/ certain characters stories being basically told, i don't need to see vito go to new hampshire again. think there's possibly more to tell w/ ted and think there was definitely more to tell w/ ginsberg but i've been happy that all we see of stan outside the office is hot chicks sleeping in his bed beneath that moshe dayan poster. the show's about don and peg and to a lesser extent rog and pete and joan and sally and betty. sal would be nice to see again as fan service, he's the russian from pine barrens at this point, but i don't think it will happen, that dude talked to the press too much.

If you don't like it, we can have the conversation you THOUGHT we were having.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, May 29, 2014 2:54 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

such a good scene

Kenny is kind of redundant at this point, in the early days his function was to act as the focal point of various other characters' desires and/or resentment (Pete, Kinsey, Sal). But from the moment Bob Benson appeared as a better foil for Pete, Kenny felt kind of redundant. I'm happy when he pops up onscreen but I literally don't care about his character at all.

Feel like they could have done more with Joan over the last season or so, her last big story was the Jaguar thing and she's one of the three best characters easily.

Ken's still good for eye jokes.

also tapdancing

That's another request, more tapdancing Ken

Kenny is kind of redundant at this point, in the early days his function was to act as the focal point of various other characters' desires and/or resentment (Pete, Kinsey, Sal). But from the moment Bob Benson appeared as a better foil for Pete, Kenny felt kind of redundant.

Kenny is kind of redundant at this point, in the early days his function was to act as the focal point of various other characters' desires and/or resentment (Pete, Kinsey, Sal). But from the moment Bob Benson appeared as a better foil for Pete, Kenny felt kind of redundant.

Kenny's next short story, "The Redundant Man".

would mean something fairly different in UK

http://theerstwhilephilistine.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/brentsackedclifton.jpg

Kenny is the only hot guy on this show.

and even he looks like the sort of guy whom Nixon would've had a crush on...in 1960.

ok i'm a straight dude so will defer to interested parties but i'm a little skeptical that in an office w/ don draper and roger sterling and once upon a time bob benson that cosgrove is 'the hot one'.

I wouldn't be surprised if people here argued that Harry is the hot one

ok i'm a straight dude so will defer to interested parties but i'm a little skeptical that in an office w/ don draper and roger sterling and once upon a time bob benson that cosgrove is 'the hot one'.

The hot one is Stan Rizzo, obvs.

Peggy's new maintenance guy is hotter than all of them.

Never did much care for blondes tho.

i will do the cliche thing and admit to being a don draper gal. square-jawed + dark and mysterious = every fucking time.

Eric H otm

My sister likes Don, Stan and Bob Benson. I'm straight but I think I have a crush on Pete, nearly all his scenes make me so happy.

I also think Joan is way hot and it was perfect that Bob Benson latched onto her.

bobbie barrett, joan, betty are my fuck, marry, kill

dont u dare kill betty

I dig beardo Stan, Joan, and Dawn. I love Pete but mostly for lols

bob benson is extremely hot

Yeah, extremely hot coffee!

http://images.buddytv.com/articles/mm31.gif

thats part of it imo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthora

awesome

Benson is hawt.

Don Draper is nawt.

who cares

p much everyone on earth

removes bookmark from earth

removes [redacted] from Bob Benson

removes Bob Benson

show's about the 70s and 80s now

Been thinking about this and the first appearance of the Jackson Five (and with them a glimpse of the future of pop music, youth culture, advertising AND American capitalism) right at the end of the 60s is almost too perfectly timed for this show.

Don or maybe Peggy are watching TV with one of the kids, they see the band performing I Want You Back for the first time, they have an idea, no one gets it...

"put that kid in touch with Pepsi..."

"Number one, the people at the time are completely aware that the computer is a symbol. It hasn’t been said in a while because we love our computers so much and we love our phones so much and there’s so much entertainment on them, but [with the computer] there has been a reconfiguring of the hierarchy of humanity where we are under that. And I’m not being a Luddite, I’m just saying there was a re-conception of the world as the computer came in. And everyone at the time was quite aware of it. It’s not just from science fiction movies. The computer is immediately seen, as a guy says in the show, as a metaphor for what people were afraid of."

http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/mad-men-stanley-kubrick

this is a weird photo for esquire imo
http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/zf/christina-hendricks-hot-watermelon-0510-lg.jpg

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/matthew-weiner-mad-men-end-interview

tasty interview with Matt Weiner. seems he wrote and directed the last 2 episodes. he's expecting 'mixed reviews' for the finale. hmm.

Having Peggy and Don dance to "Don't Stop Believing" on New Year's Day 1970 will prove a tactical error.

I hate to say this — obviously ending the entire series is significantly more pressure — but it's been that way every year. I never knew if the show was coming back for most of the series, so we treated every episode 13 like it was the end. It's very bittersweet and high pressure. "Did we stick the landing?"

If that is the case I expect a wide open ending. As I can't remember any of the e13's being truly season enders as in resolving major show themes or stories or ~drama~. I'd be ok with that though.

I sort of think season 6 (?) - don takes the kids to see where he grew up - might have been a fine ending, not that I've not enjoyed all of season 7 to date.

The end of S3 would've probably been the best "left open" series ending.

But then we wouldn't get The Suitcase.

hope Rachel Menken comes back for at least a cameo. and Sal.

I don't expect everything to be tied up with a neat little bow at all, that wouldn't really be consistent with the show's aesthetic nor would it play to the show's strengths.