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

agreed, Hamlin was a revelation. and yeah jaw met the carpet when i found out it was the Titans guy. mainly as i'd not seen him in a single thing since.

I grew up with him being a much ballyhooed heartthrob on L.A. Law.

I don't remember much of LA Law and I've only ever seen him in one other thing (Veronica Mars), but just based on that and Mad Men, I feel like he might be criminally overlooked as an actor.

He cut sort of a ridiculous figure in the '80s and post-l.a. law, complete with his tabloid cover romances

yeah I feel like I've only ever known him as husband to numerous TV actresses (and Ursula Andress)

he did not really choose the best projects

Clash of the Titans one of the few movies I saw multiple times in the theater as a child

he was so great in Veronica Mars

First half of S7 was mybe my second-favorite season behind S3, so I'm hopeful he/they can stick the landing.

how did some of you guys completely miss harry hamlin through the 80s/90s? he was kind of everywhere, no?

heroin

I used to love LA Law!

i was obsessed with LA Law as a kid but only recently realized that what the hell was a 10 year old canadian kid doing relating to the lives and loves of high-powered los angeles attorneys

i recognised him but i love clash of the titans as a kid, and my parents watched a lot of LA Law.

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Could they at least not given us a xmas special? To make the wait less frustrating? :-/

what is the actual date that it will be back

I don't think it's announced yet. I only got as far as "spring 2015" at AMC etc

s6 finally came back on on demand so I've been rewatching that. good times. pete does good resting bitchface.

Season 7(b) premieres April 5th

tasty!

more here

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/mad-men-final-episodes-to-bow-april-5-1201399619/

psyched, stoked

damn I still have to watch s7

damn I still have to rewatch a bunch of stuff so I can figure out what's going on when I start s7

I'm through the first four episodes of 7A. Found the first two fairly slow and uneventful, three and four picked up. Didn't anticipate that Don would be so neutered at work. I feel like Joan is disappearing; she's not even particularly likeable anymore. Roger's as great as ever, especially at the commune. I expect Ginsberg will have a major meltdown at one point. Things like Bobby eating Betty's sandwich--I'm not sure if that's an extremely subtle means of making a point about Betty's parenting (which she then verbalizes), or just much ado about nothing.

First real musical lapse: Vanilla Fudge's Supremes cover. Fit the action, but it's kind of terrible. The Hollies and Hendrix were great--glad they chose something offbeat for Hendrix.

I don't wanna ruin anything but I find Ginsberg's arc possibly the most depressing of all in a show with quite a few depressing character arcs

He's so angry these past few episodes. My guess would be that whatever happens circles back to what we know about his childhood.

I'm on the tail end of s6. loved how Ginsberg (in the middle of semi-breakdown) accurately called out Bob as gay

ie "tell me the truth... are you a homo?"

"Maybe you smoked too many 'funny cigarettes'"

Really liked how the moon landing was handled, and how genuinely caring and supportive Don was with Peggy as he guided her through Burger King. (Great line that broke through the tension between them: that when he's stuck, he mistreats everyone he needs, then takes a nap. Peggy smiled.) Scrolling back, I seem to be a minority of one on the ending--didn't like it at all. I wish Bert's exit had been his beautiful "Bravo" instead. I'll give it credit for completely confounding expectations, but I didn't want to go out on cute or whimsical or whatever it was they were after.

I have a crush on goofy Meredith. She reminds me of Lucy from Twin Peaks.

Amazing to see Robert Towne's name in the credits.

So....bob benson had pete's mom murdered, right?

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would really love for bob benson to come back in 7b

I was looking at some stuff on imdb earlier today, and I noticed Ginsberg is listed in the credits for the 7(b) premiere.

Seriously guys - in the penultimate s6 episode, right after Pete's initial confrontation w Bob and immediately after Pete finds out he's a fake, Bob is angrily yelling (in Spanish) into a phone, "i don't care how nice she is! He's messing w my future!" In the next scene pete's mom unexpectedly shows up in the office to announce that she is leaving on a cruise w manolo. Next ep = she's dead.

That detour with Lou's comic-strip was excellent. Stan's "You?" reminded me of a similar moment in The Social Network, where Sean Parker says "You know what's cool?" and Eduardo pulled out the same "You?"

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― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl)

Yes--and, as pointed out, Manson and the Mets. I don't know the exact timeline, but I would have thought Stonewall would have turned up. (Someone suggested Bob bailing out the exec covered that. Maybe--I thought a radicalized Sal would reappear. Eric or somebody said on one of these threads that Sal's life would never have intersected with Stonewall. But didn't Harvey Milk emerge from a Mad Men-type background?) Chappaquidick, maybe, in passing anyway? (I liked when Don was staring at the JFK-assassination headline among the things Megan was taking out of storage.) If things move into '70 (do they? I don't know), Kent State, obviously.

Trying to guess music, too. "Crimson and Clover," I hope, although they've tended to avoid the obvious. So much great Sunshine Pop from '69: "Dizzy," "Smile a Little Smile for Me," something weird like the Free Design. I'd love for "Everybody Is a Star" or "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" to turn up. They could go anywhere. I just hope they retire the '50s and show tunes and such for good.

They've said repeatedly that sal's story was done

Didn't know that. Don't know why--they've brought back so many characters, and his would seem to be one story that was just getting started.

I agree (so do a lot of other folks evidently) but thats the way it is

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can we have a thread for mad men gifs? not that i don't want to see them in these threads - i would just love to have a bunch of them collected in one place

FYI for anyone who hasn't seen it

http://madmenwiththingsdrawnonthem.tumblr.com/archive

I just hope they retire the '50s and show tunes and such for good.

I actually love that stuff like this still crops up on the show, since not everyone in the '60s was listening to the music we now associate with the '60s.

Yeah, I kinda don't see Cutler or Lou checking out what's going down over at the Fillmore or Max's Kansas City (which reminds me that if that get to the Summer of '70, who from the agency is going to attend the Velvet's residency?)

I didn't really piece that together about Bob Benson. I thought it was just going to be an inexplicable weird thing that happened and Bob appeared increasingly sympathetic so I kind or forgotten about him possibly being a bad guy.

I'm hopeful about Ginsberg getting another bit because I thought that would have been a shitty way to end his character's part with him just taken away and nothing more. I hope that's developed just a tad more because I thought it was not the best development for such a good character.

I looked harder at the imdb cast list for the upcoming "Episode 7.8" (I just looked at Ben Feldman yesterday to see he was credited), and they actually list the whole main cast, including Robert Morse, for that episode alongside an unbilled actress playing a "model". So salt grains. I do hope they pull a "Breaking Bad" of sorts and bring back a few absent characters for a last check in.

I liked the '50s candlelight-and-wine stuff through the first three or four seasons, but there's so much pop music I want them to work in, I find most anything else a disappointment now. (I liked Waylon Jennings in season 7, though--unfamiliar, had to look it up.)

I was thinking, though, triggered by Don and Peggy dancing to "My Way"--nice scene, lousy song--that they missed the one Sinatra song that was made to order: "It Was a Very Good Year." I think that's an incredible song: middle-aged guy adrift in 1965, nostalgic over a disappearing world. When Peggy laughs at their Burger King work and calls it out for being so 1955, Don says "Hey, 1955 was a good year." That song captures Don perfectly--Roger, too, LSD and group-gropes aside. (Was also thinking that they already had their quasi-Chappaquidick episode a few years before the fact: Don and Bobbie Barrett's car accident.)

I don't wanna ruin anything but I find Ginsberg's arc possibly the most depressing of all in a show with quite a few depressing character arcs

I've probably forgotten someone, but I'd put him in the top three right now with Midge and Faye. (Many would say Lane. You did get to see him happy a lot.) Faye's end seemed especially cruel to me.

Apparantly, Matt Weiner said years ago that he felt it was very important that when we get to 1969 something like My Way could still be one of the biggest hits of the year. It's an incredible scene, for sure.

I would say that girl who got lobotomized would be the worst fate.