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

That makes sense. (Plan to get to The Sopranos one day.) I associate it with The Simpsons!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA7p5VwAXk0

Jared Harris returns to direct!? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364813/

I watched so much in such a short space of time--seven-and-a-half seasons in a month--that I'm wondering if everything will seem a little artificial after a few months away. You really enter the show's world when you immerse yourself like that; that's good, but I expect that the break and the experience of watching it week to week rather than three or four episodes at a time will feel very different.

I think there is a growing consensus that these shows are better experienced in large chunks instead of weekly. I've heard that some streaming services release a whole season in one go, for the exclusive shows they own.

Something I knew but had forgotten (from Joshua Glasser's The Eighteen-Day Running Mate):

"Haldeman had begun his career at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, working his way up to become a vice president in the firm's Los Angeles office, where he oversaw the accounts of 7-Up and Walt Disney Productions."

In trying to figure out where all of this is headed, I don't think the show ends with the intimation that Don (or maybe Pete) is leaving advertising to pursue a career as a political hatchet-man, maybe even Nixon's hatchet-man specifically. (Besides which, Haldeman had been working informally for Nixon as far back as '62, and joined up full-time in '68.) But that part did catch my attention.

Pretty interesting:

http://www.glamour.com/entertainment/blogs/obsessed/2014/05/mad-men-season-7-episode-4

(I love the writer's description of herself: "Entertainment writer. I love talking about TV so much, you'll eventually back slowly away from me at a party.")

NY area fanatics may want to get to Queens this spring

We are thrilled to announce Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, our new exhibition opening on March 14. On March 20, we will also be hosting An Evening with Matthew Weiner.

http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2015/03/14/detail/matthew-weiners-mad-men/

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/03/14/detail/required-viewing-mad-mens-movie-influences/

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This brief little bit of Pete in the new teaser trailer is cracking me up.

XP Good to see The Bachelor Party in that lineup. They've borrowed loads from that one.

Pic of Pete is so schmaltzy

My only regret that Mad Men isn't going on indefinitely is that we will never get to see the further erosion of Pete's hairline.

I wonder at what point would he opt for a toupee?

sometime in 1974

Maybe two years ago I heard that the final season of Mad Men was going to be set in the 90s played by different (3 decades older) actors as the same characters. I thought that was a brilliant idea.
Was this just a rumour or was this something that writers were actually considering?

There's basically no chance at all that was ever a real option.

lol @ Don living three more decades

feel slightly conflicted w/ this ending in the 70s. especially since some media outlets are reporting it'll actually jump to the mid 70s.

mad men for me is very specific in its 60s allure, associating it with another decade, especially for its finale will be an interesting feat.

They should do the China Beach thing and have the final episodes take place in multiple eras...or not.

Fun Fact: John Slattery played a Sterling-esque doctor in the series finale of China Beach.

they should create a spinoff for Pete a la 'Better Call Saul'

Pete to the Beat (disco era)

surely this 'leap forward to the mid 70s' thing is just your PR hype story? no way the actors can look suddenly 5 years older?? i mean i'm all for it i.. guess. no way Sally's gonna look 20 or whatever.

There's this wonderful called Makeup...

*squints* hmm

http://static1.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2121162.1424352769!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/article-madmen5-0219.jpg

Yeah, I definitely don't think this is 1976. As someone else pointed out, they used a Decemberists song in the end credits once, so there's no reason to think that "Love Hangover" -- in a teaser trailer, no less -- is meant to be faithful to the period in which the season's set. Also I know Kiernan Shipka is a "mature beyond her years" or whatever, but she's 15. No way are they going to have her playing early 20s.

they would not have put her in that baby-doll dress if they wanted her to read as older.

The tell on this for me was Joan's hair. Even though she's a single mom, etc, there's no way she'd still be wearing her 1969 hairstyle in 1976. Joan's way too cool for that shit.

did sally draper grow a full foot since last season? she seems to be towering over everyone in that photo.

a short baby-doll dress with a high collar and puffy shoulder-sleeves...i don't understand fashion at all.

they should create a spinoff for Pete a la 'Better Call Saul'

alan sepinwall was talking about what might be a non-terrible mad men prequel, and he landed on the early adventures of bert cooper, where we finally discover what led to his testicles being removed.

did sally draper grow a full foot since last season? she seems to be towering over everyone in that photo.

Betty and Don are sitting down.

she still looks way bigger than megan

a short baby-doll dress with a high collar and puffy shoulder-sleeves...i don't understand fashion at all.

yeah, it's kind of a wayward teen nod to edwardian and regency fashion. reminds me a little of the one on the left side here.

http://img0.etsystatic.com/il_fullxfull.137459855.jpg

http://sewingpatternheaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Simplicity-5437-1-300x300.jpg

the early adventures of bert cooper, where we finally discover what led to his testicles being removed.

Also starring Roger's dad. Would watch.

Whoah, Sally

did sally draper grow a full foot since last season? she seems to be towering over everyone in that photo.

― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 20 February 2015 05:48 (7 hours ago)

Are you suggesting Sally is now both long and tall?

http://media2.giphy.com/media/aR8L7unOhw7T2/giphy.gif

It seems like there was effort made in the later seasons toward ugly fashions and ugly apartments. Maybe they thought it was too unrealistic to keep it like a Best Of 60s fashion.
I really like Megan, Sally and Betty's clothes in the photo above.

Don looks like his lifestyle's starting to catch up with him in that pic, hope they play that up.
Like how will don function when he's no longer the most virile man in the room lol.

That terrible moment when you realize Harry Crane gets more tail than you...

new promo that debuted during the Oscars

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-st-mad-men-oscars-academy-awards20150220-story.html

Odd ending with that group shot that includes Cooper, Sal, and Kinsey (which I don't recall being in the actual show).

(I'm grasping at nothing...I just want it to start up again.)

I think that group shot was from an old commercial for the show.

New Poster:

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2015/02/19/magazine/20-mad-men.nocrop.w529.h861.jpg

article about poster: http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/mad-men-season-seven-poster.html?mid=nymag_press

I plan to rewatch "The Suitcase" just before the last few start, and also the last episode of 7-a, remind myself where everything left off.

the last episode of 7-a, remind myself where everything left off.

I don't remember anything at all except that Cooper died.

They sold the agency and the partners are all hella rich.

Peggy won the Burger Chef account.

Some dudes walked on the moon.