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

the best tumblr on earth is operational again
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I think she's about to just turn up at Roger's house and I'm sad we probably won't get to see his reaction.

I don't care that Don's fucking someone else, I want to see long scenes with him and Joan or him and Peggy.

I dunno - I find this waitress character interesting in a vortex of doom kind of way. I wonder is that it for her now...

Odd thing that occurred to me today: about 15 years ago, when I has just started teaching full-time, I had a Megan Graper in my class.

(I has gotten more grammatical since.)

enjoyed this episode plenty, tons of funny lines, and I don't mind Don's whole "maybe I should return to my poor depressed alcoholic roots" tryst w the waitress. I assume we haven't seen the last of her. Loved the Rosens showing up in the elevator - if there's one thing this show is uniquely great at, it's scenes that take place in elevators. the Stan/Pima/Peggy thing was not bad but seemed p inconsequential, but who knows what that might lead to.

re: Megan looking terrible - haven't we seen her in that exact outfit before somewhere? (tbf I've always thought she looks like Freddy Mercury in drag, so...) Harry predictably loathsome, I hope he gets thrown out a window or otherwise suitably humiliated before the show's end.

Pete's hair was spectacular.

also baffled by the upthread talk about Don not being rich enough to lay $1 million check on Megan - dude became a millionaire back in like Season 2 (I think?) and has made that many times over since

i don't think it was easy for don to give away $1 million but at that point he was pretty apathetic/wanted to move on

he's def not starving now though

I guess for the very reason he never dwells on money, I underestimated Don's wealth.

Pete's hair was spectacular.

Looked like they're wigging him now, not just shaving Kartheiser's hairline back

there was a huge vibe of money as power v people and their lives, specifically women, in this last ep - felt like a fairly determined thread.

really hope we can dwell on the million dollar check some more

u_u

We're having a competition: cheque vs. dress.

i loved megan's white and gold dress

Oddly on the subject of checks recent New Yorker has a piece on an oil baron who hand wrote a $975 million check to his ex as part of his divorce.

there was a huge vibe of money as power v people and their lives, specifically women, in this last ep - felt like a fairly determined thread

Across the whole series really, but they're foregrounding it more now than they have at any point since the Jaguar episode.

only 4 hours of Mad Men left. having a hard time comprehending this.

5! and the final two will be longer than usual I think

4 if you take out the adverts. oh shit a *longer* final couple of episodes? hadn't realised.

$1 million doesn't seem that crazy. I always thought the math worked like this:

http://doseoffunny.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/eddie-murphy-joke-half.jpg

The defenses of the first two episodes on this thread have been good, and I like pretty much every analysis I've read online. And maybe I'll feel differently about them if/when I go back for a second look. But right now--and I never thought I'd say this--I'm enjoying House of Cards (third season) more.

^ A real mad man.

I'm loving this season so far but I'm worried by how unlikely it is that most of the characters will get the final scenes they deserve.
I was so glad Ted stayed on (I thought he was great in season 6) but I doubt they'll manage to do much more with him. What happened to Bob Benson? No hope for Ginsberg appearing? because I was really disappointed by his exit story. Seemed like a crazy unfortunate thing that could have happened to anyone but just happened to a good minor character.

http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/534801b56bb3f748652bc28c-600-3125/infographic-mad-men.jpg

XP I think Bob Benson went off to General Motors. Speaking of that storyline, I was thinking about how they used Conrad Hilton in S3, and couldn't help but be a little disappointed they couldn't do a similar thing with John Z. Delorean, who worked on the Vega project during his brief tenure with Chevrolet.

I think Harry actually made himself look way way worse than usual by all the things he said. Before I would have imagined him being a far more honest/frank sleazebag, but after all those lies and justifications it makes me shudder to think what else he might have done.

I'm sure we'll see bob benson again, there's almost no way we don't. assuming someone will be holding his coffees this time tho bc he's an exec at buick iirc

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harry crane deserves castration he is viiiiile

Crane's Casting Couch

some fascinating behind-the-scenes stuff from Weiner in this

http://www.empireonline.com/features/matthew-weiner-mad-men-secrets/p1

I haven't watched this yet for fear that she'll hint at too much. If nothing else, it at least points to her imminent return (which I fully expected anyway).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSyEkG9bi2Y

it still amazes me just how tight-lipped everyone is on Mad Men, i mean it's nuts that *nothing* ever leaks out in advance.

It's a bit of a difficult show to spoil, mostly; "Don has sex with a sad waitress".

I think Bob Benson and Ginsberg are basically done now, Kenny too probably. Having said that if any Mad Men character has the potential to be spun off it's probably Bob.

I'd watch a show about a geriatric Roger shagging his way round a retirement home in the mid 1980s.

The look on Peggy's face when the sassy photographer tried to flirt with her reminded me of this
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I think Bob Benson and Ginsberg are basically done now, Kenny too probably.

yup. dunno why anyone would expect these guys to reappear, their arcs are complete

I'm quite satisfied with Ken's "ending" (although I could go for some tapdancing at the end). I hoped there'd be at least a little something more for Ginsberg. I think a lot of Bob's plot elements beg for more development, but maybe they want to keep him mysterious.

idg what's mysterious about him. he's in the closet and has a life of faking it ahead of him at GM.

and Ginsberg's obviously committed/doomed

i mean he did sorta arrange the murder of pete's moms

mysterious is not the word for that but def darkly intriguing!

but what more is there to know about that? it's obvious he did it - and then lol turned out no one cared

haha i did find it weird that literally nothing was made of that beyond the season 6 finale. she was pushed off and eaten by sharks ffs!

They better give Peggy a good ending, she's the most sympathetic character on the show.

btw there are absolutely zero spoilers in that Jimmy Kimmel clip.

"B-b-but whatever happened to the Russian?" blowhards are the worst.

The big murder he orchestrated, the places he has come from and if he just disappeared from Joan's sight seems like things waiting to be explored.