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

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

(xp)

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
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR62Gl5rI8PrDUxpSzepqWFFbUwl84kwK7hQf4CIPodtxJHkKpUzUUI0S0

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.

the big murder no one cares about, it's already established he lied about his past, and he moved to a different city from where Joan lives (and he was just grooming her as an accomplice anyway, I doubt there was anything real emotionally to their relationship)

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

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, April 17, 2015 2:06 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...i don't see how they're comparable, lol i'm not like mad at weiner for not going further just mildly puzzled, also it's not a question of resolution bc we know how it happened

but in any case pete is a selfish mess & i suppose was not bound to care much about things not directly affecting him for very long

I could see them putting in a quick scene where we see Bob as some bigshot at GM or whatever. His story on Mad Men is very much over though.

Also I don't remember Bob actually being involved in Pete's mother's murder, other than obviously being the one who introduced the guy who killed her to Pete. I might have missed something though.

Entirely possible that he gets away with it.

One of Bob's phone conversations has him taking part in getting rid of Pete's mother. Maybe Pete ending up feeling like he'd been done a favour.

harry crane deserves castration he is viiiiile

― slothroprhymes, Thursday, April 16, 2015 9:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

surprised megan didn't see that one coming a few miles away, though. had she never met harry (or any sleazebag) before?

She overheard Harry saying disgusting shit about her in the break room; why did she even agree to meet with him?

One of Bob's phone conversations has him taking part in getting rid of Pete's mother.

yup - after a big blowup w Pete Bob is next shown in his office yelling in Spanish to Manolo "I don't care how nice she is, she's got to go" or something to that effect

ok thanks. I remember that scene, I guess my Spanish just isn't very good

I dunno, it doesn't seem that sinister to me? He's complaining about Pete screwing with him at work, and trying to separate Manolo from Pete's mom, as Pete requested? I don't think we're supposed to think he had anything to do with the murder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB-lgSmymFI

and trying to separate Manolo from Pete's mom

hmm that hadn't occurred to me but sure, this interpretation works too

would make his involvement in her death indirect rather than sinister but yeah idk if it really needs to be explored further. Obviously Pete doesn't think so!

surprised megan didn't see that one coming a few miles away, though. had she never met harry (or any sleazebag) before?

denial?

you could almost argue that don has turned her into a post-60s version of betty draper.