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

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thanks, LBJ and Nixon, for the EEOC.

are the McCann spawn the whitest white guys ever seen on this show?

man that got so real

I fucked up my dvr so I'll have to watch the repeat bc I missed 15 mins or so but this is a for the record books episode

xp yea def

seem more WASPy than provincial irish american tho (speaking as a provincial clannish irish american)

Draper back to his salesman roots.

My head is pounding at the thought of drinking straight vermouth all day.

this show is incredible

It's the best paced episode this season to date.

five men and ten women -- just handling data!

back when computers were secretary, data entry work

can't believe there haven't been more sterling-olsen scenes before now

Peggy has become the go-to character for animated gifs.

The rollerskating was cool, but I want one of her walking up the McCann hallway with sunglasses and a cigarette.

want a painting of that shit tbh or at least a big poster

don's stalktasticness is PEAK tho yikes

Kept expecting Joan to hear NOW GO HOME AND GET YOUR SHINE BOX

roger on the wurlitzer organ (I'm guessing) ftw

"would you drink vermouth?"
"yes I'm afraid I would."

I been there roger

Wonder what ppl at McCann think about all this. I guess they were probably consulted.

It seems kind of clear no one talks to anyone else about anything at McCann.

No I mean the real McCann -- what they think of the show.

the scene where Don realizes McCann does nothing innovative and their research is outsourced to some guy who does a summarized pseudo-scientific view of the pitches he used to do

real McCann is as divorced from 1970s McCann as 1970s real McCann is divorced from on-show portrayal

Oh right. Their twitter account is all over it.

https://twitter.com/mccann_ww

"Space Oddity"--ugh. The rest was good.

Was that the proper Space Oddity? Bowie sounded a little off, or maybe memory fail,

Sounded right to me at the time, but I was more concerned about how long it would be before Don gets killed by a hippie drifter.

the scene where Don realizes McCann does nothing innovative and their research is outsourced to some guy who does a summarized pseudo-scientific view of the pitches he used to do

I thought it was as much Don realizing that he does nothing innovative...that he's just one of a ton of the same people who all do the same thing and were all told the same thing and are as good as each and there's nothing special about him or his work and hey, there's an airplane flying outside, I wonder if this glass is as secure as the glass in my office?

I loved Shirley telling Roger he was "very amusing." Don eyeing the window twice during the episode...I'll take that as a sly joke addressed at the goofy idea that the series will actually end with him falling out of one.

Before he took his interstate exit, I thought he was looking at overpass bridges for jumping potential.

i didn't expect joan to go forward with getting a lawyer and going after mccann because that's almost unwinnable.. they would go through everything in her past and drag her name through the mud. not worth it
she took her rolodex. i'm hoping she's going to start her own agency and take her clients with her

i thought don was looking out his mccann office window for jumping potential earlier on, and then the show credits sequence would be real

Weiner's not a sentimentalist about these characters, so I hope that wasn't Joan's exit from the series. As much as I enjoyed her big moment, leaving in defeat isn't how I want her story to end.

wonder if those mccann guys will underestimate her & not even bother to make her sign anything promising not to go after clients etc

I don't think that'll be Joan's exit--too depressing.

If the totally uninformative tease from next week is to be believed, it's about 50% Pete and 50% Sally.

brain fart, I meant Betty (though Sally was in a snippet too).

This was a great episode overall -- the Joan stuff was sad, but she handled it as well as she could. Roger + Peggy in the ghost-town office was designed to feel like a classic moment, and it did. And Don -- has he ever been more useless in his life? His bosses don't need him, his kids don't need him, Betty doesn't need him, he doesn't even have a place to live. I like how he keeps trying to take decisive actions, but they just fizzle out.

It irritates me the way they say "Only ONE EPISODE left -- until the series finale."

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"Did I mention I was in the Navy?"

Diana's ex husband was Mackenzie Astin! I knew that face looked kind of familiar.

The Guardian:

"Not only was that pulled rising shot allied with the pre-chorus howl of 'Space Oddity' (first released in 1969) the finest musical moment in the show since Don tuned out with 'Tomorrow Never Knows,' it also drew a neat line between the Kerouac references."

British.

lol

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love peggy walking dead center down that narrow hallway!

and oh my god, every joan sexism scene made my flight response kick in something fierce. i might've puked during the joan/jim hobart scene if they hadn't already suggested that bruce greenwood could have him killed.

I thought it was as much Don realizing that he does nothing innovative

most definitely! after all that talk about how he's won and how they can't wait to have that Don Draper magic, it turns out they don't need or give a shit about his ability to be creative, they just want him as an Important Man to shake hands and sit in meetings

Great, and the Road Trip to, uh, Racine, goes with the aforementioned uselessness/anticlimaxes of current Draper activity, insofar as it almost seems like an arbitrary destination. Although he may some incoherent notion of stirring up some shit with her ex, that Heartland Man, glimpsed in the debriefing of the massed "Creative Directors." Ghost Burt says, "You always want to be The Stranger," which may be true: let's go blow some minds in Racine!
But the ex is much more focused, in a grimly clean-and-sober, AA-like way, than lost horndog DD (makes it sound like Diana the pagan huntress of hearts has left a long and twisted trail of males; get in line and Get Saved [somewhere else]).
Diana told Don she'd just finalized the divorce, right? But obviously that's not true, since there's already a second Mrs. Bauer. Did I get that wrong?

Although it's been several months since she told him that, hasn't it? Suppose the second marriage might well have been ready for launch. ("Space Oddity"is too obvious here, unlike most MM closers; it worked a lot better on Breaking Bad.)

Was "Space Oddity" even a hit in the U.S.?

Yes, but not till '73. Weird, but they've used two songs this half-season ("The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" the other) that were released in '69 but not hits until two or three years later. Maybe "Nights in White Satin" will turn up next week, released in '67, a hit again in '72.