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

possible local FM stations played it in 1970 Yeah, especially in Manhattan. Also, promo copies would circulate in Advertising. That reminds me, re what I posted a while back about Joan using her contacts elsewhere (and yay she's taking the rolodex, as somebody noted this week), could see Peggy going to print media or record companies, bribing reviewers with fabulous press junkets: "Hey, and your sister lives out there, doesn't she? If you'd like to stay and visit with her family for several days, that'd be cool too."----Geoffrey Stokes, Star-Making Machinery, a great book about a lost world.

And when she finally strolls into McCann, what's that cig hanging out of her smirk? Looks like a Krupa.

Would so much have rather heard "Kooks" last night; that would have been brilliant. ("Queen Bitch," too, but Wes Anderson already grabbed that for Steve Zissou.)

As Don was talking to Bert and fighting sleep, I started thinking, "PLease don't tell me he's going to crash...You're not really going to have him spend the last couple of episodes in a coma, are you?"

really the best thing for this show is to drop its characters, one by one, episode by episode, with Sterling the last man standing in the office.

like, I would not mind if I never saw Draper again after yesterday's perfect ending.

roger's mentioned his bad heart twice in two episodes, i know this show drops red herrings like it drops shots of whiskey but i'm nevertheless fearing he won't be standing at all

Sterling had a real Phantom of the Opera moment with that organ

I wouldn't call driving off into the sunset a perfect ending

also feel like they're aware everyone think's DD is gonna jump out a window so they make him look out the window to fuck with us a bit

hey guys at the end of the first-season finale they used Dylan's "Don't Think Twice" prematurely in a 1960 milieu, you've had 6 years to lose your anality.

*farts*

xp but the show's been on for 8 years tho who's to say people didn't get it back

they used the decemberists, didn't they? the theme tune is rjd2.

i don't think this show was really made in the 1960s

first okay ep of the season for my money but i know i'm the outlier on this thread

i mostly agree, the last few eps (before this very good one) were p bad imo

I put it second so far, after Glen's episode; the other three, so-so or worse.

i meant 7 as a whole; like last "season" as well.

hey guys at the end of the first-season finale they used Dylan's "Don't Think Twice" prematurely in a 1960 milieu, you've had 6 years to lose your anality.

that wasn't diegetic

possible local FM stations played it in 1970 Yeah, especially in Manhattan. Also, promo copies would circulate in Advertising.

Don was somewhere between Racine and St Paul

the season/midseason premiere was decent, the second and third ones were a little weak (although "the forecast" had some good scenes), but 4 and 5 are all time classics imo especially last night. if I think of this as a whole season (which I kinda don't want to), the first half is stacked and it makes sense then that there was the middle doldrums period to the whole thing

the middle doldrums being episodes like "severance," "new business," "forecast" etc

curious what the weird little japan motif amounts to.

OK...I liked a number of episodes in 7-A.

7A was almost wall-to-wall greatness wtf

a few of the earlier eps were minor-key mad men but hardly out of step quality wise with the rest of the show (which means they were pretty good to really good).

yea I don't think the show's had any legitimately bad episodes since season 6, that one did have a few clunkers

question - don's hitchhiker was heading to saint paul, would that be saint paul minnesota, meaning don was heading west (way west) from wisconsin, or is there another saint paul it could be?

yeah he's going west.

my tweet about meredith got fav'd by the actress who plays her #madeit

haha i think i am one of 2 others who favorited it.

yes, esteemed company you keep

as someone who's always harbored a cliched not-so-secret desire to drop everything and reinvent myself in california i will especially happy if that's how this turns out for don.

Joan and Don = near-enemies almost all of S6 and 7a. 7b = best of mates again! i'm pleased for them like, but.. o_0

also, when did Diana give Don her address?

She didn't. He was trial and erroring based on last name.

ah got it.

I guess the show will end without Don revealing to the others that he's not Don. I guess the argument can be made that it really doesn't matter, but I still feel cheated.

Has he been Don Draper at this point longer than he was Dick Whitman?

he kinda has in all but the most technical sense - everyone closest to him knows about the poor whorehouse-life thing

(xp)

xxp not quite. he's like 46/47 and has been draper since the end of korea (1953?)

do we think Roger knows who he is? there was all that stuff in episode 1 of 7b where he seemed to be referring to it while they were sat in a diner.

roger knows he was poor and sad and unfortunate, as do most of the sc&p partners. I don't think he knows about dick whitman or anna draper

I'm sure that when Pete revealed Don's identity to Cooper, Roger was in the room.

nah he wasn't.

i always just thought Coops would have.. mentioned it to Roger on the sly.

wild guesses at the closing song for the final ep?

going with g lightfoot's "if you could read my mind", peaked on billboard in feb 1971. tragic man wanting to break free from a long relationship he no longer understands, but the chords and strings give his quest to understand how it all went wrong a slice of nobility. last few eps have felt a little like that's what they're building to with don.

A friend and I started working on a piece about this very thing a week ago. I've got lots of thoughts, but I'll hold off until that goes up (in a day or two, not sure where yet). "If You Could Read My Mind" is a great pick.

theme from shaft or wild world imo