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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1971

think they need to get maggie may and it's too late in there somehow. don't think they can get away with "what's going on" - could imagine "my sweet lord" working but prob not with the stories they have left to tell.

a bearded don astride his cadillac in denim, wielding a guitar as "won't get fooled again" roars into life, and he nods to the camera and says "guess i'll see ya around some day"

richie havens here comes the sun has a decent chance?

no Sly Stone yet. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) might be tasty but i guess it's not Mad Men's style.

andy williams "where do i begin" would be kind of cool

anachronistic possibilities can also not be ignored

agreed, they were strong at kempton

Considering how much shitty quasi-lounge music (that was massively popular at the time) they've thrown at us, what makes you think Weiner's gonna close with some Canonical Boomer Rock Classic? It'll probably be the love theme from some movie no one's watched in 40 years, but which inexplicably swept the Oscars, or something like that.

i guess it's just a fun game - i don't really mind if that's the way it goes

what if Don gets a dog and meets a woman at the dog shelter and falls in love with the woman and the dog and the final song is me and you and a dog named boo

It's killing me not to jump in here, but I'll just end up prefacing everything with "As I wrote..." Someone's already named maybe my #1 pick.

doesn't quite fit time wise but I'm thinking

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

I predict a Bread song for the finale...or "Take It Easy".

Phil Abraham looks back at his final of 15 episodes at Sterling Cooper

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/05/mad-men-lost-horizon-director?mbid=social_twitter

https://41.media.tumblr.com/bcd7febbb6f2c71648aff3113031c39d/tumblr_nnuapdSIXH1qdbluio1_1280.jpg

i got so much secondhand embarrassment from Don's Racine adventure. He's such a putz!!! Like dude what are you even doing

also: Go Joan!!

also i thought the Racine ex husband was Clark Gregg for a minute & got suuuuper excited

Joan and Don = near-enemies almost all of S6 and 7a. 7b = best of mates again!

I took the swift change in their dynamic as a result of them both being swallowed up into the corporate behemoth of mccann. even though there was a fair amount of rancor between them at one time, they're still familiar faces to each other, which would be a rare and welcome sight in that hive. and besides, neither of them is otherwise making a smooth transition to the new office.

also i have become very fond of meredith. she's easily the best secretary don's ever had.

Don Draper turning out not to be who he says he is would be a very handy pretext for McCann to get rid of him, as they're obviously dying to do already. I'd be amazed if that storyline didn't reappear in some pivotal fashion before the end.

The Peggy scenes this week were complete classic through and through btw.

Wonder if that was the last scene with Don and Joan together.

Hey, maybe he could get out of the contract by proving (?) the name he signed is not his own--but: McCann could sue him (and maybe they'd snitch on him to the Feds, like I fan-fictioned Anna's niece doing upthread). But however he does it, suspect he and Joan will both go into some other business, where they've built up a stash of contacts--maybe he and Joan could be business partners---with some closing hint of non-business potential, wink-wink (last song: "If Dogs Run Free"). Not forgetting that the geezer (says he) knows a guy, so Don better watch it.

But Joan might be too much woman for Don (don't think he and the late, strong-minded businesswoman, or he and Dr. Faye, would have had a long-term relationship under any circumstances).

last song: "If Dogs Run Free"

WOAH

I am kinda wondering if Anna's gonna show up again.

Joan doesn't need the grief, she should just start her own agency - she has the money and the clients.

there are only two episodes left, right?

yup

she should just start her own agency - she has the money and the clients Yeah, but it's gotta be outside of advertising per se: can be related, but beyond that no-compete they all signed.