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

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.

oh right. yeah that makes her rolodex kind of useless.

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

...draper? as in her ghost? wouldn't be surprised given the hallucinatory direction in which don is trending

http://40.media.tumblr.com/d1ebf9afdf9a74736a4bc91a0c7e804a/tumblr_nnuas6pw7X1qdbluio1_500.jpg

Anna and/or her niece

xxp

Don's clearly headed for the west coast. Joan's new beau chiefly lives there. Being across the country might mitigate the non-compete. This show is gonna end in California imo (maybe).

btw, for those unfamiliar with the hokusai octopus print:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife

In fact, the print on Cooper's wall could not possibly be an original or real as the original by Hokusai was printed in a Manga (book) which would have been octavo in size as was common for Shunga and a good way to keep it out of sight. As is evident from the show, Cooper's is a very large reproduction for dramatic effect. The original, depending on the condition of the book, might sell anywhere from $800-5000. Other Shunga prints at auction, like other Ukiyo-e prints, can be obtained for under $100 or in the low hundreds with few exceptional pieces in the thousands of dollar range.

tbh, Roger was probably just making the shit up.

oh right. yeah that makes her rolodex kind of useless. Not necessarily, for a business not too closely related.
Don's clearly headed for the west coast. Joan's new beau chiefly lives there. Being across the country might mitigate the non-compete Yeah, maybe so.

Since McCann doesn't seem to give a shit about the West Coast?

taking the rolodex could just as much be an "if i can't have them then neither can you" final fuck you

non-compete clauses are void in california fyi

? my current bosses had one when they sold their original company to a national corporation and this was within the last couple decades

every bit of speculation regarding this show makes me like it less, keep up the work, dudes.

Some jurisdictions, such as the state of California in the US, invalidate non-compete-clauses for all but equity stakeholders in businesses

non-compete clauses are void in california fyi

― chinavision!, Wednesday, May 6, 2015 12:37 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which is why the tech industry collusion stuff is such a big deal!

ok now I see this exception:
"Any partner may, upon or in anticipation of a dissolution of the partnership or
dissociation of a partner from a partnership, agree that he or she will not carry on a similar business within a specified geographic area where the partnership business has been transacted, so long as any other member of the partnership, carries on a like business therein."

so I don't know how that affects it

http://www.whitecase.com/files/Publication/dcf3d85c-1c1b-4bf5-9806-7a04e2b0e214/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/d734c538-402d-4648-b778-80e6a224b192/article_enforceability.pdf

last episode will be a legal drama about the enforcement of the noncompete in california, with a young cast of hotshot lawyers hired by don working to break the contract.

if things go well they'll spinoff the lawyers into a new show "legal men"

maybe it could bring back jim cutler
http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/8celeb-lalaw01.jpg

Time is a flat circle.

Come to think of it, how has Jimmy Smits never been on Mad Men? Jimmy Smits is on every tv show.

theres still time!

c'mon, there's not going to be any new enterprise for either joan or don, advertising or not. are we watching the same show here?

We are. Speculating wildly is just a tactic to kill time between episodes.

would love it if the next episode is a stand alone about Pete's troubled child. like just sixty minutes about pete being a dad.
and then the final episode is all about new minority hire Jimmy Smits at McCann. How will he fit in? Fade to black.

now YOURE making me like the show less

that octupus print is fantastic, thanks forks

Picasso painted his own version in 1903 that has been shown next to Hokusai's original in exhibits on the influence of 19th-century Japanese art on Picasso's work.

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/files//2011/08/27/img-picasso-1_144636399056.jpg

ugh sorry for the size

i had never see that picasso take, awesome.

I liked Shirley's exit scene w Roger but... what happened to Dawn?