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

yeah I knew we'd seen that dress before

xp

Different earrings tho.

if she were wearing the same dress and the same accessories that'd be pathological imo

obviously both the soundtrack and the costuming are integral to the thematic and character developments of the show, in addition to contributing to the sense of setting. this show has typically been exceptional in deploying both of these elements of storytelling, no question. but that said, i think prognosticating on songs that might be used in the show is similar to predicting what color don's necktie will be next episode.

i was mostly jk about the credits btw. i enjoy hearing what they pick etc but yeah i dont really care to place bets on what it will be next week, etc

saying "etc" tho, i really love

if you're interested in the costuming, the website tom & lorenzo (typically devoted to criticizing celebrities' looks at their red carpet appearances) has done an excellent episode-by-episode series on the clothes worn in the series. there are moments when it veers into weird thematic tea-reading ("what do these colors MEAN?") but it does a very good job delineating the costumes in terms of the show's time period, and tracking the evolution of characters and the upheavals of 60s & 70s fashion in general through the lens of the characters' attire. recommended if you're into that sort of thing:

http://tomandlorenzo.com/tag/mad-style/

i love them!

That dress is the emotional center of the show.

yeah mad style is awesome

we need Don 'n' Glenn in this thread.

lol

For what it's worth, all I've been talking about is what music I think would make a great ending--what I think would resonate, and what would hopefully work side-by-side with wherever the story ends up. (Or would work as a memorable contrast.) To me that's no different than trying to guess what happens to character A, B, or C. But I'm not predicting by any means. Too many songs.

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yeah fuck why don't we talk more about tom and lorenzo in this thread

we need Don 'n' Glenn in this thread.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

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the show really ought to end with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE

right guys?

don finally reaches los angeles... thirty years later

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

Someone on Reddit made a Spotify playlist of all the music so far

https://open.spotify.com/user/tharamin/playlist/61tUn3swzw3aQBOxTACxFS

I'm sure some of you saw that weird teaser on AMC last night. There was a shot of Don's fake birth certificate, and the voiceover said something like "This was the first lie on Mad Men; tune in to the final episodes to see the last." Maybe that just means that in this world, somebody's lying about something every week, or maybe it means that there's some big revelation on the way. Or maybe it means nothing and is just meant to get people like me posting on message boards about it.

I was thinking about "Take It Easy," the "I got seven women on my mind" line. How many significant relationships has Don had during the course of the show? (Counting only sexual relationships, so no Anna, Peggy, or Joan.) Betty, Rachel, Midge, Faye, the teacher, Megan, the neighbour...That would be seven, unless you count Diana this season. Did I forget anyone?

I bet he banged a few women before Betty.

During the course of the show...

There was that one grad student (I think) he went to dinner with a couple of times mid-series, but I don't remember that it ever went anywhere.

Bobbie Barrett

Of course. The Eagles Theory of History has been officially retired.

Well, yeah.

Real Ending: Don drowns in bathtub full of Budweiser at The Eagle's Nest in 1975. "Wasted Time (Reprise)" is dedicated to his memory the next year.

OD's on coke in a stripclub bathroom to the loud muffled strains of "Victim of Love"

DON: We're obviously impressed by the degree of realism that Matthew Weiner has brought to "Mad Men." It's a world that had pretty much vanished by the time us hippies were, as they say, 'loitering' on stage.

GLENN: Some things didn't change. Let's just say in Topanga Canyon we knew a few blonde au pairs who like Draper knew how to close the deal.

DON: Well, yeah.

Nonononono on Eagles in this show.

handy All The Women Don Has Had It Off With guide right here courtesy of YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=20&v=J0Rf01v3I7s

Neat. Bethany was the one I was trying to remember. No recollection of at least a couple of them.

the Eagles are where this show has been headed tbh

xpost no recollection on Don's part either

honestly i would have thought it was more

guess he spent a while 'being good'

Don: "...get out of here and move forward. This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened."

yeah Season 5 was entirely er 'dry' if memory serves.

Kinda bugs me that we have no "record" of any of the events of 1961 at all

Don bought a Dodge in '61 (iirc, that's the year and make that he rolled while drunk w/Bobbie).

Didn't buy it until about Spring of '62 though

Liked the edit between Peggy's scene with the flowers "could you hold this for me" into Joan with the flower-print dress.

From the Tom + Lorenzo link

We heard a lot of commentary about how Bill Phillips the research guy, whose card and name Don later appropriated, was doing a Don Draper-like pitch in this scene. That isn’t how we saw it at all, though. Don’s very best pitches were about finding universal experiences in products; about appealing to people’s broader emotions and desires – for love, acceptance, family, romance. Bill Phillips’ approach was to describe a very specific customer and claim that this was the exact person they should be targeting in their approach. It’s micro-marketing, not advertising. It limits people to a series of tics and behaviors rather than appealing to their better natures. Don didn’t leave that meeting because someone was doing his old job as well as he did. He left for many reasons, but Phillips’ targeted marketing approach – while very much the direction advertising ultimately headed in – was revolting to him; the exact opposite of creativity. Don’s best pitches were about opening people up to the possibilities of a particular product or concept. Bill Phillips is about putting people in boxes so you can sell something to them. Bill Phillips is a clean-cut charismatic guy who can command a room and make a presentation, but after that, the comparisons to Don evaporate.

this DB Cooper stuff is clearly bollocks right?

It makes zero sense that Don would be DB Cooper.

yea most definitely.

I can see why someone might think of that given the redditization of everything world we live in w/r/t pop culture, but it seems preposterous

Scott Woods posted his picks his picks for the last song yesterday--much weirder than mine.

https://heardjustwhatiseen.wordpress.com/

Johnny Fever guessed from a promo that tonight's episode would be a lot of Pete and Betty--was thinking a Betty-heavy story would coincide with Mother's Day.

I'm gonna get the papers, get the papers.

-was thinking a Betty-heavy story would coincide with Mother's Day.

That would require Weiner to have known the TX date two years ago, when he didn't as of early 2015.

Well, now you're just ruining everything with facts.