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

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.

If it's a Mother Betty's Day, gotta use Pink Floyd's "Mother," pref. Natalie Maines's version.

Lennon's "mother" seems more appropriate esp re: don

Yeah that'd be good, but was thinking of the warnings, times inner conflicts brought out when Mother Maines is singing. Makes me think of the Philip Larkin poem beginning, "They fuck you up, Mom and Dad, they may not mean to but they do..." Later: "...they were fucked in their turn..." Betty scolded her little brother, reminding him that they were fined for small talk at the table (good way for Squire Glen to get some of that allowance money back).

'They fuck you up your MUM and dad', please.

slowly getting nervous about tonight's. hope Rog doesn't have a heart attack, was convinced he was gonna keel over after all that Vermouth last week.

mutant alligators take over new york, everything to be resolved in last episode

The last Mad Men episode will be animated, a joint production with the The Simpsons crew.

Haha I occasionally sing to myself "They're Mad! They're Men!" ala the Itchy & Scratchy theme

If it follows the prestige-TV template, tonight's the night the bullets fly and next week is the denouement.

*has The Fear for Roger*

chekhov's heart problem

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DUCK

MERLE!

Mrs. Robinson!

Geez--Happy Mother's Day, Betty.

i...did not expect that.

Don Draper turns his lonely eyes to you.

Enjoying the sight of him reclining in bed reminded me for one of the first times of what a beautiful man Hamm can be.

He is the man who drinks in the motel room

I wonder what Don thinks about Lucy Mancini's gigantic vagina.

the secret hotel room xp

pete campbell, voice of reason who knew

ptsd and alcoholism, not modern conditions by any reach

I'm not following the Pete-Duck strand at all. Paraphrase?

That was so weird (Don's part of the story, I mean)--I thought it was another dream when the Legion guys showed up in his room. Betty's letter was nice. Didn't find Pete and Trudy's reconciliation all that credible. And those people trying to guess at the music, they must be nuts.

Duck is trying to recruit Pete. Pete thinks he is stuck with McCann, is respected, and is pretty much the main SC&P guy left. But he's completely unfulfilled.

Duck is trying to hustle by giving McCann a Learjet connection, get a commission for delivering an internal marketing man, and give Pete what is actually a good job. He did it in the most obnoxious Duck way, though.

Don's part of the story was great because small town people are supposed to be wholesome and they're all crooked in the stupidest ways, and these are the detritus of wars gone by and dumb travelers.

Maybe historic spoiler