I got it. Just saw the scene where Sally reads Betty's letter. Show's gonna end on Sally and the music is Different Drum, Mike Nesmith's 1972 version.
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 May 2015 01:59 (eight years ago) link
"I translated your speech into pig Latin."
"That was a joke!"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 May 2015 02:04 (eight years ago) link
Meredith had the best line: "There are lots of places better than here."
― clemenza, Monday, 18 May 2015 02:31 (eight years ago) link
The person already in the room knows Don, maybe even Diane.
Shortest notice prediction ever.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 18 May 2015 02:32 (eight years ago) link
RONG
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 18 May 2015 02:39 (eight years ago) link
oh lord Draper in an ashram
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 May 2015 02:42 (eight years ago) link
I know, I know, it's serious.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 18 May 2015 02:45 (eight years ago) link
Steggy!!
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:04 (eight years ago) link
I suppose this is how it must end, Draper participating in one of the worst contribution to mass culture: the rap session.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:08 (eight years ago) link
last song prediciton: theme from "Love Story"
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:13 (eight years ago) link
Oh. No.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:14 (eight years ago) link
Did I just watch this
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:15 (eight years ago) link
I win the Internet.
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:16 (eight years ago) link
Just came on to congratulate you!
― clemenza, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:16 (eight years ago) link
Well, the final couple of minutes there were Lost finale bad.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:17 (eight years ago) link
haha oh dear
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:21 (eight years ago) link
I think it would have been nice to end on the guy's refrigerator speech. Don's embrace wasn't necessary. The montage was sort of nice and very ordinary; I did like that Roger was still getting off good lines till the end. The ending will greatly amuse some girls in my class who were doing exactly the same thing in the hallway earlier this year. They could have thought that through a bit more. (Lots of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice echoes.)
― clemenza, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:22 (eight years ago) link
xp please. the Lost finale comparisons should be reserved for things that are truly horrible. this wasn't.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:22 (eight years ago) link
i was like nope without the coke ad but with the ad i think it's kind of amazing (not sure if good or bad)all this new age stuff just becomes yet another way to sell you things. draper or someone else in nyc figures this out pretty quicknama$te etc
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:23 (eight years ago) link
Didn't realize I wanted Steggy to happen until it did.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:23 (eight years ago) link
This was just forgettable.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:23 (eight years ago) link
(Lots of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice echoes.)
That's what I first thought of when I saw Don at the retreat.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:24 (eight years ago) link
I loved all the Halloween cats on The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link
I'm with JF--it was okay. Saw the word "outraged" on Facebook within 30 seconds...I guess there'll be a lot of that, but really.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:28 (eight years ago) link
I think it would have been nice to end on the guy's refrigerator speech. Don's embrace wasn't necessary.
Disagree. How many times has Don had life epiphanies, but in isolation? Embracing Leonard signaled something about this one being different imo.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:28 (eight years ago) link
that's a generous reading...
― call all destroyer, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
After all that D.B. Cooper stuff, I had the sudden thought at one point that Don becomes est's Werner Erhard (which I just checked--it started in '71).
― clemenza, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:31 (eight years ago) link
i can't think they weren't smart enough to intend that those happy endings for everyone came off as too sentimental and too much but they really sold it. and coke
the epiphany was one more story that's going to make a great commercial sometime in the near future, i thought that was the point
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:32 (eight years ago) link
xp I would rather Don's embrace have been his last scene and not the morning meditation thing, but it's not a huge complaint.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:33 (eight years ago) link
all this new age stuff just becomes yet another way to sell you things. draper or someone else in nyc figures this out pretty quick
Or Don discovers his true self and ... he's an ad man! Gets home refreshed, sits in on the Coke meeting and says, "Picture a bluff, overlooking the ocean ..."
Finale overall was gloopier than I expected. It was OK. Lots of better episodes this season.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:33 (eight years ago) link
Slightly disappointed that Harris-Olson didn't happen, but y'know...real world.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:35 (eight years ago) link
lots of people seem to think it was implied Don went back to McCann and made the coke ad, but that doesn't make sense. Don has never been responsible for an actual, historical ad before, why start now? i dont think that was the implication at all.
― ryan, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:36 (eight years ago) link
that is, there's not a *literal* relationship between the coke ad and don's epiphany.
― ryan, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:37 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, that seems like a cornball reading of the last moments.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:40 (eight years ago) link
I thought Joan's line--something like "And we'd have no one to answer to"--was a highlight. Wish Harris-Olson had happened too.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:40 (eight years ago) link
that ad was done by mccann tho
(i'm open to any reading since this thing ended 20 mins ago, but i'm just saying)
― call all destroyer, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:40 (eight years ago) link
Lol that was pretty dumbI am glad this show is over and I can stop watching it now
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:42 (eight years ago) link
Was that the first time cocaine was used in Mad Men? I love how *shrug* it was.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:42 (eight years ago) link
I assumed the ad was written by Peggy for Joan's production company.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:43 (eight years ago) link
There's no way McCann would farm out a job to Joan.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:44 (eight years ago) link
Or Don discovers his true self and...he's an ad man! Gets home refreshed, sits in on the Coke meeting and says, "Picture a bluff, overlooking the ocean..."
Logistics or historical fact or anything else aside, I think that's a pretty great reading.
When the coke came out, I thought "They'd don't possibly have enough time to turn Joan into a drug fiend, do they?" I hated that last boyfriend of hers from start to finish.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:45 (eight years ago) link
yeah joan's last boyfriend was always bad news. i'm glad she got rid of him
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:46 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/coreyannclark/status/600144971031773184
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link
She didn't, though. He kept jumping at the chance to leave more than once.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link
tweet otm
yeah - excuse me. but very glad he left. not surprised - you could see something would happen. he wanted joan to be anything and build any kind of life she wanted, except it had to be exactly what he wanted, only.
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:49 (eight years ago) link
His "cool, open-minded, retired millionaire" act was always self serving.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:51 (eight years ago) link
They seemed to get every major character in...I think you have to go down the list to Henry and Ted to find someone who wasn't. (Harry's 15 seconds seemed apropos.)
― clemenza, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:51 (eight years ago) link
Megan was absent too, but her story was done.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
Way too much Brett Gelman in this episode for my tastes.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:53 (eight years ago) link