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

RONG

oh lord Draper in an ashram

I know, I know, it's serious.

Steggy!!

I suppose this is how it must end, Draper participating in one of the worst contribution to mass culture: the rap session.

last song prediciton: theme from "Love Story"

Oh. No.

Did I just watch this

I win the Internet.

Just came on to congratulate you!

Well, the final couple of minutes there were Lost finale bad.

haha oh dear

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.)

xp please. the Lost finale comparisons should be reserved for things that are truly horrible. this wasn't.

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 quick
nama$te etc

Didn't realize I wanted Steggy to happen until it did.

This was just forgettable.

(Lots of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice echoes.)

That's what I first thought of when I saw Don at the retreat.

I loved all the Halloween cats on The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.

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.

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.

that's a generous reading...

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).

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

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.

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.

Slightly disappointed that Harris-Olson didn't happen, but y'know...real world.

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.

that is, there's not a *literal* relationship between the coke ad and don's epiphany.

Yeah, that seems like a cornball reading of the last moments.

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.

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)

Lol that was pretty dumb
I am glad this show is over and I can stop watching it now

Was that the first time cocaine was used in Mad Men? I love how *shrug* it was.

I assumed the ad was written by Peggy for Joan's production company.

There's no way McCann would farm out a job to Joan.

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.

yeah joan's last boyfriend was always bad news. i'm glad she got rid of him

https://twitter.com/coreyannclark/status/600144971031773184

She didn't, though. He kept jumping at the chance to leave more than once.

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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.

His "cool, open-minded, retired millionaire" act was always self serving.

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.)

Megan was absent too, but her story was done.

Way too much Brett Gelman in this episode for my tastes.

saw brett gelman by gf was all "BEVERS!"

the behavior of people actually at this ashram or whatever is not 100% peace love harmony at all and it's kind of a frustrating place, but we can def imagine this idealized version of it in a commercial for people who weren't there, to sell you things

I really did think that last guy's three minutes in the chair were great. There were similarities to Don in his story, but mostly he struck me as the complete opposite of Don; through the entire show, Don was the complete focus of everyone he came into contact with, while this guy's family didn't even look up when he got home. I understand JF's point, but my preferred ending would have been a close-up of Don looking at him as he broke down, everyone interpret as you will.

Great moment: when that old woman shoved Don during the encounter session.