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

this paragraph does not compute, sorry:

Yes, Don Draper created the Coke ad. The last scenes of the series features Don hugging a stranger at a retreat and meditating with hippies, before the episode cuts to the 1971 Coca-Cola “Hilltop” commercial, to infer that Don returns to McCann-Erickson and creates that ad. “I have never been clear, and I have always been able to live with ambiguities,” said Weiner. “In the abstract, I did think, why not end this show with the greatest commercial ever made? In terms of what it means to people and everything, I am not ambiguity for ambiguity’s sake. But it was nice to have your cake and eat it too, in terms of what is advertising, who is Don and what is that thing?”

god just stop

And the idea that someone in an enlightened state might have created something that’s very pure — yeah, there’s soda in there with a good feeling, but that ad to me is the best ad ever made, and it comes from a very good place.

ha ok

"This article was originally published on Hollywood Reporter"

love this part from the Mad Style recap:

Like his ability to predict Kennedy’s electoral win because he was a rockstar and his ability to see that African-Americans were a viable and extremely important market, typically forward-thinking Pete dropped an absolute truth bomb on Peggy. It’ll take ten years, but eventually, society’s going to catch up to where Peggy is and recognize her for the insane talent she possesses.

I never thought about his comment to Peggy as being just another example of Pete's progressiveness, but yeah it's actually true to character.

v much so

that was not actually shot at Big Sur, even though it was supposed to be Big Sur

?

http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/arts_culture_blog/jon-hamm-sightings-and-mad-men-shooting-in-big-sur/article_fbec2678-fd59-11e3-94e5-001a4bcf6878.html

that part near the water didn't look familiar. other parts of those scenes did.

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 ..."

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, May 17, 2015 11:33 PM

If you weren't looking in the night of, tipsy had this figured out within 15 minutes. I missed it altogether until his post.

http://i.imgur.com/JrdImbJ.jpg

I love the internet.

does anyone else still feel empty inside

finale was the height of internet discussion for like five days and now *tumbleweeds*

omg i miss roger

I'm fine

i don't mean to piss on your pain but i was very happy not to have mad men on last week. it was like i had been gifted an hour of life.

wouldn't mind watching the whole show from the beginning (I've forgotten a lot of s1-3) but I can wait

I might be able to persuade husband to watch it with me from the start now that he knows the whole thing has a satisfactory ending.

wouldn't mind watching the whole show from the beginning (I've forgotten a lot of s1-3) but I can wait

we started this last year after our baby was born and we had many hours of sleepless exhaustion at our disposal. it was good! we got as far as S5 and are now giving that a ""rescreen"".

Man how can someone put so much work into designing that "Not Great, Bob!" poster but still misspell FOUR of the actors' names, including one of the ones above the title?

Not only that: "putting the fun in dysfuctional."

Perhaps he's called Bob and it's actually quite meta.

Had a dream last night that Matt Weiner had trolled us all by secretly creating a REAL final episode, and airing it with no great fanfare in a different timeslot. I spent much of the broadcast complaining to my fellow viewing companions about the deception to really pay much attention (and they were talking a lot as well) so I can only remember three scenes:

- Sally and a bunch of her friends in a family-style restaurant, trying to find a table
- Dow Chemical guy explaining to Roger that when two snakes are trying to eat each other, you don't want to be the one that's smiling while the other's too busy EATING to smile
- Final scene Don and Betty driving away on motorcycles, through the outskirts of Phoenix or somewhere. Don wearing his denims, didn't notice Betty's outfit.

Clem--pick a final song for this dream.

I've never heard Genesis' "Return of the Giant Hogweed," but I've been making jokes about it for a couple of decades, so now I want to put it to use.

i've suspected for a while and had my suspicions confirmed by the final episode that matthew weiner himself was the least interesting/most frustrating part of mad men. so much onscreen and behind-the-scenes talent and insight always threatening to be brought down by sentimental boomerism.

i *love* my cynical interpretation of the ending and weiner being like "oh, you hipsters with your negativity, that coke commercial is EVERYTHING" -- sigh.

"- Dow Chemical guy explaining to Roger that when two snakes are trying to eat each other, you don't want to be the one that's smiling while the other's too busy EATING to smile"

Is this a classic story or something?? If not that's a very cool thing to think in a dream.

That whole post is great, but I especially hope a show does this sometime:

Had a dream last night that Matt Weiner had trolled us all by secretly creating a REAL final episode, and airing it with no great fanfare in a different timeslot.

It's like doing a Beyonce on a TV show. Like, just sneak another one in on a Tuesday at 11 a.m. on AMC and see who notices.

xxpost

No, I guess it's something my subconscious thought up. But it does faintly recall Don's convo with Conrad Hilton where he mentions snakes that choke on their prey after months without eating, so maybe that's a subliminal source.

xp i think that's part of what what got everybody so hyped on too many cooks

i thought this was good: http://michaelmaslin.com/inkspill/new-yorker-cartoonist-joe-dator-tells-us-about-the-cartoons-on-peggy-olsons-wall/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHP0vmCUYAACDxt.jpg

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/mad-men-creator-coke-ad-finale-planned-from-beginning-20150821

Emmys all round tonight right? surely has to be. funny how The Slat isn't nominated.

Hendricks snubbed.

WHAM BAM THANK YOU HAMM

Continuing the AMC Dynasty...

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Contained inside the box:

All 92 episodes on 22 high-definition Blu-ray dicsc
Extra Blu-ray disc with over three hours of bonus content, exclusive to this box set
Beautiful hard back 20-page book containing 23 Blu-ray Discs
16-Page episode guide
Reproduction of Don Draper’s ‘Why I’m Quitting Tobacco’ letter
Letter announcing Sterling Cooper + Partners new logo
Sterling Cooper, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce and Sterling Cooper + Partners headed notepaper
Six character art cards
Photo Montage art card
Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce office plan

I've got them all on separate DVDs (except for the last half-season). Still, if I saw "Dinner with Miss Farrell" on that list, I'd buy. (I like the idea of the tobacco letter.)

entire package soaked in whiskey for six days before shipping

Kiernan Shipka reviews the Bobbys:

https://li.st/l/7UUcBiRlFQppDn3WTnqkf4

lol @ Buckethead Bobby

He loved Sizzler and eating packets of straight sugar.

That's great. I must not have paid very close attention on that front--I would have guessed three or four at the most.

We've been binge watched S2-7 over the last few months. What a fantastic show. Had to immediately go back and watch S1 (we both watched that one years ago and kind of gave up after it). Kind of amazing to see what a difference in tone there was when it was first starting out. I know it was lauded at the time for being highly discrete, but S1 feels like it's constantly jackhammering early 60s attitudes and telegraphing characters' intentions non stop.

You're probably using the wrong "discreet", and also misremembering reaction to the show.

Woah, I've never noticed that discreet and discrete were separate terms. Certainly watching the pilot is a very strange contrast to the rest of season one too.

Woah, I've never noticed that discreet and discrete were separate terms.

They are discreetly discrete terms.

I'm still kinda pissed that we re-watched the entire run only to discover that the last half of s7 is not available on Netflix streaming