Up to his bad habits again -
I gotta start subscribing.... I got about as far as the affair with the artist and then got distracted.
I still have:
GoT S2
Breaking Bad S2+ (I think I am 2/3 through S2)
Mad Med (S2.5?)
There are others, like The Wire that may be good as well, but I just don't have the patience to sit down and watch sometimes......
Yeah, pity my situation later...
Ahhh, that's our DonOriginally Posted by ZippyTheChimp
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My favourite James Bond theme.
Kudos to the Mad Men team. It's brilliant.
Mine too, although that film wasn't high on the list for me.My favourite James Bond theme
From what I've read, many people were disappointed in the finale; but to me, it's another example that the program isn't formulaic. Instead of ending on a big dramatic cliffhanger, it pulled back from the turmoil of the previous episodes. Happens in real life.Kudos to the Mad Men team. It's brilliant.
When Don visited Lane Pryce's widow, she was hostile and said, "How could you fill a man like him with ambition?" Then she showed him a picture of a woman she found in Lane's wallet. It brought to mind an event from the season premiere , when Lane found a man's wallet, and kept the picture before returning the wallet, with the thought of contacting the woman, which he never did. It showed what had been under the radar before his suicide - how lonely and unappreciated he was.
There was another James Bond moment - when Don goes to a movie in the afternoon to clear his thoughts, and finds Peggy there. During the conversation he says, "That's what happens when you help someone; they succeed, and move on." Peggy probably thought he was referring to her leaving for another agency, but it was about Megan. The theme music is heard in the background - Casino Royale.
Peggy finally gets to board an airplane and go on a business trip. When she looks out the hotel window and sees the two dogs, it could mean that no matter how happy you are in the moment, the world at large is an ugly place. I think maybe something else - the price of a career. Her boyfriend is not with her in the hotel; the dogs show that everyone in the world is having sex except Peggy.
Don is clearly in conflict about his wife. He seems to want to be the center of her orbit; but when she asks him to intercede with a client and get her an audition for the commercial, he says, "You want to be somebody's discovery, not somebody's wife."
The last scene was expertly crafted. The commercial is a fairy tale. don is center in the foreground, but in shadow; the set behind brilliantly lit. As he walks away with the camera, her world fades away. The bar has subtle Japanese touches.
The music so well fits the entire five season story arc, that I wonder if it was put into the bank from the beginning, until it was released in 1967. Don has literally had two lives.
Zip... Spoiler warning please....
The spoiler was advised a few posts back. I would think you'd assume any further discussion of an ongoing series would contain plot elements.
No. I wouldn't.
At 2.5 years behind, I question your interest in this, other than to be a pain in the ass.
Read at your own risk.
I was not trying to be a PITA.
That hurts Zip.
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See how she sort of furrowed her brow then shut the window? Maybe the writers wanted to show that no matter how cosmopolitan she becomes, Peggy still has an inability to become cynical and jaded (like Joan) even though she has wallowed in the mire of male office politics.Peggy finally gets to board an airplane and go on a business trip. When she looks out the hotel window and sees the two dogs, it could mean that no matter how happy you are in the moment, the world at large is an ugly place. I think maybe something else - the price of a career. Her boyfriend is not with her in the hotel; the dogs show that everyone in the world is having sex except Peggy.
Joan has arrived. A stereotypical secretary-office manager of 1960 has become a partner in the company. She had been running the firm day to day for most of the season; she
arranged for the expanded office space on the floor above. The writers could have worked the season end around this shot:
I'm hoping they spin off a new series about Don's daughter.
Good shot. I wonder if Roger's lsd trip (I really wish they hadn't shown him naked) portends heavy drug addiction.
Roger had only one of his wisecrack lines in the last episode, when he was talking to Megan's mother on the phone: "I've used up all the French I know."
Season 1 finale: "The Wheel"
Don learns of his brother's suicide, and decides not to spend Thanksgiving weekend with his in-laws.
The Wheel is the Kodak Carousel.
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right is from the 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.
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