While this season has been disappointing, there have also been some amazing moments and character development.
If anything, this season captures the dull, alienating moments of "happiness" and married life, while hinting at a return to the dark, gritty Mad Men we all know and love.
While this season has been disappointing, there have also been some amazing moments and character development.
If anything, this season captures the dull, alienating moments of "happiness" and married life, while hinting at a return to the dark, gritty Mad Men we all know and love.
Don walking out like a badass to the James Bond song....I'm thinking season 6 will redeem the series.
Yeah, I think Megan really diminished herself in Don's eyes by her pathetic plea to be in the commercial (a la Betty when she was used as a bargaining chip earlier in the show while someone tried to hire Don). He probably turns back to his old ways because of that and as a way to deal with the guilt he is haunted by because of Lane/Adam.
Yeah, I think Megan really diminished herself in Don's eyes by her pathetic plea to be in the commercial (a la Betty when she was used as a bargaining chip earlier in the show while someone tried to hire Don). He probably turns back to his old ways because of that and as a way to deal with the guilt he is haunted by because of Lane/Adam.
I think next season will be great.
Yeah, if you want to talk about nostalgia, the last episode or two were reminiscent of season one:
Megan acting=Betty modelling
Don smoking in bar=Don smoking a Lucky in episode one
Asian/"Oriental" setting=Asian waitress/restaurant. Don says, "Not tonight."
Don watching Megan on projector=Don watching pictures of family/Adam
Now, with the loss of talent and the lack of business, SCDP is falling apart and I wonder if the company will even exist by the end of season 7, considering Weiner has stated the show may only run for two more seasons.
They only really lost Peggy, Lane was more or less a CFO, and I am not sure how you see any 'lack of business' considering revenue was up 34% year on year, they are getting new accounts and even renting a whole new floor.
The company only needs Ginsberg and Draper to stay afloat talent wise, the rest are replaceable pieces.
The last episode was good, but not great.
-The Lane issue will come to a head next season I think as there is still confusion after his death (Joan thinking she was in a way responsible and Lane's wife thinking he put in extra money).
-I don't see Megan in it for the long term, the allusions to Betty in the final scene were too strong, and she is much more in tune with her generation (60s youth movement) than she is to being a rich Manhattan housewife.
-The symbolism of Roger open and naked to the world tells us all we need to know about his character.
-Don and Joan will become the de facto bosses next season, Joan already running meetings, and Don re-immersed back into his work, plus Pete's tacit acknowledgement of Don's sound decision making by giving him proxy voting rights.
-Pete will likely spiral into depression and booze and women (should be fun/sad) now that he will have an apartment in the city.
-I also think whatever it was Kenny and Peggy were planning may see light next season, now that Peggy has a powerful position and Kenny's reality will be changed for better or worse depending on how Dow Corning reacts to Don's hard sell.
Next season should be good, hopefully we'll see a lot more episodes like S05 E11.
Didn't watch any of this season after episode 1 and I don't even remember what happened. I think Pete was getting mad at Sterling. How was this season? I'm gonna dload it in a day or two and watch it all at once.
It was still a really good season. Obviously when you consider that it was been considered the best show on television each of its first four seasons, it has a lot to live up to, and I can say with certainty that it was the weakest season yet. That said, it's still a great show. Worth watching, no doubt.
Biggest 'problem' was that for the most part everything is getting back to normal.
Didn't watch any of this season after episode 1 and I don't even remember what happened. I think Pete was getting mad at Sterling. How was this season? I'm gonna dload it in a day or two and watch it all at once.
Didn't watch any of this season after episode 1 and I don't even remember what happened. I think Pete was getting mad at Sterling. How was this season? I'm gonna dload it in a day or two and watch it all at once.
Despite being lackluster in some aspects, it had some classic moments for sure. You'll have to watch it and judge it for yourself.
RidoKs is ADD... After he watches the last 5-6 in a row, hell be back to clamoring in adoration like the rest of us..lol
yep. just watched three straight episodes and i'm right back on board
the last one was 9 i think, the one with betty at weight watchers and the snowball campaign... all about passing the torch, or more accurately the middle aged characters desperately clutching at it as it slips away. betty's old and fat while megan's young and beautiful, ginsberg is showing don he's not what he used to be at every turn, and at this point roger's petty enough to do anything to live up to his name. and so they all act like assholes manipulating and sabotaging their replacements.
ginsberg is amazing, his ideas are somehow perfectly suited to his character. the bus gag. the snowball tag. his style is the same, smack you in the face. don's still stuck on that 50's "make you think" train. and what was that line in roger's office "ah connect the dots, what'd it end up being?" that's f*cking genius.
weiner's convinced me to forgive him for re-marrying don, megan is terrific. the way she deals with conflict is a perfect simmer when don lets his temper get the best of his rationality, her reasoning when don was about to phone betty in particular. the episode with her family was really well done, academic leftleaning father who's just seen his daughter start a career in a morally bankrupt institution, etc. though the cheating with his grad student bit was weird and probably unnecessary unless something big is planned down the road.
sally is easily the worst character in the show, or at least the least consistent. every so often you think she's gonna grow up but then she reverts back to being a winy brat. and her relationship with drew or whatever is unbelievably awkward.
I was sick as shit yesterday and stayed home from work, and watched all of season 1 in a single day marathon.
It was great in so many ways. Took a few episodes to get hooked, but once I was in I was in.
It's got a great sense of humor where it sort of winks at the audience while the characters don't know, like all the coughing in the Lucky Strike meeting. Or my favorite part, the fact that know one is aware that Sal is gay, apparently not even Sal, and he keeps making saucy remarks about the ladies like with Pete's bachelor party, or when Betty and Don are argueing about an ading Joan Crawford in a movie and Don say's Sal wouldn't shut up about her.
They're little moments that sort of poke fun at the era without disrupting the obvious drama of between the characters.
I'll be hopping into season two soon hopefully.
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