Mad Men

I think after last weeks show they mentioned two shows left in the season. I also remember an interview with Weiner, I think it was NPR and he mentioned the show would go for 6 seasons. Which when a show ony has 13 shows a season, seems very short. I was hoping things would hit 1970.
 
^ The 70's? Nah, there was nothing memorable about advertising in that decade. :grin::grin::grin::grin:

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Erik Olson said:
So... Bert Cooper is gone? He really just played in the background, but really?
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"You there, get my shoes."

Later on... Bert Cooper stops by the writer's lounge, holding his shoes.

"I wish you all the best of luck."

"I didn't think they'd start with him."

Such a perfect yet anti-climactic send-off for Cooper.

CPM Film Tools said:
I think after last weeks show they mentioned two shows left in the season. I also remember an interview with Weiner, I think it was NPR and he mentioned the show would go for 6 seasons. Which when a show ony has 13 shows a season, seems very short. I was hoping things would hit 1970.
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My theory on how the last season will go down:

- Season 6 will start with the assassination of either Martin Luther King Jr. and/or Robert F. Kennedy, or these events will occur sometime early on in the final season.

- Joan's husband will either come back a completely changed man, or he will die in Vietnam.

- The WKBW 1968 War of the Worlds broadcast might panic a few characters (would be great to see Pete Campbell or a drunken Roger Sterling in a tizzy over it).

- Sally will eventually drive Betty mad, meaning that Sally will end up living with Don in the city. Of course, this could very well happen in the next season (5).

- Roger Sterling will finally have that fatal heart attack or stroke that has been circling since the first season.

- Peggy and Don end up together after two or three more "Draper conquests".

- The last scene of the series finale will end on the eve of the July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 Lunar broadcast. It will not only be historically significant, but in the context of the show, they will do it as a montage showing all the major characters watching the moon landing from home, or at a bar, etc. It will counterpoint where they are now against where they were in 1960 when Mad Men began, while also closing out the 60's as a decade. *

* Forgot to add, that another possibility I see for the Mad Men series finale's last scene could be a New Year's Eve party. Maybe Don is at a party in a bar with some of the other characters or it could be at whatever agency Don is at by that point? Anyways, the very last seconds would be the countdown to 1970. I think that could be a nice closing to the show, literally ending as the 60's are over for good.
 
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Gah, another great episode.

I really have no idea how this is all going to play out, but I do know next week can not come soon enough. However, afterward it'll seem too soon and the depressing wait for next August will begin.
 
Nektonic said:
"You there, get my shoes."

Later on... Bert Cooper stops by the writer's lounge, holding his shoes.

"I wish you all the best of luck."

"I didn't think they'd start with him."

Such a perfect yet anti-climactic send-off for Cooper.



My theory on how the last season will go down:

- Season 6 will start with the assassination of either Martin Luther King Jr. and/or Robert F. Kennedy, or these events will occur sometime early on in the final season.

- Joan's husband will either come back a completely changed man, or he will die in Vietnam.

- The WKBW 1968 War of the Worlds broadcast might panic a few characters (would be great to see Pete Campbell or a drunken Roger Sterling in a tizzy over it).

- Sally will eventually drive Betty mad, meaning that Sally will end up living with Don in the city. Of course, this could very well happen in the next season (5).

- Roger Sterling will finally have that fatal heart attack or stroke that has been circling since the first season.

- Peggy and Don end up together after two or three more "Draper conquests".

- The last scene of the series finale will end on the eve of the July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 Lunar broadcast. It will not only be historically significant, but in the context of the show, they will do it as a montage showing all the major characters watching the moon landing from home, or at a bar, etc. It will counterpoint where they are now against where they were in 1960 when Mad Men began, while also closing out the 60's as a decade. *

* Forgot to add, that another possibility I see for the Mad Men series finale's last scene could be a New Year's Eve party. Maybe Don is at a party in a bar with some of the other characters or it could be at whatever agency Don is at by that point? Anyways, the very last seconds would be the countdown to 1970. I think that could be a nice closing to the show, literally ending as the 60's are over for good.
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I like where your going with this. I don't think Betty will ever be happy no matter who she is with. Peggy and Don together, I would like to see that. Not sure if Don has room for a female version of himself in along term relationship. WHen the **** hit the fan and Sally ran away from home he tended to pawn her off on any willing female around. But love does crazy things, so who knows.

Roger = Heart issue. Yup. I expect it will be in a blaze of glory. I really like the idea of the moon landing being the last ep. The whole Man on the Moon, technology wave will really be a turning point on how they market ideas. Can't wait for next week. Although like Bryant mentioned I hate the idea of a long and cold winter of re-runs. Only ray of hope will be a blue ray with some BTS.
 
This finale was all class. No histrionics. Just quietly observed moments, which is what the show does best. Don has seemed to have found the perfect woman...but will he ever tell her the truth?...BTW...If you want to see Jessica Pare in all her glory, rent Hot Tub Time Machine. She is surprisingly well stacked.
 
Crazy finale. I like how Don falls in love at the milkshake scene and the audience is pulling for their relationship the whole trip... but when they get back to New York reality kind of sets in, and you're left thinking "wtf?"
 
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (just kidding) Well not really, if you compare it to how stoked we all were a few pages back for last year's finale.

Aside from the bizarre engagement plotline, not a whole lot going on. A $250,000 pantyhose contract and *gasp* Joan is keeping the baby. Gee, didn't see that one coming.

(WTF, I feel like one of the housewives from Mr. Mom talking about soap operas…"The vasectomy didn't take?")
 
All in all not bad. Certainly not the best close. I agree Red keeping the baby, yup no brainer. Don and the engagement was a surprise. I think she is a good fit for him. I don't think he can change his ways but for once I would love to see one of his girls go bat sh*t on him when he does sleep around or try to break it off. This might be the one. Would be an awesome scene of her screaming in French threatening to cut off his *ick and boil it in Pig fat....

So now for the question; what’s the opening of next season? Will we be 6 months from now? If I remember right everyone was wearing coats around the office so if a spring/summer wedding is in the works that puts us 4-6 months off, right? And if so Red will certainly be showing by then if not already have the baby.
 
If the talks collapse because Weiner has maintained his scruples, I'd be OK with that. The personality that is resisting their shenanigans is the same one that created the show.
 
I cannot imagine that this will be allowed to happen.

[EDIT] AMC just exercised their option moments ago - Season 5 is go!
 
Yeah, but because of all these shenanigans we have to wait another year before the next season ever airs!
 
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