Mad Men ends

[Not Normal]

I'm kinda surprised there isn't a thread on this already.

In a couple hours it will be over for good. I started watching a couple episodes in, and was hooked pretty quickly.

I predicted a couple weeks ago that Don would keel over, completely alone. Bluey thinks I'm nuts.

Your thoughts?

 

[Killswitch]

I'm glad. It hogs up too much space on AMC. Never watched one sode. Can't stand "fad" shows and I wouldn't want to associate with that world for ten million an hour.

Offices and office people gross me out.

Unless they are writing me checks....

 

[bluebell]

I couldn't disagree more, Killy!

I'm saaaaaaaaaad, I'm gonna be sad for a few days. It's so deftly handled. The Stan and Peggy kissing scene was a little overly saccharine but I'm just glad they got it together and smooched. I would totally smooch Stan.

 

[Disgustipated]

I'm glad. It hogs up too much space on AMC. Never watched one sode. Can't stand "fad" shows and I wouldn't want to associate with that world for ten million an hour.

Offices and office people gross me out.

Unless they are writing me checks....

Like the welfare office.

 

[AngeloMichael]

Now I want a coke.

 

[Not Normal]

Now I want a coke.

And a smile

 

[Jennifer]

I'm glad. It hogs up too much space on AMC. Never watched one sode. Can't stand "fad" shows and I wouldn't want to associate with that world for ten million an hour.

Offices and office people gross me out.

Unless they are writing me checks....

You're a douche sometimes.

 

[spacekowboy]

Am I alone in finding that final episode to be.... confusing as hell? Like they didn't know how to end it so let's just throw random nonsense at the screen? Dick/Don at a commune, really?? Because hippie retreats straighten you right out. I almost wish he would have jerked over alone. That would have been closure at least.

Who has a telephone conversation like that? That while Peggy/Stan scene was contrite.
And seriously, old guy leaves smokin' hot Joanie because she wants a career?? Stop. Never gonna happen.

 

[Libsam]

Advertising causes need,
Need therapy, therapy
~S.O.A.D.


The hippy retreat inspired the Coke jiggle. You think Don regains his humanity there, but no, he is a soulless bastard- he used the experience to market a product.

Old guy wanted to spend the rest of his time enjoying life with the money he already had.

 

[Garnate]

You're a douche sometimes.

Sometimes?


I feel like you come here and never read anything.

 

[spacekowboy]

Advertising causes need,
Need therapy, therapy
~S.O.A.D.


The hippy retreat inspired the Coke jiggle. You think Don regains his humanity there, but no, he is a soulless bastard- he used the experience to market a product.

Old guy wanted to spend the rest of his time enjoying life with the money he already had.

I didn't put that last bit together... What? I'm slow and I was still distracted by Joan's cans.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I didn't put that last bit together... What? I'm slow and I was still distracted by Joan's cans.

I didn't either while I was watching the show, but I think that IS the right interpretation. Remember, Mad Men did not spell out all elements of its storylines in a linear fashion. Some developments would occur without explanation with the gaps filled in later on.

Also, Don finding inner peace at a hippie commune is ridiculously out of character. But finding the next BIG IDEA for a major advertising campaign in a most unlikely place is quintessential Draper. That's what that final little smile was about. He got a glimpse of the future, and it was not only his redemption back into McCann-Erickson but his ticket to the literal summit of the advertising industry -- a position even he had only dreamed about before.

Mad Men also had an actual historical theme running through all seven seasons, and it was about that time in history when American advertising embarked on altruistic themes. Products began to be marketed not solely on the satisfaction they brought to consumers or on superior claims over competitors but on the way consumers felt about the company and the way the company (or at least the purchase of the product) made people feel about themselves. You could buy Coke not simply because it tasted good or was "better" than Pepsi, but so that you could form an imaginary bond with folks in Asia based on nothing other than the fact that Coke was sold in Thailand, too.

I like the other closure storylines, too. Pete and Trudy and Stan and Peggy were a little contrived, but I thought Joan's entrepreneurial grab at the future made perfect sense. I particularly liked the maturing process Sally went through knowing she was going to have to take care of her mother in the final months. Her phone conversation with her father was an excellent scene. No little girl there.

Overall, one of the few finale shows that came close to doing justice to the franchise's well-earned success.