Mad Men

[Kevin D]

Easy to overlook just how rich these motherfuckers really are:

 

[Kevin D]

https://vine.co/v/euvVjuvJLn7

[littletedwest]

Not seen episode 2 (or 9 depending on which way you look at it) enjoyed last week's though. Defo one of my top five shows of all time though

[redheart]

https://vine.co/v/euvVjuvJLn7

 

Is there any significance to this picture?

[aikido]

It's how the most recent episode ends. Don allows Megan to remove any of her items from his apartment. Instead, Megan's mother overseas the project and deliberately removes every single item from his home and pays for it to be left roadside somehwere. The above clip is Don returning home, music starts, episode ends.

[redheart]

yes I know but he also gives Megan $1 million. So a few sticks of furniture are hardly a big deal.

 

Of more significance is the waitress. A damaged individual with no real core, always running a way and hoping to be fixed with meaningless sex and gratification etc. Sound like anyone?

[Kevin D]

So, best show of all time?

[RedKnight]

I really, really like it but it can be so niche sometimes that I couldn't put it up there as best of all time.

[redheart]

Pretty darn close. And it set the tone for so many modern high quality TV shows.

 

So the ending

 

Dr Redheart thought it meant that a shallow, broken man found heart, soul and meaning. Then the last advert was an example of how even this can be taken and commodfied which demonstrated the corrupt and shallow world that Don left behind.

 

Mrs. Dr Redheart thought that it meant that he used that experience to go back to advertising and to create that advert. He found peace in the notion that he was an advertising man, he had no core, he was a sponge for ideas and contemporary consciousness which he could tap into and use it to sell products by reflecting those values back at us.

 

What did each of you make of it?

[Ranxerox]

Pretty darn close. And it set the tone for so many modern high quality TV shows.

 

So the ending

 

Dr Redheart thought it meant that a shallow, broken man found heart, soul and meaning. Then the last advert was an example of how even this can be taken and commodfied which demonstrated the corrupt and shallow world that Don left behind.

 

Mrs. Dr Redheart thought that it meant that he used that experience to go back to advertising and to create that advert. He found peace in the notion that he was an advertising man, he had no core, he was a sponge for ideas and contemporary consciousness which he could tap into and use it to sell products by reflecting those values back at us.

 

What did each of you make of it?

 

 

The smile at the end was his final acceptance that it was OK to be Dick Whitman. The ad was a reminder that advertising itself is a lie. 

[RedKnight]

I thought the former but having read widely on it, it seems like I'm in the minority on that.

[RedKnight]

I feel like the former is far too romantic a notion for a show that had very little romance at its core... at least in the conventional sense.

 

I gotta be honest, I didn't even connect the Coke advert with Don taking the experience and using it in an ad. He'd spent the last two episodes shedding all of the trappings of Don Draper and I just felt that he'd made peace with being Dick Whitman. His phonecall with Peggy seemed to indicate that he wouldn't be going back but, having read other opinions on it, I'm open to the ending being either.

[Ranxerox]

I gotta be honest, I didn't even connect the Coke advert with Don taking the experience and using it in an ad. He'd spent the last two episodes shedding all of the trappings of Don Draper and I just felt that he'd made peace with being Dick Whitman. His phonecall with Peggy seemed to indicate that he wouldn't be going back but, having read other opinions on it, I'm open to the ending being either.

 

This is my take. They say people don't change, but Dick never was Don Draper so going back to Dick wasn't becoming someone else, it was returning to who he really is. He simply didn't have it in him to keep up the lie any longer and in the end every thing that Don Draper provided him still couldn't make him happy.

 

As well in an early interview the creator said he would never give one of his characters credit for a real life ad or commercial. 

[Paco]

loved the last episode.

 

actually I was getting really irritated with it but then it totally redeemed itself with the ending.

 

great series.

[redheart]

In interviews John Hamm and Mathew Weiner indicate that it does signify that Don made the ad

 

http://www.tvguide.com/news/mad-men-finale-matt-weiner-explanation-coke-ad/

 

http://time.com/3891861/mad-men-finale-don-draper-jon-hamm-matthew-weiner-coke-ad-recap/

 

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/05/jon-hamm-mad-men-ending-explained

[Anny Road]

Enjoyed that. Good series. Not the best ever but worth a watch. He made the ad. He embraced the love but is what he is and used it to make $ and was happy with it.

[Bob]

I've never watched it until today, when I watched the first two episodes. It needs to get better otherwise I think I'll jib it off.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

I've never watched it until today, when I watched the first two episodes. It needs to get better otherwise I think I'll jib it off.

I only got two episodes in the first time around. I regret it because it is well reviewed. It's one of the few 'big' shows I've not watched.

[littletedwest]

This is my take. They say people don't change, but Dick never was Don Draper so going back to Dick wasn't becoming someone else, it was returning to who he really is. He simply didn't have it in him to keep up the lie any longer and in the end every thing that Don Draper provided him still couldn't make him happy.

 

As well in an early interview the creator said he would never give one of his characters credit for a real life ad or commercial.

he did at the very beginning of the series with lucky strike "it's toasted"

 

just watched the last episode. Behind the wire and sopranos for me but other them best show ever.

 

its very niche, very deep and thoughtful. loved it.

 

I think the ending was ambiguous I think don did go back to work though

[Kevin D]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Breznican/status/604110676538171393/photo/1

[littletedwest]

Just rewatched the first episode of series one. Pete was definitely less of a twat as the show went on.

Roger is a legend as well. May rewatch the whole series.

[littletedwest]

Just rewatched the first episode of series one. Pete was definitely less of a twat as the show went on.

Roger is a legend as well. May rewatch the whole series.

[Kevin D]

Think I'm going to do likewise next month, as well. Real shame it's over and I would say that's the end of the golden age of TV, too

[Kevin D]

[littletedwest]

Robert morse (Bert cooper) had turned his toes up