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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Dec 9, 2015 18:50:06 GMT -5
I know it's weird to comment on a show that's already been gone so long, but I went on TVTropes and looked up anachronisms in Mad Men, and the vast majority aren't in the props or costumes or anything like that, but the dialogue. Interesting, right?
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Dec 10, 2015 10:06:01 GMT -5
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Post by Lady Bones on Jan 15, 2016 22:16:03 GMT -5
Time and Life is just as good the second time.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Feb 16, 2016 8:32:12 GMT -5
I skipped past the first posts because I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m just here to register my disappointment that (unless someone leaks the season) I’ll never participate in a Mad Men thread at the AVClub. I never had cable when it was on so I always waited for streaming/DVD, and now I’m in Europe where even if I could get to watch it in between airtime and the review going up (or early enough that I could enter the scrum of the comments) time zone stuff gets in the way. On the other hand, the Mad Men comments do get to keep that whole “club that I’m never able to join” allure… I hear you on that. I just went through the back half of the final season once it got to Netflix, and between DISQUS and the 2-3K comments already there from 9 months earlier I found going through the comments at the Old Country for a recap took at least twice as long as watching the eps themselves. That said, the reads are fascinating (although the first several hundred comments on the finale being arguments about the merits of Julia Ormond's Quebecois accent were pretty annoying), and I've even gotten responses back (including a very nice one from Scrawler). |
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Feb 16, 2016 16:40:40 GMT -5
Well, this is interesting.Especially after it sounded like he was going to pull a Chase and never discuss it earlier this week. Count me in the "cynical" group then, i think it's a very dark ending. We'd spent the past few seasons watching Don grow apart from advertising, realizing how hollow it was in many ways, and finally, just not being able to be creative anymore. More to the point, we'd seen what a horrible, soul killing place McCann was. That Don went back not just advertising, but there specifically, is what still does not sit well with me about the finale. I wouldn't have even minded if it ended with Don going back into advertising by hanging out his own shingle in California, or getting into some other possibly equally bleak industry, but for some reason (alot of which I outlined previously with it hitting so close to the bone) not McCann. Edit: to say nothing of whether or not McCann even would take him back. They seemed pretty fed up with the lot they were sold. Also it's really weird that Weiner legit loves that commercial and doesn't see the darker side to it. My personal take would be that Don was involved in the Coke ad but only partially and in a ghostwriter/blacklisted way as he'd neither want to return to McCann and frankly probably pissed off Jim Hobart too much to be let back. This is similar to how he would ghost Freddy Rumsen ideas while he was on post-fuck up sabbatical after the Hershey's debacle. Possibly he at least stopped back in NYC for a while and shared the general idea with Peggy (since she's one of his "three women") and possibly also Ted (since Don had long since made his peace with both him and the fact that McCann was clearly intending to have Ted be insurance in case Don wasn't reliably able to "bring them up a notch"). |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Feb 17, 2016 1:30:32 GMT -5
I skipped past the first posts because I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m just here to register my disappointment that (unless someone leaks the season) I’ll never participate in a Mad Men thread at the AVClub. I never had cable when it was on so I always waited for streaming/DVD, and now I’m in Europe where even if I could get to watch it in between airtime and the review going up (or early enough that I could enter the scrum of the comments) time zone stuff gets in the way. On the other hand, the Mad Men comments do get to keep that whole “club that I’m never able to join” allure… I hear you on that. I just went through the back half of the final season once it got to Netflix, and between DISQUS and the 2-3K comments already there from 9 months earlier I found going through the comments at the Old Country for a recap took at least twice as long as watching the eps themselves. That said, the reads are fascinating (although the first several hundred comments on the finale being arguments about the merits of Julia Ormond's Quebecois accent were pretty annoying), and I've even gotten responses back (including a very nice one from Scrawler). I love your theory about Don—why weren’t you there nine months ago! Anyway I was able to contribute to the last one in real time—I still lived in the Netherlands, so I literally timed my alarm to when I thought a pirated copy would be online, watched it over breakfast and commented a bit before heading out for the day. Kind of an odd time to watch Mad Men, but it was a good one to watch in the morning and I kept thinking about it for the following week. |
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