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Mad Men
Topic Started: Jan 25 2013, 11:26 AM (11,078 Views)
Mariah
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Depressing song, and it doesn't bode well for anyone having a happy ending of any kind. I have a bad feeling about this, but I'm perfectly willing to write my own endings for all of them, in my imagination at least.

Hopefully we'll get a Sally Draper spin off.
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I find her too sold on herself. I would not watch. But you go ahead. :)
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Hated this episode. Weiner's going to shit all over all of them, kill at least one, and call it "art" isn't he?
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Waste of an episode. I liked it a lot, but there is too little time left to waste it on Megan, her sister and her mother, not to mention Pima, played by Mimi Rogers. Weiner just loves to showcase Megan. Oh, that white coatdress, it was gorgeous. And her outfit in Le Pavillion or whereever that was, was beautiful.

I thought Sylvia and hubby moved out of the building, he went to Mayo or something. Not that I care at this point.

Funny moment was Pete going golfing. Pete makes the most of every scene. So does Roger, but in this episode with Megan's mother to me it was, so what?

Don seems very melancholy and subdued. Wonder what it is leading up to. I don't think he is going to die.

Diana, I dunno, we're supposed to believe he had such a great connection to her because Don too has felt grief, but it was too short a relationship to be anything but sex.

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Ok not going to read until I wAych. Just saw you all hated it

I will add I always thought there was going to be at least one death. Maybe two
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/mad-men-director-explains-sundays-788364


Michael Uppendahl, directing the last of his eleven episodes for the series. He spoke with The Hollywood Reporter on Monday morning and sounded off on the choice to spend so much time away from series regulars during the episode, his ideal number of passengers for an elevator scene and how the final shot of Don (Jon Hamm) sets up the remaining five episodes.


http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/04/mad-men-season-seven-episode-nine/390342/

“New Business” was an often frustrating hour that again served as a sendoff to one of Don’s major love interests: This time it was Megan (Jessica Paré) taking a bow in an episode that also felt clogged with new faces.


http://www.vulture.com/2015/04/mad-men-new-business-recall.html

Last week's "Severance" and this week's "New Business" were both about this looping sense of repetition, and the inevitability of the patterns of our own lives. Don's big on this, but so was everyone else this week, too. There was no new business at all. Everyone was such old business that they were already in the Rolodex, annotated.


http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/mad-men-new-business-217919

For an episode called “New Business,” tonight’s Mad Men sure brought back a lot of Don Draper’s old companions.


http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/apr/13/mad-men-recap-season-seven-episode-nine-new-business-warning-spoilers

Interestingly, as Pete’s role in the story has reduced, his ability to be an accidental sage is forefront. This was him on endings: “Jiminy Christmas. You think you’re going to begin your life over and do it right. But what if you never get past the beginning again.”


http://previously.tv/mad-men/roger-and-marie/

Complicating Factors: Meredith brings up the Manson family's presence in L.A.; given the longstanding theories about Megan being Sharon Tate, the mention of her killers means either (a) they're true, or (b) Matt Weiner enjoys fucking with us more than I would have guessed.


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Except … the date on the check he signed was May 21, 1970. Didn't the Manson killings happen August 1969?

YES, just checked: August 8, 1969 and Manson was arrested twice, the second time he was held through trial and imprisonment, in late August 1969.

So Megan is safe … I think she's gone gone. What else is there to say?

And I knew when the mother was left with the apt. to pack that she was taking it all and that Don would come home to an empty apartment. I don't usually guess so accurately. I think it means the writing is not as good as it was, when I was surprised.

I thought the Mimi Rogers character was completely unnecessary and a waste of valuable time.
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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/mad-men-recap-season-7-new-business-diana-waitress/

At its best, “Mad Men” has been a meticulously crafted and surprising show. At its worst, as in this stilted, confounding episode, it has squandered its talented core cast and flaunted symbolic messages so blunt they seem more appropriate for, well, advertising billboards.

http://tomandlorenzo.com/2015/04/mad-men-new-business/

Even Tom and Lorenzo aren't impressed.
Edited by Mariah, Apr 13 2015, 10:47 PM.
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I'm almost debating to wait until the end and binge watch the last episodes. I think I might enjoy them more that way. I got so annoyed this week.
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I would have probably been OK with most of this episode if it wasn't one of the last ones to ever air.

Why bring in new people and focus so much on them. There are too many people in the real and/or past cast I actually care about and would rather see.

At least Pima did give regulars some story.
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Apr 14 2015, 04:27 PM
I would have probably been OK with most of this episode if it wasn't one of the last ones to ever air.

Why bring in new people and focus so much on them. There are too many people in the real and/or past cast I actually care about and would rather see.

At least Pima did give regulars some story.
Yes, that was my problem. And I think Weiner is underestimating the intelligence of his audience by bringing in Diana. She really didn't add anything to my understanding of Don's character. So why bother introducing her when we have not seen Sally, or Joan at home with son, and just a quick glimpse of Betty (who I don't like, but most viewers do). He abandons all that in favor of Diana, Megan, Megan's dreadful sister, and her mother. Oh, and Pima, who I thought was almost laughable.

Bottom line, I still enjoyed the show but I was just so impatient to see the others. Roger deserved better too than the quick scene with Julia Ormond, who seemed out of place this week.

At least Meredith is providing some amusement. Wonder why Don is putting up with her incompetence? Has he softened up because he knows she cares about him?
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These New Yorker cartoons about the episodes are great.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/mad-men-cartoon-countdown-the-seventh-and-sixth-to-last-episodes?mbid=social_facebook
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I love reading all the reviews. I wish there were as many about HW shows. But Mad Men is more legit because it's about MEN. Sheesh. :)
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Ok, so I've been watching. I HATED the Peggy Lee song at the end of episode 1. What does it say that I was 9 when it was popular and hated it even then? That even a 9 year old can think it is depressing?
My daughter and I had a big debate over Mad Men while enjoying the fire pit last weekend. She has all these theories about how it's going to end, and I say it is just going to end, since really in life nothing has a tidy ending. One story ends while the others go on. Is that all there is? Maybe I'm just being morbid due to all that is going on in my life this year....
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Many people think Don is already dead, or in a coma. Lot's of plane motifs suggest a plane crash, but some are speculating he jumped or froze to death when he was out on the balcony when the door wouldn't close.

I hope not, but there are a LOT of clues.

I hate that song too, and it doesn't bode well for a good ending.
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