Since Mad Men's final episode is next Sunday night (5/17), AMC is showing all previous 91 episodes beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 5/13. Of course, to watch every episode, you have to stay up for more than four days.
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Mad Men's Final Run
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I'm sure they expect people to DVR all the episodes, and watch it at their own pace - not stay up for 4 days.
I've got the DVD's of the series.
Interestingly, it's not all fiction.
Remember the episode when McCann Erickson purchased a "small" Ad Agency in Milwaukee to get the Miller Beer account?
Part of it is true. I have a player piano and lots of piano rolls. One roll ... "If You've Got The Time, We've Got The Beer" was produced by McCann Erickson, Inc.
Interestingly, it's not all fiction.
Remember the episode when McCann Erickson purchased a "small" Ad Agency in Milwaukee to get the Miller Beer account?
Part of it is true. I have a player piano and lots of piano rolls. One roll ... "If You've Got The Time, We've Got The Beer" was produced by McCann Erickson, Inc.
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There's also Netflix...they have every episode through this current batch. Good thing there is that there are no commercials.
Yes - McCann was and still is a real advertising agency. Mad Men has always mixed actual products and ad agencies with fictional ones - Lucky Strike, for example, was a real cigarette that advertised heavily on TV until tobacco ads were outlawed. I was surprised to Google "Burger Chef" (one of Sterling Cooper's clients) and found out it actually existed. I had assumed it was a fictional proxy for McDonalds or Burger King. But it actually existed - opening in 1954 - and had over 1,000 locations at its peak in the early 70s.
Yes.
I think I know how it's going to end.
Anyone else want to suggest how you think Mad Men will end (BOZ included)?
I think I know how it's going to end.
Anyone else want to suggest how you think Mad Men will end (BOZ included)?
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MadMen is one the few shows I watch.
For the series finale, I think there is something about the "former lover" that he killed in a " fever dream" that will resurface next week. His nightmare about the police officer saying "we've been looking for you" leads me in that direction. It can be associated with his identity theft, but I think that is what the producers want you to think. Why would the police be looking for him, it would be the FEDS if it had anything to do with stealing his CO's ID. There was symbolism a couple weeks back with the girl that spilled the wine on the carpet in his bedroom, too. Most people have forgotten about the "fever dream" where he killed a "former lover" and I think it was Megan that "cleaned it up" for him; although they did not show her as having cleaned it up.
Season 5 Episode 4 (episode 56 overall) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Date_(Mad_Men)
For the series finale, I think there is something about the "former lover" that he killed in a " fever dream" that will resurface next week. His nightmare about the police officer saying "we've been looking for you" leads me in that direction. It can be associated with his identity theft, but I think that is what the producers want you to think. Why would the police be looking for him, it would be the FEDS if it had anything to do with stealing his CO's ID. There was symbolism a couple weeks back with the girl that spilled the wine on the carpet in his bedroom, too. Most people have forgotten about the "fever dream" where he killed a "former lover" and I think it was Megan that "cleaned it up" for him; although they did not show her as having cleaned it up.
Season 5 Episode 4 (episode 56 overall) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Date_(Mad_Men)
I watched last night's finale, and it just kinda felt "unfinished", with very little closure for the core characters except for Pete and Joan. The way things ended kinda leaves things open for a movie of some sort to tie-up the other loose ends.
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It ended the way every show has ended: it leaves the viewer wanting more. But the conclusion was good. The intent was for the viewer to conclude that Don came up with the idea for the Coca-Cola ad. It also leaves us feeling like Don discovered something about himself: that he is not alone. Everything leading up to the point where Don hugged Leonard (a stranger in a therapy class), Don has felt alone. He learns he is not. And through that insight, and his experience at the retreat he was able to create the most prolific ad of all time, and most expensive for it's time.
Good analysis. I remember just DESPISING that Coke ad, at the time. Yes, we all want everybody in the world to be happy, but "buying the world a Coke" would be about 15,253rd on my list after buying "the world" proper food, shelter, freedom from slavery, and a whole bunch of actually important stuff.
And if we're going to buy the world a Coke, we ought to buy it free medication for diabetes, and free dentistry.
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