Mad Men's Final Season

[Imp]

Been watching the Mad Men marathon. Damn, been looking up some of the actresses who played the secretaries and other more minor roles. Didn't look like a lot of people got big career bumps from being the show.

 

[ultimatebob]

Am I supposed to believe that Don Draper came back from his "vision quest" thing and made that friggin Coke commercial?

I feel robbed... since the first season I wanted him to get thrown out of a window in Times Square and watch the ads fly by as he plummeted to his death.

 

[KLin]

Am I supposed to believe that Don Draper came back from his "vision quest" thing and made that friggin Coke commercial?

I feel robbed... since the first season I wanted him to get thrown out of a window in Times Square and watch the ads fly by as he plummeted to his death.

He found inner peace, came back to work, and made a shit load of money for McCann Erickson.

 

[Imp]

Spoiler

Was hoping that DB Cooper thing would pan out because it sounded so bad ass.

Good finale. I like it enough to want to watch it a bunch of times over... unlike the Seinfeld finale.

 

[HitAnyKey]

Am I supposed to believe that Don Draper came back from his "vision quest" thing and made that friggin Coke commercial?

I feel robbed... since the first season I wanted him to get thrown out of a window in Times Square and watch the ads fly by as he plummeted to his death.

Feel the same way.

I found his conversation with his EX on the phone to be a promising start. Was thinking: finally Don has turned a corner and will man up to his responsibilities. Instead he backs down and then heads to California and leaves us hanging while he is on some Vision Quest trip?

I was hoping for a bit more closure in Don's life. California seemed a bit too convenient of an ending away from the office and the business that defined him.

 

[drbrock]

The ending was pretty stupid. Peggy and Roger stole the show for me. The Don time with the Arrow chick was a complete waste.

He "finds himself" at a hippie camp? Give me a break. At least he got to make one of the most famous commercials of all time.

 

[NuclearNed]

Generally, I liked how each of the main characters' stories wrapped up, except for Don. His just wasn't satisfying in any way, and now I'm going to have that stupid Coke jingle stuck in my head all week.

Oddly enough, my favorite part of the finale was the Peggy part, even though she has always been one of my least favorite characters of the show.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Weird..that is 2 shows this week that used that damn 70's Coke commercial (Happyish being the other)...I wonder if Coke had something to do with it...

 

[drbrock]

This guy actually came pretty close to predicting the ending. Even had the right commercial pinned down.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8589783/mad-men-finale-predictions

 

[pauldun170]

Joan goes Hollywood, gets complementary nose candy and script.
Peggy gets a man because her entire story arc is about finding a soul mate.
Pete tells Trudy what to do and she obeys.
Roger avenges Don by banging Megan's Mom because pornstache.
Betty goes hardcore to get Sally to behave.
Don has midlife crisis, Don goes on sabbatical, Don gets therapy, Don goes back to work.
End scene.

 

[nageov3t]

Was hoping that DB Cooper thing would pan out because it sounded so bad ass.

Good finale. I like it enough to want to watch it a bunch of times over... unlike the Seinfeld finale.

I'm so, so glad that wasn't the ending... would have been ridiculously out-of-character for both Don and the show itself.

I'd love to see a reunion episode in like 5 years set in the 1980's, though.

 

[Newell Steamer]

I fell out of the series after season 2.

Season 1 was great, because I know a lot of guys with the mentality on Mad Men - dinosaurs that never changed how they think, but cover up / mask what they really want to get by. So, I connected with it pretty immediately.

When Don's story surfaced, I felt very "... meh" about it.

It is great what they did obviously, they have won awards, there is a following, so it is not a crap show by any means. But, it is not for me. I love the time piece aspect of it, but I do not like the Don Draper story itself.

 

[Imported]

All I want to do is drink a Coke now.

I thought the finale was good, not great. Wanted to see him actually go back to pitch it.

 

[NuclearNed]

I just found out that McCann Erickson is real, and was actually responsible for the real Coke commercial. Fascinating.

 

[JPS35]

Perhaps the last 7 seasons is a flashback played out during Don's meditation, the smile is the realization of how he wants to advertise Coke, and the whole show is "The Pitch" to Coke and McMann of how he came up with the idea based on all of these experiences. Then, we find out it was nothing more than a drug induced fantasy by Betty as she goes through the treatment she originally didn't want or the dying visions of Bert.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

This guy actually came pretty close to predicting the ending. Even had the right commercial pinned down.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8589783/mad-men-finale-predictions

So he properly predicted something that was shot 6 months ago? Sorry, they don't give out the Amazing Kreskin Award for information you can get by living next door to the guy who scrubs out the garbage cans for craft services.

 

[techs]

I didn't expect a lot from the finale. The show was not geared to a "big" ending, like defeating an enemy or finding a soul mate. Even Peggys hookup was just a big "meh"

However, it was nice to see Don actually connect with the world on a human level. It took awhile but I finally figured out the older woman at the retreat was Helen Slater.

I liked seeing Joans growth. She doesn't need a man and her horizons have expanded past the very limited office kingpin she was content to be when the show started.

I felt bad for Sally who suddenly had such huge responsibilities handed to her. Yet she was perhaps the person who could best deal with such a situation.

My only disappointment was that it wasn't Pete who jumped out the window. I just don't see him making a go with Trudy just because they moved to Witchita.

 

[KLin]

I don't know about anyone else, but I bought a glass bottle of coke on Monday. First one in months