Not gonna look up any threads on this. Sure there are at leash a few. Ran out of shows to watch and always thought this looked dumb but I finally tried it. Done with the first season. Looks awesome so far. Can anyone without too many damn spoilers confirm this will remain awesome without jumping the shark story lines. Seeeems like it's headed that way.

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Yes. I watched the first three seasons religiously then tapered off a bit and gorged on the last few seasons over a couple of weekends. The season that just ended is the best of the bunch in my opinion.

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Mad Men is one of he greatest TV shows ever. Stick with it & you will be glad you did.

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I can't speak for the sixth season, but through the first 65 episodes it is shark-free. The worst things I can say are that the first big California trip gets a little out there, and that I didn't care for the stuff with the Barretts initially until I got a better understanding of the characters.

The aesthetics of the first season are simply beautiful, and so obviously things take a turn for the ugly as we move through the 1960s, but the writing really finds itself as it goes on. The emergence of Sally as a principal was a great turn, largely enabled by the very good fortune of having cast a great actress early.

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That's what made this latest season for me, plus her realization about what kind of man her dad is really underscores how shitty a person Don Draper is.

Now that you bring up the first season it reminds me of my favorite scene from the entire series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kED6sVg3J0

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Ooh, good call. My favorite scene just is Freddy Rumsen pissing himself.

Pete's repeated failures to be A Don Draper Type are so pitiful and depressing, yet one of my favorite parts of the show. The time he tries to ask out a 17-year-old girl but then ends up watching her classmate grope her in their driver's ed class is just, ugh, man, some people just have to lose in life.

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I also love that Pete"s balding while that duplicitous Don Draper has a full head of gloriously pomaded hair.

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Pete starts balding? that's awesome

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the acting in the show is some of the best i've ever seen on TV. and i love, love january jones.

I don't really dig the actor who plays Pete, seems like he's trying too hard. Everyone else is great though. Don doesn't even have to speak to own scenes.

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Pete's like fine wine, he gets better with age.

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No, it's that Pete Campbell is the one who is always trying too hard. He wants so badly to be respected and loved and self-made, but he can't be, because he's Pete, and he's creepy and weird. Like when he thinks he's going to pull this big coup by revealing Dick Whitman's identity theft, and then Bertram is just like "I don't give a fuck."

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No I get that part. I like the character a lot. I just think the guy playing him tends to overact. I don't know, I guess maybe that's part of the character. Doesn't seem like it needs to be. I might not be explaining what I'm trying to say clearly enough. Alan Sepinwall I am not.

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FF, by a couple seasons in you're going to love Pete and the guy playing him.

NOT GREAT, BOB!

The final scene from last season is one of my favorite scenes of any show ever. The scene with the music was so perfect that if the series ended on that I would have been completely satisfied.

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Pete Campbell is far and away the best part of the show. Him and Peggy are easily the two most interesting characters in the show. Draper is the worst part of the show. Any scenes with him and Betty are like watching paint dry.

As for the series, it weakens a bit for about a year and a half and then it picked up again and got really good lately.

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+1,000,000.

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I still like Don, can't stand Betty. Don treats her like shit and she's still not a sympathetic character.

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yup.

That's crazy. Won't go into details to spoil it for FF but just his pitch to Hershey's in that last episode alone was tremendous. He's had many scenes of that quality.

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Dons best pitch was "The Carousel".

Yup. Don Draper is to Mad Men what Walter White was to Breaking Bad. Pete Campbell is a great great character & probably my 2nd favorite after Don.

I have watched the final episode from last season numerous times & yea, the last scene & music is awesome.

Cant wait for the final season to start April 13th.

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The Hershey pitch is the flipside of "The Carousel" pitch.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
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With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Let me rephrase.....When Don is at the office doing Ad work his character is awesome. When the show focuses on his rinse and repeat boring personal life his character drains the life out of the show. The first couple seasons there was all this mystery about him and his past, but that all flamed out and now his personal stuff is boring and filled with actresses who ruin the show (Betty and now his current wife).

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I PREDICT...Pete Campbell comes out of the closet & hooks up with Bob Benson.

I wonder if they will skip a few decades & fast forward to 2014 at the end?

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I couldn't think of a lamer way to end the show. What is this, Titanic?

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No, Pete has to end up with Peggy so they can raise their child together. They really need to circle back to that storyline, it was the most intersting part of the show and they pretty much abandoned it for a few seasons now.

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A popular theory is that Don Draper is Dan "DB" Cooper, who famously jumped from an airplane in 1971 with $200K. There have been numerous subtle & not so subtle hints & references to this incident throughout the 6 seasons of Mad Men. Cooper even looks like Draper.

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That's gotta be the single dumbest thing I've ever read on the internet.

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Airplanes have played a significant part in this series. The DB Cooper similarities are numerous. I'm not saying that I think this is how it ends, but it does make for some interesting reading.

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan