Really good stuff, didn't even think of that. The guy was actually dressed like Mr. Rogers complete with Carolina Blue cardigan in the first Accutron meeting.

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Spanish Honor Society 1,2,3,4
Forensics 1,2,3,4

"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

I actually think Pete is happy.

Saw this blurb regarding the howling outside Megan's house, in conjunction with her wearing Sharon Tate's t-shirt last year -

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and someone's gonna jump/fall out a window

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I don't see Weiner having Megan get murdered. I just think that would throw Don so far off on some other storytelling path that I just don't see how it could work. I see the focus coming back to Don and his career in NY as Megan drifts away.

However, there has to be some meaning to that howling and how last year every time that Megan was home you'd hear sirens in the background. I don't know what it is but it has to payoff in some way. It's too often/specific.

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I don't think any of us expected him to say that.

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Good talk.

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Great episode last night. With the possible exception of Lou, Cutler is the most unlikable asshole on this show & there is no way that he & Joan will be successful in trying to oust Don, especially now that Roger has taken over the agency.

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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

Cutler is poorly written. He consistently has the hokiest lines this side of Elliot Rodger. I don't know if it's all the lines or if part of it is Hamlin's delivery, which has the same inflections every single time, but he's never felt fully developed as a character. He went from being a weirdo who took speed and watched little girls have sex to this sinister power broker who is singularly obsessed with getting rid of Don Draper. It's worse than the rewrite of Ted Chaough, who went from insecure and obsessed with Don Draper (there it is again) to this sensitive modern man who respects all his co-workers.

I don't think Joan will ever fully forgive Don, but she'll give up on trying to get him out now that she got her million dollars. Everyone on the internet lauds Joan as if she can do no wrong, but she's just as flawed as everyone else on the show. The IPO that Don "cost" her, for which she has never forgiven him, was kind of bullshit because it was all being done behind Don and Roger's backs and wasn't far from guaranteed anyway. Don tried to stop her from sleeping with the Jaguar guy because he's always been the only one at the agency to see her as a human being.

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I have watched this season's final episode 3 times and it might just be the most satisfying episode of all. Just glorious.

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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

The Suitcase is still the best episode of the series that I've seen. I put this one and The Strategy from last week as 1a and 1b. They've taken a season that was a bit snoozy and really finished it off.

The Strategy could have had 2 or 3 scenes that would have been satisfying series finales. It's unfortunate that they split this season up because, now, just as it has some momentum, it's over. I can't wait to watch it end next year but it just has lost the interest of the public IMO.

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AMC split the season because it was so successful for Breaking Bad. But this is a different kind of a show. It builds slow and burns slow. I suspect a lot of people may be disappointed with the ultimate resolution of Don Draper. A recurring theme throughout has been "the carousel". Unlike The Sopranos where Tony was killed, Mad Men may really just go on and on and on.

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Good point. There's a real lack of finality in this show vis-a-vis Sopranos and Breaking Bad: no one gets whacked. It's frowned upon here. It's hard to see the show ending with Don dying. Maybe just reinventing.

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I hope Don continues his progress & ends up in a good place in the finale.
Roger Sterling might just be my favorite TV character of all time.

Useless fact: Roger Sterlings ex-Wife on Mad Men, Mona, is actually his Wife in real life.

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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

Before people kinda figured out what the show was all about (viz., all these people, especially the lead, are reprehensible), there was this buzz about how everyone wanted to be Don Draper. The guy you'd really want to be is Roger. Get all the best jokes, drop acid, hang out in your office doing nothing, always have huge wads of money. That's livin'.

All that said, it was nice to see him turn over a new leaf and be the leader Bertram said he'd never be. It just hit me right here, man.

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I consider myself to be a Roger Sterling type of guy. My partner is very much like Don Draper if Draper drank a little more. The kid can run a pitch like a motherfucker. I pretty much let him run our whole business while I fuck around at the OTB. One time my wife asked me what value I provide and I used a Roger Sterling line: "I find guys like him!"

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What an absolutely boring piece of shit this was...

CAN'T DO IT!!!

To say episode one didn't grab me would be an understatement. Maybe got through 20 mins...

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MTV Generation.

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...or just an overrated show. Either way.

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Maybe he'd like it if they had cast Topanga as Peggy Olson.

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The Mad Men final season begins Sunday evening. The end of one of the greatest shows in the history of television.
I cant eat & run from my Mothers house on Easter Sunday...but I'd like to!

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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

The Mad Men commercial is calling this the greatest television drama of all time. This isn't even the best AMC drama ever.

Mad Men is Faulkner and Breaking Bad is Stephen King.

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Sure, if Shakespeare has legions of fans because of its fuckin' badasses all blowin' shit up an' shit.

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If they had the weapons in his time, then exactly.

Otherwise, come up with a better argument.

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Okay. Breaking Bad is a very good show, one of the best, with beautiful cinematography and great character development. However, Mad Men matches it in writing and beauty but does so with precision and refinement in a way that avoids our baser impulses the way a show about a drug lord simply cannot.

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I like that one better

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Like I said, Faulkner to King.

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i've only seen about the first season of "mad men" so far but i agree its depth is almost unmatched on television. except for "rectify" and "in the flesh", it's one of the most thoroughly satisfying shows on the air. "better call saul" is creeping into the conversation too.