"Mad Men" -- *Final* Season Official Thread (possible spoilers) (part 2)

Anybody else had a bad feeling about Roger the whole episode?

 

God, I hope not.

 

Well ain't that a bit of irony -- Lou Avery: the happiest person on the show!

 

I'll keep my review of last night's episode simple- WOW! A reminder of why, to me, this is the greatest television show of all time.

 

"The king ordered it'

 

Between Ken and Lou not sure who is happier.

Good Peggy episode....

 

This is DEEPLY off topic... but if you also think... "poor guy... gave up the opportunity of a lifetime and went into obscurity and oblivion..." George Lazenby Net Worth: George Lazenby is an Australian actor and former model who has a net worth of $100 million. Born George Robert Lazenby on September 5, 1939, in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, he enjoyed worldwide fame for portraying James Bond in the 1969 film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Prior to becoming the now "forgotten Bond," George Lazenby was the highest-paid model in the world throughout the 1960's. He had the chance to reprise the iconic film role of superspy 007, Diamonds Are Forever in 1971, after which Roger Moore took over the part. Even though he performed in other films like Kentucky Fried Movie (1974), Master Ninja II (1984) and Fatally Yours (1995, with Roddy McDowall), Lazenby's acting career never flourished. Eventually, he turned to business and real estate investments that earned him spacious mansions in Hawaii, Brentwood, California, Australia, a ranch estate in Valyermo, California, as well as a port-side penthouse apartment in Hong Kong and an estate home in Maryland. As for his personal life, it includes two marriages and four children, one with his first wife Christina Gannett Lazenby and three with his second one, former tennis player Pam Shriver. Today, Lazenby enjoys practicing his numerous hobbies like sailing, motorcycle racing, car racing, reading, watching movies, and of course, playing golf and tennis.

 

Best episode of the final 7 so far. Best scenes:

1) Peggy/Stan heart-to-heart
2) Don/Roger at the bar
3) McCann/SCP board room

The moment where Jim Hobart promises the important clients to all of the SCP partners with the exception of Joan is heartbreaking.

 

ehmmmm....so everybody is going up in the world - high $$$ accounts for all!

Who think Don is not going to want to coast along with coca cola?
With only a few episodes left ...it seems to me that it is going to be about Don looking for meaning in his life and trying to find happiness which seems to have alluded him so far.

I think he is just going to walk away from it all into a California sunset and we are left to imaging Don Draper reinventing himself all over again, just how the whole thing began.

 

I'm hoping for a Joan-Peggy-Stan creative team match up.

 

This being 1970, I am pulling for a finale in which Don teaches the world to sing in 1971.
About the most memorable ad campaign of all time, no?

It was done by McCann-Erickson for Coca Cola and first aired in July 1971.
And it's totally Don's type of sentimental heart strings pitch ala Carousel.

What do I win if I nailed the finale?

 

Bingo ! - Good one.....not sure though.

 

Best episode so far this year. Gonna re-watch it tonight before reading any recaps.

 

My admiration!

 

And Pete leaning against his door was reminiscent of Lane's end.

John K.

 

We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray

 

But would they credit Don with a campaign that was created by a real person?

 

Good point.

 

Maybe they would if they worked out a deal with Coca Cola that's going to have Coke relaunching the campaign on the finale. Mad Man has already used show characters in ads that air on the show, so it would not be unprecedented. Gotta think like a business man here.

 

The Lucky Strikes slogan "It's Toasted!" was real...

 

It was also their trade mark for something like 40 years before Don Draper supposedly came up with it.

Chad

 

And "Lane" (Jared Price) directed last night's episode.

I was also thinking that Diana might have ended it, but she did try to call Don at the answering service.....we don't know how new or old those messages were. It's ambiguous, as always, she might be dead or she may have just moved elsewhere.

 

It's a nice idea and would make a clever ending but Matt Weiner has steadfastly refused to let his characters get personally involved with historical events, or if they do, they are mentioned in hindsight, not as they are happening. Plus, I don't see Don being either with McCann or in Advertising any longer by the end of the last episode. But you could be exactly right. We will have to wait and see...

PS-- How about if Peggy comes up with 'Teach The World To Sing' and casts Julio, Tammy, Kevin, Don's kids, and Roger's grandson to appear in it?

 

I remember when it looked like Peggy was going to come up with "You've come a long way, baby."

 

I'm hoping the next or final episode will be titled "We Finally Got This Season In Gear".