Mad Men Season Six Thread - Episode Thirteen - Season Finale - "In Care Of"

[big j 33]

Details are always vague since Weiner is notoriously afraid of spoilers, but I figured to start up a thread since a few people have mentioned it tonight.

The AV Club broke down what we know so far..

Anyway, Matthew Weiner is typically coy about what to expect, other than confirming the season would kick off with another two-hour “movie”  (this time at the request of the network) and would definitely be the show’s next-to-last—though Weiner did say he would be amenable to splitting its final season in half, should AMC want to adopt a Breaking Bad  strategy. Some other possibly useful information:

- Weiner would “love” for you to rewatch the final 10 minutes of last season’s closing episode  right before the premiere, saying you’ll have “a really incredible experience as we get there” if it’s still fresh in your mind. (For an even more incredible viewing experience, we also recommend taking mushrooms and putting on side one of Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother.)

- Peggy didn’t go anywhere: Weiner is happy that everyone pointlessly freaked out  over the idea of Elisabeth Moss leaving the show, but again, it was pointless. She’s still there—not that you should necessarily expect to see her back in Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, since “this is not [choose] your own adventure. We have a plan and we’re going to tell you a story…. Sometimes the hero gets what he wants and sometimes he doesn’t.”

- Speaking of which, sorry, but Pete isn’t going to kill himself: “I don’t see Peter Campbell as someone who would ever commit suicide,” Weiner says. “He is very judgmental about mental illness. He eventually said it in Episode 13 that he views it as weak.” Weiner refused to say whether Pete would at least get punched in the face in every episode.

- While he won’t go so far as to spell out any major themes, Weiner does say this season is “very related to what our anxieties are right now… a loss of national self-esteem, an alienation that has been created from technology and a turning inward from the things you can't control to the things you can.”

- It’s also full of everything he could think of, with Weiner saying he initially thought of saving major plot turns for later, until he realized “when you’re on a show where drama is somebody watching a phone ring, you really shouldn’t take out any story ideas you have.” (Mad Men: Where Drama Is Somebody Watching A Phone Ring.)

- And finally, Weiner says, “The show will be advancing in time,” confirming that this season will be all about Don Draper hurtling through a wormhole, every week confronted with some new bright or dystopian future he strives to comprehend, and hoping each time that the next leap… will be the leap home. And Pete is also there, as a little handheld computer that Dean Stockwell keeps punching in the face. 

bearclawd posted the promo video with the stills released so far..

And recent set photos reveal Harry is embracing the changing times and fashion

Hopefully, Netflix will add season 5 before the premiere of 6, but if not.. I'm sure AMC will be running a marathon beforehand. I'll be sure to update if/when that happens.

I'm in need of a rewatch and I'll skim through the old thread to get a sense of where we left off. I'm very excited about the show's return and I'm going to expect another excellent season.

 

[bearclawd]

Harry. First Krishna, now this?

 

[big j 33]

I wasn't trying to be a jerk when I wrote "new thread" in last season's, I was meaning to make a new one and your update reminded me to do it.

 

[bearclawd]

Not eem trippin' plehboi.

 

[big j 33]

 

[roc boy jada]

If Megan's mother could speak english, why didn't she do so when speaking to Don over the phone?

From what I remember, there was a scene or two where Megan gives the phone to Don, and her mother is speaking french, even after hearing Don's voice.

In the finale of season 4 when Megan is calling her mother about Don's proposal, Don asked Megan if he should speak to her mother, and Megan replied by asking, "Do you speak French?", suggesting that would be the only way the two could communicate.

 

[big j 33]

I haven't seen the episode since it aired I'm guessing she didn't care to speak to Don so if she spoke French they couldn't really talk..

 

[whoshotcha]

*cue Bart Scott gif*

I was just rewatching the bar scene between Joan and Don from Season 5.. Such a great scene.

 

[born illa]

Bert Cooper is gonna get the axe this season, I can feel it.

 

[roc boy jada]

I haven't seen the episode since it aired I'm guessing she didn't care to speak to Don so if she spoke French they couldn't really talk..

Yeah, I guess I'll just chalk it up to that. Just something that crossed my mind as I rewatched season 5 recently. Even though it will be at the back of my mind, mainly because of Megan asking if he spoke french as she was dialing.


As for everything else, I'm mostly interested in how things will be for Pete this season.

 

[orsrt8]

Cant wait.... Btw what year is it now? 68 .... 69?

 

[big j 33]

Promo poster

But as the show prepared for its new season, which begins April 7, its creator, Matthew Weiner, inspired by a childhood memory of lush, painterly illustrations on T.W.A. flight menus, decided to turn back the promotional clock. He pored over commercial illustration books from the 1960s and ’70s and sent images to the show’s marketing team, which couldn’t quite recreate the look he was after.

“Finally,” he said, “they just looked up the person who had done all these drawings that I really loved, and they said: ‘Hey, we’ve got the guy who did them. And he’s still working. His name is Brian Sanders.’ ”

Which explains how a 75-year-old illustrator living outside of Cambridge, England — highly regarded in his own country but little known in the United States — came to create the image that beginning this week will be emblazoned on buses, billboards, magazine pages, Web sites and TV. The ad, depicting Don Draper, the show’s lead character, in a vertiginous pose on a New York City street corner that seems to be collapsing on him like the decade he is living in, looks as if it has time-traveled from the pages of an old copy of Reader’s Digest.

“What it did was take me right back, about 50 years,” said Mr. Sanders, who added that he was familiar enough with “Mad Men” to be in a bit of disbelief when the show came calling for his drawing board and brushes. The impressionistic image he created uses a scumbled acrylic technique that in its jazzy, textured effects instantly conjures 1960s illustration.

 

[a blinkin]

Can I have a brief overview of this show? Been thinking about checking it out.

 

[big j 33]

Can I have a brief overview of this show? Been thinking about checking it out.

On the surface it's about Don Draper, brilliant ad man in the 1960s, as he balances his work, his family, and his darker side. The show focuses on his work and the agency, his wife at home, and also his affairs with various women. A female lead, Peggy, also carries a lot of the show, and the cast is mostly his fellow co-workers, his wife and kids, and his women.

The show addresses themes of identity and self-image, about the the pursuit of the American Dream and whether or not it's true, about the changing gender politics of the time, adultery, debauchery, and various others. 

It's well-written, complex, well acted, and quite entertaining. Some complain it can be slow, I never noticed because it was of such high quality from the production down to the actors. The first four seasons are available on Netflix and the 5th should be added at some point.

 

[ohmygosher]

Andy Bernard best summarized how I feel about this show.

Aren’t there some things you really want to like, but you can’t… seem to like it? Like… Mad Man?

 

[sfc415]

Can I have a brief overview of this show? Been thinking about checking it out.

First world problems First season is pretty boring, but the later ones are good for killing time. More entertaining than that garbage called "Walking Dead", that's for sure

 

[stillhungry]

Been waiting for the 5th season to be added to netflix. Was hoping before the 6th season premiered, any word on this?

 

[hymen man]

Can't wait.

Amped.

 

[big j 33]

New Pictures

 

[licensed to ball]

Looks like January finally got rid of that extra post-pregnancy weight.

Going to be a fine season indeed

 

[pftjordans]

Don got his game down



that mustang tho
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[bearclawd]

Is it the same actor playing Bobby Draper?

 

[diabolicaldeezy]

 Time To Catch Up..

 

[big j 33]

Betty 

 

[T0INE]

Still haven't finished season 1.