OMG I can't believe we haven't talked about last week's episode yet. Struck speechless by the explosion of everything, I guess. That was some amazing, amazing television.
On another note, holy fuck Jon Hamm in high school:
I thought she was going to laugh him out of the lawyer's office when he gave her the "I'll take care of you" speech. Don so called it. She's pretending it's liberation when it's really just another version of her desperate search for Daddy.
I'm hoping next season we'll see her use that flat affect of hers to dump Francis, stick the kids with Don and run away to Rome to be an art historian or something.
Everyone else got a new lease on life in last night's episode: Roger gets to actually work to build something instead of having it handed to him, Don takes a stand instead of shitting his pants and running away as per his usual impulse, Pete and Peggy get recognition and respect, Joan gets the job she completely rules at back, Pryce gets to flip his pompous asshole bosses the bird, even ol' Cooper gets to return to the land of the living.
I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but after the Kennedy assassination, the revelation of all Don was hiding, the destruction of his marriage, the exposure of the John Merrick-like skeletal structure of other marriages like Roger's and Joan's, and the decimation of the company, season 3 of Mad Men actually had a happy ending.
Really amazing show.
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Thanks for the update, I have really missed watching the show. Down to one TV in the house so the grandson and eldest daughter rule....Hope they have another weekend marathon. Probabaly won't happen until the next season starts though, since this was the season 3 finale
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Okay, I'm completely obsessing over this episode. I watched it On Demand yesterday, and I'm probably going to do it again today. I might have to write a small essay on the subject.
I liked the season and I'm excited about where it's going to go next.
I read on twop that it's going to be a year before it comes back, but I can't find anything official.
Some things I like and dislike about where they left it:
Likes: Joan is back. Don's being nice-ish to Peggy. They still need an Art Director (Sal?). "Accounts gets the bed."
Dislikes: The impending Draper divorce. The way they left all the secretaries (including Hooker) high and dry. Working out of a dumb hotel suite instead of Madison Avenue. It's called Mad Men for a reason, folks. The absurdly long name of the new firm (unless Joan was joking, in which case, heh).
Doesn't make sense to me: Even after Price fired them, don't they still have to honor the non-compete? Or is the whole contract null with the firing? Also, how can they use the Sterling and Cooper names in the new firm's name? I mean, yeah, those are their names, but there's got to be some sort of trademark issue there, considering they're going to be in competition with the other Sterling Cooper.
Price is a totally rocking guy - I loved his line "Nobody asks me where I went to school."
I feel bad for his wife, stuck in New York now. I wonder if she knows how close he was to being shipped off to Bombay that one time, though.
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I still can't stand Pete.
I like him as much as I ever did, which is pretty middle of the road. I love Trudy and her hats. Was I the only one who was all "AWKWARD!" when Peggy, Trudy, and Pete were all in the hotel suite at the same time?
It was less awkward than I expected, mainly because Trudi is just so damn excited about the bold move. She's shown herself to be an able, practical helpmeet, and after Pete's surprising guilt over the nanny rape/affair, against all odds I find their relationship now has a whole new vigor. Especially compared to the parade of lies and avoidance that is every other marriage on the show.
I'm with Vremya on the divorce thing. Betty has to spend 6 weeks in Vegas with Daddy Attempt #3. I suspect she'll find it even more stultifying than suburban motherhood.
Pryce slayed me this episode. "Very good. Happy Christmas!" made me lol.
I felt bad for the secretaries too, even Cosgrove and bearded guy. I think there's a solid chance McCann will just absorb the non-pilfered accounts and dissolve Sterling Cooper altogether, thereby leaving most of the former employees in the lurch.
Oh! Oh! How adorable was Cooper threatening to lock Harry in the storeroom overnight if he turned them down? So adorable.
Do you have to spell everybody's names accurately? You're making the rest of us look bad. Trudi and Pryce need to just trade their vowels and spell their shit correctly to begin with.
Jesus Christ. I thought actors had lawyers and unions and contracts to prevent that kind of shit. I mean, yeah I dig that whole consequences thing (and the indiscriminate killing in Sopranos, or I would assuming I'd ever watched it) from a story integrity point of view, but these are real people with real careers and you're not even going to run it by them or the show or the network before you put them out of a job? Rude!
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No liquor or smoking accessories, though, which is a gyp. Still hotness:
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