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[RatskyWatsky]

Excellent episode this week. I loved seeing Sally navigate the whole boarding school environment, not to mention the return of Glen!

People didn't immediately see it as that? Wow.

People often don't consider something like that to be rape when the genders are reversed. It's fucked up. (not saying that's the case with SaveFerris, btw. I mean generally)

 

[Fatalah]

Are they doing anything special for the finale? Limited commercials or anything like that?

Bonus commentary from Marten Weiner!

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

The Atlantic: Don Draper Was Raped


See a lot of threads about issues like this lately and while I understood that the encounter gave insight to Don and his sexual hangups, I must admit I glazed over the fact that it could be considered rape.

meh, typical role reversal BS. If it were a girl in Don's position it would be the focus of articles regarding the episode for months and be a defining moment in the characters life.

For Don it was something EVERYONE glossed over because don gonna drape and guys can't get raped or what have you.

 

[Jackben]

He really was raped though.

 

[Cornballer]

- Sally Draper reacting to Great Moments in Cinema - Super Cut (NSFW)

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Yeah, Dick was raped and it really did mess him up.

 

[Divius]

- Sally Draper reacting to Great Moments in Cinema - Super Cut (NSFW)

Ha, I was just watching this. Some funny stuff in there.

 

[dave is ok]

Don D. Raper became Don D. Rapee

 

[Cornballer]

- IndieWire: Beautiful and Claustrophobic - MAD MEN’s Inferno

 

[sixteen-bit]

Don D. Raper became Don D. Rapee

chronologically it's the other way around

 

[EvaristeG]

This season has been truly the greatest so far. The last few episodes were incredible. This show is on The Wire/Sopranos level now.

 

[Jackben]

- IndieWire: Beautiful and Claustrophobic - MAD MEN’s Inferno

This was a good read. It goes a way to explain why some of the affair imagery seemed like such a repetition at the beginning of this season. The article discusses repetition of story and how it is often said we struggle repeating certain themes in our own lives over and over until we come to a sense of closure or understanding. Often we never reach that and so the repetition is reality and serves a literary purpose.

I don't know if it completely excuses the middling first few episodes of the season but it certainly argues well for its place in the story. The episodes following the Doorway felt fairly stale to me but it for what it's worth I think this season has been absolutely phenomenal starting with 'The Flood' and that season 5 bloomed a lot later and had its hot streak more near the end of the season.

I am both excited for and dreading the final episode 'In Care Of'. The final episode is extremely important in Mad Men because of the way the themes of the entire season are either resolved, summarized or finalized in action. This finale is going to be even more important in that series 6 is the penultimate season of the show.

 

[Cornballer]

- Tom & Lorenzo's Mad Style: The Quality of Mercy

You could point out that Don and Megan are clearly the trendier couple here, and that Don in particular is mimicking costuming from Rosemary’s Baby. You could also point out that they can afford to look more dressed-up and glamorous because they didn’t come from the office like Peggy and Ted here. What we liked about this foursome was the way Don was mimicking Ted so clearly, right down to the turtleneck and plaid jacket. That’s a signature Ted Chaough look and Don is standing there, wearing it in dark grey and black, like a figure of judgment against him. It works perfectly on a thematic level because this episode dealt both with doppelgangers and with Don punishing other people for something he did.

As for Peggy and Ted, their color story is very murky. Blues, greens and yellows. Blue and green consistently signal adultery and blue and yellow somewhat less consistently signal a lack of connection. The murkiness in meaning here really works, since we’re still not entirely clear in this scene if this is a full-blown adulterous affair or merely an office infatuation.

 

[Cornballer]

- NY Mag: Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka on Smoking, Eye Rolls, and What’s Next for Poor Sally Draper

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

- NY Mag: Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka on Smoking, Eye Rolls, and What’s Next for Poor Sally Draper

So well spoken for her age.

 

[Divius]

So well spoken for her age.

Yeah, I love reading interviews with Kiernan Shipka.

 

[Cornballer]

- Andy Greenwald for Grantland: Mad Men's curious, frustrating, and ultimately disappointing sixth season
- TV Guide interviews 80's Don Draper: Don Draper Travels to the 1980s

 

[f0rk]

Listened to the Grantland podcast for Yeezus and they have some really good observations I had missed, like the products they are representing being imitations

 

[sixteen-bit]

Listened to the Grantland podcast for Yeezus and they have some really good observations I had missed, like the products they are representing being imitations

Like margarine?

 

[Cornballer]

Content Round Up - Episode 12 - The Quality of Mercy

Videos:
- Next on Mad Men: Episode 613 (youtube vid, please spoiler tag any discussion)
- Inside Episode 612 Mad Men: The Quality of Mercy (youtube vid)
- Janie Bryant on Costumes in Episode 612: Inside Mad Men (youtube vid)

Reviews:
- Sepinwall's review
- Zap2It
- Maureen Ryan
- The Daily Beast
- Onion A|V Club
- The Atlantic
- NY Times
- Slate.com
- Rolling Stone
- Tom & Lorenzo
- Grantland
- Matt Zoller Seitz for NY Mag
- James Poniewozik
- IGN
- Salon.com

Other:
- AMC Q&A: Rich Sommer (Harry Crane)
- SC&P Unveil New logo: Image & press release
- Rolling Stone: 'Mad Men' Actor James Wolk on the Mystery of Bob Benson
- Grantland: Mad Men Power Rankings
- Wired: Seeing Mad Men Through Its Ads
- LA Times: Women of 'Mad Men' talk about Don, story rumors and the end
- The Atlantic: Don Draper Was Raped
- Rolling Stone: The Most WTF? Moments of 'Mad Men' Season Six
- IndieWire: Beautiful and Claustrophobic - MAD MEN’s Inferno
- Sally Draper reacting to Great Moments in Cinema - Super Cut (NSFW)
- Tom & Lorenzo's Mad Style: The Quality of Mercy
- AMC: The Mad Men Fashion File - Evil Twins
- NY Mag: Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka on Smoking, Eye Rolls, and What’s Next for Poor Sally Draper
- TV Guide interviews 80's Don Draper: Don Draper Travels to the 1980s
- Andy Greenwald for Grantland: Mad Men's curious, frustrating, and ultimately disappointing sixth season

 

[Niraj]

I've made great use of that Don fake crying gif already. So many whiners in my life.

 

[Booties]

Man, Sally's actress may be the best character on the show.

 

[Cornballer]

- HuffPost Live: 'Mad Men' Star Linda Cardellini

She's been doing a lot of press this week which makes me wonder if it was just her turn or if she's going to be heavily involved in the finale.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

I'm guessing she's in the finale.

I'm wrong in absolutely everything I guess about Man Men though!

 

[Trigger]

I think she'll be in the finale in some form.

 

[kirblar]

She probably just isn't back as a regular character next season.

 

[ultron87]

Don moves away and then Sylvia and Megan murder each other.

 

[Jackben]

Don moves away and then Sylvia and Megan murder each other.

Actually this got me thinking a bit. We know from Matt that Megan is immune. But if Don does indeed make a run for it, I'd imagine Megan going to Sylvia for sympathy and with Don gone I bet the chances would be higher of the awful truth spilling out of her guilt-ridden self. Such a situation would be a fitting parallel to earlier in the season when Megan confided in Sylvia about her miscarriage.

 

[Kaladin]

My fantasy booking of the end of this show has Don running from his life again, reinventing himself and the supporting cast trying to put together the pieces of Don for both a federal investigation into Don Draper and the ad agency and to find where he's gone to. In the end only one of them find him....not sure who though.

 

[Meier]

Jon Hamm need to be in a comedy show asap.

He guest stars on them a lot as he's good friends with comedians and is on comedy podcasts quite often. I think that's his next step. NBC would be smart to try and figure a way to get him in an Alec Baldwin/Jack Donnaghy-esque roll.

 

[Talon]

He guest stars on them a lot as he's good friends with comedians and is on comedy podcasts quite often. I think that's his next step. NBC would be smart to try and figure a way to get him in an Alec Baldwin/Jack Donnaghy-esque roll.

Fun fact, when he was HS drama teacher out of college, one of his students was the chick that played the secretary in the Office (Pam's successor).

 

[Tenks]

Fun fact, when he was HS drama teacher out of college, one of his students was the chick that played the secretary in the Office (Pam's successor).

Erin. And I hated her character.

 

[hamchan]

My fantasy booking of the end of this show has Don running from his life again, reinventing himself and the supporting cast trying to put together the pieces of Don for both a federal investigation into Don Draper and the ad agency and to find where he's gone to. In the end only one of them find him....not sure who though.

Peggy.

 

[Cornballer]

- NY Mag: Matthew Weiner on Why Those Mad Men Previews Are Comically Stingy

Nothing that we haven't heard before in previous interviews.

 

[pulga]

Dammit, Pete.

EDIT: Yes, Bob laying out Pete in Spanish!

That was some of the worst spanish Ive ever heard lol, thought it was portuguese for a moment

 

[kirblar]

That was some of the worst spanish Ive ever heard lol, thought it was portuguese for a moment

Well, the character is from West Virginia.

 

[Rookje]

I really wanted more Betty this season

 

[Y2Kev]

Don's gonna have a mental breakdown and then answer the phone at the end of the episode as Dick whitman.

 

[pulga]

Well, the character is from West Virginia.

Or is he

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

- AMC put up the rest of the still photos from last episode

the origin story

 

[YoungHav]

It didn't even cross my mind while watching that that Don was raped. I'm a product of my society unforunately :-( .

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Well you don't get as messed up as someone like Don for no reason lol.

 

[Fjordson]

Finally watched the last episode. Loved it.

I was a little surprised by the situation with Glenn and Sally. For some reason I thought they had more interest in each other. Like not just brother and sister. Totally misread that (or maybe Sally does and it's just Glenn that doesn't, I dunno).

Great stuff, though. Don seems to be on a crazy downward spiral. More than usual somehow. Like his willingness to send Sally away because of what happened in the previous episode. Damn =[

 

[layzie1989]

ken wears that eyepatch like a fuckin' boss...a big boss....

 

[sixteen-bit]

ken wears that eyepatch like a fuckin' boss...a big boss....

Advertising has changed.

 

[Cornballer]

- NY Mag Supercut: Watch Peggy Olson Break Through the Glass Ceiling
- Warming Glow: Here Are 20 ‘Mad Men’ Screenshots With Things Drawn On Them

 

[Jackben]

 

[Cornballer]

Some pre-finale content:

- NY Mag: Mad Men Season Six: Sunny Products, Rotten World
- The Atlantic: Mad Men Season 6: The Good, the Bad, the GIFs
- LA Times: Making sure 'Mad Men' is '60s authentic
- LA Times: 'Mad Men' costume designer Janie Bryant talks Season 6 fashion
- Newsday: 'Mad Men:' The end is near. (Sunday, in fact)
- The Wrap: Matthew Weiner Has Already Heard Your 'Mad Men' Ending - Weiner discusses the great TV endings
- LA Times: Font experts weigh in on 'Mad Men's' funky new logo

 

[Cornballer]

- NY Mag: Mad Men’s James Wolk on the Bob Benson Reveal and His Favorite Fan Theory

 

[Trigger]

- NY Mag: Mad Men’s James Wolk on the Bob Benson Reveal and His Favorite Fan Theory

Do you have a favorite Bob Benson theory?
My favorite theory is that Bob is Peggy’s son who time-traveled back from the future. I laughed forever when I heard that. Peggy’s time-traveling son.

He's actually Peggy's baby.

I C U James Wolk.