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Mad Men - Season 6 - Sundays on AMC

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Kraftwerk said:
Didn't expect so much hate at the new poster.

I know everyone has different taste/opinion, but the poster isn't meant to look pretty. As some pointed out, I believe it is foreshadowing the clash that is going to happen. The death of the suit with the coming of the 70's.

The reddit poster is just generic, don't see how "it shits" all over the official one. But again, that is my opinion :p

edit : spelling
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I agreeeeee
 
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RatskyWatsky

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i love the poster bar the lit up high rise buildings at the very bottom benhind the 'final seasn begins' text. i think the clash of the silohuette and the psychedelic background looks good whereas that part looks tacky.
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I feel the opposite - after looking at it a bunch, the clash between the weird psychedelic background and the traditional Mad Men logo/Draper cutout is actually growing on me, whereas I think the high rise buildings at the very bottom with the 'final season begins' text looks really bad.
 
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Empty

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ooh nice edit kraftwerk

RatskyWatsky said:
I feel the opposite - after looking at it a bunch, the clash between the weird psychedelic background and the traditional Mad Men logo/Draper cutout is actually growing on me, whereas I think the high rise buildings at the very bottom with the 'final season begins' text looks really bad.
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uh it sounds like you feel the same!

i understand the confusion because oh my god there's like twelve typos in that post blaaahhh
 
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- Buzzfeed: “Mad Men” Creator Matthew Weiner On The Show’s Jet-Setting Final Season
Over the course of its last six seasons, AMC’s period drama Mad Men has taken the audience into the inner lives of the damaged ad men and women who glide through the 1960s often on a volatile mix of booze, self-loathing, and bad behavior. In the hands of its creator, Matthew Weiner, the show has offered a window into the souls of these characters, offering up their flaws and their virtues, their successes and their losses.

With the show concluding next year, it does feel as if it’s the end of an era, both for its network AMC and for the television landscape as a whole, as well as Weiner, who will have spent 15 years of his life developing, writing, and bringing Mad Men to fruition. “I feel very lucky and I feel, at times, overwhelmed,” Weiner told BuzzFeed. “There’s so much work to do that it hasn’t really hit me, but I am overwhelmed by this sector of my life coming to a close. It’s pretty gigantic. I feel a lot of responsibility — no matter what the reaction is 24 hours afterward — that these 92 hours will fit together as a whole. It’s a big piece of work done by hundreds of people and I’m proud and surprised that I’ve gotten to this point. And also, I feel really lucky that I get to end it on my own, without having the plug suddenly pulled or something. What a luxury. I keep talking about what a responsibility it is, but it’s a luxury to be able to end the story how you want.”

As the Emmy Award-winning drama approaches its final season — with two seven-episode arcs set to air in April 2014 and April 2015 — Weiner spoke at length to BuzzFeed about Mad Men’s seventh season, wrapping up the show’s narrative, and what lies ahead for Don Draper (Jon Hamm), Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss), and the rest of Sterling Cooper & Partners. What follows is an edited transcript of the conversation.
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Q&A via the link.

Presumably there's nothing major spoiled because it's Weiner and he keeps everything under tight lock & key. On the off chance that there is something juicy in the interview, please use spoiler tags to discuss it.
 
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Guess an embargo just went up.

- Sepinwall: 'Mad Men' creator Matthew Weiner previews final season
The final season of "Mad Men" begins on Sunday, April 13 at 10 p.m. Of course, calling it "the final season" is more of a letter of the law than a spirit of the law thing, since AMC will show seven episodes this spring, then take the show off the air until 2015, when the final seven episodes will air. Contractually for the cast and crew, it is all one season, and unlike the "final" season of "Breaking Bad" — which was split into two batches of 8 episodes apiece that aired over two summers — all of them are being produced in a row.

In talking to "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner about the show's (relatively) impending conclusion, he acknowledged that he essentially had to write two premieres and two finales within these 14 episodes, but he also said that the finished product will still feel structurally similar to a season of "Mad Men," since he always treats the second half of a season as a response to the first.

As usual, there was no point in asking for many details from the most spoiler-phobic showrunner of them all (the closest we got was discussing whether the show's usual chronology will push the characters into a new decade before the finale), but we spoke about what his intentions are with these last 14 episodes and how much he's been thinking about the show's origins as he's worked on its conclusion.
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Dany

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I have tabs open to read but I'm gonna guess Weiner ain't gonna say shit lol

edit:

Is Bob going to be back?

Bob Benson? You have to watch! I love him. That’s all I will say.
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YASS
 
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Bob Benson is best character, I wonder how Weiner will use him now that we know his true identity.

Dany M said:
I have tabs open to read but I'm gonna guess Weiner ain't gonna say shit lol
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New season = even more opportunities to perfect the art of ambiguous teasers.
 
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War Peaceman

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Frost_Ace said:
Seriously. One of the reasons I didn't like season 6 as much as the others is the poor use of supporting characters.
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It felt like they had a change of heart with him - it seemed like his character was going somewhere, but then they cooled on him with season 6.

More generally, I feel that as the programme shifted from being focused around one office it lost a certain communal feel. Many of the side characters feel less developed or interesting relative to the main cast, a disparity which was less obvious in the first few seasons. That said, I loved season 6 so I can't complain too much.
 
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Frost_Ace said:
Seriously. One of the reasons I didn't like season 6 as much as the others is the poor use of supporting characters.
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yeah. totally. :/

that said i always rewatch the previous mad men season in the run up to the new season - otherwise because my bad memory will prevent me from grasping all the character details that make the show - so hopefully i like it more second time round.
 
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I've been rewatching for the first time in a good three years and even though I knew it was coming Don spurning Faye pissed me off more than it did originally. I understand being charmed by Megan's French and bubbly-artsy personality. I even get becoming intrigued by the all the serendipitous occurrences that seemed to bind the two together, but god damn it you don't turn your back on perfection if you're lucky enough to attain it.

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Leona Lewis

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Nameless said:
I've been rewatching for the first time in a good three years and even though I knew it was coming Don spurning Faye pissed me off more than it did originally. I understand being charmed by Megan's French and bubbly-artsy personality. I even get becoming intrigued by the all the serendipitous occurrences that seemed to bind the two together, but god damn it you don't turn your back on perfection if you're lucky enough to attain it.

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Yep, Faye was GOAT

I'm sad she was written out of the show, but her character dodged a bullet. Don is just...just awful.
 
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