Easily one of my top three favorite episodes in Mad Men history. That season 3 finale was great.
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Mad Men - Season 7, Part 2 - The End of an Era - AMC Sundays
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Easily one of my top three favorite episodes in Mad Men history. That season 3 finale was great.
BenjaminBirdie
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HA
Looking at IMDB, Dawn was only in the episode Time and Life, where the news broke that they were getting fully absorbed by McCann. So yeah, she was left in the wind.
Well I'm embarrassed. I guess you're right then.
Yeah I'm just gonna say that the finale was great. I'm not sure if iI like it as much as Justified this year, but still, great job.
I thought it was just sad that Don wanted to step up and not be a shitty dad and was told that it would be too shocking for the kids lol.
I thought it was just sad that Don wanted to step up and not be a shitty dad and was told that it would be too shocking for the kids lol.
-Pyromaniac-
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good god
brianmcdoogle
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You racist.
You're not gonna find much that's as good as that last scene in Justified. I'm liking this the more I think about it though. Took time to sink in.
Aw, maaaan.
GoldenEye 007
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God I wish we could see that pitch.
Dion Blaster
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I honestly wanna know what Bill Simmons thinks!
Leona Lewis
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Upon rematch, just noticed the "personal touches" that Peggy made to her tentacle porn
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This episode had so many little touches. I'm going to need all the screen caps.
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This episode had so many little touches. I'm going to need all the screen caps.
I liked the finale. I love that it all led to the Coke ad, which a lot of people view as a cynical recontextualization of the flower generation to sell soda.
It totally fits Don's style. He made peace with himself, but he still went back to what he does best. That's pretty much it, and I'm satisfied with it. I feel like people wanted him to pay all the things he's done.
It totally fits Don's style. He made peace with himself, but he still went back to what he does best. That's pretty much it, and I'm satisfied with it. I feel like people wanted him to pay all the things he's done.
NYR
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Nah, that would actually be good TV. Here, watch this guy meditate instead.
-Pyromaniac-
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I feel like I know it exactly how it went in my head.
XANDER CAGE
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Yo so what's cool about this finale is that the character, Don Draper, who took another man's name,
poetry rhymes etc
took a real man's name by getting fictional implied credit for that Coke ad.
poetry rhymes etc
Dion Blaster
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VeryGooster
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I don't watch SIlicon Valley but :lol HOC season two was trash as hell.
crooked spin
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Haven't we seen Don give enough inspired, emotional pitches in the series already? I mean:
I liked the ambiguity myself.
-Pyromaniac-
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GoldenEye 007
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Very interesting. Given Samantha flat out told him he isn't family could be another realization that there is no life in Cali. There's no going back to his old life... The door is shut. Might as well fully embrace NY and selling is his calling.
Haha that's fair. But I think the last scene was just clear enough to make me happy with the prevailing conclusion.
brianmcdoogle
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I think the episode was just ok overall, but the last few minutes were great, and the ending on the coke commercial was wonderful.
And with that, it was a great ride, everyone. I'm really glad they included Sal in the periphery of the meditation scene at the end, maybe suggesting that Don will rehire him and that all is forgotten from that night of the hotel fire.
And with that, it was a great ride, everyone. I'm really glad they included Sal in the periphery of the meditation scene at the end, maybe suggesting that Don will rehire him and that all is forgotten from that night of the hotel fire.
p.s. I made that last part up.
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
BRAVO WEINER
I really liked it. Both halves of season 7 were a huge step up from what I thought was a really weak season 6. I was watching tonight live (no DVR buffer) and was watching the clock thinking "They can't wrap this up in a minute and a half." And then they did.
Bobby failing at making dinner because Betty's too sick and Henry is working long hours to avoid the tragedy at home broke my heart.
Bobby failing at making dinner because Betty's too sick and Henry is working long hours to avoid the tragedy at home broke my heart.
GoldenEye 007
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I'm just imagining the fridge line. Not being overlooked. The chills.
-Pyromaniac-
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they open the fridge and they smile ;_;
BenjaminBirdie
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You guys jwoliner is killing on Twitter on the finale right now
Not the first time the show's done that, "It's Toasted" was an actual Lucky Strike slogan that someone else came up with.
GoldenEye 007
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I didn't realize that Peggy also had a pretty clear call to action for Don on that phone call. "Don't you want to work on Coke? COME HOME."
CharminUltra
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Honestly, the biggest disappointment for me was that, 5.5 seasons later, we were left with no clue as to what became of Chauncey.
2/10 would not watch again.
2/10 would not watch again.
GoldenEye 007
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Ayyyy"What's the meaning of life, Mad Men?"
C O C A C O L A I T ' S T H E R E A L T H I N G
NYR
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Haha! Perfect."What's the meaning of life, Mad Men?"
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greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
"What's the meaning of life, Mad Men?"
C O C A C O L A I T ' S T H E R E A L T H I N G
lmao
VeryGooster
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On a slightly random note McCann-Erikson also did the Mean Joe Greene Coke ad.
"What's the meaning of life, Mad Men?"
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This deserves a SunhiLegend dramatization gif.
World SkiFree
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j_k_redtail
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I think I would've enjoyed this more if I hadn't read an article about a week ago noting that the show's timeline was approaching the date that the Coke ad originally premiered. It hinted strongly that Don was the ads creator. Spoiled myself, I guess.
megamerican
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Am I imagining things, didn't Weiner say he had an ending picked out and it was in the 1980s?