Mad Men season 7 thread

One thing I do know about that era. Grandfathered figureheads were not shrugged off like they would be today. They were accepted. Not that this was a good thing.

 

A lot was crammed into this episode. Basically Don Draper gets whatever he wants in the end. That was the overlying message I got from this episode.

 

Well, his wife told him to go screw, so he didn't exactly get everything.

What is it with these writers and fantasy/dream sequences? They know everybody hates them, but they just can't help themselves. I think they do it *because* they know people hate them.

For some reason, the Cutler/Sterling dynamic reminded me of that great West Wing scene when Bartlett tells the governor "In case you were wondering, 'crime, boy, I don't know' is when I decided to kick your ass." He was going to let it slide with Cutler until he disrespected Bert Cooper's death.

 

I never saw "How To Succeed In Business Without Trying." But I just have the sneaking feeling that Robert Morse's song was from that movie, his breakthrough.

If that's true, that was somewhat inspired.

 

I actually went back to check Cooper's final line - thought the "Bravo" was a nice touch. And then they ruined it with the magic dancing hallway.

Just so I'm clear - what was Draper in breech of his contract? Was it him attending the cigarette meeting w/o approval?

And no - Best things in life pre-dated H2$ by more than a decade. Brotherhood of Man would have been sweet though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_29IeEeZqo

 

Yes. His amended contract said absolutely no contact with clients without approval, and must stick to the script when approved.

 

That was a great way to send off Bert/Robert Morse.

 

I loved tonight's episode - found it tremendously moving.

 

And he also knew Jim Cutler would do that to him one day.

It goes back to Bert's whole speech about who was "on his team" and who wasn't.

 

In his stocking feet, no less.

 

Cutler has been too much of a pantomime villian for me.

 

maybe this is the way advertizing was in the 1960s, but it seems like a lot of corporate upheaval over the course of the show. In the 9 years we've seen this company, it has gone from Sterling-Cooper, to a subsidiary of the Brits, to SCDP, to the merged company with CGC and now being bought out by McCann. Would one company have really gone through that much change in 9 years?