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[Jim Ohara]

Oh Rory Gilmore, you go from Sam Winchester to Pete Campbell? Where'd you go so wrong?

They're all terrible people on this show after these five seasons. Don is really an awful human being, tinged with make vague attempts to do the right thing every so often (but only when they require the minimum effort). I'm guessing things fall apart next year (1968) and then the series ends in 1969. Personally I don't think I want to see anyone's story end happily (maybe Peggy, but it's clear she'll never be happy).

[Jake]

Finally got around to watching the finale last night. I felt heartbroken for Pete in a little way. His talk with the Gilmore Girl showed a lot of self-awareness that I wasn't entirely certain he was capable of. I also really loved the last scene. It was a perfect ending to the season, because that look could go either way. It got a big "that is brilliant" chuckle out of me.

[Sanjay]

I already miss this show

I'd say this season was as strong as ever. Here's an interesting overview on how fashion was integral to the narrative and characterisation:

http://www.tomandlor...he-phantom.html

[stephanie familiar]

I already miss this show

ditto. next season's going to be brutal though, knowing it will be the last.

[Nicholas Taggart]

ditto. next season's going to be brutal though, knowing it will be the last.

Nope, two more

[stephanie familiar]

Nope, two more

i thought after that long hiatus, weiner said this season and next would be it?

[Nicholas Taggart]

Nope, before making the season that just aired he signed on for three more seasons.

[Nicholas Taggart]

Matthew Weiner talking about his favourite scene from the season:
http://insidetv.ew.c...-and-elevators/

[Paul F]

Season 6 starts April 7: http://www.hitfix.co...emiere-in-april

[Sanjay]

Excellent. Also:

 

 

Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has revealed that season six will move forward in time to the late 1960s.

The writer told TV Guide that when the show returns on April 7, the action will pick up sometime after season five's 1967-set finale.

 

"[Jumping ahead in time] at this point has been such a great story engine for the show," Weiner teased. "I love writing that first episode as if the audience knows everything that has happened, and watching them piece it in their head. It's an elliptical experience."

He went on to disclose that Mad Men's version of the counter-culture late 1960s will differ from most fictionalised portrayals of the time.

"I didn't know the show would go on this long," Weiner explained. "And this part of the '60s, I've always been fighting an image of the period that has been created by books and movies.

 

"It's the baby boomers' childhood. There is a propaganda that goes along with the whole era."

He continued: "I don't want the show to be a history lesson. The job of the show is to show how these events affect our characters.

"Intellectually it's been very interesting to see how history really does interact with our daily life. What world events pierce their way into our anxieties."

Weiner also confirmed that the entire Mad Men cast aside from Jared Harris will be back, quashing rumours of departures for Elisabeth Moss and January Jones.

It was reported late last year that Mad Men's season six premiere will feature scenes of Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and wife Megan Draper (Jessica Paré) on holiday in Hawaii.

AMC airs Mad Men's season opener on Sunday, April 7 at 9/8c.

 

[Nicholas Taggart]

If Jared Harris was back that would be something.

[Paul F]

[stephanie familiar]

fuck ya. 

[Paul F]

Promo pictures: http://www.hitfix.co...-promo-pictures

 

 

Jessica Paré looks terrifying.

[jleal]

Harry Crane, keeping up with the times.

[Nicholas Taggart]

When new Mad Men time comes near I like to rewatch this clip

 

[Nicholas Taggart]

Leisure Suit Larrying it up

[stephanie familiar]

Promo pictures: http://www.hitfix.co...-promo-pictures

 

 

Jessica Paré looks terrifying.

 

 

 

so does the little boy. 

 

Harry Crane, keeping up with the times.

 

 

bow chicka wow wow. 

[Paul F]

This interview with Vincent Kartheiser is... unusual: http://www.vulture.c...-interview.html

[Nicholas Taggart]