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The impending sale of Sterling Cooper forces Don and his compatriots to take action, and Betty makes her move to leave him.
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Big changes at home, work in 'Mad Men' finale
News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Nov 9, 2009 12:51 PM EST
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{"commentId":10575695,"authorDomain":"carolync-1"}
Oh how I love this show! I hope it never ends. This episode was awesome. My favorite line of the night was Peggy saying "no" when Roger asked her to get his coffee. Peggy has really grown and I am loving it. It was nice to see how she humbled Don too. And that Don could be humbled. Would that he could have had such a conversation with his wife...long ago. It might have helped. I feel so sad for Sally and Bobby...esp. Sally, who is still hurting over the loss of her g'father and the lack of affection from her mom. Sad little girl. They took the perfect people to join them...so glad Joan is back. Wish they would call the art guy (forgot his name), who was fired for no good reason and so struggles with his gayness. They need an art person...so they should call him. Looking forward to next season!
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#1 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 1:09 PM EST{"commentId":10577646,"authorDomain":"flaktfoont"}
I loved it when Sally said "You made him sleep in Gene's room! It's SCARY!" I also like the allusion of drinking the moonshine with his dad... remember when he swigged the familiar drink with Connie in the hotel room?
Too many high points to even begin recounting them. McCann was a syrupy, unimaginative agency and Grey was too imaginative. Maybe the new SCDP is going to be Weiden+Kennedy 30 years earlier.
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{"commentId":10580893,"authorDomain":"damaged-wings"}
you mean Sal, the married gay guy? yeah, i love this show!
why is this show only on for a few weeks like the other ones i also like (True Blood, SOA, Rescue Me). why aren't they on all year and then rerun in the summer?
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{"commentId":10575798,"authorDomain":"oceanstitcher"}
Does anyone else feel that it was especially cruel for Don and Betty to tell their children they were breaking up right before Christmas? That poor Sally is going to be in therapy for years.
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#2 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 1:13 PM EST{"commentId":10576196,"authorDomain":"aldrichfamily"}
Yes, Sal- the head of Art. The last we saw of him he was calling his wife from a payphone with a fake story about working late or something and wouldn't be home that night. He was in front of some biker guys. I would have liked him to be included in this episode, even if it was just a comment or phone call. I really hope they bring him on board. I'm sure they will.
Soooooo many funny lines said perfectly!
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#3 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 1:32 PM EST{"commentId":10576608,"authorDomain":"maddicts"}
YES YES YES BRING BACK SAL!!! What a show! Can't wait for next year!
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#4 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 1:51 PM EST{"commentId":10576866,"authorDomain":"TrueMadFan"}
I thought this season started slow, but the last two episodes sent it out with a HUGE bang! The consolidated the best characters in one of the most brilliant business moves. Roger is back to being worthy of Best Supporting Actor after getting shuffled off on a bad personal life tangent. He was back to being the proud peacock from season one. I would like to see Sal come back on board, but with Lucky Strike still the #1 client and such small office space, he would literally still be 'stuck in the closet'. Of all the people left behind, I feel sorriest for Kinsey. Already having been in a slump, you could just see him sag mentally when he realized WHO they had grabbed to take with them.
Screw Betty. Let her have her divorce and see how she likes being controlled by a politician! Like she'll EVER get the truth out of him.
All in All, I'm looking forward to next season immensely!!
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#5 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 2:02 PM EST{"commentId":10576953,"authorDomain":"susan-ph"}
I really loved the snappy dialogue among Roger, Don, Bert etc...it reminded me of the way the show was in previous seasons. Great writing and acting.
My only glitch with this show has to be the home front. I don't care how cold Betty may seem (with a philandering husband she can't trust) but I don't believe for a second a mother would leave her children over the Christmas holidays, not now and not in 1963. The divorce would have waited until after Christmas. There's always been a falseness in the writing around the family stuff. The little girl who plays Sally is wonderful though.
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#6 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 2:05 PM EST{"commentId":10577059,"authorDomain":"rmartirano"}
Sally is without a doubt in line for trips to upstate NY and perhaps out west to San Francisco as she hits her mid-teens and the current decade comes to a close.
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#7 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 2:09 PM EST{"commentId":10577353,"authorDomain":"sidneyfremont"}
True Mad Fan - I agree! Screw Betty. I want to see more interaction between the office folk, particularly Don and Roger. I want to see more whoring around, more drinking, more smoking, more stuff about accounts, and much less of Don's whiny two kids who can't act worth crap. Also, bring back the Jewish girl Don was fooling round with, or even the teacher gal. As far as I'm concerned, they can write Don's entire family out altogether.
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#8 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 2:21 PM EST{"commentId":10577583,"authorDomain":"Denverworkinggal"}
Mad Men delivers! I enjoyed this review as much as I enjoyed watching the program last night. Questions were answered, drama was revealed, new beginnings and what dialogue! Roger DID have the best lines! I loved seeing the core group of Sterling Cooper make a go of it! I thought Betty looked sad on the plane. Is she really going to be happy with that other guy? Don is a better parent, he at least shows the kids affection and tells them he loves them. Will they actually go thru the divorce or won't they? As much as I didn't like Don sleeping around, I think Don is heading for something bigger and better. I don't think Betts knows what she wants...she just doesn't want Don. The scenes with the kids make me cry! Can't wait for Season 4.
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#9 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 2:32 PM EST{"commentId":10577939,"authorDomain":"anneinil"}
Where oh where is Sal? I do hope the new Sterling Cooper Draper & Pryce bring him on board. How I miss the adorable Sal. Though I hate that he has to live a false life and the fact that Mr. Lucky Strike, Jr. might make things even more difficult for him, Sal is one of my favorite characters!
What a great show. What a great season finale! When does next season start???
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#10 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 2:49 PM EST{"commentId":10578008,"authorDomain":"BillLila1"}
Fantastic Episode! Best line of the night came from Roger as usual "Lane, we've worked together for a year. Don't be a stranger. We've got tea."
What a way to end the seaon! For those who said the season started slow..take note that all seasons have started out this way and usually make up for it by mid-season. The last 4 episodes of this season had me rivited to my television.
It will be torture waiting a year for the next season!
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#11 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 2:52 PM EST{"commentId":10578279,"authorDomain":"roberson"}
Betty has to be suffering from post partum depression. Taking off from her family for six weeks to establish residency in Nevada over the holidays! And I do not trust Henry one bit. She could have any man and to choose him. . ? Meanwhile, I hope now that Don has confessed to his wife about his mysterious life, he can escape some of his demons and become a better man (i.e. fewer affairs). Love the direction the show is going. One thing that really bothers me about the Draper household. I am sure Don makes a very comfortable salary and I can understand the homey kitchen and smaller home, etc., but why do their children sleep on bedding that belongs in the Army! Squeaky box spring cots, etc. Weird!
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#12 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 3:03 PM EST{"commentId":10580972,"authorDomain":"surveys4fun"}
Love this show, can't wait for season 4!!!! That Don gives me goose bumps, what an actor for this role, just perfect. Entire cast wonderful and great writing. More awards awaiting this show no doubt about it.
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#13 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 4:54 PM EST{"commentId":10582088,"authorDomain":"lgwex"}
Can you believe this is the very first Mad Men I've ever seen? I was flipping around the channels last night thinking there was nothing on, happened by AMC a channel I almost never watch, saw this was Mad Men (had just started) and remembered that Mad Men seemed to be nominated for alot of Emmy's. So I stayed and watched it.
Then I watched it again (camed on again immediately after) because I liked it but it seemed like there was a lot I didn't "get" the first time. I "got" more the second time through and came to the conclusion that this was going to be my new favorite show! Yay!!
Today I find out it was the finale! Of course! Who has a finale in November?? I guess cable can do anything it wants .....
Sigh. Does anybody know when Season 4 will start? Are there DVD's of previous seasons?
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#14 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 5:43 PM EST{"commentId":10583102,"authorDomain":"prettymom"}
OMG Laurie, I discovered the series this summer on demand. They played season one and season two just prior to season three starting August 16. You HAVE to get the DVD's and watch all of them to see the interaction and turmoil and drama that make these characters so real. If it were a novel, I wouldn't be able to put it down. I was watching 4 and 5 episodes a night and thinking about them the following day not able to wait to get back to watch more of them.
If you only saw last night and were intrigued you must catch up on the series and then wait like the rest of us for season four.
-cheers
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{"commentId":10586652,"authorDomain":"maddicts"}
DEFINTELY- GET ALL PREVIOUS SEASONS ON NETFLIX OR THIS SEASON ON DEMAND! I'm jealous you get to see them for the first time!!!!
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{"commentId":10590764,"authorDomain":"agit-potato"}
Sorry to beg off of the love train... Mad Men is rich in personalities but impoverished in concent - you know, the vision thing. One ad agency is boring, one is too creative - but for what purpose. The ad agency people in the 50's were the hedge fund people in the last 5 years - selfish but brillliant in their execution. No comparison with the series on Show. At least selling pot, politics, thuggary, seduction and serial murders are all real - selling ads to move products/services is a pathetic waste of talent. Advertising is the stage for image over substance... break a leg in the next act - or at least go into rehab to rid the toxic narcicissm.
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#15 - Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:14 AM EST{"commentId":10591105,"authorDomain":"agit-potato"}
Sorry, I meant Mad Men is impoverished in content - anything of value - creating beauty or utility, social utility, science or technology, religion or other beliefs - its all about the ads, the money, drinking and smoking. How pathetic.
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#16 - Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:43 AM EST{"commentId":10599565,"authorDomain":"lsgilcreast"}
Don't drop Paul Kinsey. I loved his complex character---idealistic, pipe smoking Bohemian; pseudo intellectual blow hard--funny AND good looking. Loved him. How can the 60's of Mad Men happen without him?
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#17 - Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:54 PM EST{"commentId":10600162,"authorDomain":"anneinil"}
Agit Potato, I used to think like you do. It took me most of Season 1 to see deeper into the soul of this show. Now I see the complexities, the stories of damaged souls weaving in and over one another, and the brilliance of the writing, the acting, the storytelling. It's not about the smoking, the drinking, the philandering, the lying, etc. Those are covers for what's really going on in these characters' lives. And that's the whole point. It's great social commentary -- on today's society as well as that of the 1960s.
Now, just bring Sal back and I'll be in heaven next season!!
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#18 - Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:17 PM EST{"commentId":10601892,"authorDomain":"kbeacham1"}
Man this show is great!!! I just wish it ran twice a season like all the reality garbage --Dancing with the (has been c list) stars etc...
Glad red (Joan) is back--nothing like a take charge woman to get things done... Does anyone have any idea when the next season starts?
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#19 - Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:19 PM EST{"commentId":10639370,"authorDomain":"jlaub"}
If you want to read another interesting article about Mad Men, here's a column analyzing some of Don Draper's quotes on the Los Angeles Jewish Journal's website: http://bit.ly/LbfFm
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#20 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:29 PM EST{"canLink":false,"threadId":"720238","isPrivate":false}
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