I really think that cigarettes as a threat/problem/danger continues to be big theme of the season.
I really think that cigarettes as a threat/problem/danger continues to be big theme of the season.
I think it's a bit broader. Cigarettes, alcoholism, infidelity, child neglect, mental breakdown leading to self-abuse...Self-destruction has always been a strong theme of this show (one character's suicide, for instance), and it's just gotten stronger since they hit the end of the 60s.
In her own way, Megan is as much a deva as Betty was/is. Her and Don's reuniting after the "it's over" speech to me was further indication of just how much the two of them are into one another.So, Don and Megan aren't kaput after all? Actually, that kind of does make sense. I'm sure Don is well aware by now of what a drama queen Megan is. He probably knows that when Megan launches a catastrophe, the smartest thing to do is just wait it out for a few days.
This. As they wheeled Ginsburg out of the office, I was remineded of a scene from that old X-Files episode where Mulder ends up in a mental ward strapped to a bed. Scully walks in and Mulder says something like, "you had to have seen this coming". They could have taken Ginsburg in a couple of directions given the character's wackiness; he could have remained the quirky, funny, outsider, or he could have taken a darker turn. Ginsburg went down that dark road.Did Ginsberg's breakdown seem to come out of left field to anyone but me? I mean, I know he's supposed to be quirky--and that the last few episodes have made it clear that he doesn't like the computer--but I don't recall seeing any prior foreshadowing of actually mental illness.
http://www.vulture.com/2014/05/mad-men-ginsberg-was-always-struggling-nipple-box.html
Megan is moving faster and more deeply into the lifestyle that led to the demise of so many celebrties and wanna be's. She seems to be getting closer and closer to the fire.
When Ginsberg sees Lou and Jim talking in the computer room, I was reminded of the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where HAL lip reads Frank Poole and Dave Bowman talking in the pod.
This show paralleling real life events, I much doubt that Megan will be murdered Manson style. How can they realistically play that out with the Manson trial happening that summer?
And isn't the project they're working on for Chevy a Vega? Vega ended up being a massive money loser for its parent company.
When Ginsberg sees Lou and Jim talking in the computer room, I was reminded of the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where HAL lip reads Frank Poole and Dave Bowman talking in the pod.
Yeah, that was a very direct reference. Possibly the most direct 2001 reference of the past two episodes. And the past two episodes contained a lot of 2001 references.
I just realized how confusing that was. I meant to say, next week's season finale would be a set up for the next and final season heading into the series finale.^^ Wait, we've only seen the first half of the last season. The remaining episodes are coming later. Isn't that what they announced?
Btw, am I the only one who thinks Don's current secretary is reminiscent of Lucy from Twin Peaks?
I found something sinister in that last short scene showing Pete's squeeze as well as Megan on the plane. Is there something there foreshadowing disaster or am I reading too much into it? The tagline for the midseason finale "it's all up in the air" suggests to me an air disaster. I'm not on the bandwagon who thinks the Megan character is being set up for an execution but... it was on my mind as the show ended last night. It would be especially eerie for Pete as his father was killed in a plane crash, too.
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