ghostrunner wrote:
Also, I get the feeling reading online that people are expecting the show to wrap up somehow. I'm not sure if there's a term for it at the end of a show or movie, but "in media res" is the term used for starting in the middle of the action. So there's not a true beginning and as a viewer you just catch up to what's going on. I guess it would be the same term for the end. I see this season being and ending like all the other seasons.
Agree completely. It will no doubt end with suggestions of the future trajectory of the characters, but I'd be shocked if there's any "resolution" of their fates, a la Breaking Bad or Friday Night Lights' finales.
I'm not expecting Don Draper to go down in a hail of gunfire but I think it's reasonable to ask why we're spending the last seven episodes with the Calvet family and bisexual photographers.
Vidor wrote:I'm not expecting Don Draper to go down in a hail of gunfire but I think it's reasonable to ask why we're spending the last seven episodes with the Calvet family and bisexual photographers.
I think the show has always been a series of self-contained episodes with a little serialization, and varying degrees of time in between. They seem to just tell whatever stories they feel like telling. I think if it weren't the final season, nobody would think anything of it, so it leads me to think they're not feeling compelled to treat it like an ending.
For future posts, let's just throw the show title up before your comment. I don't even mind that spoilers are in this thread, I just want to avoid reading about shows accidently.
For example:
Game of Thrones
Melisandre is a stone-cold fox.
Sherlock
I hope there's less fan-service in the next season.
has always been a slow mover. It's one that I think you have to go ahead and live in it at its own pace on its own terms to enjoy. I don't know if I agree with the idea that Megan used Draper. She came out ahead only in the regard that after having to bug him for $500 he wrote her a million dollar check to get rid of the hassle of dealing with divorcing her, which could be read as much as Rich Guy Disposes Of Wives With Financial Payoff as much as Opportunist Young Beauty Fleeces Millionaire.
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33anda3rd wrote:Mad Men has always been a slow mover. It's one that I think you have to go ahead and live in it at its own pace on its own terms to enjoy. I don't know if I agree with the idea that Megan used Draper. She came out ahead only in the regard that after having to bug him for $500 he wrote her a million dollar check to get rid of the hassle of dealing with divorcing her, which could be read as much as Rich Guy Disposes Of Wives With Financial Payoff as much as Opportunist Young Beauty Fleeces Millionaire.
thrill wrote:
Erlich Bachman is quickly climbing the list of best tv characters.
The hardest I've laughed at a bit on TV or in a movie the last 5 years or so was when he slapped that child to the ground and threw his bike in the bushes. Not because hitting a kid is funny, but because it just completely upended my expectations of what that scene would be.
