TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[JL21]

I thought the Peggy thing was completely stupid.

[thrill]

I thought the Peggy thing was completely stupid.

I didn't. That [expletive] happens all the time. People who don't have anything going on outside of their jobs end up getting together. It was cheesy and fan servicey but it was realistic.

[Freed Roger]

Roger Sterling stayed true to form throughout.

[ghostrunner]

It seemed to me as though Stan was on the verge of telling her many times before, so I bought it. Liked that she sort of talked herself into agreeing. That it happened in the finale makes it seem a little rushed, but I thought it was fine. Maybe could have done without the rom-commy kiss that followed and the staginess of it, but no big deal.

[heyzeus]

I love the ending because I can totally see Don winding up one of those '80s yuppies who does poweryoga and takes up jogging in order to remain a competitive, vital "young" executive.

[Freed Roger]

I love the ending because I can totally see Don winding up one of those '80s yuppies who does poweryoga and takes up jogging in order to remain a competitive, vital "young" executive.

Throughout the series, Weiner had Don in situations observing/sampling with bemusement many cultural trends such as - beatniks, hippies, to Megan's crowd in LA, to having a trendy psycho-babble book in his hand -but he'd always slap it away and return to stiff form.

The Ending does seem to fit - that when Don hit rock bottom he'd finally cave to something like that. New Age movement was big then. Though his commercializing off it, implies Don stays Don.

[Jocephus]

[JL21]

I thought the Peggy thing was completely stupid.

I didn't. That [expletive] happens all the time. People who don't have anything going on outside of their jobs end up getting together. It was cheesy and fan servicey but it was realistic.

It's not so much THAT it happened as it was the WAY it happened. It was totally out of left field, an undeserved moment, never prefaced, shoehorned into what was supposed to be the show's best moments.

[33anda3rd]

I didn't find it out of left field. They have had maybe the best/strongest platonic relationship of any two characters on the show, and there have been a few blatant nods to Stan's feelings toward Peggy in the past.

Lots of folks on the internet this morning are awful certain that Don wrote the Coke ad, noting visual cues between Stephanie and a girl in the ad and a dozen others. But there's also Don telling Stephanie he's retired. And there's Don telling Peggy he wanted to say goodbye, in a convo that weirdly ends with him, after saying 'goodbye', saying 'I'll see you soon.' So is the implication in the Don Wrote Coke crowd that Don woke up at the commune, realized everything he had done wrong, and found a way to marry both a righting-of-his-ways with a return to McCann?

[Freed Roger]

Lots of folks on the internet this morning are awful certain that Don wrote the Coke ad, noting visual cues between Stephanie and a girl in the ad and a dozen others. But there's also Don telling Stephanie he's retired. And there's Don telling Peggy he wanted to say goodbye, in a convo that weirdly ends with him, after saying 'goodbye', saying 'I'll see you soon.' So is the implication in the Don Wrote Coke crowd that Don woke up at the commune, realized everything he had done wrong, and found a way to marry both a righting-of-his-ways with a return to McCann?

Rizzo, used as the show's truthsayer -said Don always does this and would be back.
There's loads of show precedence of Don having a fallout, then using some means within current culture to reinvent himself -while staying the same flawed guy. Dick Whitfield. The anti-smoking Don that still smoked. The happily-remarried-to-Megan Don that still fooled around. I can't imagine that cueing to the coke ad could be anything but a final spin on this.