Mad Men Final Episode, wah.
I’m so sad Mad Men finished its season, I started reading the blogs about it (did same with Lost). Spoilers after jump.
WTF- Peggy was pregnant???
This show has been amazing at looking at the lives of women during the late 50s-60s, the glass ceiling, depression, infidelity, boredom, body image, etc. The unwanted pregnancy combined with glass ceiling & body image, all of those things- wow. This show gets extra points for having multiple layers of meaning on any given scene. I watched the radio interview scene about three times to catch the nuances between her and the writer-guy. Is she teasing him for wanting to screw one of the applicants? Does he go along with her choice because it was her idea all along? Is he still pretending it’s his idea? Why didn’t he give her credit in the creative meeting? Is she bitter about not being pretty enough to be on TV? Etc. Some folks think the pregnancy thing jumped the shark, but to me it brought it all down to an earthier level. Posts on AMC’s blog about what it was like to be a young woman at that time, by women who lived through it. And good contrast in this episode, the passive & pretty wife starts manipulating Don & her shrink to get him to stop cheating.
I also think the title sequence is amazing.
This show is something of an enigma to me. It’s incredibly stylish, and engages me every time, but really I don’t know where it’s going — or for that matter, why it has any appeal at all in the first place. Go figure.
But AMEN re: the title sequence…
Comment by Supergenius — October 22, 2007 @ 2:42 pm