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“Stay open to that,” says Anna Draper’s niece Stephanie in the “Person to Person” section of Don when she checks for a North California Proto-New Age facility. “Maybe you’re feeling better.”
She answers Don’s reflexive snow mobilization on the subject of the classes: “Psychotechnics,” “Anxiety and Tension Control,” “Divorce: A Creative Experience.” She’s right to fight Don’s soul, because those final two themes, perhaps all three, sound like a fellow like Don could do some good. When we come to Don’s final close-up — a slow dumb on his meditative face as he smiles, caught in a bell’s sound — he seems to be on his way to embrace it. The possibilities are available to him.
I began my final review with this seemingly little scene between Stephanie and Don because I read Mad Men’s descriptions in recent minutes — meditation followed by a Coke ad — as a “cynical,” confirming that all Don really learned during season 7 and especially at the retreat was hugging and getting his job back.
Which Mad Men character are you?
More emphatically I couldn’t disagree. Out of maudlin, I believe optimism is sincere. This description fits the entire episode. The Coke Ad, which insists that the transitory good fortune of cola is the real thing, is a little bit underestimated since it is sardonic and hilarious. The counterculture cooperation was a topic throughout the exhibition, from the Beatniks through the Hippies to beyond. Also, you will find out which Mad Men character are you in this quiz.
Roger Sterling said “if you had to choose a dying spot, it would be in the middle of a pitch,” and McCann’s CEO, Jim Hobart, called this firm “promoting the celestial world.” “The previously on” assembly was preceded by “lost Horizon.” These were two powerful bits of deadly imagery and the episode itself had not yet begun. Once it went through, some sillier fan forecasts of what would happen in the last episodes were tamed and neutralized.
Don Draper, Pete Campbell, or any character that makes a sequence of credit more than figurative, leaping out of the office windows (see this lingering shot of don noting the McCann office windows did not open); Don reinventing Roger, with another, this-time, fatal heart attack (“I have a heart condition, you know!” warned Peggy when she snuck on him at the old SC&P office) (the shot of the jet behind the Empire State Building). But while no one began the moment, a sense of purpose was reminiscent of that incident. And it was more purgatory or infernal than celestial: The mind, not the bodily, was in danger.
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The hour of the Holy Horizon, after the James Hilton book by the writers of Semi Chellas and Matthew Weiner. Lead by Phil Abraham. The titular city-state is a utopia in the Himalayas that enables people to live in peace forever. The show refers to it over and over (“The Jet Set”). But always in its tune with awe for a state of being which can only be ephemeral, if at all. The show has addressed it again and more. Sterling, Cooper & Partners has changed themselves, as its major characters have, including changing names, locations, and management numerous times during the program (this covers 11 and a half years by calendar) (as if the two are really separable).
Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is the star adman of Sterling Cooper, the respected publicity agency. He catches the train every morning from his nice home in Ossining… Except for the nights in which he claims to enjoy the many women’s liaisons in the city.
The Sterling Cooper offices have white male privilege and women are restricted exclusively to secretarial positions. Junior manager Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) and head honchos Bert Cooper (Robert Morse) and Roger Sterling (John Slattery) have managed the office. However, the stern office manager Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks) understands how to make her presence visible.
Lifelong Brooklyn native Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss), fresh out of secretarial school. Finds a position as a secretary of Don’s and, influenced by the ethos of the general office, makes the error of coming upon him. He is tired and never tries again. But only one night before his marriage to Trudy (Alison Brie), Pete flies with him. This ends in an unforeseen pregnancy and an unwanted child.
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