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The Pumpfaker
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Hell of a prediction.
Damn that's good. Didn't see it before now. I expected to see him in a suit in a room of folks at the end after I heard that jingle start.
Hell of a prediction.
Who was the second name in Joan's partnership?
Weiner nailed it; great ending.
I think I like the end. And I think the reason why I like it was because Don finally seemed ok with himself. But it is totally cynical for him to use his experience to sell soda.
I read some reviews last night because Alan Sepinwall was on vacation and didn't post his review until this afternoon. His is easily the best. I especially liked this.
The "Mad Men" opening credits present a silhouette of Don in his office before the wall, the floors and all the other accoutrements are stripped away, sending him falling through the air and past all these symbols of his career in advertising. The sequence ends, though, with him seated safely and confidently in a chair, still clad in his power suit, a cigarette still dangling from his finger. He loses everything, and falls, yet winds up in seemingly the same place as before. I don't expect or require Weiner to show extreme fidelity to that piece of animation, but given how this season has played out, I wonder if this all ends with Don living some new version of his life that's only slightly different from the one he walked away from, or if he turns into someone very much apart from that guy in the suit. A few years ago, I might have assumed that Don would always be Don. Lately, though, "Mad Men" has been suggesting hope for something else.
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