I’m not one to waste my time writing episode recaps, but today everyone is talking about last night’s finale of Season 4 of “Mad Men,” which I’d sum up by furrowing my brow in confusion. As the A.V. Club stated in its recap:
Now that we’ve seen the big picture, [Season 4] almost seems designed to thwart expectations… It’s as if [showrunner] Matthew Weiner knows every rule of creating tense, dramatic story arcs and then willfully ignores them.
I won’t sully your Monday with spoilers, but you can check out solid recaps at the A.V. Club and New York Magazine. Feel free to talk about all the spoiler-y plot developments in the comments. Like CAN YOU BELIEVE DON DRAPER IS ACTUALLY GAY?!?!?! Ha ha, no, I’m just kidding. OR AM I?
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I’ve never watched this show but I want to know does Christina Hendricks show her tits in the finale or not?
Draper done lost his cotdamn mind. I feel like however this series ends, it’s gonna be on a pathetic and unhappy note. Dr. Miller seemed like there was hope for the dude to actually develop a genuine relationship . . but like, what fun would that be?
Also, I hope Betty cops to her pedophiliac tendencies at some point next season. That lady gots prollems.
DON DRAPER HUGE PENIS MEGA SENSITIVE WILL CUDDLE LOVES KIDS WANTS TO HEAR YOUR PROBLEMS AND BUY SHOES WITH YOU
that’ll bring in the female page views
OK the last 20 min or so of the episode felt like some sort of dream sequence and I kept waiting for someone to wake up, but then I realized that they were adding information from everyone so it couldn’t be just once person’s dream. Every little thing went impossibly smooth. Worst episode of Mad Men ever.
Betty Draper: Bitchosaurus
I had the sick feeling that baby Gene was going to fall from the hotel window.
Instead something worse happened.
I trust Mad Men’s writers, so I am willing to see where this goes. Still, it didn’t stop me being confused. Fun hour though.
Poor Betty at the end, doing herself up for Don only to get punched in the gut with his news. Then again she was a bitch to Carla so maybe she got what she deserved.
I thought for sure that after speaking with Don, Betty was going to get killed in a car accident…or at least get paralyzed by a blindside helmet-to-helmet hit from #92 Glenn Weirdkid.
@Aeyo’s Cot – I thought one of the kids was going to drown in the pool.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who watched this and thought WTF.
No matter what happens, by the end of the Mad Men episode, I’m always thinking, “Stupid, lucky Don fucking Draper!” He’s like the asshole you knew growing up that, no matter what shitty thing happened to him, he always found a way to rise to the top and come out smelling like a rose. And you had no choice but to respect him for it.
Drapers impulsiveness and short-term thinking seemed to highlight this season. The scene from the You Sunk My Blankenship episode (at least thats what I’m calling it)where Sally runs into Megan’s arms and not Faye’s or anyone else was probably a good indicator that Don would see Megan in this light eventually. She also happens to be a hot young piece, so acting on impulse, like he has for better or worse most of the season, he asks her to marry him… because he’s fucking Don Draper and he can.
Anyway- I didn’t love it as a finale but I’m surprised people are so fired up about this episode.
Additionally- the actress who plays Megan has magnificent breasts which can be seen in all their glory when she lez’s out in the movie Lost and Delirious. Just sayin’.
/goes back to filling out sex offender registration forms.
@freedomchipmunk
take away the respect part, annd it sounds like you’re talking about vinny chase
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“Additionally- the actress who plays Megan has magnificent breasts which can be seen in all their glory when she lez’s out in the movie Lost and Delirious. Just sayin’.”
And Hot Tub Time Machine.
I thought Roger was going to jump out of a window in the finale. Roger is going through an existential crisis, Joanie closed the book on him, and he seems pretty useless at SCDP now. Plus John Slattery seems to be moving behind the camera.
But the world needs Roger Sterling and his quips.
@Lenny- thats right, forgot about hot tub time machine. I should also mention that the other party in the lesbian scenes from Lost and Delirous is Piper Parebo.
Totally agree on the Sterling quips- the show, and my life, need them.
The big game-changing twist to this finale was that there was no big game changing twist. It was a handfull of smaller things that add up to some new dynamics.
Was I the only one who felt like there was a Don/Betty kiss incoming towards the end?
“The big game-changing twist to this finale was that there was no big game changing twist.”
Carla didn’t get a letter of recommendation.
I dunno why, but every time I see a picture of Matthew Weiner, or hear him talk, I want to punch him. I love the show, but I really want to smack the stupid smile he always makes off his face.
Also, how about that RUBICON finale? Anyone? Hello? Ah screw you guys.
I realized last night that Betty is like my crazy ex girlfriend, also Rubicon was much more interesting the past couple weeks
Maybe Megan will finally have dental insurance under Don’s plan and will get her grill fixed.
I love that I haven’t watched the episode, yet, and reading all these comments haven’t spoiled anything. I have no clue what is going to happen when I get home tonight.
Also, Matt Long (Joey Baird) Jessica Paré (Megan) & John Slattery were all in “Jack&Bobby” together.
megan is the centerfold in the big book of british smiles.
So long DENTAL PLAN!
I loved the episode since it sets up a whole new realm of conflicts next year. I’m pretty sure Peggy was most pissed because she had to work her ass off over the years to a) finally get on good terms with Don and earn his respect, b) get her own authority in the office and c) find a happy relationship, whereas Megan just got put on the fast track to all those things in a couple of months. Now i bet Megan becomes a copy writer and she turns out to be equally as efficient as Peggy (she does seem surprisingly smart and conniving after all), creating a nice little rivalry out of the situation.
I also see them writing Betty off the show. She’s just comically horrible now and there doesn’t appear to be be any signs of hope for redeeming her character in the near future. Time to OD on pills in the first episode…
@La Schmoove Well, he is Queens Boulevard.
@MAX re: rubicon finale… I came… three times… and nobody was even close to my girlparts… Rubicon was magnificent. MagFUCKINGnificent.
I thought the “i got you babe” song at the end was a tribute to “Groundhog Day”, cause that’s what every woman is to Don… the same thing over and over and over