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TV: The League Of Anarchy Is A Bunch Of Justified Mad Men

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huskyfan said:
Stan is always right and Stan says Don will be back. he comes back to McCann Erickson, makes the coke commercial, at peace at last, goes on to produce the unending string of successful coke ads. everyone else lives happily ever after, although with the trials and tribulations they have encountered through the last 10 years. because life really is a carousel.
the end. great show.
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Don comes back to McCann-Erickson and makes the Coke ad. He continues to be plagued by his demons and doubts, is never truly happy despite his professional success, and is unable to metabolize any of the things he's experienced in order to grow as a person. He has many more ups and down, and he dies alone.

Joanie is sucked into the world of commerce and perpetually proving something, and becomes the patron saint of women entering the workforce, breaking down gender roles, and gains tremendous energy and respect for it. Whether or not she would have been happier comes down to whether she is the kind of person who recognizes there is more to life than ambition and work. Nothing we have seen of Joanie suggests she is more than a Model Worker, hence she remains a mostly satisfied machine albeit at a much higher pay grade -- possibly a victim of her time period, but likely as happy as she could ever be.

Peggy and Stan don't last. Peggy is too selfish and Stan is too weak to be an equal partner.

Roger dies happily in bed with a joke on his lips.
 
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I'd agree with pretty much all of that except Peggy and Stan. I think they make it, even if only because Peggy has always been the avatar for Matthew Weiner. That means Peggy and Stan likely live happily ever after and raise a very creepy child together.
 
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Mad Men:
Solid ending. A bit of closure, but life still went on. Reminded me of the Cheers finale, in that manner. Glad to see that Joan apparently got what she always wanted. I almost want a spin-off with Peggy, as she is now fully transformed into Don V.2, but I think that would take away from this show.

Well done, Mad Men, well done.

I think Don came up with the Coke idea, but he didn't want to return and deal with all the hassle of him returning/big company/etc, so he passed it along to Peggy, and she turned in the idea as her own. The whole mentor thing and all.
 
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give me a year or two and I will be howling for a sequel. for now I can watch the whole thing over again. kids watched several seasons with us, over again and really enjoyed it. said they picked up things they hadn't noticed before.
 
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Veep has been great this season. And I just figured out that's Lumbergh.
 
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I stopped Veep after Season 1...I just didnt find it funny or engaging.

The Flash finale was epic :)
 
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huskyfan said:
give me a year or two and I will be howling for a sequel. for now I can watch the whole thing over again. kids watched several seasons with us, over again and really enjoyed it. said they picked up things they hadn't noticed before.
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I picked up a lot re-watching SOA, Breaking Bad, and Brotherhood. Haven't re-watched yet, but I do remember quite a few things when thinking back for Justified. I doubt I'll buy Mad Men, but am thinking about buying Justified in the future.
 
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Handyman said:
I stopped Veep after Season 1...I just didnt find it funny or engaging.
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I'm shocked it's lasted. If you've worked in government it's the smartest and funniest show on TV, but it's basically a thousand inside jokes per episode and if you're not inside then what's the point? It would be like watching MST3K if you'd never seen a movie.
 
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Kepler said:
I'm shocked it's lasted. If you've worked in government it's the smartest and funniest show on TV, but it's basically a thousand inside jokes per episode and if you're not inside then what's the point? It would be like watching MST3K if you'd never seen a movie.
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My wife and I just started watching it on HBO GO. We're already well into season 2, and it is hilarious. Wish we would have caught on earlier. I'm not "in government" so there are probably some inside jokes that fly over my head, but I still find it very funny.
 
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Finally saw the finale of Mad Men. I'm going to miss Roger, every other line out of him was a joke and not a single one fell flat for the entire series.

Went back and watched scenes from the pilot. Woah, did Hamm's voice get deeper. He sounds like Tobey Maguire in the first season.

All in all, a great show. I felt it got a little stale and repetitive during a couple of the middle seasons, but it certainly deserved more viewers than it got.

Also, I ended up watching most of this show in binges, so I may have missed something, but was there something early where Harry was a giant dick? If I remember correctly he basically put together the media department early in the series to save his job because he had nothing else, yet the series just made him more and more of a jerk over the course of the series, with no real explanation for it.
 
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Loved the Mad Men finale. I thought Season 5 was the worst overall, even though it had one of the best scenes in the entire show (Don and Joan flirting at the bar after she is served papers).
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
Finally saw the finale of Mad Men. I'm going to miss Roger, every other line out of him was a joke and not a single one fell flat for the entire series.

Went back and watched scenes from the pilot. Woah, did Hamm's voice get deeper. He sounds like Tobey Maguire in the first season.

All in all, a great show. I felt it got a little stale and repetitive during a couple of the middle seasons, but it certainly deserved more viewers than it got.

Also, I ended up watching most of this show in binges, so I may have missed something, but was there something early where Harry was a giant dick? If I remember correctly he basically put together the media department early in the series to save his job because he had nothing else, yet the series just made him more and more of a jerk over the course of the series, with no real explanation for it.
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Harry started thinking he was an equal to the partners, more or less, which obviously rubbed the partners' egos the wrong way. They put him in his place (sometimes not-so-subtly) so Harry got a HUGE chip on his shoulder, and that affected his behavior.
 
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Haven't watched Letterman in probably 20 years.

Watching tonight.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Haven't watched Letterman in probably 20 years.

Watching tonight.
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Haven't watched Letterman (or any late show since Carson, and even then it was sporadic)

Won't start tonight.
 
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Letterman became my go to when Ferguson retired. Not sure I'll be able to stomach any of the replacements unless colbert is good.

Fallon is awful. Kimmel can be good. And corden (?) is weird. He has some good bits but not worth going out of my way to watch.
 
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Late Night was in my regular rotation through high school and into college (83ish - 92ish).

I was done with it about the time he moved to this new show.


Watching tonight coz.
 
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I haven't watched letterman since college probably? I'm watching tonight. I never really cared for anyone in the early slot.
 
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It's a little bizarre for me coz in my mind's eye, he's still the guy in these old clips and then they show him now...


I've literally not watched in 20 years, so it's a little jarring seeing all of these guys older (including the band as it appears that the bass player and the drummer are the original ones).
 
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So between Honey Boo Boo and The Duggars, does TLC stand for "Touching Little Children"?
 
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