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Mad Men - Season 5 - Sundays on AMC

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I wish Netflix would get season 5 already. I've been waiting to watch it forever. Instant watch on DirectTV always just shows random episodes. I should probably buck up and order the box set, was really hoping the blu-ray would go on sale for black friday last year but it never did.
 
I thought that the terms of the Netflix deal is that the entire season would be available for streaming immediately after the final episode of the season aired.

Bonkers that we have to wait this long.
 
Season 6 promo pics:

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Awesome pictures. Can't wait for this. AMC has it on lock down for me. Walking Dead will end leading into this, This will end leading into the end of breaking bad.

So much good tv in a row.
 
I could have sworn betty was back to her original shape by the end of the last season, in any case shouldn't the promo pics indicate such?
 
I re-watched the first 4 seasons earlier this month, and Betty is really a great character - probably my favourite with Peggy and Ken. She goes through so much shit and she just doesn't know how to deal with it. She's basically locked away in the suburbs and Don comes home whenever he wants and shuts down any question she asks.
 
Fucking pumped!
I'm glad we don't have to wait years for it again.

I'm hoping to buy Season 5 (bluray) and rewatch it before season 6 starts.
Game of Thrones Season 3 will be on at the same time.
So much great TV!!
 
10 facts about season 6: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ew-weiner-shares-10-facts-about-season-6.html

Nothing really spoilery (it's Weiner, after all), but he does address some questions about people who will or won't be written off the show. I thought this was really interesting:

The final minutes of last season’s finale (“The Phantom”) contain incredibly important information about Season 6.

At the end of the season, a question is asked of Don, which is “Are you alone?” It’s a telling and loaded query, which is followed by Don entering a darkness as the credits roll. Weiner indicated that these final scenes—a sequence of interlocking scenes depicting Megan as “Beauty” at a commercial shoot, the partners gathered on the new floor of the offices, and Don alone in a bar—are significant.

“He had a pretty dark season,” said Weiner of Don. “He was trying to be happy…I wanted to see him in that domestic world and to take that marriage seriously and that was something we were interested in. What was the second marriage like? Was he going to do it right this time? That said, you have to assume that he’s right where he was at that moment, which is deliberately ambiguous and a bit of a cliffhanger: a man who had really tried on this coat, and really tried to live the fantasy of that relationship being the right relationship. Megan is filled with joy, she’s future-[facing], and she accepts him as he is. She definitely loves him, but she had her own will and that seemed to be hard on him. That told me a lot about Don.”

“So where is he going from there? I don’t know. Is he going to try to repair that relationship? Is going to move on from it? I can’t tell you. I would love for people to just watch the last 10 minutes of Season 5 right before Season 6 starts. I think you’ll have a really incredible experience as we get there.”
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giga said:
10 facts about season 6: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ew-weiner-shares-10-facts-about-season-6.html

Nothing really spoilery (it's Weiner, after all), but he does address some questions about people who will or won't be written off the show. I thought this was really interesting:
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Something I really enjoy about interviews with Weiner is that he seems to have such a keen awareness of of the audience's part in storytelling as conversation that I think is kind of rare. And it shows in his work.
 
Weiner, speaking to The Daily Beast yesterday, confirmed that Season 6 will most definitely be Mad Men’s penultimate season, with the show set to wrap after next season.

“I’m going to confirm that,” said Weiner, who added that having an end date helped shape the overall narrative of Season 6 quite a lot.

“I came in with my plan for the season,” he said. “I was like, ‘I want to save that for the last season, I want to save that; I want to wait on that’ and I was pulled aside by Maria and Andre Jacquemetton, my executive producers, who said, ‘Don’t do that. You’ve never done that before. Let’s just use all the story that we have and we’ll deal with it on the other side of it.’ It really helped. Because I don’t want to change—part of it is superstition and part of it is the only way I know how to do it.”

“I never had the guarantee of even one more season for the first few seasons I did the show. So I would just use all the story I had. And it’s a much better way to do it. It’s much better for the audience. It’s much more satisfying for us than going through some half-measure and wasting 13 episodes on a set-up. For what? For 13 more? I was told by my trusted co-workers that we should do the show the way we’ve always done it. And I think, as usual, I will probably be painted into a corner by the end of the season.”
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<3 <3 Matthew Weiner <3 <3
 
giga said:
10 facts about season 6: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ew-weiner-shares-10-facts-about-season-6.html

Nothing really spoilery (it's Weiner, after all), but he does address some questions about people who will or won't be written off the show. I thought this was really interesting:
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It was speculated that ultimately, Megan wasn't too different than Betty. The outbursts were a hint. And the dollhouse shot (the final 10 minutes) of Megan standing around as people flocked all around her during her photo shoot, making sure she looked absolutely perfect. The camera fading away made the set look like a little doll house, and her the doll inside of it.

Essentially showing her as Betty 2.0, if you will. So yes, to answer the question of "are you alone". Don most certainly is.
 
Steelyuhas said:
RIP

Nice to get a premiere date, and the two hour episode was great last year, I have high hopes again for this season. Game of Thrones and Mad Men airing on the same Sunday nights for the second year in a row. Too much good TV in one night, too much I say!
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Someone else from HaloGAF likes Mad Men? Great!

Really pumped for this season.
 
What happens to television when this (and Breaking Bad and Louie) is over?
Nothing that's come up recently that is quite on its level. Game of Thrones is close in its mastery but could never match it in experimentation. There's been an unbroken chain of absolute top-tier television since The Sopranos first premiered, I hope something will come through by next year.
 
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