Again?
Watched the Mad Men season finale with a friend next door and enjoyed it, though I did find myself wanting. There were, of course, some wonderful lines (mostly attributed to Roger), but the flashbacks I found wholly unnecessary and lazy (a gripe I've had all season) and there were a few scenes near the end of the ep that struck me as redundant. All the while, however, I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd seen this whole "I'm starting my own agency" somewhere before (oh, wait. Entourage), and thus had difficulty dissociating my impressions of that from the situation plaguing Draper and co.)
Of course, there'll be innumerable blog entries and internet sqwaking trying to dissect every camera angle of the episode and trying to find the hidden significance behind every syllable. But before they wake up, I just wanted to say that as an example of people moving beyond a tragedy that has/had irrevocably changed their lives and picking up the pieces then trying as best they can to put them back together, Mad Men is damned fine storytelling.
Of course, there'll be innumerable blog entries and internet sqwaking trying to dissect every camera angle of the episode and trying to find the hidden significance behind every syllable. But before they wake up, I just wanted to say that as an example of people moving beyond a tragedy that has/had irrevocably changed their lives and picking up the pieces then trying as best they can to put them back together, Mad Men is damned fine storytelling.