I figured out that Don returned to McAnn Erickson and created the Coke ad... that worked for me, perfectly. It's actually amongst my favorite bits in the episode. I thought that was hilarious. Don Draper's brilliance as a creative director was being able to twist those deep meaningful emotional moments into an ad. To turn an advertisement into a beautiful piece of art. The con artist as ad man, although as Mad Men points out they are the same. It's that complexity - that made Mad Men interesting. The famous Coke Ad is revolutionary in a way - because it has all these people of different races, classes, etc standing on a hill singing about piece and tranquility, hope, love, etc...but it's selling coke, consumerism, competition.
Reminds me of another AD for Android...with different species of animals playing and loving each other, to the song Robin Hood and Little John. Great ad, selling loving those who are different from you, but at the same time selling a product. That's advertising - the whole season, various characters ask if there is any point to advertising? Is this pointless? Are they creating anything? Peggy tells Don she wants to create something - that's her dream. And he basically says -- it's pointless, and shits on it. Joan wants to create a business, do advertising, she loves it -- Richard tells her it's pointless and she should just play with him. Don leaves the ad game for a bit...because it feels hollow to him, then somehow in the final four episodes, he realizes that everyone feels that way to some extent. Hunting something more. Pete realizes it -- how destructive that can be, needing something looking for something more, not grateful for what he has. So he wisely decides to become a big fish in a smaller pond, and take Judy and his family with him. In Witchita, he can be wealthy, important, and successful, instead of invisible in New York.
Like last season, the last four episodes worked for me. The beginning ones..fell flat. And in this season, like last one, my favorite episodes were the last two. Mad Men is odd that way - the first few episodes drag, and it picks up as it goes.
What didn't work for me...was the long trudge to that ending. It was uneven, I think. But to be fair, all television shows are uneven, it's the nature of television.
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I figured out that Don returned to McAnn Erickson and created the Coke ad...
that worked for me, perfectly. It's actually amongst my favorite bits in the episode. I thought that was hilarious. Don Draper's brilliance as a creative director was being able to twist those deep meaningful emotional moments into an ad. To turn an advertisement into a beautiful piece of art. The con artist as ad man, although as Mad Men points out they are the same. It's that complexity - that made Mad Men interesting. The famous Coke Ad is revolutionary in a way - because it has all these people of different races, classes, etc standing on a hill singing about piece and tranquility, hope, love, etc...but it's selling coke, consumerism, competition.
Reminds me of another AD for Android...with different species of animals playing and loving each other, to the song Robin Hood and Little John. Great ad, selling loving those who are different from you, but at the same time selling a product.
That's advertising - the whole season, various characters ask if there is any point to advertising? Is this pointless? Are they creating anything? Peggy tells Don she wants to create something - that's her dream. And he basically says -- it's pointless, and shits on it. Joan wants to create a business, do advertising, she loves it -- Richard tells her it's pointless and she should just play with him. Don leaves the ad game for a bit...because it feels hollow to him, then somehow in the final four episodes, he realizes that everyone feels that way to some extent. Hunting something more. Pete realizes it -- how destructive that can be, needing something looking for something more, not grateful for what he has. So he wisely decides to become a big fish in a smaller pond, and take Judy and his family with him. In Witchita, he can be wealthy, important, and successful, instead of invisible in New York.
Like last season, the last four episodes worked for me. The beginning ones..fell flat.
And in this season, like last one, my favorite episodes were the last two. Mad Men is odd that way - the first few episodes drag, and it picks up as it goes.
What didn't work for me...was the long trudge to that ending. It was uneven, I think.
But to be fair, all television shows are uneven, it's the nature of television.