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shadowkatMad Men was brilliant this year from start to finish, hardly a poor episode in the bunch. And the final episode reminded me a great deal of Luis Buneul's That Obscure Object of Desire for some reason, also a lot of 1940s and 1960s noir films. Jon Hamm literally could have stepped out of a 1940s noir film.
Art direction, music selection, lightening, and writing...poetry. And yes, that is Julia Ormand as Meghan's Mom.
Vincent Karthezier is an interesting actor. He plays characters that...should annoy me and do often creep me out, but are so incredibly compelling and oddly sympathetic and human.
I'd say its the writing, but no, I think it is the actor - he does something with his eyes that is hard to describe. He did as Connor too on Angel. And yes, I realize I'm in the minority of people that actually found Connor in S3-S4 Angel compelling, interesting, and one of the better characters in the series. So sue me, I found Connor in S4 and S3 Angel more interesting than Angel and everyone else. I think it was Karthezier. Almost convinced of it now. Amazing actor. Because as creepy and slimy as Pete Campbell is, he is also insanely sympathetic. I identified with his monologue about mid-life crisis. Which was partly writing and partly acting - which he did entirely with his eyes.
And I loved Julia Ormand's tete-a-tete with her daughter in French and English - about how her daughter is an ungrateful bitch chasing phantoms. True. Meghan wants things handed to her, doesn't really want to work for them. And she screwed over her friend to get a part, and used her husband to do it. Her mother's best line? "She's like many who have the artistic temperament but no real artistic talent to show for it."
I'd forgotten that Don's brother, Adam, also hung himself when Don didn't help him. Lane's death brings back Adam's ghost. And now, Don is haunted. The series ended darkly ....how does Don respond when the girl at the bar asks if he is alone? All season long, women have been attempting to pick Don Draper up at bars, or go home with him, and he has said no.
Here...you wonder, if he may say yes. I'm thinking he will. He no longer cares. He leaves Meghan behind in the bright lights of the commercial...Meghan who was born to be in commercials. And walks through the shadows.
Peggy reappeared and I rather liked her appearances...where she continues to push against the glass ceiling, but we have that cynical edge...at what price. And is it truly worth it?
She is after all doing a Virigina Slims Cigarette account.
Art direction, music selection, lightening, and writing...poetry. And yes, that is Julia Ormand as Meghan's Mom.
Vincent Karthezier is an interesting actor. He plays characters that...should annoy me and do often creep me out, but are so incredibly compelling and oddly sympathetic and human.
I'd say its the writing, but no, I think it is the actor - he does something with his eyes that is hard to describe. He did as Connor too on Angel. And yes, I realize I'm in the minority of people that actually found Connor in S3-S4 Angel compelling, interesting, and one of the better characters in the series. So sue me, I found Connor in S4 and S3 Angel more interesting than Angel and everyone else. I think it was Karthezier. Almost convinced of it now. Amazing actor. Because as creepy and slimy as Pete Campbell is, he is also insanely sympathetic. I identified with his monologue about mid-life crisis. Which was partly writing and partly acting - which he did entirely with his eyes.
And I loved Julia Ormand's tete-a-tete with her daughter in French and English - about how her daughter is an ungrateful bitch chasing phantoms. True. Meghan wants things handed to her, doesn't really want to work for them. And she screwed over her friend to get a part, and used her husband to do it. Her mother's best line? "She's like many who have the artistic temperament but no real artistic talent to show for it."
I'd forgotten that Don's brother, Adam, also hung himself when Don didn't help him. Lane's death brings back Adam's ghost. And now, Don is haunted. The series ended darkly ....how does Don respond when the girl at the bar asks if he is alone? All season long, women have been attempting to pick Don Draper up at bars, or go home with him, and he has said no.
Here...you wonder, if he may say yes. I'm thinking he will. He no longer cares. He leaves Meghan behind in the bright lights of the commercial...Meghan who was born to be in commercials. And walks through the shadows.
Peggy reappeared and I rather liked her appearances...where she continues to push against the glass ceiling, but we have that cynical edge...at what price. And is it truly worth it?
She is after all doing a Virigina Slims Cigarette account.