Mad Men Season 6 [** Spoilers **]

Richard Dower

Season 6 of Mad Men - April 7th at 9 PM, AMC.

Thargor

Oh yes

tunguska

Oh yes indeed..........

efb

Woohoo!

Barna77

Oh yes

Mad Men and Game of Thrones = busy tv Mondays

LadyBetty

Can't wait to see the new series - a 2 hour opening episode !

"The ’60s Madison Avenue drama will begin with a two-hour premiere, written by series creator Matthew Weiner and directed by executive producer Scott Hornbacher, and, these photos are the first time black and white has been used for the show's official promotional shots."

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Barna77

^^ I assume Betty got her "eating problem" under control...

Dave!

What am I supposed to do until April?

Thargor

Im watching Season 1 again, tbh Id forgotten half of it, its brilliant!

irish son

Is there any word on how many seasons theres gonna be?

LadyBetty

Season 6 is apparently the penultimate season, so just one more to look forward to after this

JP Liz V1

Time for a new thread for Season 6 perhaps

Mr E

Time indeed. Posts split from S5 thread....

McGrath5

I only finished seaon 5 last night.

Incredible stuff, the final scene was just perfect, roll on season 6!

Dave!

I'm on season 5 again after having rewatched the whole show in the last few months Love it

tunguska

Perfect Choice wrote: »

I only finished seaon 5 last night.

Incredible stuff, the final scene was just perfect, roll on season 6!

Agreed. One of the best endings to any series I can remember.
Does anyone know what the song playing over that scene was (i.e. don teaching kid to drive).

Edit: Actually just remembered that wasnt the end of season, was previous weeks episode. The one where layne kills himself, heavy stuff. But it finishes in a beautiful way with this......


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IUyhEr8dFk

The name of the song is "Butchie'e tune" by the lovin' spoonful

efb

Technocentral

Roll on S6 and even more appearances from the lovely Jessica Paré

Tipsy McSwagger

^^^^^^^^^
Nearly ruined last season for me.

Thargor

Technocentral wrote: »

Roll on S6 and even more appearances from the lovely Jessica Paré

I was just about to say thats really not how the IMG tags work but then I saw your second post

JP Liz V1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvrA2KM3pnA

Richard Dower

Is Chris Helmsworth baby daddy of January Jones?....hmmm.

Technocentral

S5 being added to Netflix US on March 25th.

ScrubsfanChris

Anyone following Mad Men on facebook, just noticed they are counting down the days until the premier by teaching you how to make a different cocktail every day. Only this show

LadyBetty

Yep I'm following them on Facebook, it's whetting the appetite for season 6 alright!!

JP Liz V1

Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser are engaged

Agent Smith

Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has revealed that season six will move forward in time to the late 1960s.

The writer told TV Guide that when the show returns on April 7, the action will pick up sometime after season five's 1967-set finale.



"[Jumping ahead in time] at this point has been such a great story engine for the show," Weiner teased. "I love writing that first episode as if the audience knows everything that has happened, and watching them piece it in their head. It's an elliptical experience."

He went on to disclose that Mad Men's version of the counter-culture late 1960s will differ from most fictionalised portrayals of the time.

"I didn't know the show would go on this long," Weiner explained. "And this part of the '60s, I've always been fighting an image of the period that has been created by books and movies.


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"It's the baby boomers' childhood. There is a propaganda that goes along with the whole era."

He continued: "I don't want the show to be a history lesson. The job of the show is to show how these events affect our characters.

"Intellectually it's been very interesting to see how history really does interact with our daily life. What world events pierce their way into our anxieties."




Weiner also confirmed that the entire Mad Men cast aside from Jared Harris will be back, quashing rumours of departures for Elisabeth Moss and January Jones.

It was reported late last year that Mad Men's season six premiere will feature scenes of Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and wife Megan Draper (Jessica Paré) on holiday in Hawaii.

AMC airs Mad Men's season opener on Sunday, April 7 at 9/8c.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s157/mad-men/news/a453230/mad-men-creator-confirms-time-jump-full-cast-return-for-new-season.html

Starts this Sunday with a 2 Hour Special!


I really wish they just killed Betty off. she's a horriable person and just depresses me.

Antar Bolaeisk

Back tomorrow night with a two hour opener, can't wait.

The Pontiac

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^
Nearly ruined last season for me.

I love Megan. Think she's a fine actress.

LadyBetty

Looks like it's not on Sky Atlantic until Weds night 10pm, saw the trailer earlier today.

Missyelliot2

Can't wait for this! Yahooooooooo

Cosmic Maybe

Any idea when RTE are going to show the new series? I really hope they don't leave it as long as they did with the last one

ScrubsfanChris

Its on SKY Atlantic so I would assume they have the Irish rights. Maybe some time before its on RTE.

Cosmic Maybe

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Its on SKY Atlantic so I would assume they have the Irish rights. Maybe some time before its on RTE.

I don't know - the last series was on both albeit it was on Sky in the spring but not on RTE until the autumn. Agh! I really hope they have the Irish rights and that they show it soon - I'm having serious withdrawal symptoms

Thargor

Mad Men is on the cover of this weeks RTE Guide, I assumed that meant RTE was going to have it when I saw it in a shop if anyone wants to check it. Even if it was starting this week I wouldnt be able to wait though. Need it in 720p no ad breaks.

The Pontiac

Just watched the season premiere.

Without question the most boring episode I've watched to date. A major disappointment.

camz09

The Pontiac wrote: »

Just watched the season premiere.

Without question the most boring episode I've watched to date. A major disappointment.

Yeah,was kinda disappointed too. Just odd and seemingly disjointed. Hope it picks up next week.

Technocentral

The full Season 6 premiere is available on the AMC website for a limited time, its fairly low quality but watchable if you can't wait for the broadcast over here:

http://www.amctv.com/mad-men/videos/season-6-premiere-mad-men

(DNS workaround needed)

Thargor

Technocentral wrote: »

(DNS workaround needed)

Why not just download it in whatever quality you want

The Pontiac

Thargor wrote: »

Why not just download it in whatever quality you want

I agree. Seems a lot less hassle than a "DNS workaround" for a poor quality stream too.

Surprised there isn't more discussion on the season premiere.

Technocentral

The Pontiac wrote: »

I agree. Seems a lot less hassle than a "DNS workaround" for a poor quality stream too.

Surprised there isn't more discussion on the season premiere.

Its zero hassle, finding and downloading programmes is much more hassle, btw I have downloaded it but haven't watched it yet, only one I could find has 10 minutes missing off the end.

efb

It's scene setting- I enjoyed it.

Thargor

Technocentral wrote: »

Its zero hassle, finding and downloading programmes is much more hassle, btw I have downloaded it but haven't watched it yet, only one I could find has 10 minutes missing off the end.

Ah come on, 2 or 3 clicks for obscure stuff nevermind a major like Mad Men, compared to setting up DNS/messing with IPs etc?

Antar Bolaeisk

Thought it was okay though I always find the season openers to be a bit jarring when they skip the intervening time and you have to play catchup with what's happening.

johnny_ultimate

I found the first thirty minutes a struggle - the editing seemed a bit confused with the chronology and stories jumping around without much rhyme or reason.

Improved from then onwards. Certainly not vintage Mad Men, but setting up potential conflicts and directions for the rest of the season. They seem to be making an effort to give Betty something to do and develop her character beyond 'evil incarnate', which is a long overdue move. Don's narrative - unsure where that's going to go, given the inevitable resignation he conceded to at the end of the last season. Last few scenes here suggested he's in a self-destructive rut he's going to actively try to get out of - hasn't really worked for him before :pac: The way all of the subplots were dealing with concerns of mortality and 'mother issues' was the kind of thematic interconnectedness others try but only Mad Men really gets away with.

Peggy's one-sided phone call with the prie... I mean pastor was a bizarre comic highlight.

It's a season opener (of season six, which is crazy - certainly getting to the point very few high-quality shows have made it past) so only so much that can be said. Not the strongest episode the show has produced by a longshot, but we'll see how the long game plays out.

Technocentral

Loved it, for me the best thing about Mad Men is the characters and their interaction not just specific big things happening like take overs etc or suicides etc, some great dialogue and situations like Don remembering his past life and you get the impression that Peggy knows she's in a second division place compared to Sterling Coopers..., I also love the way the late 60s counter culture is creeping in from the lads getting hairier to Sally's great line in the back of the car

I hate cops!

, roll on the rest, best drama/comedy on tv ever! BTW it must have been my net earlier but the version on the AMC site looks great now.

iguana

I spent the first 20 minutes or so assuming that Don was dying from a heart attack and we were witnessing another of his fever dreams. The scenes were shot/cut in a similar way to how Mad Men tends to do things when reality is not right, like Don's murderous dream and Roger's acid trip. I assumed that he was the one who had the heart attack and his brain was protecting him by making him think it was the doorman. But as the episode went on I figured I was wrong as it went on too long to be a false reality. However a few things make me wonder if I was right, like Don's random puking at the funeral despite seeming fine seconds before, the whole thing about being dead in Hawaii/heaven, the violin case like a coffin and Dr Rosen saying something about Don's purpose being to make people not have to face ugly realities. (Also Linda Cardinelli is not likely to have a college aged child so I'm just not buying her character.) I hope I'm wrong because dream sequences in general piss me off. A whole series of one would be a massive waste.

Dave!

Stan's beard is the highlight so far... Glorious!

Antar Bolaeisk

It was definitely weird to see Don staying the same with everyone else around him changing so much. Also, they've kept it as SCDP and there's meant to have been quite a time difference since the last season. I was expecting it to be changed a little.

irish son

I thought it was an ok episode, for an 90 minute episode it really flew bye.
What name is on Don's lighter, is it Draper or Whitman?

Dave!

irish son wrote: »

I thought it was an ok episode, for an 90 minute episode it really flew bye.
What name is on Don's lighter, is it Draper or Whitman?

We don't see Don's AFAIK, wasn't it the other army dude's lighter that we see? Had his name on it