Mad Men - the final count down

[Anonymous]

When Don's TV broke it felt like a little shout out to the ending of the Sopranos, which I can't help but consider when I think about when I wonder about the ending of Mad Men. Will it be a commentary on narrative (which I believe the Sopranos was)? And/or will it be a commentary on a consumer culture that always sells a false bill of goods (given Dons job)?

[Anonymous]

I don't see a happy ending for Don. The arc is going from nothing to everything and back again. The tagline at the end of the trailer for the last episode says, "Dont Miss the Boat." I predict a watery ending.

[Anonymous]

I think his kids are his last chance. They'll soon be motherless like he was.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am sick today and rewatching season 1. I had to laugh because the only reason Betty goes to the psychiatrist is because after she runs her car up on a lawn (that didn't phase Don) she keeps fixating on how bad it COULD have been. She's talking to Don and she says "Not that I could have killed the kids but what if it was worse, and Sally lived, and had a disfiguring scar? Bobby would be okay, he's a boy, but Sally would have a life of misery and loneliness." That Birdie! Vanity is thy name.

Didn't she see the psychiatrist after she'd shot the pigeons owned by the next door neighbor? Sally called them "doggies" or something, the neighbor shouted at the kids and Betty came out with a cigarette hanging from her mouth and shot the lot of them. I loved that scene.

She probably visited him then but she starts seeing him in episode 2 after her hands act funny while driving and doctors say there's nothing wrong with her but nerves.

Oh my goodness I had forgotten about the hands. I wonder if that was an early symptom of the cancer. i remember my grandmother had numbness in her hands long before her diagnosis.

I want to say no because when she had the thyroid scare she was clearly cancer free so it came rather suddenly and didn't exist in her back in 1960. But so many things in hindsight seem like signs Betty was going to die young.

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Anonymous wrote:I am sick today and rewatching season 1. I had to laugh because the only reason Betty goes to the psychiatrist is because after she runs her car up on a lawn (that didn't phase Don) she keeps fixating on how bad it COULD have been. She's talking to Don and she says "Not that I could have killed the kids but what if it was worse, and Sally lived, and had a disfiguring scar? Bobby would be okay, he's a boy, but Sally would have a life of misery and loneliness." That Birdie! Vanity is thy name.

Didn't she see the psychiatrist after she'd shot the pigeons owned by the next door neighbor? Sally called them "doggies" or something, the neighbor shouted at the kids and Betty came out with a cigarette hanging from her mouth and shot the lot of them. I loved that scene.

She probably visited him then but she starts seeing him in episode 2 after her hands act funny while driving and doctors say there's nothing wrong with her but nerves.

Oh my goodness I had forgotten about the hands. I wonder if that was an early symptom of the cancer. i remember my grandmother had numbness in her hands long before her diagnosis.

I want to say no because when she had the thyroid scare she was clearly cancer free so it came rather suddenly and didn't exist in her back in 1960. But so many things in hindsight seem like signs Betty was going to die young.

How was she clearly cancer free when they checked her thyroid? They only checked her thyroid they did not run blood tests for specific cancers - nor did they generally, in those years do that procedure.