True Detective season 1

have 2 more episodes to go. spooky.

I used to love Parker Lewis Can't Lose back in the day yo, and i can't remember why either! If i f i recall its like Pete & Pete or My So Called Life style of mid 90s "im so meh its cool"?

Still. Watched "The Russian House" episode this weekend. Damn. Detective turns early Cold War spy. So very good.

I am going to regret finishing this series. It deserves to go on and on.

finished True Detective last night. jesus fuck that was some creepy creep shit.

I've got Season 1 of that up next in my Net queue, Rob.

it is very good, but HARSH harsh stuff...

New VEEPs don't seem to have the same bite. The profanity doesn't reach the poetry it once did. So I went back and watched a bunch of THICK OF ITs, which is such a brilliantly, beautifully abusive show.

Been really enjoying these last episodes of Mad Men. I'm not going to predict how it's going to end, I'm just enjoying the ride. Watching the new season of Game of Thrones, that's been solid, I just watched the first episode of Daredevil and that was enjoyable too.

read a interview with Capaldi, he was saying everyone always comes up to him now and asks him to do a Dr Who thing, but he rather they'd ask him to do a string of curses as Malcolm Tucker

Last days of Letterman.

It has been fun

On Monday, guests are Howard Stern, and Don Rickles. That will be FUNNY

Now that we've run through all of Foyle's War, we've decided to catch up on the last season of Mad Men. I'm underwhelmed by this season's opener but we'll see what happens.

The League of Gentlemen on youtube. Mark Gattis is great in all of his roles in that, and the comedy is not too dated, considering its 2000 vintage

It's one of the few tv programmes I quote on a regular basis. And saying it's 2000 vintage is just weird.

Mad Men. Will catch last night's ep on Amazon tonight. (We're off the cable grid.)

watched first daredevil on Netflix. Pretty good

Has anyone watched The Man in the High Castle?

nope. after mad men ends next week and i emotionally process that, i can move on to other stuff.

veep was fucking excellent last night. anna chlumsky deserves an emmy for that rant she goes on.

I have a couple of suggestions for what happens to Don. If I were writing the series, I'd craft Don's fate thus:

1, He's dumped off the bus somewhere in California. Dazed and tired from a couple of days without food, he wanders into an Army recruiting station, gets mistaken for the outgoing recruiting officer's replacement, and quickly finds himself back in uniform with a promotion, to captain, and in charge of a processing station for young men being shipped to Vietnam.

2. Or, and I think this might be the better idea... Don ends up somewhere on the West Coast, as far as you can go, where the only thing left is ocean. The ocean has been linked to death, for Don, in previous shows. He sees, or hears about, boys being flown from the town he's in (Seattle? Portland?) to Vietnam; their first stop is paradise, Michem's Hawaii, and their next, of course, is the war, Dante's Inferno. Both books were referenced in past shows. He next sees some kids protesting General Electric's part in manufacturing for the war; GE was a client at one time. Out of guilt or confusion, he tries to enlist, but he learns that he's past the age limit, too old. With no place to go, noone to turn to, he ends up in a mission, gets fed, cleaned up, given a bed. He asks how long he can stay. He gets told, "Depends. Can you help? Are you a clean-up man?" Don says he's only ever created a lot of messes. He's told, "Well, maybe here's your chance to learn how to clean them up." He gets handed a broom and told he'll get told what to do. "Told what to do?" "You say that like it's something new you haven't heard before." Something like that.

Then, Don is sleeping in his mission bed and wakes up to the smell of smoke. Somebody fell asleep in another bed with a lit cigarette. The mission burns down, and the firemen tell the police there were no survivors. But we catch a glimpse of a figure walking away from the scene. It could be Don. But we don't know for sure. We watch him as he walks on down the street, becoming smaller and smaller, just a dot on the horizon, and then gone.

I think he is gonna come back and grab Joan and make sweet ginger love and adopt her baby and let Roger bone Joan's mom, since Don would already be taking care of Roger's baby.....

That's nice, and I know that's what you would like to happen, Rob, but we have to be realistic here.

I have read two separate theories

One states that Don will come back to NYC, and pitch McCann with the "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony, I'd like to buy the world a Coke, and keep it company" ad campaign that ran for like 20 years. (the ad campaign started in 1971, months after the time of the show currently)

OR

That he will get a plane ticket, with all his cash, and then jump out over wilderness like D.B. Cooper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper who did all this in November of 1971.

what I would LIKE to see happen is for Weiner to write in a new character we have never seen before, a charming, verbose and profane Puerto Rican with a sweet beard who meets Joan, they fall madly in love, and move in together, exhausting themselves with endless rounds of next-level, cryptowonderdruginvogue-esque sex-capades.

I've heard these ideas batted around, Rob. They're not bad. They're actually pretty interesting, and probably better than mine. But I'm trying to be original.

Or, in my second idea, replace "mission" with "whore house". A return to from whence he came. He's made the custodian, barely paid anything, but he has a place to stay, and he's surrounded by women who give him benefits for free. This would complete the circle Bert Cooper started with his "best things in life are free" ditty.

i just want to see peggy and stan get together

Season 1 Ep 2 of Daredevil on Netflix. Still loving it..

that sounds plausible...

I wish I could comment on these Mad Men final theory's but I've just finally saw the first season on TV and will be soon buying the others on DVD.

so, wont be seeing the last episode.

I know enough about this show to speculate but only know the premise from my cheap point of view and some in between drama.

like, I never knew Pete was aware of Don's real identity and was about to blackmail him or something. is that true or was I just dreaming?

there's not a lot of likable characters besides Peggy. I even have a fondness for Don(of course). Pete's a spoiled brat. the rest are jerks. even the women....they're all a bunch of jerk selfish assholes and I hate advertisement. screw those fucks. who cares!!!!

no, I think i'll still watch the final. though I have just skimmed the surface of this deeper show. it is fantastic if you keep up with assholes.

anyway who would lie to their kids and spouses like the main characters on this show?

I would love to see a donkey kick Pete( I get fatter every season)'s face in. about the mid-sixties the neurotic Brooklyn spoken jews just went crazy too. like a free for all.

what if they all got kicked in the face by a donkey and it turned into Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

I have another prediction. Last show ends with Don meditating on a mountainside... I can just see it! Perfect.

I think you nailed it! hahaha


I have been watching Louie (the show is still engrossing but I keep telling my wife it is NOT FUNNY anymore.)

and the last Mad Men (OK final episode. the penultimate episode was truly the last one and should have ended it there)

and Deep Space Nine (been on a kick to re-watch some of my fave episodes from my favorite Star Trek. I watched the Triblle one yesterday)

Most anyone who does that would like to YOU about doing it.

I agree! That would have been the perfect ending, Don just sitting there at the bus stop. We're left to wonder. It didn't need anything else, but it needed to pander to an audience who wanted just a little more.

I think there is still enough the viewer can ponder in the final episode. Did Don become the type of person he seemed to despise in the earlier seasons? He was very critical of the counter-culture/hippie people he met throughout the series. He seemed to find that utopia idealism a fantasy. Did he become a version of Steve Jobs? He also didn't believe in only aiming marketing to the teenager/20-something year-old, but that Coke commercial embodies the hippiedom/counter-culture younger generation audience he seemed to always have disdain for.

Good questions. My thoughts: Don was really good at knowing what to use, even stuff he despised. He used the corny stuff of family life to sell all kinds of stuff, even though he didn't buy the family thing himself.

My feeling is that, yes, he may have found a little peace for himself in this moment of meditation. But he's also found the next thing he can use in advertising. He'll go back to his advertising job, or to another agency, or to work for himself, but he'll be successful by appealing to a new generation of kids. In fact, he may be the one to "turn on" his advertising cohorts to a new wya of advertising, and maybe he'll rise to even greater notoriety.

It's as if, to me, in that final scene his smile is less about personal enlightenment than about suddenly realizing that his career is going to be okay, at least for a while, like, ah, now I get it, now I see where my ad campaigns can go.

In other words, he's not going to change. Old Don, new advertising strategy.

That Coke commercial was the first and biggest shot across the bow of the counterculture, appropriating the 60's counterculture inclusionism and peace and love mentality to sell SHIT. and it ran for 26 years.

It meant that Don (generic ad man) Draper will and does use anything and everything that happens to him to lie to people so they buy product.

Exactly!

I feel Don's end point was the least interesting. Pete, Peggy, Roger, and Joan's end points were joyful, and Betty & the kids were desolate yet captivating with the changing of the arms with Sally's rise to the mother figure. Don's ending would have more engaging if it came to a untimely end, or something more climatic.

I've never watched Mad Men, and I probably never will but can someone sum up in a nutshell what makes a TV series about bunch of people working in something as tacky as advertising worthy of such a devoted audience?

Haters. Haters around every corner. Where do they all come from.