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there should be a service where you can pay $5 to slap a kid
there should be a service where you can pay $5 to slap a kid
My mom loved that show an insane amount.
Oh it's finally over? Thank God.
Hannibal is good, huh?
There’s a central, important contradiction to the show, which is our ad-exec main character feels enormously, existentially detached from the materiality of everyday life—the very things, concepts, and ideas he is meant to be hawking (except, perhaps, for Hershey bars). This perhaps accounts for the odd emotional effect of Mad Men, the foregrounded artificiality of a show that is hardly “just” a period piece. It’s here that the show becomes Lynchian.
When we think back over all the years that Don Draper has been a part of our cultural consciousness, it’s usually his low points that stick in our minds: in season one’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” his beer-fueled disappearance during young daughter Sally’s birthday party, leading to the unforgettable image of Betty serving a neighbor’s half-defrosted Sara Lee cake in place of the one Don never picked up; his misguided extended affair with his daughter’s teacher, Miss Farrell, throughout season three, which culminated in his divorce from Betty, and then, in season four, his romantic rejection of Dr. Faye, his emotional, professional, and intellectual equal, in favor of a doomed marriage to his secretary, Megan; throwing money in Peggy’s face after she makes a mild complaint in season five’s “The Other Woman,” leading to her quitting; being caught with his pants down by Sally at a neighbor’s apartment in season six’s “Favors.” Because of all this he has been labeled an antihero, but all of his blunders and bad deeds have only served to make his gradual spiritual reclamation all the more satisfying. Tony’s evils were far too great for the last season of The Sopranos to be anything more than a slow march toward death; however, we hold out hope for Don, the man whose greatest gift was self-reinvention. The end of season six, when Don finally reveals the truth about his past to his children, was the most rewarding moment of the series, pointing—or will it turn out to be teasing?—toward ultimate redemption.