广告狂人 第六季

Ted和Peggy的感情线是我的理想型。工作上的伙伴，互相激励，互相引发奇迹。旗鼓相当。生活中各种小细节的吸引。美妙刺激而让人沉醉。

Ted这个角色真是戳中了我一切萌点。行业翘楚，顾家有责任，认真，特么居然开会开飞机。
Peggy这个角色也符合我对当时事业女性的一切想象。不是完美的万人迷，上进努力，清醒的自我认知，敢爱敢恨，也敢做敢当。

Ted这个角色作为主角团竞争对手的时候并不讨喜，尤其是被主角团耍了个小计谋而损失利益时候更显得自大而滑稽。
然而，Ted和Don在Chevy案中惺惺相惜，联手拿下Chevy还顺手兼并公司即扩大了规模。令人刮目相看。这一段看得人热血沸腾。事实上，MM这几季中，最让人热血沸腾的就是每次公司面临绝境S&P的人翻盘的时刻。而Ted这个和Don旗鼓相当的行业对手，挖走了Don亲手带出来的Peggy后还各种不自觉的吸引了对方乱放闪光弹，闪瞎了一众公司的同事，真是看的我爽翻天了。尤其是Don那种“额……卧槽？……你们什么时候勾搭上了？”的眼神，真是看得我欲罢不能。Don不管是出于私心也好，公司利益也罢，毕竟还是在Ted与Peggy之间横插了一脚。Ted作为全剧唯一一个主动管着自己下半身一心想着工作的好男人，在清醒意识到自己真的喜欢上Peggy，特别是Don提醒了公私分离的时候，还是选择让孩子和妻子出现在公司。

这两人之间，从情愫丛生的一开始就互相明确了彼此应当井水不犯河水。然而终究是抵挡不住啊抵挡不住啊。我不得不承认，看到Ted因为Peggy出去约会而跑去她家堵门最后还是决定离婚滚床单真是得偿所愿。然而Ted毕竟还有家庭要顾及。和种马男主不一样，Ted最终还是选择离开Peggy，选择了家庭。

MM这个剧对于婚姻并没有做过多的探讨。角色们的婚恋状况更多的是服从与剧情需要和人物塑造。时代决定了这个剧中的人物男人风流成性而不用负责，女人持家为重却也逐渐自主。然而过程中难免出现Meggen这种立牌坊的婊子:一方面不能忍受Don的控制，一方面又用妻子的身份逼Don给自己的事业大开方便之门。

MM里的婚姻几乎没有一对是幸福的。甚至就没有什么让人艳羡的爱情关系。甚至连Ted和Peggy之间都背负着事实上“出轨"的原罪。

Ted最后对Peggy说：I love you that deeply. I can't be around you. Someday, you will glad that I make this decision.

听到这个说辞的Peggy是愤怒的，然而也是无奈的。

Ted是爱Peggy的，Ted却也担负这家庭，尽管他知道他并不爱他的妻子。甚至最后他与妻子离婚后，也没有再去找Peggy了。理由很简单，因为这个剧要完结了。主要角色Peggy和配角纠缠不清会挤占主线剧情，不值当。虽然我觉得Don在最后几集中的一些戏份完全是多余的。然而我不是编剧。

Ted和Peggy之间有一个好的开头，却没有一个好的结尾。

这就是所谓的有缘无分啊。


我真是超喜欢这种相互吸引。

MM 613 'In Care Of' Recap


The last episode of season 6 of Mad Men encapsulated runaway of all forms besides showing all the serious and casual commitments being made and broken.

‘If you wanna run, I’d do it now.’ - Pete

S6E13 wrapped up the whole season of the mad late 1960s showing the aftermath of being casual at decision-making whilst tagging the whole period as ‘not serious’.

‘Hershey’s isn’t serious’ about advertising. Teenages were not serious about drinking and law; men were not serious about their families and children; people were not serious about making promises. Don, the most notorious among all, breached work taboo and were considered not serious about clients and campaign presentations (Hershey’s, Sheraton, newspaper and tabacco, to name just a few). All they wanted was run.

Ted promised that he would leave his wife and escaped to Hawaii with Peg. Don told Megan they would move to L.A. and be happy again. Sally went to a boarding school to stay away from her always-occupied-and-couldn’t-pick-her-children mother and her ‘immoral’ dad. Even Pete’s mother ran away and got married with Manolo, both of whom ended up disappearing into thin air. Trudy said to Pete, who lost his mother, left his families and moved to the south, ‘You are free from everything.’

The men made decisions easily. To shoot two not one presidents, to start a war, to kill civil rights leader and innocent people on a foreign land. They were the decision-makers. And those who were being made the decisions were voiceless and vacant in the pictures.

‘You probably dictate the memo right to her and had no idea she’d be affected.’ - Stan

Stan’s remark was not just about Dawn, whose appearance and subplots in the whole season were disappointly scarce and had no punchline whatsoever, it also rang true for Peg and Ted.

Though I was for a moment believing that Ted would leave his wife and be with Peg and got really excited for the next season of this couple-to-be, I felt punched in the face when the guilty-look Ted showed up in Don’s office asking Don to put three hundred miles between him and Peg. But you must admit, what Ted did was right. Nevertheless, whatever he decided to do, the memo of divorce or breaking up would still hurt the other woman in his bed, badly.

The words were broken. The women were left to be disappointed. Yet as Roger pointed out, ‘you learn more from disappointment than you do from success’, will the women whose husband, lover, dad failed them, stood up and learned something? Looking at the silouette of Peg in Don’s office, I knew she would (and Peg&Elizabeth Moss was never an disappointment on the screen). Sally was looking at her father in the eye before the deserted two-story house that had once been a brothel and home to her father. I hoped she would pull her young self together and saw something big from the experience that her father went through, from a ragged boy to a man in clean suits and tie and hat. As Meg darted out of the flat, I was fingercrossing and wished she would not be written off the show(as what was done to her part in her show). The scenario of Don taking away Stan’s opportunity bore a resemblance to what Megan did to her European friend in the last episode of season five, yet we failed to see more dark and manipulative side of Megan this season. I hoped to see the independent-minded Megan of power return next year.

SC&P decided that they could survive with a casual vacancy. And indeed, it would not be too much to ask that this casual vacancy could remind Don of his responsibility since he would sure see the firm run normally, if not perfectly, without him.

Take a break.

‘Don’t you always go home, though? ’ - Peggy

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广告狂人的粉丝们，快套上你们的紧身牛仔裤，端上马丁尼酒杯摇摆起来吧！被一向严谨的AMC电视台推崇为时代戏剧的广告狂人第六季将在4月7号周日晚间正式回归！并且还将以长达两小时的播送开启新一季！编剧 Matt Weiner在一篇报道中称，“能够在第六季中继续探索这些主角们的故事，真是一个令人振奋的消息。我们热爱挖掘生活，并不断给观众带来惊喜和享受。一如剧中那个衣冠楚楚又高深莫测叱咤整个60年代的广告经理Don Draper（Jon Hamm 饰），Weiner对于这部剧过去一直都是以守口如瓶著称的，不过关于即将到来的新一季，一些细节还是泄露了出来。广告狂人第六季精彩抢鲜看：
　　
　　第六季将会是整部剧的倒数第二季
Weiner在接受《每日野兽》的采访时坚称，广告狂人将会在第七季彻底结束，也就是说，整部剧只剩26集了。但是Weiner同时也强调，即使是前瞻了广告狂人的大结局，第六季仍然拥有其独特的风格。“我从来不去保证整个系列作品中的任何一季，所以我只是把我所知道的所有故事都用进去。这是一个再好不过的方法了。”Weiner这样说道。

　　2、有些场景将会在夏威夷取景
广告狂人的绝大多数故事都是在纽约发生的。而在第六季里，Don将和他的妻子Megan (Jessica Pare饰)一起踏上夏威夷的海滩。尽管两人携手踏上这段热情旅程的理由尚且不知，但根据赫芬顿邮报的照片显示，Don仍旧是一杆老烟枪，而Megan则沉浸在蓝色的水果鸡尾酒当中。

　　Peggy 和 Betty 将会回归
有些粉丝和批评家曾猜测，在第五季尾声离开广告狂人投身新电影的Elisabeth Moss和上一季中饰演Don的前妻，Betty的January Jones会因戏份被削减而将继续缺席。但是Weiner坚称，这两位都会回归。在接受电视指南杂志的采访时，他说：“我可以告诉你，她们的名字都会出现在片尾，没有任何一个演员真正离开过。”

　　4、 Pete Campbell不会自杀
另外一个群众基础深厚的理论则认为，围绕在Pete Campbell（Vincent Kartheiser饰）周围的种种迹象身上表明了众多死亡象征，于是从去年开始就在猜测，这个角色将会自杀。而Weiner则称这种猜测纯粹是一种误导。“Pete这个角色目前很好，我也没有发现Peter Campbell或者其他角色会有自杀行为。他对于精神病有自己的判断。”Weiner在接受《每日野兽》的采访时这样说。

　　5、故事时间至少会向前跃进一年。
广告狂人的故事经常会向前跃进几个月，甚至几年，这个方法也会被Weiner在第六季重新使用。电视指南杂志报道说，故事将从1967年直接跳跃到动荡的60年代末。Weiner表示：“中间的这段时间跨度将会像故事的引擎一样。我在写作中总是喜欢把观众想象成在第一集中就已经知晓一切，然后看着他们把故事拼凑起来。这是一个省略的过程。”

　　6、第六季同样也会反映当今时代
Weiner在电视指南杂志中说：“我认为第六季中所展现的社会情况以及焦虑和腐败的情形正反映了美国人现在的感觉。我认为它关于我们最近失去的东西，无论你是否已经感觉到，这真的让我们觉得很不一样。这里有些许关于民族自尊心的东西，它驱使着人们朝内心深处发掘。”

　　7、在观看第六季之前请复习第五季的结尾
广告狂人第五季结束的非常扣人心弦，当时Don Draper独自一个人坐在酒吧里，内心思索着这样的问题：你是一个人吗？。Weiner在《每日野兽》中表示这个问题将会在第六季里像回声一样产生共鸣：“我希望人们在看第六季之前，能看一下第五季结尾的十分钟。如果你深入其中，你将获得一种难以置信的体验。”

MM 607 ‘Men With A Plan’ Recap


Sometimes, you don’t need 20 years to find everything to be changed, or, to be back where they were.

Hello again, Peg. Ciao ciao, Slyvia.

The love affair was finally put an end to. (But surely we will see Slyvia and her husbands again, after all neighbours don’t easily disappear) This time there’s something more to the all-too-similar-Don’s-affair. It is noteworthy that it was Slyvia who called it a day, despite the fact that she was in a passive and inferior state for a fairly long time. After Don’s king pose (Kudos to Vulture’s prev. insightful recap), Slyvia claimed she felt ashamed and quit. We know that Don is never a guy that get attached to someone and he is not depending on her psychologically. But I would say it’s a mutual dependency. Slyvia didn’t need to depend on Don to stop. She had the power to do it herself.

Mutual dependency found further expression in the incident of Joan. Suffering a pungent ache, Joan was helped by Bob the nice guy. Joan, a partner, still depended on Bob to fake to be bothering her all the way across the office so as to escort her to the hospital. Due to the fact that Bob ran into Burt and knew somehow his future in the firm wasn’t looking good first and then noticed Joan was under the weather, it was fair to doubt Bob did it partially for his own good. But his quick response, little trick, care and gentlemanship would still be very charming to any women, let alone the single mother Joan. Later, the powerful did do the young a great favour and helped him to stay in the firm.

Talking about young and powerful. The beautiful combination of the two was back in office with Don Draper - welcome back, Peggy!

This episode showed the two bosses of Peg came together, displaying the two contradictary ways they worked with her. With Ted being all-time very nice, Don just couldn’t help being cold and mean. I almost forget the real dynamics between the two because their last goodbye was so tenderly heartbreaking and the brief meetings were warm. But, as Peg disclosed, Don never invited her out for a dinner, not to say to ask her back. Come on Peg. Don only ‘asked’, or beg to be precise, his lovers. Beg them to stay. To be with him. But you were not one of them. That made you truly special.

Special. Special was the motif of this episode. Ads men take pains to think the way to present their clients products as the most special one, even though they are as lame as margarine. Even in the hospital scene, Bob showed his wit to woo a client to the nurse on duty - to attract her attention, to make her believe herself to be special because they counted on her speciality.

Don wanted to feel special. To feel being serviced, and the service had to be discreetly thought about after hours in an empty hotel ensuit deprived of anything entertaining. But he realised he wasn’t the special one, not above the clouds. Regardless how frustratingly eloquent Don could be, Ted was the philosopher above the cloud - after all, Ted was the guy ‘who flew us up in his(client’s) own plane’.

For some, the plane ascends to escatsy, to the masterpiece of God, but for others, the plane descends to hell. The episode, again ladened with death allusions and talks, finally gives me a reason to forgive it. It was indeed a period of rioting, of shooting, of innocent men and women dying. No wonder of the gloom and doom.

In the end, the flight was safe and sound. All you need was some belief - believe that ‘above the clouds, it’s sunny as summer’. To find belief? No easy for Don.




Odds and Ends

The way Ted asked the blonde girl at meeting to continue the report is just…charming. Oh my. How did he do that? To pretend to be a shortsighted?

广告狂人第六季结束了。爱的人更爱了，恨的人更恨了。
冲着剧名来学做广告的，失望着没看到大放异彩的创意；冲着男主来看艳遇的，被一个老女人的床戏深深伤了荷尔蒙。如果你只看到了这些，或许并不能说你没看懂Mad Men，但至少可以确定，你还没读懂Don Draper。

Don有过很多女人。你可能惊艳于风情不变风尘不染的Betty，你可能因那段挥之不去的Zou bisou而默认Megan的性感，你还可能沉迷于海洛因一般迷恋Midge，你还可能感激Faye为爱不顾一切的痴狂，还有田园诗歌般的小学老师，还有娇柔放浪的异国空姐，还有渴望婚姻的犹太女人，还有不谙世事的普通秘书，还有莫名其妙的加州艳遇，还有太多太多...
虽然不是每个女人都足以惊艳时光，但的确每一个都可谓一芳尤物。但所有的女人之于Don，都只是一个过程的存在，就像酒吧摇曳的红唇里突出的那股袅袅的烟圈 “Are you alone？”

但如果只能选一个最特别的女人。我想一定是Anna。只有你读懂了Ann对于Don的意义，才会读懂第六季老女人那句“Find your peace”，才能真正读懂了那个从高处坠落，又被轻柔唤醒的Don Draper.

其实，Mad Men无关广告人。
从头到尾，它只讲了两种人，男人和女人。

Mad Men 609 'The Better Half' Recap


So. This was the episode that Mad Men went totally MAD.

‘You obviously had a traumatizing experience.’ Peg said.

‘Don’t patronize me.’ Abe answered.

S6E9 revisited the traumatizing experience, casting the shadow of confusion, chaos and violence on those who were not on the spot and claimed that a few lunatics would not ruin their gorgeous nights.

As if answering to Don’s epiphany in the last episode - It is nothing but history that holds people together, people of the past did appear or was mentioned in this episode. Here was Duck. And they mentioned the late Pryce and Gleason and Robert Kennedy.

Due to its role that drew people together, the past was obliged to be something precious and wonderous. Or, as the popular ‘Planet of the Apes’ indicated, the past was ‘the paradise’. Soon after Duck disclosed that the wellspring of his confidence was his family, we saw a family-reunion - in a camp site or a countryside b&b. Lost in the amazement of the oozing sweetness of Bobby and his handsome father and beautiful mother, we found ourselves cannot but agree with Duck- Family could be paradise-y.

Or could it?

Because it was an episode about the collapsing of family and of loving couples. Its theme wasn’t Duck’s motto, it’s Betty’s - ‘Loving you is the worst way to get closer to you’.

The couples, if not families, broke up. It sent a thrill down the spine of mine to see Abe accused Peg ‘you are always the enemy’. Maybe he was confused, or maybe it was true and it was because he said nothing and we couldn’t tell that he had long been frustrated about his girlfriend being a conservative high-brow bread-maker. But the accusement still was horrible, as horrible as the stabbing (why people keep stabbing??), considering of the high possibility that he might not survive and the accusement would hurt and haunt Peg, for, like, ever. To quote Arlene, you could not disagree, but you didn’t have to embarrass or in this context destroy, her. This scene resembled the previous quarrel between Pete and Trudy. Pete could not tell Trudy the unspeakable deeds of her father, yet he did. Anyhow, thanks God Abe made it.

Then it was the issue between Peg and Ted. It did not work out. It was like a blow in the face to see two men closing the door with unconscious indifference in front of Peg, in the acme of her vulnerablity. But in the end, there was nothing wrong with Ted being the guy who went to bed before 2 p.m., otherwise it would be too confusing.

To stop the confusion, Joan asked Roger to stop dropping by without notice. ‘I know you want to. But I can’t count on that’, Joan shrugged when Roger claimed that he only wanted to be around.

‘The forbidden zone is once a paradise.’ This depressed episode was a manifesto of the invalidity of love of all sorts, showing that love was a mere intermezzo, a midway thing. It was in the constant threat of violence - the robbery, the neighbourhood chaos, the stabbing spines, the words of wrath. Midway it was cut short. And you went astray, finding yourself alone in the darkness of the forbidden zone.

Maybe Matthew Weiner was confused or maybe it did happen. Alert when you are in love, but the other part just says ‘I missed you.’

Don’t count on that. Take a note.