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| Ever since the Mad Men season 3 finale I can't get his song outta my head! http://bit.ly/3eFpQC 13 days ago |
Mad Men 3.13 – “Do We Vote or Something?”
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DAMN, that was good.
Tonight’s season finale of “Mad Men” was one of those blessing / curse episodes: it took threads from throughout the season, tied them together into a happy ending of cheer-worthy proportions, but just as you start to think, “Oh, man, I can’t wait to see what happens next,” you remember that you’re watching the season finale and that your wait is going to last for the better part of a year.
When we first see Don, he’s a goddamned mess. He looks like crap, he’s been kicked out of his own bed, and even worse, his alarm ...
In Which We Made Every Kind Of Sandwich Imaginable And A Cake
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Get Your Own Damn Coffee
by MOLLY LAMBERT
If there's anything we learned this week from media, it's that everybody's got a backburner, but nobody wants to be somebody else's fallback option. Betty is tired of being Don's fallback, and we can't blame her any more than we can blame Don for wanting to keep that fine shorty on layaway. Everybody wants a wife.
Conrad Hilton is a prick. Even Don thinks so, and Don has been putting up with it a lot this season. This season has been all ...
For Your Consideration: Can ‘Shahdaroba’ Please Be the New ‘Don’t Stop Believing’
Vulture —
Easily among our top 500 favorite things about last night's awesome Mad Men finale was — spoiler! — the use of Roy Orbison's "Shahdaroba" over the episode's final images. Written by Cindy Walker and recorded by Orbison in 1963, the spooky track (see the lyrics here) served as both the perfect sendoff for Betty ("When a dream dies/ And the heart cries ... ") and a harbinger of better days in season four ("The future is much better than the past ... "). Also, it has a cool saxaphoned countermelody that keeps pulling it into Bond-theme territory. We realize that last night's ...

