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FAREWELL MADMEN

May 18, 2015
 MONDAY.
January Jones as Betty Francis, Jon Hamm as Don Draper, Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson, Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell, Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris and John Slattery as Roger Sterling - Mad Men _ Season 7B, Gallery _ Photo Credit: Frank Ockenfels 3/AMC
January Jones as Betty Francis, Jon Hamm as Don Draper, Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson, Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell, Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris and John Slattery as Roger Sterling – Mad Men _ Season 7B, Gallery _ Photo Credit: Frank Ockenfels 3/AMC
I HAVE A MAD MEN hangover this morning.

TOTAL WITHDRAWL has set in.

I watched, and RE watched the VERY FINAL final
episode of MAD MEN last night after having binge watched much of the first 7 seasons for the last
few weeks.
I may just have to give
up TV altogether for a while….everything feels strangely bland and slow and  sober and sloppy.
Watching Mad Men was like seeing the world, or at least a fictionalized
slice of … of my childhood.
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And it was just plain FANTASTIC TELEVISION.
I loved it all…the acting, the costumes, the sets, the colors, the sounds and the story.
The Design. The attention to detail and authenticity was unsurpassed…and it had a soul.

 

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MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE…I WILL MISS THE CHARACTERS ON MAD MEN.

DON AND PEGGY
DON AND PEGGY

EACH LIKE A LITTLE PART OF MYSELF, I COULD RELATE TO EACH ONE IN A DIFFERENT WAY…THEY MADE ME THINK AND CRY AND LUST AND YEARN AND HATE SIMULTANEOUSLY  WISH FOR MORE AND FEEL GRATEFUL …

and ….I MISS MAURA, MY SISTER IN LAW, WHO INTRODUCED ME TO MAD MEN, SHE KNEW I WOULD LOVE IT AND GAVE ME SEASON 1-4 FOR CHRISTMAS A FEW YEARS BEFORE SHE PASSED AWAY. IT CONNECTED US LIKE A LIFE NOT LIVED AND AT THE VERY LAST MOMENT OF THE VERY LAST SCENE…I MISSED HER SO MUCH.SHE WOULD HAVE LOVED IT.

FAREWELL MADMEN.

5 thoughts on “FAREWELL MADMEN”

  1. I’m having withdrawals too! I started watching it on a whim during the 3rd season and have been an addict ever since. It was a great series and finale. I love everything about it, what I wouldn’t give for some of those costumes! Such a great, great show. And I’m so glad Don didn’t die–I was a little afraid he might.

  3. You’ve summed up my Madmen experience pretty succinctly Leslie! I felt myself experiencing many aspects of my childhood through the stories and felt myself both cheering Don on and being angry at him at the same time. I sure will miss these characters!

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