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<h1>Season Seven, Episode Eight - Severence of Mad Men</h1>
Welcome back to Notes from the Break Room, where we've been taking after Mad Men from the very begin. I'm extremely satisfied to be back after a more than two season break to take in the last seven scenes of Matthew Weiner's showstopper/polished cleanser musical drama (erase as indicated by individual bias).
In case you're a touch corroded on where we were at, here's a fabulous three-moment abridgement of season seven so distant from Slate.
We finished the first piece of season seven in a dreamlike state, with the apparition of Bert Cooper letting us know The Best Things In Life Are Free. On Sunday night, we opened with Don and a lady in a mink cover, truly uncertain whether this was a fantasy, another sweetheart, a whore or a model. Obviously, forms change more rapidly than state of mind and we soon slice to uncover a couch loaded with SC&P men with googly eyes. Welcome to the 1970s.
April 1970, particularly. It's been nine months since we cleared out Don and co viewing the moon arriving as Roger sold the organization to McCann-Erickson, procuring the accomplices millions. However while there's some swagger back in Don's venture with the arrival of his status, he's the same chaos he was in the recent past. Trapped in a hopeless cycle of celebrating, going to bed with more youthful ladies and actually dozing through the employment. Where did it all happen, as George Best may have been asked.
Notes : ~
The particular tell that we're in the 70s, aside from the mustaches, came when Don viewed this discourse by Nixon, declaring the Cambodian Excursion.
Joan's line about "retail establishments being exploded by radicals consistently" was a reference to the trial of the Panther 21, individuals from the Black Panthers who were accused in April 1969 of planning to explode five retail establishments, a police headquarters, railroad tracks and the Bronx Botanical Gardens. They were absolved in 1971.
The scene was devoted to Mike Nichols, a companion of both Jon Hamm and Matthew Weiner. One of Nichols' last film credits was Friends With Kids, featuring Hamm and coordinated by his accomplice, Jennifer Westfeldt.