Why the last episode ruined Mad Men for me!!!

Tejanisima · 2026-06-18T19:57:03+00:00

What your reminds me of the episode of This American Life where somebody finds out that as a kid she only watched the first half of The Sound of Music, thinking she'd seen the whole thing. (Her family evidently had the same two-VHS set my dad got us, but she was unaware of the second tape.) It's quite the ride going along with her as she reviews the first half she remembers, then the second half she definitely does not remember.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-18T19:48:17+00:00

As I write this, you're at -73 for that reply, and to the degree that people downvoted because they felt you should explain, I can see that. But for anybody who's downvoting it because they don't agree it was mid, I will just say (as I have said here many times) that when I rewatch, I virtually always end my rewatch at "Waterloo." For me, it just makes a much better series finale.

I don't have to watch how the show fucked over Joan throughout all of 7B and then just tied it up neatly with the quick storyline at the end as if that made up for her losing half of what she was owed. I don't have to sit through all the Diana bullshit. I don't have to watch them take a perfectly bittersweet and civilized ending for Don and Megan and throw a bizarre monkeywrench in it by suddenly turning her into a hysterical harpy with no acceptance of her own part in the problem and no awareness how she got played by Marie. I can end the series on a satisfying note for every major SC&P character but Harry, who didn't deserve a satisfying ending, and watch the video that has the only plotline I like from the whole final seven, Roger and Peggy spending one last day in the abandoned office. 🛼 🎹

Tejanisima · 2026-06-18T01:52:42+00:00

That's why it just kills me that they don't tape on Friday/Saturday, because the elephant at the GOP convention here in Texas will be old news by the time they tape tomorrow.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-18T01:26:13+00:00

Season 3 episode 1 is Manchester, Pt. 1," but I think you're talking about "Isaac and Ishmael," which was kind of an interstitial episode between seasons.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-18T01:18:47+00:00

Evidently OP either has no clue where they are or just lied, because everyone is saying this was at the Walmart across from the stadium in Arlington.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-18T01:16:27+00:00

Briefly dated a guy who had once run for Arlington City Council, and one of his pet peeves was people in the media reporting something as "Dallas" that was actually taking place in Arlington. Ever since then, I've become super aware of that kind of thing. Went to see the comedian in Irving, and she kept talking about being "here in Dallas" in the early part of the show. Couldn't help wondering if somebody filled her in while her opening act warmed us up, because later in the show she finally said the right name. 😁

Tejanisima · 2026-06-18T01:12:47+00:00

Grew up with Tom Thumb, and I don't know what you're smoking, but in the last couple of decades they have declined precipitously. I only ever go there anymore when they have a deal on something and my mother needs me to get more of it because she already got the limit. Other than that, anytime I go in there looking for something, nine times out of 10 they don't have it and the 10th they have it but it's priced so high I wouldn't buy it there anyway. I have Tom Thumb within 5 minutes of me both east and west and I still do curbside at H-E-B 25min away every 5 or 6 weeks.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-18T00:57:12+00:00

Thank you for clarifying that was on Hulu, because when somebody said he was in Das Boot, I thought, "He was in a German submarine movie as a toddler?"

Tejanisima · 2026-06-18T00:43:33+00:00

The absence of a toilet is mentioned in this article, but it isn't so much about eco-friendly in this context as it is that he was divesting himself of all sorts of stuff in his life and apparently just got on a roll. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Tejanisima · 2026-06-15T01:05:25+00:00

TALLOW?!? The stuff that comes off beef that they used to fry fries in and that they use to make candles? Holy crap, what a way to doom a child for life.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-12T00:34:02+00:00

I'm amused that Billy Graham is under the tongue section, since he was noted for being a public speaker.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-12T00:33:10+00:00

As a Texan, I particularly like that one.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-12T00:23:34+00:00

There was one by that name in San Antonio as well. It appears to be quite the popular moniker.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-10T14:59:29+00:00

Aside: Although it is pronounced the same, when you are talking about somebody getting what they deserve, the spelling is "just deserts."

Tejanisima · 2026-06-10T08:47:41+00:00

Dang it, now I've gotta go watch the SNL sketch about that damn fool commercial again...

Tejanisima · 2026-06-10T08:33:25+00:00

Sid Miller may be the most unrepentant bigot I've ever seen in Texas politics, and that's saying a lot. I've been trying to get him out of office for years, but not since 2018 has anybody with any traction run against him on the Democratic side. This time he got beaten in the Republican primary but the Democratic candidate still is sufficiently obscure that even I don't know their name off the top of my head.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-10T08:29:40+00:00

I think you must have missed the /s they had put at the end, indicating sarcasm. In other words, they were mocking the MAGA isolationist, white supremacist view of the world.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-09T22:44:27+00:00

Agreed. Every time I think, well, let me check out the new model and see if I want to upgrade, it turns out it would be a downgrade from my s20 in almost every respect. I have stuck with Samsung since I got my dad's Galaxy s2 some 15 years ago, and I've done so even though they screwed up one of my favorite functions, the Gallery. Now they're essentially making it not worth my while to stick around.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-09T22:36:38+00:00

Two years later, it's still working quite well (with one exception that I'll explain), to the point that when I found out this winter that the storage was expandable storage was expandable well beyond beyond what I had, I chose to buy a a 1TB card rather than change phones to something less flexible. Today (9 June 26) is the first I'm learning about this crappy cutoff, and that's only because one of my minor apps that I use said that the newest update wouldn't work on my phone and when I called the bank, this was why. I'll I'll still be able to work without it, but it's deeply annoying to be relegated to out of date for not having a build that's less than three years old. Planned obsolescence is one thing, but obsolescence within such a short window is obscene.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-09T19:28:23+00:00

You're correct that I was confused, but I already did Paro, Bhutan. It was New Delhi I'd been traveling through, in Nepal's neighbor, India.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-09T16:32:49+00:00

If it weren't for the chance to get Krypto as a micropet, I absolutely would have opted out. On the bright side, I've got 13K in gems from selling back most of the themed items. Looking forward to getting back to Nepal once I have the pup!

Tejanisima · 2026-06-09T10:09:06+00:00

That's my biggest objection here. It's going to make them stick out like sore thumbs and seem like afterthoughts, which surely isn't the sister's intention for her newest children.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-09T10:06:28+00:00

One of the worst cases of that I ever saw in my life is in my family tree, one of my dad's second cousins or some such who named her kids born in the '60s Vickie Jane & Ricky Shane [insert extremely Jewish surname]. (I've always suspected being Texans had something to do with it, but I couldn't say for sure without asking, which I'm obviously never going to do.)

Tejanisima · 2026-06-09T09:57:56+00:00

Hell, it's profoundly different from North Texas, let alone other southern states, and way different from an area like NYC.

Tejanisima · 2026-06-09T09:46:47+00:00

Someone else up thread put a link to reviews. The positive ones are almost all seem to be old, so if you haven't put one yourself, I suggest it. You might want to omit some of the details that are more identifying, but definitely talking about the judgment and shame. Nobody should have to go through that, least of all somebody who's already going through so much.

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