广告狂人第六季

第3集1.don peeped at his pregnant mother fucked by his uncle who run a whore house.a whore with a customer came through the hall way ,and called him a dirty little spy.the memory of living in the brothel haunted him and cause him the self -loathing feeling.2.pete campbell,a little boy with a Manhattan dream,fooled around without guts to face the bloody face of cheating wife who was badly beaten by the cuckold.3.don had a talk with meagan who just had a miscarriage." i just want whatever you want" this was an answer suitable for any situation.in fact,don didn't know what he want.shit!4.a man sat outside the door with key in his hand,back against the wall.In or out ,it is a problem.第4集1.everyone is scared in that room,girls crying in the lady's room ,man crying in the elevator.2. the head of writers team offered a swinger pary at table3.sisters with a boy at the back seat,two bad girls out in the town4.you kiss people for money,you know who do that?5.the real woman-what do you do after i leave? get down on your knee and pray for resolution?-No,i pray for you.-for me to come back?-No, for you to find peace.(She is the woman who really knows Don. A religious woman is so attractive.)第5集1.大事件——马丁路德金被刺杀第6集1.i don't think i ever wanted to be the man who loves children.-especially if you have a difficult childhood .you want to ,but you didn't.-fake the feeling-pretend to be excited -see them do sth-and feel that thefeeling you once pretend to have -it's like your heart is going to explode.(一个无法感知世界的人说出的最感人的话，类同dexter)2.he is so far away ,i think i am making the conversation.第7集1i need you,nothing else will do .2.the exotic play of domination and submission: i want you to crawl on you hands and knees until you find my shoes.3.it is easy to give up sth while you are ashamed.4.don can not stand anyone close to him,while a woman come to him for comfort and warmth ,he treated her like a sex slave.第8集1.iam afraid of you-nothing else get through to you2.history should not be forgotten.第9集1.that poor girl,she does not know that loving you is the worst way to get to you.(betty knows him)-let us just enjoy this moment.2.two closed in front of her(peggy)第10集too old to be a hippy.第11集sally caught don having sex with sylva.sylva buried her face in bed with shame,punching the bed.don received the gratitude from mitchell with unbearable guilt,sally bursted out ,saying"you make me sick." and rushing to bedroom.第12集1.tame the beast:bob2.crazy night in the boarding school:sally3.kill the love:peggy and ted4.the pain of growing up:sally and don第13集1.tell the truth about his childhood:don2.everyone wants to leave

《广告狂人》第六季，继续吃瓜🍉。

许多剧透，不喜勿看。

没见过希维娅与医生老公吵架，打办公室电话找唐要见他。

虽然唐很忙，但还是与希维娅约好12:30在某酒店见。。。

原本和公司同事定好1:00开始的会议，唐迟到了40分钟。

玩不下去，翻车了。

闹掰那天下雨了，然后从酒店各回各家。

在这熟悉的电梯，一人朝上看，一人朝下看，无huake说。

此时的唐略显无辜，可能还觉得两人还没玩完的吧。

希维娅很生气，她发现自家厨房小后门一地烟头。

她给老公说那些烟是自己吸的，她给唐说让他别在那吸烟了，如果老公在烟头上没发现口红印就知道她撒谎了。

与希维娅通过电话，唐知道希维娅已经不可挽回，他猛地把电话扔向小酒架，酒瓶子碎了一地。

接完电话的唐，开始不停的咳嗽。

（国产剧看多了，还以为手绢上会咳出血滴🍉）有人说，希维娅又老又丑，放着家里的年轻娇妻不疼爱，非要与儿子都上大学的中年老女人搞婚外恋，但我觉得这个意大利女人既娴静又风情。

Netflix上对Mad Men的介绍是，this show is: dark, emotional, understated. 这部剧淋漓尽致地展现了人的复杂：人究竟有多少欲望，又如何在生活中与这些欲望共存以及自处，是一个永恒的难题。

Mad Men中的父母与子女：最同情Sally，一个出生在富裕家庭却不得不过早接受成人世界的女孩，在父母离异之后带着两个弟弟过着毫无安全感的生活。

他们从不缺乏物质：父亲在纽约叱咤风云地做着广告生意，大名鼎鼎；母亲美丽优雅再嫁给议员，继父和继母都很和善。

然而Sally却没得到过爱。

Betty在和Don的婚姻里从郁郁寡欢无所事事，到痛苦怨恨，没有一刻真正快乐，她将一个女人所有的神经质和痛苦都倾倒在孩子身上。

这样一个毫无耐心只会严加管束的母亲只得压迫得孩子沉默，甚至险些人格发展走上歧途（Sally曾在父母关系频临破裂时在公共场所自慰），幸而被有经验的儿童心理学家引导才重新回到正路。

然而父母关系越发紧张，Sally和两个人事不懂的年幼弟弟只能被动接受大人所赋予的一切。

Betty与Don离婚后带着孩子们再嫁，生活依旧富足，但其实并没有人真正在乎孩子们的感受，作为父母，betty和don甚至连一点点靠近孩子内心的行动都没有。

Sally和弟弟们像球一样被踢来踢去，而Betty和Don为着周末谁该看管孩子吵得依旧不可开交。

每个人都有自己的事要处理，有人要参加宴会，有人有工作要做，孩子似乎只要被接过去就算履行了义务。

Don是一个不负责任的父亲，他不曾得到过父爱所以也不懂得给予。

"I'll pay everything for that(Sally's boarding school)"，他已自顾不暇，自然没有能力关心子女。

在第五六季，Sally逐渐长大，她越发对父母失望，特别是当她亲眼目睹父亲的好友和继母的母亲在宴会上私相媾合，以及意外目睹父亲和邻居的妻子偷情时，Sally只得落荒而逃。

"How is New York?" "Dirty." "I'm so sick of you!" Sally以极快的速度成长，在去寄宿学校的路上，她对Betty说:'He(Don) has never given me anything."Sally只是一个例子。

Mad Men里到处是父母子女关系冷漠到极致的例子：Peter和哥哥对父亲空难身亡毫无悲伤，反而打算着财产将来如何分配；第六季里Peter的母亲已近精神失常，出身名门曾经优雅的女人如今年老疯癫，两个儿子却无一人真心在乎，在她同样意外身亡后两人所关心的只有财产分配，最后各自把母亲公寓的名贵家具搬个了空。

或许子女对父母的这种冷漠令人寒心和诧异，为何出身名门的上流社会子弟都如此不孝？

看看Sally的成长恐怕答案就渐渐清晰。

Roger是一个更好的例子。

第六季的结尾，我为roger难过，甚至有些可怜他。

这个衔着金钥匙出生的豪门少爷，如今已经是年近60岁的老人，他依旧风度翩翩，英俊潇洒，言谈举止俏皮幽默，但满头银发和眼中的落寞无不透露着他那空虚孤独的生活。

他有过两次婚姻，一个女儿，剧中很少描写他的家庭生活，但他的前妻曾提醒他:"You should spend more time with her(his daughter)", 而Roger从始至终的花天酒地风流无数使人们很容易想象他究竟花过多少心思在女儿身上。

他可谓晚景凄凉，女儿婚后和女婿一起计算着他的财产，以各种投资名头要他出资。

他自己也心知肚明，因为他对自己母亲的去世也同样麻木不仁。

本季的结束，所有人都和孩子在一起：Peter即将和Trudy离婚，他临走前回到家中，看着熟睡中的女儿；Roger被女儿拒之门外，最后来到Joan家，终于得以和他们的私生子度过感恩节；Don带着三个孩子回到他曾经长大的房子，那曾经的妓院如今破败不堪，门口一个黑人小孩坐在门口，手中拿着棒冰。

也许所有人都想重拾和孩子的关系，都想回归那唯一的温情，只是这温情里夹杂着无数苦涩和遗憾，或许还有悔恨。

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.

相比较Don和Ted，公司里同一量级的人物，Ted不仅有着极强的自制力和原则，道德底线也很高。

聪明能干，判断准确，算是加强版的Pete（Pete在道德底线上输了一截，在和Trudy结婚前夕跟初涉世事的Peggy乱搞间接制造了一个孤儿，以及本季的偷情，但还是远远强过Don）。

虽然拒绝了Peggy在某种程度上是为了不影响到他所热爱的工作和事业，但看到第11集，他对婚姻的忠诚和家庭的爱也慢慢流出来，他是一个比Don更能和别人有效沟通的人，无论对家庭还是工作。

欣赏这种人。

以上难免有不公正之处，毕竟剧集对Ted描写的篇幅没有Don多，只有本季开始有较大篇幅，难免有信息的不对称。

MM 607 ‘Men With A Plan’ RecapSometimes, 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 EndsThe 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?

最好的剧集将细节抓得最仔细，确保每一件道具、戏服、台词不仅都能符合史实，更能推动剧情。

这种火眼金睛（或是过度阐释）不是一下子练得出来的，但一旦练出来，绝对能提升不少观剧的感受——前提是这部剧能保证给你这一番感受。

《广告狂人》就是这样一部剧，禁得起剖析、解读，不断有惊喜，有新发现。

观看《广告狂人》就好像在同时上美国历史课、电影课、写作课，收获绝不亚于一部优秀的电影能带来的收获和思考。

MM丰富的观剧体验离不开精彩剧评的点播。

在这里推荐两个recap网站（没有看完S6的建议打开这些地址时迅速下拉，迅速找到你看到的那集的评论，目不斜视，不看任何其他集的标题和图片）：Vulture：http://www.vulture.com/tv/mad-men/Nelle Engoro: http://open.salon.com/blog/silkstoneVulture是个很棒的MM信息平台。

Matt的剧评除了深入挖掘和分析MM里对照（mirror/doppelganger）的角色经历，对MM本身他常毫无保留的持批判态度(如他把乱来一气的第8集比作怀特大神写剧本时会遭遇的灵感枯竭和混沌状态）；对Don批评起来也绝不嘴软。

他在第7集痛骂Don：Speaking of Don, the guy’s a horrible, horrible, horrible asshole, just horrible. Horrible! Did I mention he’s horrible? A hollowed-out shell of a handsome man. A tyrannosaurus rex among bastards. Sick. Hateful. A selfish prima donna and reflexive user of other people. Toxic beefcake. He should have a warning label on his forehead.除了挖掘和分析MM里对照（mirror/doppelganger）的角色经历，Matt经常妙语连珠，比如在第13集中，他指出：The preacher's line in the mandtory whorehouse flashback really stuck with me.'The only unpardonable sin is to believe God cannot forgive you.' Substitute 'the viewer' for God and you've got cable's philsophy of drama.在Nelle的博客中，可以发现，她很早便开始写MM的剧评，她对于MM第四季的recap大受欢迎，出书成册。

她的剧评很有个人特色：紧扣台词。

Nelle的recap以各种明显的punchline与不易察觉的台词串成一幅很有逻辑的画面。

Nelle的另一个特色是她经历过60年代，常常拿出自己的亲身体验做参照和对比。

Nelle的解读非常细致，也有一些自己独到的理论（把Don落水解读为Don经历的一次重新改过、埋葬the false self的洗礼），很妙的是，Nelle的评论本身就极具文学性，在写到Don在第13集里讲述自己的童年经历和好时巧克力棒（Hershey's bar）的苦甜交织的记忆时，指出“bar”的一语双关：A bitterness not alleviated by the other kind of bar we’ve often seen him hitting, especially this season将Matt和Nelle的剧评放在一块儿看，可以发现两人对一些情节的理解和猜想的差异，Matt认为Bob Benson是一个良性的sociopath，并认为在Bob&Pete的膝盖戏后，Bob走出时是一种平静的姿态，而Pete可能是一个深柜gay，最后发现并接受自己的这一身份能帮助Pete重新lovable。

Nelle则认为Bob在膝盖戏后走出Pete办公室是很不安的，因为他猜错了，Pete并不弯，并担心Bob是否保得住饭碗。

最后揭晓，两者都有猜对的，和猜错之处。

而两者早早看出Bob和Don的mirror，则是两者都猜对的地方。

Nelle在S6的recap外，还每集录制了一集 Mad Men Talk（http://www.blogtalkradio.com/madmentalk）,可以晚上睡觉听。

MM美轮美奂的戏服也是一大看点，推荐两个评论MM戏服的网站：http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/category/television/page/3 （其中的Mad Style系列）服装设计设Janie Bryant讲解MM的戏服：http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/fashion-file/Mad Style有着丰富的截图，将戏服对人物性格、剧情推进的作用挖掘做到了极致：绿-蓝象征的adultery，黄-红为SCP的公司主色调；黄-蓝象征unconnect的人际关系；波点VS条纹；不详的Sharon Tate的暗指…两个戏服评论一起看，也能看出一些相同的或是不同的见解：对于E13里Megan在早上与在监狱了呆了一晚、决定改过自新的的Don谈话、拥抱的一幕，Janie动情地写道：“她穿着白裙，他穿着西装，清晨的阳光照进来，这就像一个婚礼。

”Tom&Lorenzo则刁侃“Megan就缺一对翅膀和一个光环了！

”对于后来Don改变主意，决定留在纽约，Megan穿着海军蓝的毛衣愤怒摔门而去的一幕，Janie说，Megan的蓝色毛衣切合着本集sink, boat, water的motif，暗色调也与早晨的白裙相反，可以从一个角度上解释为Don&Megan婚姻的死亡。

但是，Tom&Lorenzo则有着相反的、乐观的推断，他们注意到Megan的海军蓝、灰色、白色和Don西装、衬衫、领带的三色完全匹配，Megan的三角形领口对应Don的西装领口，他们是connect的、有未来的一对。

另外可以加强观剧体验的当然就是看怀纳大神以及众卡司的采访，这些都可以在AMC和Vulture的MM页面上找到。

最后，最能提升观剧感受&能力的，就是自己动手写一篇剧评！

没有什么更能比在观剧后写recap，对照自己的recap和Matt&Nelle的recap，更能提升自己的观察、梳理以及英语能力的了。

这一季我写了五篇recap，后三篇比较像样的放在了豆瓣上：【607 Recap】Above the Cloud http://movie.douban.com/review/6187903/【609 Recap】A Traumatizing Experience http://movie.douban.com/review/6187908/【613 Recap】‘If you wanna run, I’d do it now.’ http://movie.douban.com/review/6187912/当然和Matt&Nelle&Tom&Lorenzo的评论的洞察力还远不好比，但至少形式上慢慢地比较有章法了（偏向Nelle的台词摘录法）。

看到这里的Mad Mania们，送你们一颗（需要翻墙的）彩蛋：Peggy十年奋斗史：http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/06/watch-peggy-olson-break-the-glass-ceiling.html图文版：http://www.douban.com/note/292004705/

首先，mad men是一部标准的时代剧，这是美国历史上标准的大时代，所有的事物杂乱而蓬勃，个人的命运可以起伏跌宕，每个人都跃跃欲试，想要成为时代的弄潮儿。

在这部剧中是完全不存在主角光环及英雄史观的。

换句话说，这部剧根本不是以描写主角不停升级打怪，最终站在行业之巅这样的烂俗套路展开的。

生产力的高速发展以及资本主义经济矛盾催生出消费主义，享乐主义逐渐充斥整个社会，而广告业就是消费主义推波助澜的最好帮手，是揭示那个大时代本质的最好领域，剧中每个角色不断定义品牌，唤起人们的共情，助推消费主义，但每个角色都难逃消费主义的影响。

我一直认为编剧想想描写的并不是广告业，而是那个时代潮起潮落，只不过广告业是最好的切入点罢了。

所以mab men的第一个主旨就是透过广告业描写那个时代。

每一个时代都有对幸福感的定义，Don说过一句非常精髓的话“advertising is about happiness.” 广告就是用来定义“幸福感”的。

这些广告人们通过各种途径将幸福感与各种商业品牌联系起来，定义了那个时代的主流幸福感。

抽烟没什么幸福感，抽lucky strike才有，开车没什么幸福感，得开chevy,jaguar才有；座mohawk航空才能得到冒险的幸福感；westunion的电报才能把听到好消息时的幸福感镌刻永久……你是否幸福，在于你是否拥有这些品牌的商品，在于你拥有多少这些品牌的商品。

大部分人都在这条大路上狂飙突进，通过品牌与消费堆砌幸福感。

而在主流之外，仍存在非主流的价值观及其对应的幸福感。

基督教的价值观，嬉皮士风潮，印度教等等给了在消费主义中疲惫或失败的人一条逃离的路，一个通向另一种幸福感的可能。

剧中人物都积极投入消费主义大潮中，又或多或少都踏入过非主流的方向，peggy去教堂礼拜，kinsey加入印度教,roger吃了LSD才能感到真实，甚至don本人也得在加州的某个修行场才能看透自己…… 剧中通过这些广告人挣扎着背离自己定义的幸福感引出并讨论了一个更为深刻的话题---何为幸福？

这是人类的一个终极问题。

怎样的生活才是幸福的，怎样才能过上那样幸福的生活？

关于这个问题，历史上出现过非常多的主义，宗教教义，无非都是在回答这个问题，幸福是在现世还是彼岸，幸福在于物质还是内心……。

所以mad men 最根本的主旨就是要探讨这一终极问题---何为幸福？

mad men的整体剧情线索就是:广告业---时代---何为幸福？

而剧中人物都是这条整体线索的注脚，最终都以在自身时代中的挣扎和行进中思考并回答着:何为幸福？

说回don本身。

编剧将don身上因对终极问题的矛盾埋藏的更深，使得这一角色更加令人迷惑。

don作为妓女的遗腹子，在亲生父亲意外死亡后，有重新回到了妓院，青春期在妓院中长大。

为了逃离妓院而参军，并最终顶替了don draper 的身份与原来的生活彻底切割。

编剧通过这样的背景将偏僻乡下的穷小子，令人嫌弃的私生子，贫瘠缺爱的因子注入到了don的身上。

而这样的背景成为了一个原因，成为大部分观者对don后期生活中背叛，出轨，欺骗的解释；同时又给don 自己对自己这些行为找到了一个借口，将don对时代及终极问题的内心矛盾埋藏的更深。

作为屌丝的don 来到纽约发现这里有他想要的一切，金钱，名望，美女…… 他迅速被消费主义俘获，并积极投入其中。

剧集刚开始的don ,可谓主角光环加身，满满人生赢家模样，在创意展示最终关头力挽狂澜，在城市的某间公寓美人在怀，家里又有娇妻以及一双儿女。

他很满足。

凭借英俊的外表，艺术家般的谈吐，天才的创意，他游刃有余地嬉戏于名利场。

他对妻子betty的满足也仅仅停留在物质上，当妻子依然闷闷不乐，却直接打包给心理医生。

而消费主义并不只消费物品，还要物化人。

don心中是深知这一点的。

他对peggy传授的广告学秘籍就有这么一条:“you are the products, you feel something." 你自己就是产品，你感受到一些东西。

剧中don一直对于公司被收购有一种本能的抵触。

在我看来这就是don对于自己被物化的一种抵触，一种反抗。

don既想得到消费主义给予的好处，又不想被消费主义物化。

但作为一个广告人，他必须物化自己，才能继续得到好处。

对人的物化让他想到他长大的妓院，让他联想到自己，不过是一个面容英俊，贩卖着欺骗性故事，连身份都不真实的另一种妓女。

随着剧情的继续，don逐渐以一种他者的角度观看着advertising制造和定义的happiness 。

他发现自己之前作为一个活在广告中的广告人的幸福都是虚妄的。

只有他自己知道为了制造出这些幸福感他编造了多少谎言。

之前成为自己享乐及出轨行为借口的悲催童年也逐渐无用。

他逐渐觉得继续物化自己享乐于消费主义根本不会带给他幸福。

他不断地逃离办公室，去加州，去找anna，一个知道自己全部底细却依然接受他的女人。

在那儿，他不再是物，而是活生生的人。

而anna的死亡使得don失去了最后的逃避港湾，他连短暂的人也当不得了。

don在hershey 的展示中说出自己的真实身世，并坦白自己广告中的故事就是谎言。

这本质上就是对消费主义的背弃，对广告的背弃。

也彻底戳穿了消费主义以及广告业所营造的幸福感。

don是那个时代的佼佼者，但依然被时代的力量支配的完完全全，被奚落的一地鸡毛。

用jim的话说就是:iam deeply not impressed. you are just a bully and a Don的矛盾与痛苦绝不仅仅是自身的痛苦，当你无法用从自身找到的借口解释的时候，那就是那个时代人们都有的痛苦了。

剧集中的其他角色不也都是这样吗。

Peggy正在重走don的老路，pete成为了roger嘴里的"pureaccount " joan则通过出卖自己物化自己换取了荣华。

而整个SCDP则更是成为商品被卖给了麦肯。

每个人的抵抗最终都无法左右时代的大潮，每个人发现自身时代的谎言后也无可奈何，顶多逃离广告业，做一些象征性的抵抗，但别的行业又有什么区别吗。

而mad men 这部剧讨论了幸福这一终极问题，否定了消费主义虚妄的幸福感的同时，并未对这一问题直接给予回答。

也许这就是终极问题的含义吧，随着我们的诞生而诞生，等我们灭亡了才会灭亡。

MM 613 'In Care Of' RecapThe 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.’ - PeteS6E13 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.’ - StanStan’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

第六季终于结束了。

季末的Don，可谓中年危机的一次爆发。

情人在败露后彻底崩了，女儿还偏偏撞见，这等羞惭事也亏得是Don能撑住。

女儿在boarding school停学，自己本来想远走加州，又让給了ted。

回来家，Megan对他的出尔反尔也是忍无可忍，估计这婚姻的分崩离析也不远了。

I don't know Don. We don't have kids. 人家Megan都说的很明晰了，美剧又不是过日子，一般台词都是草灰蛇线，何况Mad Men编剧一直水准颇高。

这部剧播到第六年，Don为首的这群mad men,也从上升期到了鼎盛期，现在已然是强弩之末。

对生活的激情早已耗尽，哪怕是对广告本身，也未必再如以往那么创意无限。

不过多年经验积攒下来的老辣，倒比创意本身发挥的作用更大。

看这一季合并之后的Don和Ted,Don阴谋阳谋一起，把Ted收拾了个服服帖帖。

最后俩人因为心理处境的相似，反而惺惺相惜，也是Don愿意把去加州的机会拱手送给Ted的原因。

Don到了此时，对对手就不再咄咄相逼了，能举重若轻抹掉威胁，又能在关键时刻伸手相帮，是精明老辣，反过来看，也是一种心灵救赎。

同样强弩之末的也是Ted. 他虽比Don小几岁，人看来也直接单纯得多，没有Don那种心里能藏事的本事，这次和Peggy的确是玩得太过火了。

他一边强调是真爱，一边回家看到妻儿还是觉得以全局为重。

Peggy就更是了，穿着性感洋装和丝袜故意甩脸给Ted看，没让我觉得可爱，反而有一种desperate的感觉。

而最终在办公室里加班的落寞，更是有种清冷，前尘已了，怅然若失。

最后孑然一身的Don选择了带着孩子去回顾自己的过去。

正视历史，等于重新定义现在。

同样地，讨人厌的小背头peter，还有和得罪了女儿的Roger，都定格在和孩子一起的时刻。

和孩子在一起，是不是暗示着他们已然没有多少未来可盼，或是暗示着他们都得重头再来，从能从目前这份迷惘里跳脱出来呢。

看着Don长大的妓院残破不堪，门口却又坐一个小黑孩，仿佛看到不断闪回的那个穿背带裤脸色苍白的童年的Don。

愿他能通过“过去”，搭上那辆开往未来的车，能reconnect to this world.