To be fare, the season six finale is not a bad one, considering the fact that the whole season has seemed headed into a kind of dryness as the plot became a little bit predictable. Generally speaking, it seems to me there are two ways in which the screenwriters are trying to make the show entertaining if not great. One is to make connections between Draper's Ad agency and the politico-cultural ups and downs happened in the 1960s, like the episode about Kennedy's death or the one filled with the shock and sadness brought by the MLK assassination do. The other way, which is used more often, is to make connections between Draper's current city life and his unusual childhood.
It is more than clear that Draper made a lot of critical decisions with a mental state consciously or subconsciously affected by his childhood memories, which are visualized as flashbacks set in 1930s, a time period antithetic to the 1960s. For much part of the story, the childhood card is satisfactorily played. His womanizing is well explained by his whorehouse upbringing, and his trouble with his own personal identity by his orphanhood and his lack of a farther figure. What passing my understanding is how can we ever make sense of his alcoholism with the "childhood theory." His hand was shaking as a sign of withdrawal symptoms when he was pitching his idea in front of the clients, however, the show blamed this on his teenage memory. He punched a minister and went to the jail for a night, just because he was preached 30 years ago in his brothel/home. His life was falling apart throughout the season, but he chose to start afresh by revisiting the ex- brothel with his kids. It doesn't make much sense, at least to me.
Just when I thought Pete Campbell had finally outgrown himself as he learned in a hard way how to bury the hatchet with someone he disliked in the penultimate episode, the show decided to let him retrogress in terms of personality development. In the finale, he went back to his old irascible self after he found out his mother's sudden death. In my opinion, the show should have kept on making him more complex than he appears to be.
Where Bob Benson is going? It is puzzling. He is a closeted gay with a not-so-mad- man early history. He could become a prettier Don Draper or at least a younger Sterling. However, the show tells us his darker ego by unraveling his continuing farce with Campbell. I like his smile and don't want to find out that he will become a super-villain in the next season.
Miss Harrison is a treat, and I want to see her more involved into the business in the next season. She was pushing herself in hope of becoming an account-woman in season six, and I see no reason why she should fail.
It is more than clear that Draper made a lot of critical decisions with a mental state consciously or subconsciously affected by his childhood memories, which are visualized as flashbacks set in 1930s, a time period antithetic to the 1960s. For much part of the story, the childhood card is satisfactorily played. His womanizing is well explained by his whorehouse upbringing, and his trouble with his own personal identity by his orphanhood and his lack of a farther figure. What passing my understanding is how can we ever make sense of his alcoholism with the "childhood theory." His hand was shaking as a sign of withdrawal symptoms when he was pitching his idea in front of the clients, however, the show blamed this on his teenage memory. He punched a minister and went to the jail for a night, just because he was preached 30 years ago in his brothel/home. His life was falling apart throughout the season, but he chose to start afresh by revisiting the ex- brothel with his kids. It doesn't make much sense, at least to me.
Just when I thought Pete Campbell had finally outgrown himself as he learned in a hard way how to bury the hatchet with someone he disliked in the penultimate episode, the show decided to let him retrogress in terms of personality development. In the finale, he went back to his old irascible self after he found out his mother's sudden death. In my opinion, the show should have kept on making him more complex than he appears to be.
Where Bob Benson is going? It is puzzling. He is a closeted gay with a not-so-mad- man early history. He could become a prettier Don Draper or at least a younger Sterling. However, the show tells us his darker ego by unraveling his continuing farce with Campbell. I like his smile and don't want to find out that he will become a super-villain in the next season.
Miss Harrison is a treat, and I want to see her more involved into the business in the next season. She was pushing herself in hope of becoming an account-woman in season six, and I see no reason why she should fail.