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If \u003cem>Seinfeld\u003c/em> is a \"show about nothing,\" in which nobody learns anything, \u003cem>The Big Lebowski\u003c/em>, like many of the Coen brothers' films, is similarly existential: by the end, nothing is accomplished, and The Dude's and Walter's comical meddling has led only to the death of their bowling buddy. Walter knows so little about his friend that he starts ranting about Vietnam in the middle of the eulogy he gives, as if for lack of material. Also like \u003cem>Seinfeld, \u003c/em>the friends go back to doing what they'd always done. This clips omits the scene's final line, \"F--- it, dude. Let's go bowling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Sopranos - \u003c/em>Livia\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/kQrQcAzMb8E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Early in the third season of \u003cem>The Sopranos\u003c/em>, Tony Soprano's emotionally abusive mother Livia dies. The show killed her off because Nancy Marchand, the actress who played her, passed away, but Livia's death allows the show to continue to emphasize its theme of peoples' inability to change or find closure. Marchand gets one final scene via an awkward use of old footage, something the show could not have gotten away with if they attempted a touching sendoff for Livia. In this clip, Tony's protege Christopher goes off on a stoned tangent about Livia, but trails off at \"What I'm trying to say is...\" He, too, has trouble finding meaning in any of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Wire - \u003c/em>D'Angelo Barksdale (language NSFW here also, but what are you doing watching YouTube videos at work without headphones? 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It's worth noting that so far 100% of these scenes have featured Mark McKinney, the mourner on the left in this sketch and one of the Kids in the Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Seinfeld \u003c/em>- Susan\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Dt8E_27iyOk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The actual funeral scene in this storyline is very brief, but this video encapsulates the rest of the storyline: hapless George Costanza insists on buying cheap envelopes for invitations to a wedding he has reservations about, and his fiancee dies from licking the envelopes, which turn out to be toxic. It's great because the comically self-absorbed characters have to deal with mortality, but also because the show itself, built on the maxim \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2008/may/13/tenyearsagotomorrow75\">no hugging, no learning\u003c/a>,\" soldiered on with funny beats in the face of death, and the effect is more powerful, in a weird way, than if hugging or learning occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Big Lebowski\u003c/em> - Donny (language NSFW)\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/_4ezPvzKe5M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Like the death of Susan on \u003cem>Seinfeld\u003c/em>, Donny's fate at the end of \u003cem>The Big Lebowski\u003c/em> lends gravity to the characters' bumbling, if only briefly. If \u003cem>Seinfeld\u003c/em> is a \"show about nothing,\" in which nobody learns anything, \u003cem>The Big Lebowski\u003c/em>, like many of the Coen brothers' films, is similarly existential: by the end, nothing is accomplished, and The Dude's and Walter's comical meddling has led only to the death of their bowling buddy. Walter knows so little about his friend that he starts ranting about Vietnam in the middle of the eulogy he gives, as if for lack of material. Also like \u003cem>Seinfeld, \u003c/em>the friends go back to doing what they'd always done. This clips omits the scene's final line, \"F--- it, dude. Let's go bowling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Sopranos - \u003c/em>Livia\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/kQrQcAzMb8E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Early in the third season of \u003cem>The Sopranos\u003c/em>, Tony Soprano's emotionally abusive mother Livia dies. 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Breathless, suspenseful, respectfully informative of monarchical traditions and laws, it was the best television pageantry since parents Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge were wed two years ago. Or wait, maybe I meant the Queen's Royal Jubilee? Or maybe an especially good year at Ascot? Or, what was the wedding before that, or was it a state funeral? My point is, royalty (in this case, the English) are very good at pageantry and spectacle to the point where the celebrations almost run together in the collective unconscious. Royals are good at pageants and the media is very good at adding their own level of spectacle. And did I mention, the public is really good at consuming it? 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These are the only excuses I can imagine for not having heard about the new Netflix show \u003ca href=\"http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Orange_Is_the_New_Black/70242311?locale=en-US\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Orange is the New Black\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, based on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2010/04/whats_a_nice_blonde_like_me_doing_in_prison.html\" target=\"_blank\">by-all-accounts-terrible memoir\u003c/a> of the same name (okay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Orange-Is-New-Black-Womens/dp/product-description/0385523394/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books\" target=\"_blank\">some people like it\u003c/a> but I'm still not reading it). This show though is the OPPOSITE of terrible. In fact, out of the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_distributed_by_Netflix\" target=\"_blank\">five original shows\u003c/a> that Netflix has put up so far (and I am including \u003cem>House of Cards\u003c/em> but not \u003cem>Arrested Development\u003c/em> in this sweeping statement), \u003cem>Orange is the New Black\u003c/em> may be the best. My advice to you: leave work now. Go home. Get out your computer, put on your jammies and start watching. Here’s why:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Not a single one of the characters is a cliché or a simple amalgamation of stereotypes.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is true for everyone from the most vile prison guard to the sweetest inmate. Just when you think, \"Oh yeah, this dude with the mustache, I get it, he's evil,\" he does something that spins you around. The same with the yoga lady, the fundamentalist Christian, the transgender hair stylist, the mother and daughter who hate each other, the inmate known as \"Crazy Eyes.\" And these aren't even the main characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. The transgender hair stylist is actually played by a transgender person.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/07/17/transgender-characters-get-a-transformative-moment-on-netflix-s-orange-is-the-new-black.html\" target=\"_blank\">According to \u003cem>The Daily Beast\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, this is the first time this has happened ever in the history of television (so I guess Netflix is officially television now?). Laverne Cox plays the character of Sophia Burset, who used to be a male firefighter, with understanding but no sentimentality. As with all the characters, there isn't a clear-cut good guy and bad guy in her story. Somehow you feel sympathy for Sophia and her struggle while simultaneously feeling sorrow for her former wife and son. It's pretty epic and once again not even the main story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. I've never been to prison but I have a feeling this is a pretty accurate portrayal of the place that walks the line between funny and tragic without ever becoming exploitative or ultra-violent.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison sucks. Ever since I watched \u003cem>Oz \u003c/em>for the first time, long ago, I knew I did not \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/CWVZfqgPg-4\" target=\"_blank\">want to go to there\u003c/a>. But I also realize, and I think this show does a really good job at pointing this out, that in America the justice system isn't always completely \"fair\" and sometimes people who don't \"deserve\" it (these quotes are just because who can say what is fair and who can say if anyone ever deserves a cage?) end up in a place that is scary, run by arbitrary rules and full of terrible food. So basically middle school. This is why I learned yoga, just in case I make the wrong move some day. I sure wish I had learned it before sixth grade. Anyway, I respect the creators/directors/actors of this show for making this seem real while also allowing us to see the humanity of a place like women's prison and the camaraderie, cliques and emotional manipulation that springs up between women in close corridors. Like I said: middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Another thing that isn't exploited? Lesbian relationships.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't know if I have ever seen a show (and I am including \u003cem>The L Word\u003c/em>) that shows lesbian relationships, as well as heterosexual relationships, in such an honest and open way. Okay, yes, I am not a lesbian. But I am a woman, so I guess what I am saying is I haven't seen a show that so honestly and openly talks about female sexuality. Also: I know a LOT of lesbians and if Facebook is any indication, this is their favorite show of the year. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2013/07/10/why-you-should-watch-orange-new-black?page=full\" target=\"_blank\">the \u003cem>Advocate \u003c/em>says it's good\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. All that said: it's just a really entertaining show.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender politics and character development aside, this is just a really fun show to watch. It looks good, makes you laugh and lets you feel feelings. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6890\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/07/22/the-bachelorette-a-choose-your-own-adventure-guide/the-bachelorette/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6890\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-6890\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/the-bachelorette.jpg\" alt=\"the-bachelorette\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/the-bachelorette.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/the-bachelorette-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Emmanuel Hapsis\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">The story begins simply enough, but, as matters of the heart tend to, gets complicated fast. For 17 seasons you find yourself ambivalently engrossed in the longest running dating reality franchise of all time, the enduring shows \u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003cem>The Bachelor, The Bachelorette\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Bachelor Pad\u003c/em>. The premise, part game show, part soap opera, part arranged marriage/harem/PG-13 porn epic, casts a man or woman in their search for true love. You know it's scripted, edited, and producer influenced. You don't relate to the hunky, dull people who populate this artificial reality. And yet there you are, each season, pulled back into the vortex of suspense and surveillance, examining this cultural artifact, its profundity and triviality in equal measure, awaiting with baited breath the pre-determined surprises and faux cliffhangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">So, do you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">A) Unabashedly regale friends with \u003cem>Bachelorette\u003c/em> updates at dinner parties (go to Part I).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">B) Have an existential crisis about your proclivity for bad television and take up some light reading and research involving immersion in Marxist theory, Derrida and feminist texts (go to Part II).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part I\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"I've been getting into \u003cem>The Bachelorette,\u003c/em>\" you tell people proudly whenever they bring up more intelligent shows such as \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>. People laugh nervously and wonder if you're serious as you entertain them with stories about Bryden, the Iraqi war vet who doesn't know what Brie is, Chris who writes poetry where ocean rhymes with emotion and the federal prosecutor who speaks mostly in legal puns (\"the people vs. Ben, case dismissed,\" he says, when his nemesis is sent home). You find this all hilarious and imagine there must be some deeper symbolism at work. Your questions are unending. Is it just so bad it's good? Is it tapping into some subconscious yearning you have for a traditional, domestic life? Is it simply a sociological train wreck from which you can't avert your eyes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Do you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">A) Secretly have a favorite bachelor who you hope with all your heart will win, and read \u003ca href=\"http://www.buddytv.com/articles/the-bachelorette/the-bachelorette-recap-say-it-50541.aspx\">spoiler-alert gossip blogs\u003c/a> to satisfy your desire to know the winner weeks in advance (go to Part III).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">B) Worry a bit about \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/11/11/the-problem-with-women-on-reality-tv.html\">representations of gender \u003c/a> and narrative manipulation on the show (go to Part IV).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part II\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">You listen to feminist critic Rachel Dubrofsky's \u003ca href=\"http://thecriticallede.com/096-interview-with-rachel-dubrofsky-author-of-the-surveillance-of-women-on-reality-tv/\">really interesting interview\u003c/a> where she discusses her book \u003cem>The Surveillance of Women On Reality TV: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette\u003c/em>. Dubrofsky breaks apart how the show is ostensibly about monogamy, while actually illustrating an extreme opposite. One recent \"two-on-one\" date involves both men kissing the bachelorette chastely on either cheek and it's indeed really creepy. You wonder how the winner of the show feels when he watches these episodes after the fact. All the kissing of other men must make him sad. And what of the fact that all the dates, not just his, involve jumping from great heights and elaborately chandelier-lit dinners? Dubrofsky is a fan of the show and you admire how she compartmentalizes her critique alongside her enjoyment, something it seems intelligent people are able to do without much self-doubt, and something which you will practice from here on out. While reading Marxist theory, you learn that reification occurs when human creation is confused with facts of nature. \u003cem>\"The Bachelorette \u003c/em>is full of reification,\" you declare, looking the word up in the dictionary to see if you're saying anything at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">You re-read parts of \u003ca href=\"http://susanfaludi.com/backlash-chapter.html\">\u003cem>Backlash\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Susan Faludi's bad-ass book about contemporary resistance to feminism, which discusses how, \"the afflictions ascribed to feminism are all myths. From 'the man shortage' to 'the infertility epidemic'...these so-called female crises have had their origins not in the actual conditions of women's lives but rather in a closed system that starts and ends in the media, popular culture, and advertising — an endless feedback loop that perpetuates and exaggerates its own false images of womanhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">This is at the heart of \u003cem>The Bachelor/Bachelorette: \u003c/em>a closed system where the rules of the story make the ensuing proceedings seem plausible, even as something insidious is at work. It reminds you of\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-long-can-you-wait-to-have-a-baby/309374/\"> this article \u003c/a>in The Atlantic, how truths are being twisted, told and \u003cem>believed \u003c/em>in certain ways. You begin to worry all incarnations of this show are illuminating something awful about cultural logic and reinforcing retro notions of gender and marriage. As the real world makes strides in more enlightened directions, popular culture often does reflect back at us the very opposite of our better selves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Do you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">A) Try to put it all from your mind (go to Part V).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">B) Play a rousing game of Heartthrob in an attempt to get further toward the heart of the matter (go to Part VI).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part III\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">See Brooks, pictured below. You want him to win from the get-go. He's tall and halfway cute, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/05/28/186899046/a-parade-of-goobers-17-actual-people-presented-to-the-bachelorette\">at least by comparison\u003c/a> to his competitors. In one episode, he breaks his finger after a game of dodgeball and later shows up to a group date still loopy on pain killers, pronouncing, \"Oh, just make out with me!\" In keeping with what you believe to often be true about love, he is the most unsure of his feelings and ability to commit, and so the bachelorette is most in love with him, or so you believe. Regardless, you're hopeful for them and like her more for having picked the right guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://tvfoodanddrink.com/category/tv-now/page/2/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-6717 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2.jpg\" alt=\"3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part IV\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">See James, pictured below. You don't like James. He has the shiny, dark eyes of a lunk-headed villain. And yet, his premature departure from the show, wherein the more sincere men bully him into admitting he's a horrific cad for imagining a life post-Bachelorette, strikes you as unfair. More importantly, James illustrates an important aspect of \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em>, one in which each person has many stories that might be contrived around them, and yet only one is deemed provocative and predictable enough to work within this structure. There must always be the bad guy, just as there must always be the hysterical woman. There must always be someone who cares too much and someone who doesn't care enough. Someone who can't open up and someone with a deep, dark secret they long to share. The material the editors and producers are given by their cast must be shaped and molded into these narratives, ones with, when you think about it, very little suspense at all. The twists and turns of these romances are not those of real romance. In the world of \u003cem>The Bachelorette,\u003c/em> you are guided to make the most boring choices, you're told who's most middle-road, neither extreme, and therefore desirable. Yet, when the winning couple enters the world, they almost always crumble. There's a lesson there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://thebigkibitz.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/bachelorette-preview/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6718\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6718\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/bachelorette-james-desiree.png\" alt=\"bachelorette-james-desiree\" width=\"593\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/bachelorette-james-desiree.png 817w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/bachelorette-james-desiree-400x205.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/bachelorette-james-desiree-800x410.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part V\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">You busy yourself with other things, or try. You go to brunch and take walks. You Instagram and work on your Tumblr pages. You read fiction that has nothing to do with love. You go to work. You idly Google image search your most and least favorite \u003cem>Bachelorette\u003c/em> men. You read \u003ca href=\"http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/content/u0015/0000001/0000660/u0015_0000001_0000660.pdf\">dissertations\u003c/a> that discuss critical and cultural approaches to watching the show. You discuss your findings over drinks with friends. They ask you what the deal is with that show anyway. You shake your head and say, \"I don't know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part VI\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/9P9uC5CvxmI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> reminds you a lot of the 1988 classic board game, Heartthrob. You find a well-preserved edition of this game at a thrift store and many an evening is spent playing. The general gist is that you must choose a boy for yourself and guess who your friends are choosing. The boys are '80s hunks who get three good trait cards and one bad (nice odds!). You have to decide if the bad trait can be outweighed by the good ones, much like the ever-important decisions of actual love. It's a hilarious, amazing, horrifying game, as is \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em>. How do you critique or participate in these things, somehow weighing the cultural influence and importance, the impact on you and your adventure? The bottom line, you hope, is that being critical and being a fan are not mutually exclusive. You can and should thoroughly criticize even your most favorite things, especially your favorite things. Heartthrob comforts you. It all means very little, perhaps. It's all good fun, you tell yourself. \u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Unlike the bachelorette, you live happily ever after, or at least until Season 18 starts the adventure all over again.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Is it simply a sociological train wreck from which you can't avert your eyes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Do you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">A) Secretly have a favorite bachelor who you hope with all your heart will win, and read \u003ca href=\"http://www.buddytv.com/articles/the-bachelorette/the-bachelorette-recap-say-it-50541.aspx\">spoiler-alert gossip blogs\u003c/a> to satisfy your desire to know the winner weeks in advance (go to Part III).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">B) Worry a bit about \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/11/11/the-problem-with-women-on-reality-tv.html\">representations of gender \u003c/a> and narrative manipulation on the show (go to Part IV).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part II\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">You listen to feminist critic Rachel Dubrofsky's \u003ca href=\"http://thecriticallede.com/096-interview-with-rachel-dubrofsky-author-of-the-surveillance-of-women-on-reality-tv/\">really interesting interview\u003c/a> where she discusses her book \u003cem>The Surveillance of Women On Reality TV: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette\u003c/em>. Dubrofsky breaks apart how the show is ostensibly about monogamy, while actually illustrating an extreme opposite. One recent \"two-on-one\" date involves both men kissing the bachelorette chastely on either cheek and it's indeed really creepy. You wonder how the winner of the show feels when he watches these episodes after the fact. All the kissing of other men must make him sad. And what of the fact that all the dates, not just his, involve jumping from great heights and elaborately chandelier-lit dinners? Dubrofsky is a fan of the show and you admire how she compartmentalizes her critique alongside her enjoyment, something it seems intelligent people are able to do without much self-doubt, and something which you will practice from here on out. While reading Marxist theory, you learn that reification occurs when human creation is confused with facts of nature. \u003cem>\"The Bachelorette \u003c/em>is full of reification,\" you declare, looking the word up in the dictionary to see if you're saying anything at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">You re-read parts of \u003ca href=\"http://susanfaludi.com/backlash-chapter.html\">\u003cem>Backlash\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Susan Faludi's bad-ass book about contemporary resistance to feminism, which discusses how, \"the afflictions ascribed to feminism are all myths. From 'the man shortage' to 'the infertility epidemic'...these so-called female crises have had their origins not in the actual conditions of women's lives but rather in a closed system that starts and ends in the media, popular culture, and advertising — an endless feedback loop that perpetuates and exaggerates its own false images of womanhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">This is at the heart of \u003cem>The Bachelor/Bachelorette: \u003c/em>a closed system where the rules of the story make the ensuing proceedings seem plausible, even as something insidious is at work. It reminds you of\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-long-can-you-wait-to-have-a-baby/309374/\"> this article \u003c/a>in The Atlantic, how truths are being twisted, told and \u003cem>believed \u003c/em>in certain ways. You begin to worry all incarnations of this show are illuminating something awful about cultural logic and reinforcing retro notions of gender and marriage. As the real world makes strides in more enlightened directions, popular culture often does reflect back at us the very opposite of our better selves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Do you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">A) Try to put it all from your mind (go to Part V).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">B) Play a rousing game of Heartthrob in an attempt to get further toward the heart of the matter (go to Part VI).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part III\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">See Brooks, pictured below. You want him to win from the get-go. He's tall and halfway cute, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/05/28/186899046/a-parade-of-goobers-17-actual-people-presented-to-the-bachelorette\">at least by comparison\u003c/a> to his competitors. In one episode, he breaks his finger after a game of dodgeball and later shows up to a group date still loopy on pain killers, pronouncing, \"Oh, just make out with me!\" In keeping with what you believe to often be true about love, he is the most unsure of his feelings and ability to commit, and so the bachelorette is most in love with him, or so you believe. Regardless, you're hopeful for them and like her more for having picked the right guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://tvfoodanddrink.com/category/tv-now/page/2/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-6717 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2.jpg\" alt=\"3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/3-brooks-forester-broken-finger-2-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Part IV\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">See James, pictured below. You don't like James. He has the shiny, dark eyes of a lunk-headed villain. And yet, his premature departure from the show, wherein the more sincere men bully him into admitting he's a horrific cad for imagining a life post-Bachelorette, strikes you as unfair. More importantly, James illustrates an important aspect of \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em>, one in which each person has many stories that might be contrived around them, and yet only one is deemed provocative and predictable enough to work within this structure. There must always be the bad guy, just as there must always be the hysterical woman. There must always be someone who cares too much and someone who doesn't care enough. Someone who can't open up and someone with a deep, dark secret they long to share. The material the editors and producers are given by their cast must be shaped and molded into these narratives, ones with, when you think about it, very little suspense at all. The twists and turns of these romances are not those of real romance. In the world of \u003cem>The Bachelorette,\u003c/em> you are guided to make the most boring choices, you're told who's most middle-road, neither extreme, and therefore desirable. Yet, when the winning couple enters the world, they almost always crumble. 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My initial reaction was probably similar to yours, as evidenced by my tweets during the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exhibit A: \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/07/09/celebrity-wife-swap-the-worst-and-best-show-on-television/tweet1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6613\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6613\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet1.jpg\" alt=\"tweet1\" width=\"465\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet1.jpg 465w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet1-400x69.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet I was not deterred. In fact, I \u003cem>needed\u003c/em> to watch this train derail. Coolio and Mark didn’t let me down. I watched in astonishment as the “Ganagta’s Paradise” rapper attempted ice skating with McGrath’s wife and then took suggestions on how to treat his woman from Mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exhibit B: \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/07/09/celebrity-wife-swap-the-worst-and-best-show-on-television/tweet2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6614\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6614\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet2.jpg\" alt=\"tweet2\" width=\"468\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet2.jpg 468w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet2-400x87.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally the shocking ending to the story, Exhibit C:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/07/09/celebrity-wife-swap-the-worst-and-best-show-on-television/tweet3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6615\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6615\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet3.png\" alt=\"tweet3\" width=\"466\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet3.png 466w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet3-400x54.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right, Coolio’s two-job having, hard working, mother-of-three girlfriend Mimi learned her relationship was bogus through the swap and sent Coolio packing. I didn’t see that coming. I also couldn’t have predicted that I’d get hooked on \u003cem>Celebrity Wife Swap. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes \u003cem>CWS\u003c/em> so titillating is that, this season, their formula is masterfully set up for conflict: First, they pair couples whose famous halves know each other from the past and usually have some kind of beef. Next, they carefully set up what they perceive to be the key difference between the families (e.g. child rearing habits, etc.), they add cameras and voila!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst/best reality show on TV is chock full of delicious awkwardness, Emmy-seeking tears, and extreme frivolousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s see some examples, shall we?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Rivers vs. Bristol Palin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/i_SJnfQyjiE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>You don’t even have to watch this episode to know that it was just a ploy to get Joan Rives and Bristol Palin in the same room after Rivers ridiculed young Palin during her DWTS stint. Well played, ABC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This battle royale boils down to fashion vs. frump. They make sure to mention how important fashion is to Melissa (and of course her mother Joan) and point out how the Palin girls are proud of their cozy clothes. Beyond that, we learn that Melissa’s son Cooper is surprisingly well-adjusted for being raised by the Rivers and that Bristol is masterful at dodging political conversations. In the end, they all teach each other manners and hug. Bristol Palin got Joan Rivers to eat her words, who’d a thunk it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Thicke vs. Gilbert Gottfried\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/l3J19vY-y-Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>This silly story focuses on the cheap vs. the extravagant. Here we learn that Thicke fired Gottfried from his short-lived late night talk show \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thicke_of_the_Night\">\u003cem>Thicke of the Night \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and Gottfried is the cheapest human being on the planet. Gottfried wastes no time sexually harassing Thicke’s totally-hot-in-the-'80s wife, Tanya, while Alan Thicke impresses friends with a horrible Gilbert Gottfried impersonation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out both families lead completely ridiculous lifestyles. The Thickes adorn their walls with portraits of Tanya and the Gottfrieds shop exclusively at the 99 Cent store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Nature Boy” Ric Flair vs. “Rowdy” Roddy Piper\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/jDZSkaEOWBQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Even '80s WWF fans can enjoy \u003cem>Celebrity Wife Swap\u003c/em>! What a clever trick by the ABC bigwigs! Pinning WWF rivals Ric Flair and Roddy Piper against one another in the ol’ wife swap = brilliant. And oh does this rivaly run deep! Turns out, Ric and Roddy don’t just know one another, but Roddy and his wife Kitty were in Ric’s first wedding. Now on wife #4, Ric lives a flashy lifestyle in Charlotte, while Roddy, Kitty and the kids hole up in their Oregon home Howard Hughes style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the Swap, Ric Flair is reduced to tears when he finally admits he’s still hanging on to his glory days, and Roddy Piper decides to take his wife out to dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it is still unclear to me why a celebrity of any level would choose to participate in this show knowing that it only serves to reveal all of their at home weirdness, if they’re willing to do it, I am willing to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/celebrity-wife-swap\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Celebrity Wife Swap\u003c/em>\u003c/a> airs Sundays on ABC.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The 1988 writers strike taught the folks at Fox that they could rely on their shows \u003cem>Cops \u003c/em>and \u003cem>America’s Most Wanted\u003c/em> to stay afloat. When talks of a 2001 strike began, CBS knew they had an ace-in-the-hole with \u003cem>Survivor. \u003c/em>In fact, the show turned out to be one of the largest boons in the history of television. The “reality” genre exploded with every network jumping on board. When the 2008 writers strike rolled around, the writers were put in a tough spot -- somewhere between an unscripted, historical Presidential election and \u003cem>American Idol -- \u003c/em>and we’ve just been stuck in reality hell ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think anyone ever thought it would last this long. And I certainly don’t think anyone could have predicted that, when the writers got back to work, they’d write fictional shows that are supposed to look like reality shows. But here we are, lost in a sea of duck callers and dance groups. Some networks are better at executing the reality format than others. It’s tough to say which is the absolute best (probably Bravo), but I can tell you which is the worst: ABC. Yeah, I know they have \u003cem>Dancing With the Stars\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Bachelor/Bachelorette \u003c/em>(though really the concept of finding love this way is just bizarre)\u003cem> \u003c/em>and everyone loves those. I know they have \u003cem>Extreme Weightloss\u003c/em> and that’s fascinating. But this season they also have \u003cem>Bet On Your Baby, \u003c/em>a show where families bet on their children’s ability to complete tasks, in exchange for money for their college funds; \u003cem>Splash\u003c/em>, a rip-off of a British \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/26/splash-a-reality-show-about-jumping-off-the-high-dive/\">reality show where D-list celebs jump off a high dive\u003c/a>; and the worst/best show on television \u003cem>Celebrity Wife Swap \u003c/em>(FYI: \u003cem>Wife Swap\u003c/em> was originally a British show too, so we aren’t even original in our misguided programming)\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/vwdynCHDGUE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Pardon me, but how is this a real show? Am I the only person who remembers the \u003ca href=\"http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/chappelle-s-show\">\u003cem>Chappelle’s Show\u003c/em>\u003c/a> sketch “Trading Spouses?” The one where Dave Chappelle thought our nation’s reality show infatuation was so ridiculous that trading spouses seemed hysterical. Then it became an actual show (well, two, actually). Then, the geniuses at ABC decided to call up some non-busy celebrities to participate and \u003cem>Celebrity Wife Swap\u003c/em> was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t watch TV very often. I generally stick to Hulu Plus catch-ups after the original airing. However, on occasion I’ve been known to flip on the TV for some news or noise. On one such occasion, I was happy to discover a program where Coolio and Mark McGrath from Sugar Ray swap wives. I was riveted. My initial reaction was probably similar to yours, as evidenced by my tweets during the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exhibit A: \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/07/09/celebrity-wife-swap-the-worst-and-best-show-on-television/tweet1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6613\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6613\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet1.jpg\" alt=\"tweet1\" width=\"465\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet1.jpg 465w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet1-400x69.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet I was not deterred. In fact, I \u003cem>needed\u003c/em> to watch this train derail. Coolio and Mark didn’t let me down. I watched in astonishment as the “Ganagta’s Paradise” rapper attempted ice skating with McGrath’s wife and then took suggestions on how to treat his woman from Mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exhibit B: \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/07/09/celebrity-wife-swap-the-worst-and-best-show-on-television/tweet2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6614\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6614\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet2.jpg\" alt=\"tweet2\" width=\"468\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet2.jpg 468w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet2-400x87.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally the shocking ending to the story, Exhibit C:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/07/09/celebrity-wife-swap-the-worst-and-best-show-on-television/tweet3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6615\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6615\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet3.png\" alt=\"tweet3\" width=\"466\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet3.png 466w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/07/tweet3-400x54.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right, Coolio’s two-job having, hard working, mother-of-three girlfriend Mimi learned her relationship was bogus through the swap and sent Coolio packing. I didn’t see that coming. I also couldn’t have predicted that I’d get hooked on \u003cem>Celebrity Wife Swap. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes \u003cem>CWS\u003c/em> so titillating is that, this season, their formula is masterfully set up for conflict: First, they pair couples whose famous halves know each other from the past and usually have some kind of beef. Next, they carefully set up what they perceive to be the key difference between the families (e.g. child rearing habits, etc.), they add cameras and voila!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst/best reality show on TV is chock full of delicious awkwardness, Emmy-seeking tears, and extreme frivolousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s see some examples, shall we?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Rivers vs. Bristol Palin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/i_SJnfQyjiE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>You don’t even have to watch this episode to know that it was just a ploy to get Joan Rives and Bristol Palin in the same room after Rivers ridiculed young Palin during her DWTS stint. Well played, ABC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This battle royale boils down to fashion vs. frump. They make sure to mention how important fashion is to Melissa (and of course her mother Joan) and point out how the Palin girls are proud of their cozy clothes. Beyond that, we learn that Melissa’s son Cooper is surprisingly well-adjusted for being raised by the Rivers and that Bristol is masterful at dodging political conversations. In the end, they all teach each other manners and hug. Bristol Palin got Joan Rivers to eat her words, who’d a thunk it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Thicke vs. Gilbert Gottfried\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/l3J19vY-y-Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>This silly story focuses on the cheap vs. the extravagant. Here we learn that Thicke fired Gottfried from his short-lived late night talk show \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thicke_of_the_Night\">\u003cem>Thicke of the Night \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and Gottfried is the cheapest human being on the planet. Gottfried wastes no time sexually harassing Thicke’s totally-hot-in-the-'80s wife, Tanya, while Alan Thicke impresses friends with a horrible Gilbert Gottfried impersonation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out both families lead completely ridiculous lifestyles. The Thickes adorn their walls with portraits of Tanya and the Gottfrieds shop exclusively at the 99 Cent store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Nature Boy” Ric Flair vs. “Rowdy” Roddy Piper\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/jDZSkaEOWBQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Even '80s WWF fans can enjoy \u003cem>Celebrity Wife Swap\u003c/em>! 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"content": "\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOksW_NabEk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://dcrit.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/1974/01/Seeing.pdf\">Annie Dillard\u003c/a>, in her beautiful book \u003cem>The Writing Life\u003c/em>, says, “How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and that one is what we are doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on when you catch me, this statement, which I anxiously and existentially believe to be true, can offer either great comfort, profound horror, or something more ambiguous in the middle. It's that middle reaction where I most often find myself. I tend to become more aware and critical of how I spend my time when I return home from vacations. In those carefree weeks I'm swimming in rivers, hang gliding, cooking, gardening, walking and sitting on the porch drinking wine. I'm not distracted or stressed out. I often read for extended periods of time and have long conversations where no one checks their phone. There's no cellphone service and only dial-up Internet because I'm out in the woods (you're only looking up the most vital information in that context, I assure you). Then I return home to jobs, ubiquitous cellphones, urban angst, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fastcompany.com/3013197/unplug/how-instagram-almost-ruined-my-life?utm_source=twitter\">Instagram\u003c/a> and expensive restaurants. I start to wonder what exactly it is I'm doing with this hour and that, and if it's really how I want to spend my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/07/03/what-do-you-plan-to-do-with-your-one-wild-and-precious-life/photo-9/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6385\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-6385 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/photo.png\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"363\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/photo.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/photo-400x600.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cold, hard data of our hours might surprise or disturb us if we think about it too closely; the quantitative illuminating the qualitative. I recently found an app called Bean. You create different pleasingly colored boxes which you label however you want and with each tap on the box the number counts up. In this way you track what is (or isn’t) important to you. It's very reminiscent of Ze Frank's jellybeans above (though it doesn't make me tear up like his video). My counter includes boxes labeled Writing, Analogue & Creation, Yoga, Days with No Social Media, Gratitude, Walk and Love (as represented by emoji hearts). Some of these are conceptual and others, obviously, aren’t. Occasionally I will look at the lagging Analogue & Creation count and hurriedly tape pictures of volcanoes in my journal, sketch spirals around them and write something secret in my own handwriting. I can't argue with my data; these things, however big or small have comprised this amount of my time. I've gone to yoga 52 times. I've taken 36 walks. I've spent 38 of my days blissfully social media free. What does it all mean? And what else should I be doing? What moments make me stop and think they are best represented by emoji hearts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I do with this hour and that can range dramatically from watching three episodes of \u003ca href=\"http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/review--pretty-little-liars-201077\">\u003cem>Pretty Little Liars \u003c/em>\u003c/a>in a row to playing \u003ca href=\"http://applenapps.com/review/sea-stars-more-endless-one-touch-gaming\">Sea Stars\u003c/a> to putting the finishing touches on a novel that has taken me six years to write to cooking meals for my friends. Certainly we're all complex enough to contain multitudes and contradictions, yet, in my darker moments I wonder if, cumulatively, the time clocked in one pursuit or another falls in favor of the Instagramming, cellphone fiddling, celebrity gossip accruing, Netflix streaming part of who I am. A recent viewing of \u003ca href=\"http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/05/exclusive-excerpt-nancy-jo-sales-s-the-bling-ring\">\u003cem>The Bling Ring\u003c/em> \u003c/a>had me concerned that, though I'm not those girls, I'm not 100% NOT them either. I do occasionally stare listlessly into the glowy void of my phone screen. I do sometimes buy more shiny lipgloss than I need. I do sometimes waste an hour of my life reading \u003cem>Us Weekly\u003c/em>. I wonder what space in my brain would be freed up if I didn't know who every single celebrity was dating?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6388\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 386px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/07/03/what-do-you-plan-to-do-with-your-one-wild-and-precious-life/photo-4-4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6388\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-6388 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/photo-41-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"photo (4)\" width=\"386\" height=\"386\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning walk images.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If I think about it too much (which obviously I do) I end up wanting to make panicked resolutions, such as a recent one when I vowed that each morning I would take a walk first thing, write down at least one thought on paper, take photos of what I saw and consider the contents of my own brain before I checked anything (email, etc). It's noteworthy how good it feels to do this. My success rate is around 75%-ish. Some mornings I roll over and pick up my phone immediately, or I don't feel like putting on shoes and walking out the door. But many other mornings I find myself in parts of the city I've never been, seeing something small I never noticed before, ideas entering my mind that might not have gotten there any other way. I sit on a hidden staircase without any distraction, with only myself and write something down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I worry about my hours it's the technology I immediately turn to for critique and ritualized rejection. Yet, I've come to realize it's much more about habits, thoughts, intention and energy. It's about mindfulness (sorry, those 52 yoga classes have me picking up the vocab). In many ways it's no better use of your hours to be willfully out of touch, or non-participatory, a luddite or a hermit. Those inclinations bring their own set of issues and challenges. Still when I think of the hours that equal my life I want to be careful. It’s true we need down time, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/29/rip-gossip-girl-attempts-at-reconciling-guilt-pleasure/\">guilty pleasures\u003c/a>, bad habits and superficial indulgences. I’m a huge fan of having an eclectic mix of interests and pursuits. We need to text back and forth in emojis. We need to Gchat (maybe not for hours on end?), and allow \u003cem>Nashville\u003c/em> to make us think it might be fun to be a country star. We need to connect or retreat at certain times for a gajillion reasons. A life can't be all one way, or all another. It's countless tiny, moving parts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I think Annie Dilliard’s assertion is a meditative reminder that we need to keep the balance in our life more heavily geared toward the beautiful, the sincere, the focused, the real-life connected, the tangible, the creative, the political, the adventurous, the strange, the engaged and attentive. This can mean whatever we decide is important to us. A conversation with voices, a party with no documentation, the appreciation that one person liked your Instagram even if 11 didn’t, moments alone, spaces of quiet, views taken in only through our eyes, the phone kept in our purse during dinner. When I was younger I worried that if I did something and no one knew about it then it wasn’t real. I feared this conceptually since it was pre-social media. I fear something of the opposite now. How public everything has become sometimes distracts me from some other truth of myself, of my hours, of my life, and I don't want to be distracted. I want to be fully present. It's a simple conclusion, perhaps a trite one in certain ways, but very dire in others: the tiny pile of jellybeans representing our tiny pile of days is not just a metaphor. It makes me think of how I might answer the poet \u003ca href=\"http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/mary-oliver\">Mary Oliver's\u003c/a> question, \"Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SPOILER ALERT!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Season Six of \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em> ended like 1968 (the year this season is set) did: on a chorus of grim notes after a series of upheavals and tragedies that would go on to shape the culture of the next decade. We watched the MLK and RFK assassinations episodes apart and the tensions that followed: Nixon's election and the ongoing disagreement over the war in Vietnam. Meanwhile, back at Sterling Cooper Draper um, CGC (what did they end up calling the agency again? Oh, back to Sterling Cooper?), the characters went through as many shifts as the country. Don's already problematic drinking reached its crescendo, Peggy and Ted consummated the affair that's been building all season, Sally Draper followed in her father's shaky footsteps, Pete Campbell's life falls further apart and then there's the ongoing mystery (and dilemma) of Bob Benson. As the events of 1968 would foreshadow turmoil to come in years ahead, the Season Six finale indicated even bigger changes to come in Season Seven. Here are some predictions for 2014, I mean 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don Draper: Moving Forward by Looking Backward\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-don/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6169\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6169 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Don.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Don.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Don-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All season we've seen Don mentally revisit the brothel he was raised in and last night's episode ended with Don physically revisiting it. Looking up at the crumbling Victorian we see it's a house in as great a state of disrepair as Draper. \"This is where I grew up.\" he says to his children, inspiring a sympathetic glance from Sally who famously stated to her father: \"I realized I don't know anything about you\" after the \"Grandma Ida\" burglary a few episodes ago. For Don Draper, the final season of \u003cem>Mad Men \u003c/em>will likely involve reconciling his two identities: Don Draper is going to have to finally reveal Dick Whitman now that he's in the free-fall of mandatory leave from the agency. He already took the first steps of merging his two selves with his confession during the Hershey pitch (by the way, that \"rummaging through the pockets of Johns in a brothel for candy money\" is a Hershey ad we'd LOVE to see) but it cost him his immediate future at the agency. Of course, that's only if he can conquer his drinking which spun out of control in the finale to the tune of a night in jail after punching out an AA spouting preacher. Season Seven can either be Draper's comeback or his slow fade now that he's hit bottom.\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Being Neighborly and the War in Vietnam\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6177\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-arnold-and-sylvia/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6177\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6177\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Arnold-and-Sylvia.jpg\" alt=\"MM Photo Credit Jessica Brooks AMC Arnold and Sylvia\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Arnold-and-Sylvia.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Arnold-and-Sylvia-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After getting caught in bed together by Sally, we can only assume Draper's affair with neighbor Sylvia Rosen (played by Linda Cardellini) is over, but this being \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em> and Don being Don we can never be too sure. What is likely is that the issue of Sylvia's son Mitchell (the one Don was able to get into the Air Force via Ted) will again be raised as the war in Vietnam continues. Vietnam colored Season Six more strongly than seasons past: as we head into 1969 we can guess the darkest days of the conflict will continue to be felt on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sally Draper Comes of Age\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6170\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6170 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sally Draper, perhaps the best juvenile role on television EVER (paging Emmy Awards, do you read me Emmy Awards?) has entered her teenage years with a bang. In the finale she was suspended from the prestigious Miss Porter's School in Farmington after getting caught drinking: a nod to Sally's status in the Draper family as daddy's little girl, even though she and Don weren't on speaking terms after she walked in on him in bed with Sylvia. The generational divide will only deepen (as it did for so many families of the era) and although we saw something of a truce between Sally and Betty recently, we're betting it won't last. Something tells us childhood friend Glenn Bishop may be Sally's gateway into the youth counterculture of 1969: after getting caught drinking, sex, drugs and even greater resistance to her parents' authority are probably around the corner. At least we hope so; Sally's storylines have only gotten better as the character has matured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pete Campbell's Freedom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6175\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-pete/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6175\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6175 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Pete.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Pete.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Pete-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Admittedly, the Campbell boys will never win sons of the year awards after debatingr the costs of a search and rescue operation when their mother was lost at sea but this is only the latest blow this season for Pete. His marriage is over, his constant professional fears have come to fruition after Bob Benson tricks him into bungling the Chevy account and at the end of the episode it's revealed he's moving to L.A. (possible proof he's no longer at the agency). But, as soon-to-be-ex-wife Trudie points out to him: at last, he's free. Without his mother, his marriage or his career, Campbell has nothing left to lose which is a startling thought for a man so eager to hold onto whatever he could in seasons past. With the move to California in Season Seven, we want to see how legacy admissions poster-boy Pete remakes himself now that he's free and out from under the shadows (and security) of family and old money that have hung over him since the series began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Talented Mr. Benson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6183\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 638px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-bob/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6183\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-6183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Bob.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"638\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Bob.jpg 638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Bob-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than any other character in \u003cem>Mad Men \u003c/em>history, Bob Benson has inspired questions, rumors and constant speculation about his motives and identity since arriving on the show at the beginning of the season. After the revelation that his friend Manolo married Pete Campbell's mother (after Bob recommended Pete hire Manolo as her nurse) and possibly tossed her off their cruise ship for her inheritance, Benson seemed as unshaken as always. NOT SO the viewers. After his sexual pass at Pete was rebuffed and their work relationship quickly deteriorated, Benson tricked the vehicular challenged Pete into crashing a Camaro at Chevy's headquarters which ostensibly left the account wide open for the taking. Between his sexuality, duplicitous actions with Pete and his constant attempts to ingratiate himself with the partners at the agency, Benson brings to mind a late '60s \u003cem>Talented Mr. Ripley. \u003c/em>Or, as many fans have pointed out, a nouveau Don Draper (alliterative assumed names, shady pasts, lack of family ties, ambition). Benson has been a wild card all season (many fans guessed he might be gay but no one one guessed he might be gay for \u003cem>Pete\u003c/em>) and will probably continue to be in Season Seven if he returns to the show. Then there's his friendship with Joan: Roger clearly doesn't like it but Joan has more than indicated that she's aware Benson is not the dating kind. Is this another strategic move on Benson's part or are he and Joan just spiritual fore-bearers to GBF couple \u003cem>Will and Grace\u003c/em>? You laugh, but Joan IS a redhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Megan on the Verge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6172\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-megan/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6172\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6172 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Megan.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Megan.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Megan-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To put it simply, Megan Draper (or, as she's professionally still known, Megan Calvet) has had enough of being Mrs. Don Draper. After crying with excitement and hope at the prospect of a fresh start in California (something so many of the characters yearned for in this season's finale) she walked out the door, possibly for good, when Don announced they would not be making the trip but that he was resigned to live a \"bicoastal\" life with her. We've seen Megan go from secretary to copywriter to babysitter to wife to soap opera actress: there's no doubt Megan has another transition coming her way once she makes the move to Hollywood. Of course, success is not a foregone conclusion: whether Megan becomes a star or is eaten alive by the Hollywood scene, we want to be there for the journey. Just remember: 1969 was the year of the Sharon Tate murder in Hollywood. Be careful, Megan!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peggy and Ted: A clean break?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6171\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-ted-peggy/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6171\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6171 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-ted-peggy.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-ted-peggy.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-ted-peggy-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All season long an affair has been building between Peggy and Ted and in the finale it was realized. But, as quickly as the one-time mentor and protege fell into each other's arms, Ted was begging Don for the chance to take his place running the Sunkist office in California so he could have a clean start with his wife and children away from the temptation of Peggy. Whether this is truly the end of the affair remains to be seen but what we can guess is that Peggy is only going to continue to grow from the shy, mousy secretary of Season One into the sexually confident, independent career woman that closed Season Six. Few characters have had the journey Peggy has had since the show's premiere: more than any other woman on the show she has benefited from changing sexual politics and the cultural rise of women in the workforce. The real question in Season Seven is whether Peggy stays at the agency if not offered a greater role during Don's absence. Since Joan has already made junior partner it's not a stretch to suggest that may be a goal Peggy has set for herself and that she would be ready to walk if it's not made available. As the seasons go by Peggy, has become less and less sentimental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Betty Francis Gets Her Grove Back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6176\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-betty/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6176\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6176 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Betty.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Betty.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Betty-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After going from blond to brunette and back to blond, regaining her figure (bye-bye, bugles) and backsliding into bed with Don (and then sliding back to her none-the-wiser husband, Henry), Betty Francis got her grove back. The Henry marriage seems to work better than the Draper marriage (either Draper marriage) ever did and with Henry's political ambitions possibly coming to the character's forefront it's possible Betty will get the stage of a campaign to act upon in Season Seven. Political wife might just be the role Betty was born to play: it's not that different from her previous career in modelling. Smile, wave, sell the product, look flawless and keep your mouth shut. Okay, it's possible Betty might have to make an effort at that last one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>L.A.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the finale the prospect of relocation to L.A. was held out by various characters (first Stan, then Don, Ted and eventually Pete) as the key to salvation. Historically, New York is headed into an era of crime and urban decay in the '70s as flight to the suburbs continues, so it doesn't seem that far off that major characters are contemplating the move off Madison. Like the Mamas and the Papas once sang: \"California dreaming on such a winter's day.\" How large a role will a change in scenery play in the show's final season is the question on many minds after last night's episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1969: What the Future Holds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the show is so tied to the real life events happening in the 1960's here's a look ahead at some of 1969's more noteworthy events. Perhaps we'll be seeing them on the small screen in 2014 when \u003cem>Mad Men \u003c/em>returns:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-First year of Richard Nixon's presidency\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-The Stonewall Riot and the rise of the LGBT community\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Continued conflict in Vietnam and Southeast Asia including the My Lai Massacre\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Senator Ted Kennedy's notorious \"Chappaquiddick\" incident resulting in the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-The Charles Manson Killings\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Deaths at the Altamont Free Concert given by the Rolling Stones are documented in the film \u003cem>Gimme Shelter\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 10 more months until Season Seven! What do you think the future holds for the men and women and children of \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SPOILER ALERT!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Season Six of \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em> ended like 1968 (the year this season is set) did: on a chorus of grim notes after a series of upheavals and tragedies that would go on to shape the culture of the next decade. We watched the MLK and RFK assassinations episodes apart and the tensions that followed: Nixon's election and the ongoing disagreement over the war in Vietnam. Meanwhile, back at Sterling Cooper Draper um, CGC (what did they end up calling the agency again? Oh, back to Sterling Cooper?), the characters went through as many shifts as the country. Don's already problematic drinking reached its crescendo, Peggy and Ted consummated the affair that's been building all season, Sally Draper followed in her father's shaky footsteps, Pete Campbell's life falls further apart and then there's the ongoing mystery (and dilemma) of Bob Benson. As the events of 1968 would foreshadow turmoil to come in years ahead, the Season Six finale indicated even bigger changes to come in Season Seven. Here are some predictions for 2014, I mean 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don Draper: Moving Forward by Looking Backward\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-don/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6169\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6169 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Don.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Don.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Don-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All season we've seen Don mentally revisit the brothel he was raised in and last night's episode ended with Don physically revisiting it. Looking up at the crumbling Victorian we see it's a house in as great a state of disrepair as Draper. \"This is where I grew up.\" he says to his children, inspiring a sympathetic glance from Sally who famously stated to her father: \"I realized I don't know anything about you\" after the \"Grandma Ida\" burglary a few episodes ago. For Don Draper, the final season of \u003cem>Mad Men \u003c/em>will likely involve reconciling his two identities: Don Draper is going to have to finally reveal Dick Whitman now that he's in the free-fall of mandatory leave from the agency. He already took the first steps of merging his two selves with his confession during the Hershey pitch (by the way, that \"rummaging through the pockets of Johns in a brothel for candy money\" is a Hershey ad we'd LOVE to see) but it cost him his immediate future at the agency. Of course, that's only if he can conquer his drinking which spun out of control in the finale to the tune of a night in jail after punching out an AA spouting preacher. Season Seven can either be Draper's comeback or his slow fade now that he's hit bottom.\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Being Neighborly and the War in Vietnam\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6177\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-arnold-and-sylvia/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6177\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6177\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Arnold-and-Sylvia.jpg\" alt=\"MM Photo Credit Jessica Brooks AMC Arnold and Sylvia\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Arnold-and-Sylvia.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Arnold-and-Sylvia-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After getting caught in bed together by Sally, we can only assume Draper's affair with neighbor Sylvia Rosen (played by Linda Cardellini) is over, but this being \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em> and Don being Don we can never be too sure. What is likely is that the issue of Sylvia's son Mitchell (the one Don was able to get into the Air Force via Ted) will again be raised as the war in Vietnam continues. Vietnam colored Season Six more strongly than seasons past: as we head into 1969 we can guess the darkest days of the conflict will continue to be felt on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sally Draper Comes of Age\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6170\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6170 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sally Draper, perhaps the best juvenile role on television EVER (paging Emmy Awards, do you read me Emmy Awards?) has entered her teenage years with a bang. In the finale she was suspended from the prestigious Miss Porter's School in Farmington after getting caught drinking: a nod to Sally's status in the Draper family as daddy's little girl, even though she and Don weren't on speaking terms after she walked in on him in bed with Sylvia. The generational divide will only deepen (as it did for so many families of the era) and although we saw something of a truce between Sally and Betty recently, we're betting it won't last. Something tells us childhood friend Glenn Bishop may be Sally's gateway into the youth counterculture of 1969: after getting caught drinking, sex, drugs and even greater resistance to her parents' authority are probably around the corner. At least we hope so; Sally's storylines have only gotten better as the character has matured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pete Campbell's Freedom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6175\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-pete/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6175\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6175 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Pete.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Pete.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Pete-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Admittedly, the Campbell boys will never win sons of the year awards after debatingr the costs of a search and rescue operation when their mother was lost at sea but this is only the latest blow this season for Pete. His marriage is over, his constant professional fears have come to fruition after Bob Benson tricks him into bungling the Chevy account and at the end of the episode it's revealed he's moving to L.A. (possible proof he's no longer at the agency). But, as soon-to-be-ex-wife Trudie points out to him: at last, he's free. Without his mother, his marriage or his career, Campbell has nothing left to lose which is a startling thought for a man so eager to hold onto whatever he could in seasons past. With the move to California in Season Seven, we want to see how legacy admissions poster-boy Pete remakes himself now that he's free and out from under the shadows (and security) of family and old money that have hung over him since the series began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Talented Mr. Benson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6183\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 638px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-bob/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6183\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-6183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Bob.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"638\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Bob.jpg 638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Bob-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than any other character in \u003cem>Mad Men \u003c/em>history, Bob Benson has inspired questions, rumors and constant speculation about his motives and identity since arriving on the show at the beginning of the season. After the revelation that his friend Manolo married Pete Campbell's mother (after Bob recommended Pete hire Manolo as her nurse) and possibly tossed her off their cruise ship for her inheritance, Benson seemed as unshaken as always. NOT SO the viewers. After his sexual pass at Pete was rebuffed and their work relationship quickly deteriorated, Benson tricked the vehicular challenged Pete into crashing a Camaro at Chevy's headquarters which ostensibly left the account wide open for the taking. Between his sexuality, duplicitous actions with Pete and his constant attempts to ingratiate himself with the partners at the agency, Benson brings to mind a late '60s \u003cem>Talented Mr. Ripley. \u003c/em>Or, as many fans have pointed out, a nouveau Don Draper (alliterative assumed names, shady pasts, lack of family ties, ambition). Benson has been a wild card all season (many fans guessed he might be gay but no one one guessed he might be gay for \u003cem>Pete\u003c/em>) and will probably continue to be in Season Seven if he returns to the show. Then there's his friendship with Joan: Roger clearly doesn't like it but Joan has more than indicated that she's aware Benson is not the dating kind. Is this another strategic move on Benson's part or are he and Joan just spiritual fore-bearers to GBF couple \u003cem>Will and Grace\u003c/em>? You laugh, but Joan IS a redhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Megan on the Verge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6172\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-megan/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6172\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6172 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Megan.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Megan.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Megan-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To put it simply, Megan Draper (or, as she's professionally still known, Megan Calvet) has had enough of being Mrs. Don Draper. After crying with excitement and hope at the prospect of a fresh start in California (something so many of the characters yearned for in this season's finale) she walked out the door, possibly for good, when Don announced they would not be making the trip but that he was resigned to live a \"bicoastal\" life with her. We've seen Megan go from secretary to copywriter to babysitter to wife to soap opera actress: there's no doubt Megan has another transition coming her way once she makes the move to Hollywood. Of course, success is not a foregone conclusion: whether Megan becomes a star or is eaten alive by the Hollywood scene, we want to be there for the journey. Just remember: 1969 was the year of the Sharon Tate murder in Hollywood. Be careful, Megan!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peggy and Ted: A clean break?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6171\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-ted-peggy/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6171\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6171 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-ted-peggy.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-ted-peggy.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-ted-peggy-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All season long an affair has been building between Peggy and Ted and in the finale it was realized. But, as quickly as the one-time mentor and protege fell into each other's arms, Ted was begging Don for the chance to take his place running the Sunkist office in California so he could have a clean start with his wife and children away from the temptation of Peggy. Whether this is truly the end of the affair remains to be seen but what we can guess is that Peggy is only going to continue to grow from the shy, mousy secretary of Season One into the sexually confident, independent career woman that closed Season Six. Few characters have had the journey Peggy has had since the show's premiere: more than any other woman on the show she has benefited from changing sexual politics and the cultural rise of women in the workforce. The real question in Season Seven is whether Peggy stays at the agency if not offered a greater role during Don's absence. Since Joan has already made junior partner it's not a stretch to suggest that may be a goal Peggy has set for herself and that she would be ready to walk if it's not made available. As the seasons go by Peggy, has become less and less sentimental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Betty Francis Gets Her Grove Back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6176\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 608px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/24/the-mad-men-in-the-1969-whats-next-for-don-draper-and-friends/mm-photo-credit-jessica-brooks-amc-betty/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6176\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-6176 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Betty.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\" width=\"608\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Betty.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/MM-Photo-Credit-Jessica-Brooks-AMC-Betty-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Jessica Brooks/AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After going from blond to brunette and back to blond, regaining her figure (bye-bye, bugles) and backsliding into bed with Don (and then sliding back to her none-the-wiser husband, Henry), Betty Francis got her grove back. The Henry marriage seems to work better than the Draper marriage (either Draper marriage) ever did and with Henry's political ambitions possibly coming to the character's forefront it's possible Betty will get the stage of a campaign to act upon in Season Seven. Political wife might just be the role Betty was born to play: it's not that different from her previous career in modelling. Smile, wave, sell the product, look flawless and keep your mouth shut. Okay, it's possible Betty might have to make an effort at that last one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>L.A.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the finale the prospect of relocation to L.A. was held out by various characters (first Stan, then Don, Ted and eventually Pete) as the key to salvation. Historically, New York is headed into an era of crime and urban decay in the '70s as flight to the suburbs continues, so it doesn't seem that far off that major characters are contemplating the move off Madison. Like the Mamas and the Papas once sang: \"California dreaming on such a winter's day.\" How large a role will a change in scenery play in the show's final season is the question on many minds after last night's episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1969: What the Future Holds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the show is so tied to the real life events happening in the 1960's here's a look ahead at some of 1969's more noteworthy events. Perhaps we'll be seeing them on the small screen in 2014 when \u003cem>Mad Men \u003c/em>returns:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-First year of Richard Nixon's presidency\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-The Stonewall Riot and the rise of the LGBT community\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Continued conflict in Vietnam and Southeast Asia including the My Lai Massacre\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Senator Ted Kennedy's notorious \"Chappaquiddick\" incident resulting in the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-The Charles Manson Killings\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Deaths at the Altamont Free Concert given by the Rolling Stones are documented in the film \u003cem>Gimme Shelter\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/20/mad-men-is-it-time-to-give-up-on-don-drapers-soul/ustv-mad-men-season-6-portraits-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6068\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-6068\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/ustv-mad-men-season-6-portraits-1.jpg\" alt=\"ustv-mad-men-season-6-portraits-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/ustv-mad-men-season-6-portraits-1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/06/ustv-mad-men-season-6-portraits-1-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Extended Draper Family and Don's Clearest Victims/Mad Men, AMC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few months ago, I wrote an \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/03/29/3-steps-to-getting-pumped-for-the-new-season-of-mad-men/\">article here\u003c/a> about how to get pumped for the new season of \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>. In Season Five, the show had gotten so overtly damning to its characters and I had trouble caring what happened next. This season, the damnation only continued, as blatantly suggested by Don reading the \u003cem>Inferno\u003c/em> in the first scene, and by his insistence, like some villainous Dracula, that his mistress, Sylvia, turn her cross necklace away from him whilst they canoodled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve enjoyed a lot of this season, but it’s also been exhausting. I realized tonight, to my horror, that with only one episode left in the season, I’m actually tired of thinking and talking about \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>, for the first time ever. Maybe if I had been watching the similarly draggy third season as it aired, rather than binge-watching it, Season Six might not set the precedent for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Season Six has been consistently comparable to Season Three, in fact--much of it has been aimless, and many scenes have been boring in the way that, on another show, you would say, \"Oh, they're setting something up here.\" Except \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em> viewers know at this point that a lot of the show doesn't add up to anything except cool subtext and anti-climax, (as is often the case in real life). Season Three chose to break up the monotony with a lawnmower accident and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXRSxCUiLAM\">musical\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QN4NyD6l8A\">numbers\u003c/a>, and President Kennedy was killed. This year the characters faced the deaths of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy (the former was what \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2013/05/20/130520crte_television_nussbaum\">Emily Nussbaum at The New Yorker\u003c/a> called \"a tone poem of white-person awkwardness,\" and the latter was used, to shocking effect, as merely a footnote to Don getting dumped), and in their own lives there has been a car crash, a dart-stabbing, a death by cancer, an off-screen mugging, a bayonetting, and a Dick-Cheney-style shot to the face while hunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds pretty good when I put it that way. And it has been, kind of. I think the problem I have is not only that the show gone back to the same \"Don cheats on his wife, he has everything but he takes it for granted, what can possibly save him?\" arc it broke away from years ago to such compelling effect, but that it did so to teach us a \u003cem>lesson\u003c/em>. That lesson is: times change, but people don't necessarily change or learn from their mistakes, \u003cem>man\u003c/em>. The Hell imagery of the season premiere, in addition to the cross thing and the final moment of most recent episode, “The Quality of Mercy,” where Peggy calls Don a monster, have turned that subtle theme into the overt lesson it's become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this, of course, does not mean I \u003cem>will\u003c/em> stop thinking or talking about the show. “The Quality of Mercy,” for instance, had a lot of great moments to offer: Pete Campbell admitting that Bob Benson, the conniving mystery man who came on to him in the previous episode, is handsome. A reference to \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_Meader\">Vaughn Meader\u003c/a>, who is a very obscure and fascinating historical footnote. Everything relating to accounts man and actually-decent-person Ken Cosgrove, who this past season has assumed a role of slapstick martyrdom in the name of entertaining hedonistic Chevy representatives. And I love it any time the characters enthusiastically act out a hacky ad they plan on pitching, as they did in \"Mercy\" for a \u003cem>Rosemary's Baby\u003c/em>-themed baby aspirin ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an episode of \u003cem>Seinfeld\u003c/em> in which George asks Jerry to appear unfunny, so his date will think George is the funniest guy in the room. Jerry takes it too far, and, when asked about birthdays, he makes a proto-Draperesque speech which I think also sums up the tone and message of the past season of \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be; that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its best, \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em> is like \u003cem>Seinfeld\u003c/em> in that it is hilarious in a similarly hopeless, looking-down-on-its-characters (all spoiled, amoral Manhattanites) way. Episode eight of this season, “The Crash,” fit this description—Ken Cosgrove dances on a broken foot, Don spends the whole time in an upper-induced frenzy trying to “pitch” a way to woo back Sylvia, and Stan gets a dart to the arm in a crazed game of William Tell. The show now only seems capable of being fun at the expense of its characters—the kind of \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltl0EQ9O7Gg\">triumphant moments\u003c/a> they might have been capable of earlier in the series are gone almost entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6nDsLx98SI]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In one of Don’s few cool moments this season, he tells off a Jaguar representative, but the moment is fleeting—Don hadn’t considered that losing Jaguar means Joan prostituted herself to that same creep last season for nothing. Joan makes a speech about how we all love to watch Don go around making decisions without thinking of the consequences, whether or not he cares how it effects everyone else. She represents the viewer in that moment: our love of seeing him act recklessly enables that recklessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the show is pointing its finger at me, I plead guilty. In the most recent episode, when Don embarrassed Ted Chaugh at a meeting with a client, ostensibly in the name of saving money but possibly also out of jealousy towards him and his relationship with Peggy, I realized I’m totally comfortable with Don just being a villain all the time. The show itself seems to be mourning the loss of Don’s soul unduly, and it would make much better enablers of us if it allowed that subtext to stay in the background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The season finale of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amctv.com/shows/mad-men\" target=\"_blank\">Mad Men\u003c/a> \u003c/em>airs Sunday, June 23 on AMC.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Whether the movie gets close to the genius of \u003cem>The Virgin Suicides\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Lost in Translation\u003c/em>, or falls completely flat on its perspective-lacking face like \u003cem>Marie Antoinette \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Somewhere\u003c/em> (full disclosure: I've never seen \u003cem>Somewhere\u003c/em> and have absolutely no plans to), remains to be seen. The subject matter is potentially intriguing, but it also seems possible that celebrity-herself Sofia Coppola might have a sort of obnoxious take on the whole situation, completely villainizing the mid-level rich kid nobodies who rob useless items from the upper-level rich kid somebodies. For those of us who spent our teen years babysitting and lifeguarding to literally pay for our mistakes (I spent all the money I ever made in high school fixing other people's cars that I had backed into) because our parents believed in logical consequences and didn't have cash to throw around for things that weren't vital to continued existence, Sofia Coppola's ability to only empathize with her brethren, the super rich, can make her films offensively one-sided (see: the total lack of reference to or concern for the French Revolution in \u003cem>Marie Antoinette\u003c/em>). Also, David Denby already wrote in \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2013/06/10/130610crci_cinema_denby\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: \"...it lacks the edge or the insight that would make it great.\" That said, THE BLING RING. What a terrible and wonderful name for a crime team! What stupid and entertaining bunch of criminals! What a glamourous and horrible group of victims!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one way it is very lucky that there are a few days before we will all get to see the movie and make our separate judgements about it: this means you still have time to watch the entire season of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Wild\" target=\"_blank\">Pretty Wild\u003c/a>\u003c/em> (2010) on \u003ca href=\"www.movies.netflix.com\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix Instant\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Pretty Wild \u003c/em>is the reality show that just happened to be filming about the family of one of the Bling Ring-ers, Alexis Neiers, when she was arrested for her crimes. The show played for one season on E! and was then canceled allegedly because \u003ca href=\"http://thedirty.com/2010/04/thedirty-com-exclusive-pretty-wild-girls-are-great-role-models-and-even-better-drug-addicts/\" target=\"_blank\">pictures surfaced\u003c/a> of Alexis and her adopted sister, Tess Taylor, smoking black tar heroin. Alexis, who is now 21 and has been sober now for awhile, has\u003ca href=\"http://www.vice.com/read/alexis-neierss-pretty-wild-road-to-recovery\" target=\"_blank\"> openly admitted that the entire time the show was filming she and Tess where doing many, many drugs, including oxy and cocaine\u003c/a>. Tess, who's 23, \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/tesstaylorrr\" target=\"_blank\">continues to battle her drug addiction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judging from \u003cem>The Bling Ring\u003c/em>'s trailer and the fact that \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-bling-ring-20130526,0,3134236.story\" target=\"_blank\">she paid the family\u003c/a>, \u003cem>Pretty Wild \u003c/em>is part of Sofia Coppola's source material for her film. However, it is also a strange and important cultural artifact, somehow the reality show that encompasses all reality shows. When Alexis's mom, Andrea, home schools her daughters (the other daughter is 16-year-old Gabby, Alexis's biological sister) based on principles from \u003cem>The Secret\u003c/em> the movie, it is a show about a fanatical religious cult. The girls are models and when, at one point, Andrea (the mother remember) encourages Tess to soap herself up so Andrea can do \"a photo shoot\" in the bathroom of a naked Tess, it is an HBO show about prostitutes in Nevada or a documentary about child abuse (Tess is 20 but still). When Alexis and Tess go to Cabo, it is \u003cem>The Real World and d\u003c/em>uring Alexis's trial, it is a true crime show. When a bottle of Xanax is found (that and Adderall stand in for the much less legal drugs Tess and Alexis are also doing), it turns into \u003cem>Intervention\u003c/em>. The family is simultaneously willfully stupid and strangely prescient. 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