It is strange that Mad Men never quite manages to pull off a front to back, top to bottom perfect season, despite it's unquestionable greatness.
It's sort of why I always say Breaking Bad is better as a whole, as it does do all that.

I loved it. I still say the Before Sunset is a perfect 'in a relationship or married date movie'.

I was 14, just a little older than Bobby. But I knew Uncle Sam needed me, so I lied and signed up. 
We had beat the Nazzys in Italy, and they shipped me to the Pacific theater. A Tojotorpedo sent our troop ship to the bottom.
I could only save three of my buddies: Fatty, Stinky, and Brooklyn. They were kind of like you…

He's the guy with no filter who's usually right.

ElDan Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg, like Kirk Cameron Left Me Behind's mom.

It also brilliantly sets up the idea for season 7 of Don having come to terms about admitting his true past, and letting the curtain of 'Don Draper' he's constructed slip at last.
Who knows how Don Draper will be once he's no longer fully acting a role as a life.
Personally I think the finale was so good and poignant…

This was a weekend where I went to hang out with my niece*, so any pop-culture revolved around that and a mini family get-together BBQ.

Yeah I'm over the LeBron hate at this point. I may not like how they assembled that team, but I think you have to admire the basketball they've played the last two years.*
I honestly can't see them being beaten the next two years unless Wade's body collapses on him.






* unless you're from Ohio.

Yeah, I liked it the first time I listened, the second time though man does it sound hollow and plastic.
It is not going to age well, in a two years it'll either be 'his first misstep' (ala 
Encore) or just passed over as 'the 'meh' album' in his discography.

I have a whole box of those old assembled clips on VHS from back in the late 80s to mid 90s.
Remember when the only way to be able to watch a favorite video anytime you wanted was to wait and wait with your thumb on the remote hoping it was in the next block?
Kids today always find this highly unbelievable when I tell…

Who reads it?

Cheers to your workplace making you permanent on staff, jeers to poorly labelled buffets!

Art Carney?

Guest starring Mickey Rourke!

I work with a Bob, and he's going to hear this every day at work for a week when he asks how things are going.

I know you're exaggerating and you're being hostile!

He really let it all hang out,

Either him or Ginsberg. Every damn Ginsberg moment this season was amazing.

Especially on cable drama where each season should ideally be an arc and/or of a theme, and particularly so with Mad Men, as each season is so much that way given the gap between time they employ between seasons.
For me a finale should close out what a season was trying to say, sum it all up, and leave you wanting to…

What did the 17th guy he claimed to kill just applaud by the time Duck slayed him?