Published on May 30th, 2012 | by Dan Barrett
3Televised Revolution: In Review – Episode 10
Despite the general feeling in the room being that there wasn’t a whole lot of TV on this week worth watching, we were surprised at how much we actually watched and at just how good a lot of that TV actually was.
With a number of very good, if not great, cable series still running, we have plenty to discuss:
- Game of Thrones (S02E09)
- Veep (S01E06)
- Girls (S01E07)
- Mad Men (S05E11)
As always, the conversation takes us to all manner of unexpected TV-related places.
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Dan Barrett spends far too much time talking about TV. When he isn't editing the Televised Revolution website, he hosts the TV Rev podcast. When he isn't doing that, Dan can also be heard on the Televised Revolution: In Review podcast where he reviews television. He can be found on the couch with excessive regularity.
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I think that the idea of the season finale is only really necessary for a show that is serialised. The Simpsons, MASH, All in the Family and Cheers only had season finales when necessary. Look at Who Shot Mr Burns, Abyssinia Henry, Mike’s Graduation and I Do Adieu. Trek never did season finales until they did Best of Both Worlds.
The trend for all television shows to have big finales feels strange.
I think another reason for Don’s disappointment (when he learns that Joan slept with the Head of the Dealers association) is that it taints the win for the agency and on a campaign he and the team has worked so hard for. Don has struggled this season creatively as evidenced in episode 9 when he leaves Ginsberg’s superior ad pitch for Sno-ball in the taxi in order to sign on the client using his own work.
Compound that Jen with the fact that this is the first campaign for a long while in which Don actually had his heart in. Much of this season has shown a Don who, for the first time is happy, and thus had lost the creative drive that had made him such an industry player.
Don was invested in this pitch, which is now completely tarnished.