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It won't be back until "early" next year which means we might not get season five for another year from now.

Sucks..that just makes the series lose steam. But there are only probably one or two more good seasons left I'm guessing.

The creator has said that the show will run for six seasons.

And now he's saying seven seasons:

http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/netflix-pacts-with-lionsgate-to-stream-mad-men/

Theyre going to have to recast his kids or the show's going to end up taking place in the 70s

The show returns this Sunday, apparently set in mid-1966.

'Mad Men' is back in business: In the melancholy yet festive season premiere, Weiner turns his self-satisfied ad men loose in the turmoil of the Swinging ’60s. When we last saw Don Draper, he had proposed to his secretary, Megan (Jessica Pare), a young brunette he barely knew. As he faces a personal milestone in the season premiere, the facts of life — and love — continue to elude him.

The Addams Family reference seems to confirm 66.

That's what I figured.

Isn't Don supposed to be years older then what he's been telling everyone? I thought there was at least a three year difference?

I thought it was the opposite, that he was a few years younger than the guy whose ID he'd stolen (the real Draper was his commanding officer and an engineer,implying he was probably a little older).

I really should have rewatched the entire run over the year plus break but I could have sworn when he saw a doctor last season it was implied that he wasn't as healthy as he should be and the doctor assumed it was because all of his drinking and him fighting in a war.

I think the scene in the doctors office was simply to point out that Don's lifestyle was starting to catch up to him and foreshadow (like this ep) his increasingly becoming an anachronism.

Roger is turning into Burt, Don is turning into Roger and Pete and Peggy are the future.

Rewatching the birthday scene (zoobie zoobie zoo) and afterwards he mentions his real 40th birthday was 6 months before "Don's".

Do we still get to see Christina Hendricks' ass?

Yes but she has pregnancy weight on it

there's a whole category of porn devoted to that sort of thing.

No shit, dumbass. That's the scene I was referring to. I said earlier in the show I thought they established that there was more than a six month difference. Why do we have to spell out every last detail just so you can play along?

January Jones wasn't in the season premiere because she was too busy eating her placenta.

New season begins tonight.

At this point I am really liking the new season.

But I'm especially liking the Johnny Walker Black commercials with Christina Hendricks.

‘Mad Men’ Preview: Buckle Up For 7 ‘Dense’ Episodes, Says Matthew Weiner

• After realizing that I needed two premieres and two finales, it changed the pacing of every other episode. These episodes are more focused on the main characters than ever before — and I’ve got a lot of main characters. There’s no room for digression this time. The first seven feel like (the story arc of) a whole season,” Weiner says.
  
  The historical backdrop of the era (presumably early-ish in 1969) is an important factor as always but Weiner hints that historical events won’t be as prominent as they were in season 6 for Don Draper. “Last season more than any other season was about the history of the time. It was 1968 as a model for Don,” Weiner says. “I felt very much that Don’s anxiety was the country’s anxiety. I felt it in real life here. I felt last year (2013) was very hard on people.”
  
  The brainstorming process for season seven that Weiner and the writing staff went through at the start of the season was in keeping with the “Mad Men” tradition, except that they realized it was now-or-never for some ideas.
  
  “At the beginning I always look through all of the pieces of paper in my pocket where I’ve written down things. It’s always ‘Roger says this’ and ‘Don thinks that.’ These people are on my mind a lot. I don’t know what I’m going to do with those thoughts now. I guess I’m going to have to think of other people” to write for, he says.

I really wish AMC would stop this half season bs but, otherwise, I am looking forward to this.

Interesting how Don and Peggy's stories basically paralleled. I had gone into the season thinking would see Don bottomed out and Peggy on top. Instead they're both adrift, personally and professionally. They are even both plagued by homes in need of repair.

I also really enjoyed the juxtaposition between our first scene with Don and our last scene with Don. When we first see him getting off the plane in LA he looks like the classic Draper we all know, practically in American James Bond. But then at the end he's cold lonely and pathetic, more ironweed then Goldfinger.

In regards to the rest of the show it's pretty obvious that one of the themes is how at that point in our history California was coming into its own as the Golden State whereas New York was in deep decline. As such I suppose it makes sense that Pete (who, all his flaws has a tendency to be one of the more forward thinking members of the firm) would embrace Los Angeles even if he missed Manhattan.

The stuff this week with Pete, Ted and Peggy made me laugh. Some good comic relief there.

The scenes between Don and Sally were very touching. Don's kids have always been a redemptive force in his life even when he doesn't accept that redemption.

Good for Joan. I'm glad somebody finally realized her importance to the office.

Does the New Mad Men Teaser Hint at a Major Time Jump?

• As the Huffington Post points out, the cue, here, is not visual, it’s audio. That’s Diana Ross’s “Love Hangover” playing over the trailer and, brace yourself, that song didn’t come out until 1976. Sure, Mad Men has used anachronistic music in the past, but, for the most part, creator Matthew Weiner prefers to stick to contemporary jams.
  
  So could the final season take a larger-than-usual jump to the 70s, or will it keep the action in 1969, tying up both the series and the decade in a tidy bow? Tune in to find out when Mad Men returns for its final season on April 5. Pete will be waiting.

I think its misdirection. It'd be hard to age Sally an additional six years, if nothing else.

If anything, I could the time jump in the finale, something that ties into the bicentennial, but the rest of the season being soon after the "Waterloo" episode."

Either way, looking forward to the conclusion.

No time jump so far and only one ep left