{"id":684,"date":"2015-05-18T14:36:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T10:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2015-05-18T14:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T10:36:38","slug":"mad-men-finale-falls-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"Mad Men finale falls flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad I saw all the other episodes of\u00a0<em>Mad Men<\/em> first, because if I had started with the finale I&#8217;d have never watched another.<\/p>\n<p>And I would have been\u00a0<em>very<\/em> confused.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;ve seen all the earlier episodes and I was still confused.<\/p>\n<p>Surreal, bizarre, and just plain weird would be a few ways I&#8217;d describe last night&#8217;s episode, and while other weird things on the show have worked, this did not. Though I did appreciate the final joke (which did clear up a thing or two), there was just too much buildup for a gag that was only marginally clever. I expected more.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos,\u00a0<em>Mad Men<\/em>, for a great run. As a total package, you&#8217;re still one of my favorites.\u00a0<em>Mad Men\u00a0<\/em>&#8217;70s reboot? Think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad I saw all the other episodes of\u00a0Mad Men first, because if I had started with the finale I&#8217;d have never watched another. And I would have been\u00a0very confused. Actually, I&#8217;ve seen all the earlier episodes and I was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=684\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}