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The new season of Mad Men premieres on March 25th with a two-hour basically-a-movie episode, and today there is a new Mad Men poster to promote it, and ARE YOU SO EXCITED? “Any little bit helps” – You, in the subject line of the mass email you send to your friends about the new Mad Men poster because of how much you all can’t wait for Mad Men to come back on TV. “OMGGGG” – Your friend who didn’t hit reply all and now he or she ruined the whole thread. But wait! What’s the deal with this poster, anyway? Matthew Weiner commented on what the deal was with this poster to the New York Times:
“This is a dreamlike image,” Mr. Weiner said, likening it to work of the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, who specialized in surreal, mannequin-like figures. The image is “a nonverbal representation of where my head is at and where the show will be,” Mr. Weiner said. “By the end of the season,” he said, “I guarantee you’ll know what it is about.”
Uggghh, by the end of the season? I wanna know NOOOOWWWWWWWWW. Did Don Draper run out of women and now he has to cheat on his wife with mannequins? Did Don Draper have to get a mannequin to play the role of Dick Whitman in some sort of comical scheme? Do mannequins start giving Don Draper ad ideas because of how much they KNOW? Has Don Draper just been talking to mannequins this whole time because he’s actually in an insane asylum? Does Don Draper start smuggling drugs in mannequins because his Ad Men salary isn’t cutting it anymore? Click through for the full-size image and full-size guessing!
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I think it means there’s going to be a very special recurring guest star this season.
If only that means a special appearance by Hollywood Montrose.
Whatever it takes to bring Sal back into the picture.
I think it means that Don likes naked women.
I think I got it guys.
“Mad Menequins”
“madequins”
Maybe it’s a representation of how we’re about to reach the uncanny valley level of how much Jon Hamm/Don Draper and I have in common?
1. Don will come to realize his marriage looks good but is a big fakey sham, just like Roger’s, and then he’ll get drunk.
2. Don will be reflecting on how changing gender roles in whatever year we come back in are effecting him and examining his past, and he won’t like it, and Peggy will yell at him, and then he’ll get drunk.
3. Don is going to get drunk and accidentally fuck a mannequin and realize it the next morning when he walks past said mannequin.
Um, sorry to drop an art burn on you Matthew Weiner, but that doesn’t look anything like a de Chirico painting. Not nearly ominous enough.
I like using Giorgio de Chirico works to represent where my head is at too. Right now I’m all:
(I’m eating a banana.)
I have a postcard of this de Chirico hanging in my cubicle because it makes me think of the emptiness of office work.
That’s awesome. And I bet no one gets it. Subtle and subversive. Well played.
Don Draper invents a band called “The Dregs of Humanity” and uses the mannequins as performers but things get out of control quickly and then part 2 of the episode is interrupted by Stupid President Reagan and I never found out what happened.
Judging by the fact that his grandaughter is shown in this poster, I’m assuming it means the return of Conrad Hilton.
great-granddaughter, I think, no? (“Sorry!” – Me; “What an asshole.” – Everyone)
Don finally realizes how awful it is to keep objectifying women, both in advertising and in life, and he vows to make a sweeping change at the agency, as a husband, and as a father in his last attempt to save Sally from a future of whoring herself out to get male approval that she never got from her dad.
I can’t wait until Sally joins creepy Glen in an ashram in Sebastapol in the 6th season.
Don realizes that many of the decisions in his life have led him to become an empty shell nothing more than a husk and he is going through the motions of life rather than actually living, much like these mannequins are merely mimimcs of human experience OR Don buys a new hat that he really likes and is appreciating it in a shop window
It means Glen is going to kill him.
Don has Prosopagnosia
I’m not really sure what the mannequin means but I’m willing to bet that they somehow use it to remind us how far we have advanced in technology and/or health practice since then. “Why yes sir these mannequins are made with the finest asbestos and lead paint. Perfect for families. I’ll type you up a receipt on my brand new state-of-the-art TYPEWRITER [closeup of clunky typewriter]. Madam I notice you are pregnant. May I offer you a cigarette? Alcohol? Opium?” They do that all the time and I hate it.
The mannequins will come to life and begin to pursue Don, who will be saved by The Doctor, revealing that Mad Men and Doctor Who have shared a universe the entire time. Then Don becomes the Doctor’s companion, abandoning all remaining hang ups of Dick Whitman. “Call me Don,” he says.
They ultimately discover that Betty is a Stepford Wife of Awfulness and a creation of some rogue Time Lord or something. Then Don stares down a Weeping Angel.
Also, the Silence created skinny ties.