What looked like hippie revelation, punctuated by a yogi saying, “A new day, new ideas, a new you,” was Don tapping into the seventies Zeitgeist, hitting on the genius tagline that he would present to his new bosses, the cretinous advertising conglomerate McCann Erickson (who in real life actually did create the Coke ad, although not under these circumstances). What appeared to be Buddhist meditation was an advertising brainstorm. On a grassy hilltop, beautiful youths of all races, creeds, and nations swayed, singing, “I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony!/I’d like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company.” The tagline: “It’s the Real Thing.” Last night, it took a moment for this to sink in, but once it did, that dinging bell seemed to resonate back through the whole series, finding echoes everywhere.
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When the screen cut out, we were watching that incredible and iconic Coca-Cola TV ad that became a hit in 1971, a clip flooded with nostalgia on so many levels. This seductive pattern certainly paid off with the finale, which may not have been a perfect episode of “Mad Men” but which had a genuinely original, resonant, and existentially brilliant ending, one that revolved around an image that was, at first sight, both cloying and inconceivable: Don Draper, blissed out at California’s Esalen Institute, his legs crossed in yogic meditation, purring, “Om.” A bell rang- ding!-and filling the TV screen, Don’s grin began to stretch wide, like a rubber band, in seeming mystic revelation. That’s the way it has always been with Matthew Weiner’s great series, a seducer unlike any other-it always came back and it was always forgiven. It swerved into comic strangeness (Ken Cosgrove tap dancing!), and I was right back in its smoky, boozy thrall. Naturally, soon after that column was published, the show picked up the pace, turning fleet and funny, undermining all my biases. While the other characters felt richly idiosyncratic, Don was a brand. At the time, we were deep into the hillbilly-flashback era and, despite Jon Hamm’s spectacular performance, Don seemed to me to be degenerating into a grating Freudian symbol-of America, mostly, but also of late-twentieth-century masculinity and capitalism, as if he were a thesis statement for some graduate student in semiotics. The last time I wrote a column about “Mad Men” was midway through Season 4, and I was worried that the show-one of my favorites-was being weighed down by its own main character, Don Draper. It also shows the standard deviation of the ratings and how many different individuals submitted a rating for that description.In the “Mad Men” finale, Don Draper finally proved himself as the show’s protagonist, making his place at center stage seem not just inevitable and logical but also deeply original. The table shows the average rating the character received for each descriptive item on a 1 to 100 scale and what that character's rank for the description is among all 2,000 characters in the database. For more information about how the ratings were collected and how they are used, see the documentation. This website has recruited more than 3 million volunteers to rate characters on descriptive adjectives and other properties, which can be aggregated to create profiles that users can be matched to as part of a personality test. This page summarizes crowd sourced ratings of their personality collected from users of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz. Joan Holloway is a character from Mad Men. Joan Holloway Descriptive Personality Statistics
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