Last night was episode 10 and the three previous years have had 13 episodes each. So we have three more to wrap it up.
Anyone who has been watching the last three years will know that there is a formula. The last few episodes are always set against a major political event. In season one it was the Nixon-Kennedy election. Season 2 was the Cuban missile crisis. Season 3 was the Kennedy assassination.
So what is it going to be this year?
We have some calendar hints to help us. This season's first show was Thanksgiving and the second was Christmas. Last night the big hint was the Beatles concert at Shea Stadium which took place on August 15. So we have moved along at the rate of one episode a month. That means we wind up either in October or November.
Wikipedia has a page of events from 1965 if you want to check it out.
Whatever it is, I think it's probably Vietnam related as Weiner has always telegraphed the big event before. I'm looking at the first public burning of a draft card on October 15 or, probably more likely, the first protests beginning with self immolation of Roger Laporte and then the November 27 protests.
I agree, there will probably be Viet Nam related backdrops, more protests, draft card burnings, as the war escalates. In October Weiner might surprise us with somebody getting tickets for Paul VI's Mass at Yankee Stadium in contrast to tickets for the Beatle's at Shea Stadium last night.
ReplyDeleteIn November, John Lindsay is elected Mayor of NYC, which has implications for Betty and Henry. And definitely the Great Northeast Blackout which occurred on November 9, 1965. I remember it vividly, I was on the first--and last--overnight retreat that my high school ever sponsored, at the Passionist Retreat House in West Hartford, which was many miles away. The power went out on our first or second night there, and then we found out the entire Northeast was out. I went to an all-boys high school, and there has been rumors prior to the retreat that the food at the retreat house would be laced with saltpeter so that we wouldn't be tempted to masturbate (apparently saltpeter is supposed to prevent erections). If it was in the food it had no affect on me or a few of us who joked about it! Seriously though, that retreat had a profound effect on my spiritual life that carries over to this day.