Favorite Mad Men character arc?
>Successful writer
>Likeable personality
>The most honest man in the show, never lies, tricks others to get his way, or cheats on his wife
>Hated for being successful and good natured
>Gets in a car crash because of idiotic clients
>Gets his eye shot out by idiotic clients
>Gets fired
>Becomes the head of dow chemical in relation to SCDP
>Becomes Punished Kenny and busts the companies balls for everything that's happened to him
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Cinemaphile is not a mad men board
nah this is a pete board homosexual
>this is a pete boACK
why did they kill off pryce that way
I'm on this episode in my rewatch
The whole episode is pete being pathetic
>wants to frick the girl in his driving class
>she goes for the chad instead
>tries to fix his home problem
>turns out he fricked it and don fixes it
>fricks the prostitute (who he gets to pretend to worship him) then feels guilty about it and whines that don is judging him
>gets beaten up by lane and is upset don didn't help him (even though don was the only one to reassure him, probably because he remembers getting losing a pathetic fight himself against duck phillips)
I think it's a bait and switch, whereas pete can completely devote himself to his work, which is the only thing he's really good at, lane pryce is unable to bring in the account, unable to stand up to his father, unable to do what he wants (leave his wife for the chocolate bunny), feels impotent in the company, is unable to be american even though he's a yankophile, unable to pull joan (even though she very kindly brushes off his attempt), unable to pull the wallet giyy's prostitute, he's unable to do anything to get his life in order and all of this is built up although you don't really register it until he finally does top himself
Lane Pryce is substantially heavier than Pete.
Lane Pryce has combat experience and has military training. Pete does not.
Pete did much better than anyone could have expected.
>he doesn't remember /SC&P/ and its predecessors
well i'm watching the show now and almost every attempt at a thread has ended in failure, excluding this one.
eat shit zoomer
>Successful writer
I remember he's a writer, but not a successful one.
Also, that scene where Don finds him thinking about life after getting fired was pure kino. Probably the best scene showing how Don started to consider other people after what happened with his brother and Pryce
>I remember he's a writer, but not a successful one.
For doing it as a side job he was quite successful.
He got in some biggish paper at the beginning of the series, impressing many people in the office and then it was later revealed he had a pin name and released a lot of successful short stories. He was doing it as a hobby tho and not full time, so it's not like he was a big shot but it seems likely that he could be big if he went full time
It's the Atlantic. You put ads on either side, and articles in the middle.
it's very heavily implied ken goes on to be quite a success with his writting
He got a story published in The Atlantic, one of the biggest magazines in the world, and had a successful sidehustle of writing books under a pseudonym until he got found out by Roger.
He was a pretty solid detective too.
haha is he really the face and voice for the LA Noire MC? Man I really have to play it, I was considering it recently
The game has a bunch of other mad men actors too
What are some of the big ones?
Bad job on Moss
https://gamerant.com/la-noire-actors-who-appeared-mad-men/
So main PC, one of the first npcs you interview and a few more sprinkled throughout.
LA Noire is LA Confidential staring the cast of Mad Men. It's pretty fun.
>started as a peon, but by the end of SCDPCGC was probably the most essential part of the company other than Don, maybe even more
>had all the israeli connections on both coasts
>loyal to Don and the company
>was right about tv and media
>was right about Joan being a prostitute
>was right about the MLK assassination reaction
>eats first
>fricked best Mad Men girl (Hildie)
You forgot that he literally made up his department and became the head of it, somehow.
He got lucky because TV is obviously very important but no one likes Harry and he seems to always say the wrong thing to irritate people except his hollywood connections we hardly see on the show
Nah, hes trash
>appealing to Cooper of all people on the subject to racism
Pete could never read the room
>And whens it gonna stop? No one will be happy until they turn the most beautiful city in the world into a shit hole.
Idk about "most beautiful" in the 60s, but Harry was so fricking right about everything else.
ah the life in the F A S T C R A N E
It's like drinking 100 bottles of whiskey while someone licks your breasts
But that sounds terrible. Why would anyone want to do that
I guess Wiener has never done heroin and doesn't know how to describe it
>imagine the 13yo self fricking the hottest girl from school in a Saturday morning while sinking into a crystal clear warm pool after drinking a bucket of chocolate vodka... heroin is 100000 times better
A guy in the army told me that.
Guess its time to try smack
I just started S7 why did I read this
It's not that huge of a spoiler
Mad Man invents Coke at the end
Grey Mad Man fricks off to play at Woodstock
Really Grey Mad Man dies
Young Mad Man and Young Mad Woman are Mad about eachother
In the end, was Pete good at his job?
Favorite mid or late series character? For me, it's Bobby
Probably Stan or Ginsberg.
What was the point of Ginsberg character. Just unhinged genius or something?
It was an ad agency and they needed a israelite in it
Was he actually israeli, I don't think they ever make a point to show him actually doing something israeli. Sterling is the one who points it out and tries to make him talk to the israeli clients
Anon did you watch the show?
he's a homosexual who asked what the point of a character was
it's a show moron you watch it and then it's over you dull sack of shit
Man you're dumb
too handsome to care champ
>Was he actually israeli
It could have been Bradley Cooper in prosthetics, you don't know
it comes up a decent amount but not a ton. also there are scenes of his home life--he lives with his adoptive off the boat yiddish old father who tries to set him up with a nice israeli girl. she was cute btw, but ginsberg's autism and I think MLK's assassination(?) derails the date
I think the writers figured it would be a good addition to have someone with a creative temperament in the room. Basically an element you could spin up to add a complication to the activities of Don's department. The two pitches episode with him and Don is one of the best. Also, the show was trying to be a snapshot of 60s New York and they wanted to explore they probably wanted to touch upon israeli culture in the era.
Plus he was a source of oblivious humor
>Murders Pete's mother and gets away with it
i was really interested in where this subplot would go
I feel like Pete & Joan are kind of opposites
>Pete is usually right, but in the wrong way
>Joan is usually wrong, but in the right way
Joan says so much dumb and wrong shit but she says it with such confidence that it hardly matters, while Pete is usually right, but he's just consistently a c**t about it
Important life lesson, tone usually counts for more than content when trying to sway people.
pete's hairline
Did they ever explain why they did him like that? I mean I get that it's a visual representation of his life falling apart but why him specifically?
Pete is always handed a shitty hand
He has the best hair in the original sterling cooper and was the youngest male and arguably 2nd most handsome next to Don
I'll tell you what I don't like: when all the women started getting out of control as the series went on.
That's why the second half of the show doesn't have much replay value.
It's fine because Joan/Peggy/Megan are interesting characters but it's obviously very different from the early show.
duck and harry are my favorite characters. probably because i am smart but like to drink and abuse substances and if i were in a position of power i would use it to slay hot puss.
Something about Glen I like, he gets a small arc but I liked watching him grow up
>never manages to frick Betty before going to Vietnam
Bummer. But I really liked Glen too and it seems to be a minority opinion. But I think it was more because he was just used as a narrative device for Betty's arc and, to a slightly lesser extent, Sally's arc/relation with Betty.
Also self-insert wish fulfilment for his dad Matt Weiner.
wonder if matt weiner is january jones' baby daddy
Why did Weiner cast a guy that looks just like him as the good israeli doctor that gets cucked by Don?
Why was Bert such a c**t after S2?
He gave Don too much agency and was responsible for most of the bullshit that he ended up causing as partner.
>"We've created a monster!"
>storms out and quits
>is back next season
Bert pulled a George Costanza and knew nobody would object.
bert is a weird character, he does almost literally nothing after SDCP is formed. He never brings in any clients, never maintains clients, rarely seen personally funding something, doesn't give any meaningful advice, doesn't have any real chemistry with anyone else. At least before he was obviously the cofounder and he gave a lot of meaningful advice to don and others.
Considering his concern over losing his lifeswork with the buyout, he sure didn't give too much of a shit when he gets it all back.
its gets him out of the house and allows him to read media buys. he probably put up a lot of capital, which is why the other partners need him, so they allow him to have a nice office and do nothing. further, his name on the agency adds some continuity for clients.
He didn't get an office until S6.
was S6 post merger with chaough gleeson and cutler? i thought he had an office after the firm re-establishes itself after the PPL firings but he lost his office during the transition to merge SCDP and cutler chauough firm to SC&P.
a partner cant just quit like he did. he can other leave in accordance with the partnership agreement.
I like the one where the guy cheats on his wife and smokes and drinks a lot.. Oh wait, that's every single one of them.
pete doesnt smoke
ken doesn't cheat
harry fricks
Was cheating really that prevalent back then or was that just a business man thing?
>women's sexual Liberation
You can bet everyone had a taste.
women are prostitutes. like joan.
Is Megan a good character?
She’s a spoiled brat with both mommy and daddy issues. That’s why she attaches to Don like a barnacle. I wonder where she ended up after the events of the show
b or c movies after giving blowies to and being a mattress for the producers
the irony is harry gave her the exact advice she needed to succeed in hwood
Then why did she hate him so much in the end?
When someone holds a mirror up to a narcissist, they don't like it
The best
I liked her trajectory. She started off motherly to Don's kids then became more spoiled than Betty by the end.
betty did nothing wrong
Where does Harry end up after the show ends?
He becomes a big time movie producer
He's in a movie actually.
PHELPS. BADGE 1-2-4-7
So did Don get plastic surgery? Are we supposed to believe that the kid actor they have turns into Don with his uneven round face?
Losing your virginity young turns you into a chad