This but be careful not to overdo it. I had to rewatch several episodes the following morning because I got so wasted the night I watched them I couldn't remember what happened in any of them.
I mean, it's really well made and starts off absolutely great. It's comfy, it covers and embodies the era it's set in greatly giving you a feeling of happy memories and nostalgia for a time you weren't even born in.
But like 'That 70s show' after 2-3 seasons it starts sliding and the initial aspect that made you love it is gone. The example I use is pretty benign, they simply ran out of ideas and it became a run of the mill sitcom that while still set in the 70s no longer captured the experience of what it was like to grow up during that interesting period.
Mad Men however...
You're only able to truly understand Mad Men when you see it as Matt Weiner's power fantasy, with Don as the handsome and confident version of himself that he never got to experience in real life: being a stumpy bald israelite. Weiner specifically chose Hamm to play Don due to his dark features that match Matt's. The character of Ginsberg is how Weiner actually sees himself in real life: an anxious and neurotic israelite, but still intellectually superior to the good-looking goyim.
Filled with resentment, Weiner grew up hating WASPs from that era. He shows them as deeply flawed, which is subversive compared to the leave-it-to-beaver portrayal. He sexualizes Don's daughter, and then casts his own israeli son as the desirable boy-next-door. He turns Don's cute innocent niece into a hippie prostitute. He portrays Don's blonde Nordic wife as vapid and obnoxious. Once you strip away the glamour, the historically accurate details, then you can see the subversion.
The turning point in NY advertising is the takeover of the industry by israelites. In one of the very first scenes of the show's pilot Don remarks that the agency doesn't have any israelites in top-ranking positions. The biggest ad agencies are israelite-owned nowadays. Mad Men is a study of the decline of WASP dominance: brilliant in its execution. Weiner took something, packed it and sold it right back to the goyim; becoming a millionaire in the process.
>He shows them as deeply flawed, which is subversive compared to the leave-it-to-beaver portrayal
Leave it to Beaver shows many of the characters in the show as deeply flawed as well
Yeah it had subversion (like another greatest show Wire has) but it doesn't matter. Like it happens with true masterpiece it's quality eclipses all negatives it may have. MM idea was to wrap subversion into glamorous image, but for this to work that wrap image must be good. What happened this glamorous image is so perfect it became quality of itself and totally pushed out any other messages.
You now >cute anime girls doing cute things
It becomes value by itself.
So MM became >glamorous lady and gentlemen doing glamorous things
And you don't need more past this image.
Like AD poster with perfect people smoking sigarette in the perfect moment. It may have all drama and negatives behind that image (like man has lung cancer and woman is just prostitute) but this doesn't spoil perfect image captured for the poster.
>He sexualizes Don's daughter, and then casts his own israeli son as the desirable boy-next-door.
Really? And no one called him out on how creepy that is?
>You're only able to truly understand Mad Men when you see it as Matt Weiner's power fantasy, with Don as the handsome and confident version of himself that he never got to experience in real life: being a stumpy bald israelite. Weiner specifically chose Hamm to play Don due to his dark features that match Matt's. The character of Ginsberg is how Weiner actually sees himself in real life: an anxious and neurotic israelite, but still intellectually superior to the good-looking goyim.
Once you notice this you don't go back
dont tell the incels about how there are actually men like don out there - catching pussy by default, being highly regarded in your work yet still being empty and unhappy
Idk if it's that simple. It's not pure subversion. If anything, what's enjoyable to me is how the show evokes the manliness of a lost age without necessarily criticizing it.
The most WASP-esque of them all, Ken, is actually portrayed as a nice and fair guy. > In one of the very first scenes of the show's pilot Don remarks that the agency doesn't have any israelites in top-ranking positions.
I noticed that a lot of pilots or first seasons are like this in shows. Always a huge israelite shoe-in and then, very little for the rest of the season (except one or two Ginsberg episodes). My theory is that the writers want to get producer money this way, by presenting the series as a israeli-centric thing when it's not.
But there was a fair amount of israeli stuff in the show. Jane was a israelite, Manischevitz was a client that came back multiple times. Rachel was a client and a big love interest for S1.
That's all season 1 or season 2 at best. Like I said, only done to get producer money and say "look, this is really about us".
I'm sure that Weiner fully understood that, being israeli himself.
Kino. Try not to binge it. And close the thread you don't need spoilers you fool. Don't post another thread or post in Mad Men threads until you finish the series.
An excellent show, with excellent characters, in the running for best series of all time imo. Still there are some caveats, you have to pay attention because there isn't much action, almost everything is internal, and a lot of stuff is in metaphor and you know some people don't like that so watch out.
There are too many sex scenes, especially in the later seasons, it gets boring and seems like filler, some of it is absolutely necessary to establish things about Don but some of it isn't at all.
The characters are almost all fantastic, fleshed out, interesting, and relatable, except they added a big batch of characters towards the end of the series who are really underwhelming. Ted, Bob, Cutler, Joan's older boyfriend, and some others are really not constructed with the same care and expertise as almost everyone else.
With those things being said, you're in for a treat, it's a truly great series.
Also, be prepared for some shit characters to clog up screen time, like Joan's husband and Peggy's boyfriend. Betty scenes get tedious, but I wouldn't recommend skipping them on your first watch, since she ties into other characters, like Sally
its like a combination of seinfeld, game of thrones season 7 and desperate housewives
it's a show about nothing, terrible, terrible quality and it's made for women
many seem to love this series.
to me it's just about a bunch of shitty people. I tried watching it like 3 times, and couldn't get past the first few episodes. Finally I forced myself to watch until like the 4th season. To me it was all shit, waste of time, I will never attempt to watch it again.
Just a mini series about shitty people, and I don't enjoy that sort of thing.
Petulance suits her just fine much of the time but in the heavier scenes, like Don telling her the truth about his past life, she barely emotes beyond that. At best she looks a little sad but she nowhere near conveys the weight of the betrayal the character Betty is meant to display.
Yes she could have been a better actress, she's a little lost next to someone of Hamm's caliber, but honestly it didn't bother me so much. I envision Betty as a child, a little girl, so to me when she fails to express complexity in the show it's basically because she can't understand complexity.
She was great at the end of the series after the found out she was dying of cancer. I suppose even a child can understand one's own mortality. I'll give her that.
[...]
It's weird that he hasn't been in more high profile stuff since MM. I think I've only seen him in Baby Driver aaaand Confess Fletch? Both okay, but he was so good at being a brooding, intense character in MM and I would like to see him act in similar roles.
Yeah for some reason he really hasn't had the career I would have expected him to have. You'd think he might be overrated I guess, but I can remember several moments from the show where he absolutely made the scene. Like when he and Pete are alone in the elevator and Pete breaks down and tells Don he has nothing. The looks Don gives him is so charged with conflicting emotion, and so well conveyed I refuse to believe someone who can act like that is overrated.
Alternatively I heard him often back in the day on Comedy Bang Bang and he is legitimately a nice, very funny dude with great comedic timing who can be entertaining just by hanging out and messing around on a podcast. That's also a rare skill.
[...]
It's weird that he hasn't been in more high profile stuff since MM. I think I've only seen him in Baby Driver aaaand Confess Fletch? Both okay, but he was so good at being a brooding, intense character in MM and I would like to see him act in similar roles.
[...]
Yeah for some reason he really hasn't had the career I would have expected him to have. You'd think he might be overrated I guess, but I can remember several moments from the show where he absolutely made the scene. Like when he and Pete are alone in the elevator and Pete breaks down and tells Don he has nothing. The looks Don gives him is so charged with conflicting emotion, and so well conveyed I refuse to believe someone who can act like that is overrated.
Alternatively I heard him often back in the day on Comedy Bang Bang and he is legitimately a nice, very funny dude with great comedic timing who can be entertaining just by hanging out and messing around on a podcast. That's also a rare skill.
Jon Hamm is about to be in the best movie of his career and he gets to act with Sarah Gadon too.
>someone of Hamm's caliber
Does he have any other kino? He always seemed like a one-hit wonder to me. Only ever seen him in Top Gun.
It's weird that he hasn't been in more high profile stuff since MM. I think I've only seen him in Baby Driver aaaand Confess Fletch? Both okay, but he was so good at being a brooding, intense character in MM and I would like to see him act in similar roles.
I'm planning to give season 1 a rewatch, finish the rest of the series, then try to live like its the early 1960s at most, forever abandoning the interwebz and listening to Reviewbrah on shortwave radio.
Like everyone. The first few episodes are all about that. She goes to a doctor who tells her she will be fricked. The redhead b***h with big breasts tells her she will get fricked. That arrogant little prick who goes on vacation wants to frick her and he fricks her. She goes on a dinner with a bunch of other pricks and they trying to make a move on her. I dropped the show after it. Couldn't suspend my disbelief.
>That arrogant little prick who goes on vacation wants to frick her and he fricks her.
She was fricked by only one loser who went for low hanging fruit.
This girl actually raised eyebrows of the public.
Joan tells her in maybe literally the first episode that the guys are only on her because she's new, and lo and behold the rest of the series she isn't fawned over at all by guys like the rest of the girls on the show are.
I know what you mean but I cannot deny that she is not conventionally attractive at all. I would still bust a fat nut on her pancake breasts and wide-ass face, though.
>isn’t fawned over
Except she is
The priest in season 2
The boyfriend in season 3 or 4 I don’t remember, maybe both? And the guys she makes out with at parties
The commie in season 5 and the lesbian and Chaough, can’t remember if that’s season 4 too or they didn’t start that subplot until later. Then there’s Ginsburg and the guy I forget his name she ends up with. And probably a bunch of one nighters etc I’m forgetting about. She literally has as many hookups/suitors or more than Don and more than Joan
She’s fat ugly has a sour personality and works atleast 50 hours a week
She has the most suitors of any woman on the show, and 3 of the women on the show that are main/almost main characters whole character is “I’m pretty men want me”
Boring shite, casual sexism, average women in tight dresses and men you'll never be like that are idolised by /tv for their less desirable traits and ability not to mentally bluescreen in the presence of vegana.
Me too. It's what I remembered most from that season save for the ending. Very soulful considering it occurred in a rather (comparatively) soulless season. S7 was still good compared to other shows, but S1 to S3 were definitely the most kino.
>What the hell just happened? >They reorganized us and you're the only one in this room who got a promotion.
Some homosexuals fail upwards in perpetuity.
Above all, just great performances, the casting is pretty much perfect, everyone in the main cast makes their characters work flawlessly and elevates so many little scenes into something greater
god what I wouldnt give to be roger. he might be moronic but he is truly living the life
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Roger is chronically depressed bozo
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So am I, but I'm not banging hot chicks and daydrinking
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Roger is chronically depressed bozo
roger has imposter syndrome from landing The One Big account back in the day which is why he puts on this laid back, smartass too-cool-for-anything-real attitude
A kind of soap opera that has some really good moments, but ultimately is mostly filler considering it feels like it takes forever for the main plot of the series revolving the main character, to show any real sort of development. The majority of it is people fricking around on each other, sometimes in even the most absurd and unrealistic of scenarios. Anything that isn't that and doesn't have to do with that, is the slow progression of storylines. Which I guess to it's credit, personal development does tend to take a long time, so I guess that part isn't that egregious.
Imagine what it was like on set with Weiner giving her directions and how uncomfortable everyone was from being forced to look at her. I mean it's their job right?
Can only imagine. That being said, it is a kino scene. Sally is one of my favorite kid characters, I've never seen another character getting their innocence destroyed little by little so well, feels very real.
McCann is supposed to an Irish-Catholic firm, correct? Isn't it stated early in the show that's who runs that firm? Because by the end when the main characters get merged with them they sure do seem like israelites.
Or is that the trick? They're referred to as Irish-Catholics, but in reality they're just the stand-in for the oncoming takeover of the business by israelites?
I've honestly kinda grown to hate Don Draper >waaah boo hoo I cheated on my wife and she kicked me out of the house now I have to live in my Manhattan penthouse my life is so hard
Why was it the only remotely decent person in the whole office got shot in the eye
I know Don is the power fantasy for the writers, but is Harry the actual self insert? >neurotic >annoying personality >does bad shit but never gets in trouble for it >nobody in the office actually likes him >constantly fails upwards >constantly b***hing about shit that doesn't matter >"no no, I definitely need the job where I sit on my ass all day watching TV and then occasionally go out to Hollywood parties"
That's all season 1 or season 2 at best. Like I said, only done to get producer money and say "look, this is really about us".
I'm sure that Weiner fully understood that, being israeli himself.
Anons outraged at Peggy don't understand that when characters wanted to sleep with her, it was just to have a quick frick. Nobody except the journo boyfriend and Ted, two rather mature characters who could understandably be attracted by her, wanted anything serious.
Best series ever made.
Mad Kino and cute Kiki
nothing at all
Started watching and then kinda stopped. Does it get good at any point?
Filtered if you weren't hooked by the first episode
skip any scene outside of the office and you've got some kino
unless you're some kind of poofter with chewing gum in his pubies
It's required to get drunk while you watch.
This but be careful not to overdo it. I had to rewatch several episodes the following morning because I got so wasted the night I watched them I couldn't remember what happened in any of them.
Feminist bullshit disguised as a manly trad-series.
For OP.
I mean, it's really well made and starts off absolutely great. It's comfy, it covers and embodies the era it's set in greatly giving you a feeling of happy memories and nostalgia for a time you weren't even born in.
But like 'That 70s show' after 2-3 seasons it starts sliding and the initial aspect that made you love it is gone. The example I use is pretty benign, they simply ran out of ideas and it became a run of the mill sitcom that while still set in the 70s no longer captured the experience of what it was like to grow up during that interesting period.
Mad Men however...
You're only able to truly understand Mad Men when you see it as Matt Weiner's power fantasy, with Don as the handsome and confident version of himself that he never got to experience in real life: being a stumpy bald israelite. Weiner specifically chose Hamm to play Don due to his dark features that match Matt's. The character of Ginsberg is how Weiner actually sees himself in real life: an anxious and neurotic israelite, but still intellectually superior to the good-looking goyim.
Filled with resentment, Weiner grew up hating WASPs from that era. He shows them as deeply flawed, which is subversive compared to the leave-it-to-beaver portrayal. He sexualizes Don's daughter, and then casts his own israeli son as the desirable boy-next-door. He turns Don's cute innocent niece into a hippie prostitute. He portrays Don's blonde Nordic wife as vapid and obnoxious. Once you strip away the glamour, the historically accurate details, then you can see the subversion.
The turning point in NY advertising is the takeover of the industry by israelites. In one of the very first scenes of the show's pilot Don remarks that the agency doesn't have any israelites in top-ranking positions. The biggest ad agencies are israelite-owned nowadays. Mad Men is a study of the decline of WASP dominance: brilliant in its execution. Weiner took something, packed it and sold it right back to the goyim; becoming a millionaire in the process.
>He shows them as deeply flawed, which is subversive compared to the leave-it-to-beaver portrayal
Leave it to Beaver shows many of the characters in the show as deeply flawed as well
Underrated quality post
Yeah it had subversion (like another greatest show Wire has) but it doesn't matter. Like it happens with true masterpiece it's quality eclipses all negatives it may have. MM idea was to wrap subversion into glamorous image, but for this to work that wrap image must be good. What happened this glamorous image is so perfect it became quality of itself and totally pushed out any other messages.
You now
>cute anime girls doing cute things
It becomes value by itself.
So MM became
>glamorous lady and gentlemen doing glamorous things
And you don't need more past this image.
Like AD poster with perfect people smoking sigarette in the perfect moment. It may have all drama and negatives behind that image (like man has lung cancer and woman is just prostitute) but this doesn't spoil perfect image captured for the poster.
>He sexualizes Don's daughter, and then casts his own israeli son as the desirable boy-next-door.
Really? And no one called him out on how creepy that is?
>You're only able to truly understand Mad Men when you see it as Matt Weiner's power fantasy, with Don as the handsome and confident version of himself that he never got to experience in real life: being a stumpy bald israelite. Weiner specifically chose Hamm to play Don due to his dark features that match Matt's. The character of Ginsberg is how Weiner actually sees himself in real life: an anxious and neurotic israelite, but still intellectually superior to the good-looking goyim.
Once you notice this you don't go back
dont tell the incels about how there are actually men like don out there - catching pussy by default, being highly regarded in your work yet still being empty and unhappy
Cool man. Show was still written by some shrimpy bald israelite.
>OH NOOOO NOT THE israeliteERINOS
Rent free
Idk if it's that simple. It's not pure subversion. If anything, what's enjoyable to me is how the show evokes the manliness of a lost age without necessarily criticizing it.
>He sexualizes Don's daughter
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. Something about her scenes were just off and felt inappropriate.
Certified Outstanding Post. Bravo!
The most WASP-esque of them all, Ken, is actually portrayed as a nice and fair guy.
> In one of the very first scenes of the show's pilot Don remarks that the agency doesn't have any israelites in top-ranking positions.
I noticed that a lot of pilots or first seasons are like this in shows. Always a huge israelite shoe-in and then, very little for the rest of the season (except one or two Ginsberg episodes). My theory is that the writers want to get producer money this way, by presenting the series as a israeli-centric thing when it's not.
But there was a fair amount of israeli stuff in the show. Jane was a israelite, Manischevitz was a client that came back multiple times. Rachel was a client and a big love interest for S1.
Yes, that's why Sopranos is superior, it's honesty.
Chase admited all the mother issues stuff was his own projection without hesitation.
Kino. Try not to binge it. And close the thread you don't need spoilers you fool. Don't post another thread or post in Mad Men threads until you finish the series.
Whole lot of nothing happening
An excellent show, with excellent characters, in the running for best series of all time imo. Still there are some caveats, you have to pay attention because there isn't much action, almost everything is internal, and a lot of stuff is in metaphor and you know some people don't like that so watch out.
There are too many sex scenes, especially in the later seasons, it gets boring and seems like filler, some of it is absolutely necessary to establish things about Don but some of it isn't at all.
The characters are almost all fantastic, fleshed out, interesting, and relatable, except they added a big batch of characters towards the end of the series who are really underwhelming. Ted, Bob, Cutler, Joan's older boyfriend, and some others are really not constructed with the same care and expertise as almost everyone else.
With those things being said, you're in for a treat, it's a truly great series.
it’s whitekino. if you’re not white you’ll probably get bored.
Boring shit and a few interesting characters and plot lines.
best tv show ever made in the last 10,000 years
One of the best tv shows, but gear up for a bit of a lull in the latter two seasons. They're still great, but they tend to meander in spots.
Also, be prepared for some shit characters to clog up screen time, like Joan's husband and Peggy's boyfriend. Betty scenes get tedious, but I wouldn't recommend skipping them on your first watch, since she ties into other characters, like Sally
Joanies husband is based. The old fart at the end is a bore.
The scene were Peggys boyfriend was in the restaurant with her family was kino.
>Peggy's boyfriend
I hope you don't mean Stan cause Stan was fricking based and the last good character they added.
No, I was talking about the one before Stan (forgot his name). I liked Stan, too.
I know the one you mean. The israelite reporter who insists they buy a house in a Black/Hispanic neighbourhood.
But season six is kino as frick. I always thought 4-6 was the peak
It's pozzed beyond belief and I don't get why this otherwise chud board enjoys it
if you overlook pozz, you can enjoy sexism and racism for what they are
its like a combination of seinfeld, game of thrones season 7 and desperate housewives
it's a show about nothing, terrible, terrible quality and it's made for women
many seem to love this series.
to me it's just about a bunch of shitty people. I tried watching it like 3 times, and couldn't get past the first few episodes. Finally I forced myself to watch until like the 4th season. To me it was all shit, waste of time, I will never attempt to watch it again.
Just a mini series about shitty people, and I don't enjoy that sort of thing.
a good show with a laughable ending
The King ordered it!
>Allison Brie will never look at you like this...
One of the best scenes in the show.
whatever happened to the priest that liked peggy
Kino
Best ever made Glamorous Life Costume show. It's like perfect AD of the perfect lifestyle (in the series about advertising ... oh wait).
>What am I in for?
Sideboob kino
Came in looking for pics of kiki
left disappointed
January Jones is a terrible actress and she tanks every scene she's in.
She's good at being petulant, which is really Betty's whole character.
Petulance suits her just fine much of the time but in the heavier scenes, like Don telling her the truth about his past life, she barely emotes beyond that. At best she looks a little sad but she nowhere near conveys the weight of the betrayal the character Betty is meant to display.
Yes she could have been a better actress, she's a little lost next to someone of Hamm's caliber, but honestly it didn't bother me so much. I envision Betty as a child, a little girl, so to me when she fails to express complexity in the show it's basically because she can't understand complexity.
She was great at the end of the series after the found out she was dying of cancer. I suppose even a child can understand one's own mortality. I'll give her that.
>someone of Hamm's caliber
Does he have any other kino? He always seemed like a one-hit wonder to me. Only ever seen him in Top Gun.
I loved him in Bad Times at the El Royale, my investment in its story died with his character.
Yeah for some reason he really hasn't had the career I would have expected him to have. You'd think he might be overrated I guess, but I can remember several moments from the show where he absolutely made the scene. Like when he and Pete are alone in the elevator and Pete breaks down and tells Don he has nothing. The looks Don gives him is so charged with conflicting emotion, and so well conveyed I refuse to believe someone who can act like that is overrated.
Alternatively I heard him often back in the day on Comedy Bang Bang and he is legitimately a nice, very funny dude with great comedic timing who can be entertaining just by hanging out and messing around on a podcast. That's also a rare skill.
Jon Hamm is about to be in the best movie of his career and he gets to act with Sarah Gadon too.
Nice. I love Sarah Gadon.
It's weird that he hasn't been in more high profile stuff since MM. I think I've only seen him in Baby Driver aaaand Confess Fletch? Both okay, but he was so good at being a brooding, intense character in MM and I would like to see him act in similar roles.
He’s amazing on Curb your Enthusiasm and he’s getting that corner office movie now that might help him out
Kino, I'm practically like Don Draper except I'm not handsome, don't have a qt trad wife and don't have sex
Me too Anon, me too. You wanna...
I don't think about you at all
>leaves
IM CUTTING OFF MY NIPPLE AAAAAHHHHH
I'm more like Pete
Alison Brie is your waifu?
Yes and I'm also balding
>got a hot wife
>also got a chip and dip
I see more positives than negatives.
Why was Trudy so mad about Pete selling their second chip n dip?
There never was 2
I'm planning to give season 1 a rewatch, finish the rest of the series, then try to live like its the early 1960s at most, forever abandoning the interwebz and listening to Reviewbrah on shortwave radio.
don's relationships get really old and boring by the end especially that diner c**t by far the most weakest parts of the show
>here's your totally super hot sexy woman everyone wants to frick, bro
Literally "hello, beautiful" from The Dark Knight tier.
Everyone who?
Like everyone. The first few episodes are all about that. She goes to a doctor who tells her she will be fricked. The redhead b***h with big breasts tells her she will get fricked. That arrogant little prick who goes on vacation wants to frick her and he fricks her. She goes on a dinner with a bunch of other pricks and they trying to make a move on her. I dropped the show after it. Couldn't suspend my disbelief.
>That arrogant little prick who goes on vacation wants to frick her and he fricks her.
She was fricked by only one loser who went for low hanging fruit.
This girl actually raised eyebrows of the public.
I did not care for megan
The point of her character is that she can’t get by on her looks you moron.
Would.
Joan tells her in maybe literally the first episode that the guys are only on her because she's new, and lo and behold the rest of the series she isn't fawned over at all by guys like the rest of the girls on the show are.
>super hot sexy woman everyone wants to frick
Did you watch the show at all? Even so, Peggy a cute.
she's sexy and i'm tired of pretending she's not
I know what you mean but I cannot deny that she is not conventionally attractive at all. I would still bust a fat nut on her pancake breasts and wide-ass face, though.
i'm serious in that every idiot on this board who calls her repulsive would absolutely frick her given the chance
Only gay people say she's ugly anon, acting like it's Sarah Gadon
>isn’t fawned over
Except she is
The priest in season 2
The boyfriend in season 3 or 4 I don’t remember, maybe both? And the guys she makes out with at parties
The commie in season 5 and the lesbian and Chaough, can’t remember if that’s season 4 too or they didn’t start that subplot until later. Then there’s Ginsburg and the guy I forget his name she ends up with. And probably a bunch of one nighters etc I’m forgetting about. She literally has as many hookups/suitors or more than Don and more than Joan
>girls get approached by men
:O
She’s fat ugly has a sour personality and works atleast 50 hours a week
She has the most suitors of any woman on the show, and 3 of the women on the show that are main/almost main characters whole character is “I’m pretty men want me”
>show focusses more on main characters than on side characters
:O :O
I know it doesn't happen to you because of your shit personality but ugly people frick too
cringe sex scenes every 5 minutes
I love Sopranos, but this show somehow hits deeper.
roger is a genius
Goddamn I love this show. Maybe time for the annual rewatch soon
Just finished rewatching it earlier today. Amazed with how frustrating it was to watch Don keep fricking up in the final seasons.
Pretentious soap opera with corny politically correct undertones.
The acting is great though.
The best episodes of Mad Men are some of the greatest TV episodes of all time
>Signal 30
>The Suitcase
>The Crash
Boring shite, casual sexism, average women in tight dresses and men you'll never be like that are idolised by /tv for their less desirable traits and ability not to mentally bluescreen in the presence of vegana.
Shitty show
Kino, just watched this tonight
made me choke up the first time I saw it. what the frick did this show do to me? fricking cooper
Me too. It's what I remembered most from that season save for the ending. Very soulful considering it occurred in a rather (comparatively) soulless season. S7 was still good compared to other shows, but S1 to S3 were definitely the most kino.
Who was in the wrong here?
Harry made awkward eye contact first and approached with intent.
both for being 60s zoomers
Harry was always a homosexual
>What the hell just happened?
>They reorganized us and you're the only one in this room who got a promotion.
Some homosexuals fail upwards in perpetuity.
Harry, Pete only opened the door when he came over.
>have a pointless scene that does nothing but add texture to the characters
holy shit
You have to just know that this exact thing happened to a writer in real life so they decided to add it to the show.
Above all, just great performances, the casting is pretty much perfect, everyone in the main cast makes their characters work flawlessly and elevates so many little scenes into something greater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS-ZLF3Y4B4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnNV4_8izkI
>THATS WHAT THE MONEYS FOR!
fricks sake man. Lets have something merrier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aje2PdSqfFY
How about something life altering?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpWlKCfSPcU
Hands down one of the best usages of The Beach Boys so far.
god what I wouldnt give to be roger. he might be moronic but he is truly living the life
Roger is chronically depressed bozo
So am I, but I'm not banging hot chicks and daydrinking
roger has imposter syndrome from landing The One Big account back in the day which is why he puts on this laid back, smartass too-cool-for-anything-real attitude
I was surprised at how tastefully done they managed to make the LSD experience.
You're a grimy little pimp, OP.
He may have lost the battle but he won the war
you and i are going to address that insult
its called a feed n sneed
average Mets fan
if there ever was more based ad man than him I dont want to hear about it
He wasn't an Ad man he was an accountant.
Character drama kino. Among my all time favorite shows along with The Sopranos and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
>mad men
accepted
>sopranos
accepted
>buff
u wot m8?
I like fun campy stuff and episodic series, sue me.
Last season sucks wiener though.
I WILL sue your b***h ass. angel > buffy, simple as
Nah. Angel has some good shit but it's not as good as Buffy
i got something buffy can beat off
buddy is kino of the highest order you know nothing zoomer homosexual
Buffy is insanely good
one of the worst show in the history of television.
get 'im, boys!
A kind of soap opera that has some really good moments, but ultimately is mostly filler considering it feels like it takes forever for the main plot of the series revolving the main character, to show any real sort of development. The majority of it is people fricking around on each other, sometimes in even the most absurd and unrealistic of scenarios. Anything that isn't that and doesn't have to do with that, is the slow progression of storylines. Which I guess to it's credit, personal development does tend to take a long time, so I guess that part isn't that egregious.
Pete won, btw
Same price as a chip n dip
He broke the trope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov's_gun
It does come up again, he grabs it and his secretary comments on how weak it is.
You are supposed to kill someone with the gun, not comment about it.
That's the point, it wouldn't do very well for killing someone. Pete fricked up again.
Pete’s the best character. Skip all Joan scenes in season 3-4-6-7 and Peggy season 1 and beyond.
boring soap opera
What's a good show? The Flash? Low IQ fried attention span moron.
Sopranos
True Detective (S1)
Generation Kill
Twin Peaks
Rome
Twink Peaks and Sopranos are soapy as frick themselves idiot.
Yeah, but the characters are interesting and not just boring white people suits.
Oh you're just moronic, carry on.
>I like to larp as greasy Italian mafia man
imagine getting this lynched kek
>lynched
It's literally meant to be soapy it was Lynch's intention, genius.
>Mad Men is a soap
>Twin Peaks isn't
lmfao shut the hell up reddit homo
all of those except td and generation kill are soaps lmao
Guys, Sally is flicking her bean again. Looks like we have to call a therapist again
Imagine what it was like on set with Weiner giving her directions and how uncomfortable everyone was from being forced to look at her. I mean it's their job right?
Can only imagine. That being said, it is a kino scene. Sally is one of my favorite kid characters, I've never seen another character getting their innocence destroyed little by little so well, feels very real.
The writers know their audience. She ends up smooching a passionate space nerd.
>imagine what they did to her when the camera wasn't running
>hfw uncle anon comes home
muh holocaust references that come out of nowhere for no fricking reason
kino
McCann is supposed to an Irish-Catholic firm, correct? Isn't it stated early in the show that's who runs that firm? Because by the end when the main characters get merged with them they sure do seem like israelites.
Or is that the trick? They're referred to as Irish-Catholics, but in reality they're just the stand-in for the oncoming takeover of the business by israelites?
Raw, unfiltered, alcohol powered kino
Why Hellooooo 'dere massa' Campbell!
S tier Mad Men character list
>Pete Campbell
>Bertram Cooper
You know it's true.
I've honestly kinda grown to hate Don Draper
>waaah boo hoo I cheated on my wife and she kicked me out of the house now I have to live in my Manhattan penthouse my life is so hard
Why was it the only remotely decent person in the whole office got shot in the eye
I'll let you in on a little secret Anon, You know who also hates Don Draper, probably more than anyone else on the show?
Don Draper
why the frick did Don cheated on her bombshell of a wife?
I know Don is the power fantasy for the writers, but is Harry the actual self insert?
>neurotic
>annoying personality
>does bad shit but never gets in trouble for it
>nobody in the office actually likes him
>constantly fails upwards
>constantly b***hing about shit that doesn't matter
>"no no, I definitely need the job where I sit on my ass all day watching TV and then occasionally go out to Hollywood parties"
No, he's racist
>seeing racism there
>not seeing an eternally greedy man
Who's excited for Jon Hamm's new office kino?
I am. Especially because Hamm is paired with Sarah Gadon in this.
Really looking forward to this. Jon Hamm and Sarah Gadon are a very kino pairing.
Gaddy a cute
That's all season 1 or season 2 at best. Like I said, only done to get producer money and say "look, this is really about us".
I'm sure that Weiner fully understood that, being israeli himself.
30% kino, 70% cheap soap drama
>it's a betty/peggy scene
Peggy is such a slampig
Anons outraged at Peggy don't understand that when characters wanted to sleep with her, it was just to have a quick frick. Nobody except the journo boyfriend and Ted, two rather mature characters who could understandably be attracted by her, wanted anything serious.
Also Stan
Except Stan the man. And it was clear from the moment they shared that hotel room that he was attracted to her
No one wants to sleep with me for a quick frick.
I understand Peggy lust fully
nonsense pretentious shit