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"Most of the men seemed to be lib or left wing guys who couldn't quite find the right balance between making it clear this was a fantasy they enjoyed and LARPing as some Mad Men-esque patriarchal caricature."
"The entire episode showed him thinking about Ginsberg a LOT. he was so jealous and threatened by Ginsberg's talent that he sabotaged his pitch."
"Noticed being a ukraine understander has become the new telfar bag owner, kinda lame. Been getting into mad men lately. Pretty good show."
"Suddenly, I'm having a wonderful evening. Come to think of it, the best evenings I've had this past year were ones where I was having a drink and either reading a book or watching a movie. Today, I was watching an episode of Mad Men-- great show."
"i empathize, it must be kind of stressful to have like 2 - 4 people depend solely on your ability to kiss ass and push paper all day. the more i listen to them talk about being under so much pressure i understand why lane pryce hung himself in madmen."
"Madmen, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul are all incredible shows but Gandolfini's portrayal of Tony will never be topped."
"I mean this shit makes Don Draper and co seem like absolute saints. At least they when they were convincing us that smoking was good for our health they were doing it with style, actually contributing to some sort of aesthetic ideals that we used to have as a country."
"The unique genius of the series is that any 20 year old undergraduate ideologue with a blog can graft their worldview onto Don and be correct. He's an anticapitalist metaphor, he's a well-dressed, suave conservative 1960s business man, he's a tragic portrait of toxic masculinity, he's a white man wi"
"Possibly the most depressing thing about this capitalist system is that it destroys the best parts of itself. The pursuit of profit has taken all joy out of white collar work. Sad! Also comparing don draper to a contemporary advertising creative director is hilarious (no offence)."
"I feel empty inside. What a work of art. I feel like I'll never see something as beautiful again in my life and it scares me. I don't think I've ever encountered something that comes close to it either."
"i honestly think most people fear loss of personhood after having children because gen x normalized helicopter parenting. i am watching mad men rn and they had way more kids because 1) it was compulsory and 2) people were more chill about it and let their children be."
"Accent plays a huge role in media and it's interesting to me being with a non-native partner how many jokes go over his head because he can't really tell accents apart. He can't tell in Mad Men when someone had a southern accent, or which characters are British."
"when they were airing i felt differently, but BB feels really dated now imo. anyway please talk about how good madmen is, especially the early seasons which had a score."
"And at best it was mad men, sopranos, the wire etc. the best now is what? The boys? It sucks now"
"I don't think I've ever read anything worse than 'Mad Men will end with Don Draper becoming DB Cooper' which I think is the platonic ideal of this kind of theory, it only sounds interesting if you've never seen the show and have no idea of what kind of vibes they're building"
"i just started watching mad men and now i'm internalizing a new complex"
"I find madmen to be similar, but being a show made 50 years after its setting, it lacks a certain authenticity that I've really started to search for."
"I know Betty was a bad mom in a lot of ways but she was right here. My main anxiety in life is not having enough free time to pursue all my interests."
"He reminds me of the wunderkind schizo guy from Mad Men (never seen the show, just YouTube clips) with me being Don Draper of course."
"When this show came out, practically everyone working in an office in LA and NYC co-splayed as MM characters. Men were cutting their hair short and used pomade, women wore vintage dresses, and you were truly 'profresh' if you had a mid century modern couch in your living room. Back then, having an o"
"Yeah Succession's good, but Mad Men is still the last truly great show to air"
"Rewatching Mad Men and this episode ("Signal 30") always stands out as the best. John Cheever fan fiction, but it does it so well, that I don't even care. Pete's realization that the life he wanted—success, wealth, a home in the suburbs (Don's life)—was an unremarkable goal in the end. Feeling infer"
"That in and of itself shocked me. But also, I'm mostly positive nothing has come out since then that's been better. I guess some seasons of certain shows have matched its quality but nothing consistently on that level. What's worse, it feels like this streak could last another ten years. The directi"
"Those people are far more trad than any Mad Men LARPer that thinks he's going to be daddy to some spoiled Brooklyn pill head fail-daughter."
"There's a vacuum in television these days, left by the absence of shows like Mad Men and The Wire."
"Already just rewatched sopranos, veep, the wire, breaking bad, mad men and deadwood"
"Joan just fucked some ugly old guy to help get them an account. For some reason this really struck a nerve in me. Joan is such a strong and resilient woman who has been cursed with radiating beauty. At first i got the impression she relished in her good looks and enjoyed using her femme fatale angle"
"i legitimately dont mean this as an "im so special" post, and mb its because i live in the midwest, but its legitimately so tiresome to interact with people who act like youre an oddity, or at best a novelty, because you listen to music or watch movie or tv that is more than 5 or 10 years old. like,"
"I like her in Mad Men, Top of the Lake, The One I Love, and Shirley, but Handmaids and Invisible Man are awful."
"Your fake email job doesn't have an HR department. It's like if Sterling Cooper had all the sexism and none of the expensive bourbon"
"Watch Mad Men and tell me why technology needed to progress past record players, rotary phones, and typewriters. How am I supposed to appreciate being alive now when everything is so unpleasant, unaesthetic, and soulless."
"And I definitely know it's not because Anna and Dasha hated it because none of you listen to the podcast (which is so strange, imagine the Mad Men subreddit became about things with a vague 60s vibe and also incels and all of the users were very proud to admit they had never seen Mad Men?)"
"It brought to mind for me one of the last scenes of mad men (spoilers for mad men but you can't really ruin it anyway). Don is away in California at the hippie retreat. During his counselling sessions a man, Leonard, who is the anti-thesis of Don: uncharismatic, unremarkable, unattractive, plain, de"
"He showed up and got introduced and the name sounded familiar + gay jew in new york city so I thought it was supposed to be just one of those Forrest Gump-style period references. Obviously I got the exact dates wrong but he gets hired on saying something about being creative but unable to accomplis"
"I was first watching a few of the more prestige TV shows like Mad Men and Sopranos at the same time as that initial MCU fad was winding down after the Avengers movies came out at the start of COVID and I ended up watching WandaVision in conjunction after hearing friends rave about it and was curious"
"It's an amazing show. Kinda makes me want to steal someones identity and become a creative director at some small to mid level marketing company."
"there's gonna be miles of think peices about how this is his Waterloo and how "nobody has ever come back from leave, not even Napoleon" as bert cooper said"
"I feel like there is no current really great Tv Show. Something like The Sopranos, Mad Men, Bojack Horseman, The Wire, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul (even if I'm not the biggest fan of those last two)."
"Finished it a couple of days ago and you know, it was a bit strange realising I was almost in love with Don. Especially considering how anyone who's finished the series seems to have a way more negative opinion of him. But I think there's a lot of vulnerability and goodness there marred by the traum"
"Watching this show again for the first time since it came out. Almost finished season one and wow what an incredible show. I dont remember liking all the characters so much especially betty in season one. As a big 'Sopranos is the best show ever' guy I must say I really did forget how amazing this s"
"It's never held my interest for an entire episode, but people I respect really like it. don't think I need to watch seven seasons of Jon Hamm running through Manhattan to be hit over the head with the message that Don is a selfish person, but idk"
"When it comes to shows like The Sopranos, Mad Men or Better Call Saul it doesn't even come close. Its just more light entertainment like White lotus or euphoria or some shit."
"Did a good job with Don Draper, has sucked ass in everything since then. Was it just good directing and editing in mad men?"
"Don't get me wrong, all the characters are richly portrayed, but there's something about Peter. On the surface he's privileged, rich, married and has a flourishing accounting career at a top NYC ad agency. But underneath it all… he's had a one night stand with Peggy, which produced a child, he cheat"
"A coworker of mine tried to say that Mad Men was a shitty tv show and he was met with unanimous contempt and distain. It wasn't even because of the opinion itself, people were just angry that he was obviously trying to be disagreeable and everyone hated it."
"Haven't seen it since it wrapped but it comes to mind at least once a week. RSP doesn't discuss it enough I think. Don Draper deserves a little renaissance like Tony Soprano but it's maybe too early for that?"
"This is probably the most depressed I've ever been."
"So unfair how in mad men they got to chain smoke cigarettes during meetings, but now at my marketing job I'm not even allowed to vape on zoom calls."
"I recently fished the finale of Mad Men and as everyone says here, the show is absolutely brilliant. From the way it built and wrote its ensemble cast to its overarching and intersecting themes of capitalism, existentialism, gender, and the passage of time, I'm not sure there's anything like it."
"Silent Generation: The Organization Man, Mad Men-style drudgery, McCarthyism (paranoia), Beat poetry, and The Twilight Zone."
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