>>219969384My top 4 favorite shows:SopranosBuffy the Vampire SlayerMad MenFarscape
>>219969384a bit too long, maybe, but kino
>>219969384Spent much, much too much time on Don's love life... Hamm is NOT a strong enough actor to make those scenes interesting
>>219969384Kino. I think ultimately it ends up better than the Sopranos, which likes to lay in excess.
on rewatch now the later seasons are kind of boring and kicking the tires of the same themes. still a good show though. should have ended 1-2 seasons earlier but that's my only complaint
Did it filter you?
>>219969384It's more kino on rewatch, because you can skip all the retarded b-plots and melodrama.
>>219970356Filtered
>>219970631Ah yes, the most riveting and important part of the show, a true Must Watch!
>>219970665Why did Matt Weiner write his son as a weirdo pervert character?
>>219970736jews are obsessed with vicarious fantasies and projection. Glen and Betty was probably about his childhood infatuation with the neighborhood shiksa.
>>219970665That's weird that you'd say that because I wouldn't call Glenn the most riveting or important part of Mad Men, now does he make it a must watch, but he is important to Betty feeling isolated and in the first season this culminates in her confiding in Glenn while he's in the car. Betty had no support system because Don doesn't care about her emotions.>>219970736It's weird that he used his own son but I'm 100% sure it's to illustrate how illicit relationships begin: neglected child, lonely spouse, each finding comfort in the other. If it goes unchecked, well...
>>219970803>betty was a rags poster
>>219970803He could have made his son a little less perverse though, not kept it so creepy or deviant like bathroom voyeurism, the desire for her hair. Like given the way his dad treated him, it's entirely possible that you are in fact his son who is here to reminisce about the time you nearly scored.
>>219970855He could have, but then we wouldn't be having this conversation almost 20 years after the fact. It's provocative, gets the old ladies talking>omg did you see on mad men the little boy and betty?
>>219970911It gave us a peeing scene so I approve.
It’s worth watching once but has no rewatch value
I stopped watching when they showed literal men making out. No thanks.
Pete Campbell is the greatest character in television history and nobody will change my mind
>>219970855If he weren't perverse then she probably wouldn't have opened up to him. The fact he's clearly a little retarded means she can recognize in him (or perhaps project onto him) the loneliness she feels.
>>219969384the last great tv series
>>219969384>mad men>its all about womenhard pass
>>219969384I don't watch feminist trash like that.
>>219970665Still not sure whether the character was supposed to be retarded or if the actor just plays him retarded because he's actually retarded.
>>219971808He could've been so much better. But of course, villains are formulaic, and we can't have people enjoying the show too much. Thankfully Vincent K knew better and did a good job
>>219972240>villain
Did every character get a happy ending in the show except Betty and Ginsberg?
>>219972279Lane
>>219972240The fuck?
Peggy > Joan Joan felt too much like a mary sue where she was great at everything and everything that went wrong in her life was always the fault of others. Peggy made mistakes and failed and it made her feel like a more full character.
>>219969384https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltYUfQvIFAEMy Serbian wives couldn't handle Betty's cancer diagnoses
>>219972322its ok they'll forget all about it with joan and peggys stories next episode
>>219972279Roger's daughter, and her husband, and their son.sally was emotionally damaged Henry got fucked over Ted Ken giving into ego and becoming a spiteful business man instead of retiring to become a writerA lot of characters got bad ends.
>>219972479A lot of those were minor characters. Nearly every major one got a good one.>TedHe got what he wanted in the end. He was tried of having the entire company weigh on him and is now working in a big company where he feels secure and reconnected with his college girlfriend. The final shot of him in the show is him smiling as Don walks out of the meeting knowing that he doesn't have to deal with Don's issues anymore. >KenKen looked perfectly happy sticking it to Pete and Roger. He got what he wanted in saying no to them and his company didn't follow them to McCann. Since Dow wasn't at McCann he wasn't tethered to all the stresses of his old life with SC&P and basically got a fresh start then offered Joan a new business opportunity as well. It feels like people forget that the reason his wife said he should quit and focus on writing is because he was going to be spiteful while being a client of SC&P, but then the McCann ate the rest of SC&P removing that issue entirely.
>>219971808
too much scenes and arcs containing women
>>219969384Kino of the first order.
I'm doing my first watch. About to finish up S1. About halfway through S1, I started skipping through all Betty scenes.
>>219973694>I started skipping through all Betty scenesFat Betty is a gem, so make sure you watch those
>>219973721What season is that?
>>219969384I watched all the show, and I still don't quite get what Don's job is.
>>219969384Seasons 1-4 are kino. Season 4 is one of the best single seasons of tv ever, just great episode after great episode back to back. Theres a noticeable dip in quality in season 5 which only gets worse as the series goes on. It never gets truly unwatchable, but it gets pretty close in season 7.
Let's be honest, the first season was shit. It often is.
>>219974193The first season was the only good one. I’ll take cartoonish over anachronistic
>>219974168>filtered by S6
>>219972479Ken got a good ending.
It wasn’t rape. Only the viewer can see her expression.
For me it was Don's serial killer arc
The Ken scifi writer episode is way better than The Suitcase. The fact that they made Ken an aspiring scifi nerd during the golden age of scifi novels was lovely.Obviously Don's entire california arc is 11/10 television.
>>219969384Best leftist agitprop ever put to film. Show with mass appeal to nostalgia while managing to put the blame for America’s ills squarely on the back of rich white men while deftly sidestepping Jewish infiltration of its public and private institutions and subjugation of its interests to Israel, while managing to lop them in with other marginalized (and cartoonishly portrayed) groups? Chef’s kiss. All that and you conjure up a premise that gives you carte blanche to constantly shill shit to the goyim while raging against capitalism? That’s genius right there. As a piece of social engineering propaganda, it will never be beat.
>>219974441this retard voted for trump lmfao
>>219974441What I simple, comfortable world it must be when your religion is this kind of post.
>>219974441What social change is Mad Men agitating me to support? Less ads? Oh nooooAnyways
>>219974441This. Its so blatant it's not funny anymore
>>219974528>>219974582no you.
>>219973721>Fat BettyOh shit I forgot about that
>>219969384Pete and Roger carry the show hard. Don is a retard and I want to make 5 babies with Joan. Thats about it.
>>219974238Season 6 is like 5 kino moments in a sea of garbage. Even the kino moments are usually stupid when you think about them for like 2 seconds, like Don getting fired.
Betty, no! :(
>>219969384top tier kino
did bert cooper do any work at all from season 1-7?
>>219978535Most high-powered offices have an old guy like him around who knows where the bodies are buried and what unspoken landmines and rules there are in the industry.
>>219978535Bert was functionally retired but iirc he had no family (because he lost his balls) so he just hangs out at the office all dayHe keeps himself busy occasionally looking over some numbers with Harry Crane and his name is prestigious and he has connections and experience so he's useful just as a figurehead
>>219978613He literally spells it out, he goes to the balls, charity events, the whole welcoming Don to charity story that never got developed.
>>219978696>the whole welcoming Don to charity story that never got developed.I think it got replaced with the American Cancer Society stuff after Don wrote the letterThat was just a plot device to have them go to charity events and hunt for new clients
>>219978766Yes but from it I think the implication was that Bert takes care of "outside work" whatever the charity angle would have been. Maybe Don was to take over his role there, who knows.
>>219976145>>219975963>>219975881Uh oh, someone left the cigarette schizo out of his cage
>>219978881Good catch
>>219976145For me it was Lucky Strike
>>219975845>>219975881>>219975963scum bros what’s the play can we ever recover
>>219974441>while deftly sidestepping Jewish infiltration of its public and private institutions and subjugation of its interests to IsraelThey showed the JFK assasination, though.
>>219978535Mostly he was just the old wise partner of the company there to prevent the others from doing something retarded.
>>219974441
i must be filtered because one scene i didn't really get is why the housewives were gaining up on the divorcee by questioning her walkinglike who goes walking, honestly?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVQd0kzleiA
>>219983491She's free to go as she pleases. This confuses the illusory dimwit blondes who never existed and are just a racist caricature.
>>219969384I like it quite a bit, and unlike most modern shows it actually gets better as it goes along, not worse>>219969841based
>>219983491Lookin' for a husband to steal!
>>219969384Don meeting Conrad Hilton was a great scene.That's all
>>219969384Soap Opera
>>219983851>>219984531Kill yourself>>219984542It sin't, has like 20 episode seasons. Soap opera is a format
>>219969384Actual good television.
>>219969384I mean, there were these men, but they never seemed mad, per se. Mostly just miffed or peeved.
>>219971808Agreed. I liked him.
>>219969384I was surprised at how bad the acting and writing is when i tried watching it recently.It was completely unconvincing in its portrayal of the 1960s. It felt like it was written by people who weren't even alive then, it felt like a parody.Except when it was trying to be dramatic, with all the people cheating on their partners etc, it felt like the shows my mum used to watch during the day when i stayed home from school - Days of Our Lives and THe Bold and the Beautiful etc
>>219984690BAsically it was awful. And if this is people's idea of one of the top 5 shows ever made, then i have no idea what i'm doing in this place.
>>219984531Conrad had such a great villain aura, I remember feeling scared for Don when he was finally made to sign a contract... what a wet popcorn fart that turned out to be.
>>219969384soap opera for men but good natheless
it's a dogshit soap opera where nothing happensthe only two things i remember is the chernobyl guy hanging himself in the office and the jew retard cutting his nipple off
>>219974606the current and the next one
>>219984690What part of the setting wasn't convincing to you? And complaining about a show "trying to be dramatic" is stupid. What antics do you expect drunk married businessmen to get up to?
This show is feminist propaganda and one of the many reasons why women now think having families is abuse and how women from the 50s were all forced to be married, have babies, and none was truly happy.
>>219984690About half of the writers were women, there was always an agenda about this show.
>>219974441>white person in a TV show exhibits any kind of character flaw whatsoever>AAAAAAAAA HELP ME NIGGERMAN THE JEWS ARE DEMORALIZING ME AGAINDoes being like this ever get tiresome for you people?
>>219969384perhaps the most overrated show of all time. the nostalgia scene with the projector was cinema, other than that its just meh
>>219989649>you peopleIt's the same schizo and whatever personalities aren't chemically suppressed today.
>Don my boy!
>>219991667>boomers are actually kinda le wholesome tho!
>>219991854That dude was born in the 1800's retard. Don's kids are boomers.
>>219974528I'll keep voting for him as long as leftists keep trying to import millions of illegals and make being white illegal. Mad Men was very good though.
some of the later seasons make it difficult to keep my attention. is that the general consensus of the series or do some people love the final few?
>>219969384kino>>219970736Apparently Weiner was confused that people found Glen creepy.
>>219972952I just rewatched this episode and was disappointed that Pete isn't actually the one saying this
>>219993169>that's ENOUGH of THAT>you're a grimy little pimpthe deliveries are so fucking good
It taught us a valuable lesson.
>Peggy asks if she's a Marilyn Monroe or Jackie Kennedy>Ken says she's Gertrude Steinkek
Don always had the best one-liners
>>219995742kek
>>219995742Don Brutally Owns Liberal Females Montage.
>>219970356>>219969963Rewatched breaking bad Skipped all wife and girlfriend/female talking scenes and it was much more enjoyable. This Would probably make mad men way better too
>>219971808THE KING ORDERED IT
>>219972240bot post>>219971808his reunion with trudy was way, way, way too neat. one conversation? but both actors are good so they sold it really well.
>>219969384Kinda boring. Don is a robot. Fairly sure Hamm is gay cause he never manages to look actually interested in the women on the show. Tbf a lot of them are old hags who are not even a tenth as hot as his wife.
>>219993169>Apparently Weiner was confused that people found Glen creepy.What about finding him retarded?
>>219970803I don't see how it's weird. It's an adult show, there are no recurring child actors except for Don and Betty's children. >>219974837Yeah Pete, Roger, Harry and the Orson Welles guy can't think of his name (the pipe smoking aspiring screenwriter turned Hare Krishna devotee) are probably my favorite characters. For the women number 1 is obviously Alison Brie as Trudy. I really liked the blonde love interest from season 4? The market research sociology chick. Great show for fapping to the sex scenes too.>>219970356But then you'll miss all the other things you're supposed to notice on a rewatch. >>219971808Yup, If you watch interviews with Vincent Kartheiser he's actually not that different from his character mannerism wise. Such a charming guy.>>219974383The Twilight Zone gets mentioned a few times too. >>219997356Well what do you know, a thing like that!
>>219999233It's weird that the director used his own son to subtly illustrate how illicit adult and minor relationships can occur, yes. I can't make that any clearer than what it already is.
>>219969384Smoking and drinking on the job fucking kicks ass
the episode where ken gets invited to dinner by sal is a top 5 episode. sal obviously had the wrong idea but it really changed course for ken into being just an asshole in the series. it's like harry took his place after that
>>219999324Had to be so damn good. I'm jealous of my grandfathers.
>>219999292My point double digit retarded GIF poster was obviously that he wrote a child actor in to the show to be played by his own son. If you can't understand this well, then you can not understand anything. >>219999349It's also odd how well Ken took to losing his eye.
>>219999429>Ken took to losing his eyefrom what i remember they presented it like he didn't know he was gonna lose all ability from it at first and then he just kept the eyepatch showing he did. i might be remembering wrong thoughhe was one of the meanest characters in season 1 though so it was interesting how he became one of the most sympathetic down the line. wish Sal could have stuck around though
>>219999429I understood your point. It's weird that the director used his own son to subtly illustrate how illicit adult and minor relationships can occur, yes. I can't make that any clearer than what it already is.>It's also odd how well Ken took to losing his eye.>>219999449They soooooort of make it seem like he might keep his vision, it's a very throwaway bit of dialogue, but otherwise yes it's odd that Ken stayed on. It's entertaining, but if one were to really scrutinize it, Ken makes no sense in the last two seasons.>Is a successful published author by season 1>By season 5, his wife Cynthia brags that he's been continuing to do well>Despite being admonished by Roger and threatened with being fired, and telling Peggy that his pen name is dead, this episode ends with him penning another story under a different name than his previousThe show goes to lengths to establish writing is what he wants, and he has it. He's a skirt chaser in seasons 1 and 2, and then an effortless account man (Lane speaks of Ken to Pete, saying "He has the gift of making the clients feel as if they have no needs") but it's never stated that he enjoys what he does. What the audience is left to infer is that he DOES like what he does, but he is clearly miserable keeping the Detroit guys on the hook for SCDP / SC&P. When you reeaally get down to it his arc is inorganic. He should have been very much a guy who uses business to fund his passion, but instead he comes off as a guy who just goes with the flow, which doesn't make sense as a successful author. I'm sort of repeating myself but tldr Ken should have quit in season 6 but the writers kept him on because people liked him probably.
>>219999504There's a lot of should's in your post. Anyways, I do remember thinking a hunting rifle probably has a very small caliber and it does kind of make sense that it could be a temporary injury. Ken stands out as a character that is really good at what he does but doesn't live for his job and his sort of happy with his lot in life. He's sort of like the opposite of Kinsey in that sense, who tried really really really hard to be recognized as a succesful creative free thinking beatnik screenwriter and ends up as a brain fried acid casualty living in the Hare Krishna sect.
