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>>62623830
hmm maybe, I mean his father is hung like a horse, maybe 1/3 negro
post your mad men waifus
watching it again, up to season 7b, dont want these feels guys
>it's a max shoe horns his faggot son into the show for no reason episode
>>62624200
> implying glen wasn't based at times
Happy Birthday to kiki
>>62624015
Based Hildy
>I'd like to give the world a bottle of heart racing, artery clogging brown sugary fizzy water
Thanks Mad Men!
>>62623792
boy on the floor! boy on the florr!
>>62624395
>>62624015
high test waifu
>>62624570
Mad men.jpg
joint best show ever along with sopranosimo
I watched the whole show over a short period of time about a month ago. I really, REALLY loved it. I'd always seen these threads and knew there was something special in it. Once it just "clicked" for me that it isn't a plot centered show, I loved it. What a ride.
>>62624487
You will take that soda pop and like it young lady!
Trudy was the best wife on Mad Men. she was a bitch to Pete, but she actually knew what was best for him. She knew he needed to be pushed or he would just wallow in his "poor little rich boy" self-pity.
And while most people on the show were pretending to be smarter than they really were, Trudy kept up the bubbly socialite act so people would underestimate her.
>>62624703
>>62624703
plus she treated pete with mostly respect and apart from some stuff in 6/7 she was nice to him and was never any trouble
plus she accepted him again end of 7 and gave pete one of th few happy endings of the show.
>>62624015
>>62624633
"Dont' do anything rash...Ken."
>>62624386
did sally want the glenn dick?
>>62624633
> mfw ken at the end
lol love the fact that ken ended up being a selfish prick in the end too with dow chemical, with good reason too. Roger and Pete trolled him out throughout the series, they might have won the battles but he won the war.
>>62624816
No, I think she looked at Glenn more like a big brother. She was just upset that he still wanted to stick it in Betty because they both knew how crazy she actually was.
>>62624877
>>62624015
Peggy will always be my favorite
>>62624877
Ken wasn't "selfish", it was just him not bending over backwards to help out assholes who had screwed him over so many times.
Dude gave a fucking eye for the company and Roger STILL treated him like shit.
i still cry when don finds out anna died
>>62624816
Sally was naive child, she didnt know what she wanted, remember that convo with megan and her friend when she said, 'i have a boyfriend, but idk if he likes me that way', only to shut glen down later that season.
Sally was more Betty than Don, in that she liked to tease a lot, Glenn understood this which is why she went for Betty in the end.
>>62624893
Oh Bert you beautiful Randian bastard. It's a shame you never got to pull the rug out from under Cutler.
>>62624973
>Ken wasn't "selfish"
but thats exactly what he was in the end, for all the shit talk about his father-in-law's association with dow chem ( napalm bombs) in the end he sold out his principles to take over after him, which was his only way of getting the company back for all the shit treatment he got,. So he did become selfish but with 'good reasons'
> I always found it ironic that for all the hate Roger had against Pete, he always was on his corner when it came to Ken who was a much better human being and account man.
>>62625143
>>62624731
>tfw Allison will never "destroy" you
>>62625143
I think Roger was legitimately threatened by Ken. Roger's big arc was that he was handed everything in life and, aside from his stint in the Navy, never really felt like he accomplished anything.
Ken actually worked his way up because he was legitimately good at his job. He wasn't a socialite or an Ivy Leaguer, he didn't have the connections that Pete or Roger had growing up.
Roger could relate more to Pete because they were cut from the same cloth.
>>62625240
Post more Dons
>>62625430
>>62625287
hmmm thats true, Pete and Roger are alike in some ways, but still doesnt change the fact that even though Ken was a multi talented man, all that shit treatment jaded him and as a result sold out to big corporation. therefore becoming selfish.
> you will never read one of ken's sci fi mystery novels.
>>62625492
>>62625430
I sincerely think that Mad Men would have never worked without a top notch actor as the man character such Hamm, dude was masterful at expressing Don's inner struggles.
>>62625492
Yeah, it was highlighting how that kind of environment just grinds people down. Like how Harry went from affable doofus to outright sleazeball.
>>62625607
I agree. It was great watching the Don Draper veneer crack and peel in the later seasons. I can't think of many actors that could have played it as well as the Hammster.
>>62625607
Have a high res
>>62625614
well Harry went from a useful fish to a Shark, he kinda had to with Roger and Don actively showing their disgust at him, lets not get it twisted tho, he was always a sleazeball, remember Pete and Ken saying how hes a two face bastard when he tried playing them against one another, he was always a sleazeball but with more power in the end. BUT with no suave touch, hence why Megan turned his lazy approach to bedding her down. It looks like in the end he became a scared cog in Mccann ( probably a building full of Harrys) hence why Peggy mentioned how Harry wanted to hang out with her and Pete all the time.
>>62625607
It's hard to think of Don Draper without thinking of Jon Hamm.
This is what every casting director looks for.
That unknown who can totally carry a role and became a somebody through your production.
>>62625893
Mad Men had brilliant casting. Most of them where technically unknowns, but had good work under their belts. That way they got the experience without the baggage.
They took a bunch of workhorses and let them become stars.
>>62625981
>They took a bunch of workhorses and let them become stars.
Great way of putting it.
I give all credit to Wiener desu senpai
>>62626015
I think there was just a general atmosphere of "trust the talent" that went from the actors all the way up to AMC that really made this show.
>>62625857
Fuck Harry just seemed to have no redeeming qualities. It really puts in perspective how Don wanted nothing to do with him after they failed to sign on that rock band. Harry in general just seemed like a listless shithead.
>>62624759
Best dumbfu
Rizzo's beard is my spirit animal.
>>62626232
Merideth is the next Mrs. Blankenship.
>>62626232
>Harry in general just seemed like a listless shithead.
I disagree, while Harry was a shithead, he did have many good ideas that made a lotta money for the agency. Its just because he had no advanced social skills beyond " I can make you money in this time slot if you do this" that rubbed people the wrong way. That and the whole 2 faced thing. You are right, he had no redeeming qualities but the fucker knew how to work the tv angles and never took sides in arguments within the company.
>>62624015
>best girl
>best fappening leak
>>62626569
That's a fair point, and a mighty fine Hamm pic.
>>62626569
This. Harry, like Ken, wasn't a blue blood so he had a harder time moving through Roger and Pete's circles so he had to appeal to them purely with money.
Once he got out to the "New Money" West, the shoe was on the other foot. Guys like Roger and Pete were considered stodgy and stiff, where someone like Harry who was more approachable could more easily navigate the social scene.
Honestly, season 7 wasn't that great. They completely rushed the second half of it to tie up story lines.
>>62626758
>Guys like Roger and Pete were considered stodgy and stiff, where someone like Harry who was more approachable could more easily navigate the social scene.
that is true, Harry is a pure example of a /tv/ poster striking it power rich. Probably why 80% of /tv/ loves Harry.
I hated Harry, he was only semi-likable when he went against cunty dictator joan
>>62627191
>>62627191
i agree to an extent
however this sort of mild rush is nothing compared to some shows, like the BSG remake or HBO's Rome
what especially do you feel made it seem rushed?
personally i see peggy x stan happening too fast, i know there was foreshadowing from the getgo but they just turn into a romance too suddenly
also the way they wrote off ginsberg (there were extrinsic reasons for that?) felt rushed
and there wasn't enough bob benson
anyone else already marathoned through the entire series a second time since the 7b finale?
this show gets better and better with repeat viewings.
>>62628933
Ginsberg was always a nutcase, it just wasn't very obvious he was going to crack. A lot of shows have a funny nutcase like that, but in real life, those kind of people either don't exist or are batshit insane. Ginsberg was the latter, and the new computer truly unbottled his insanity.
>>62627261
He did help out Kinsey, remember? He did it in the worst possible way, but it was well intentioned.
>>62624633
>not a plot centered show
100%. Mad Men is basically a series of short stories and vignettes centered around the passing of time and the ways it effect our characters.
Sopranos and BrBa are very Shakespearean imo and are tightly-knight stories centered around the drama/comedy dichotomy, and exist to examine morality.
Mad Men also exists to examine morality, but is also very modernist in how morality is so insubstantial... we are pretty much never faced with decisions like Walt or Tony that are so morally weighted. Don has the Don/Dick thing but that fades away. It becomes not something Don has to decide on, but a choice that colors his life. People in Mad Men have the best and worst days of their lives, but also the days and weeks and years after that. There's no grand conflict, just the complexities of lives and how we negotiate our situtations pretty much to our deaths.
A lot of people like other shows better, but for me Mad Men aesthetically hits all of my sweet spots. It's not the flashiest show, not super pulpy, and they did a lot of things that I didn't like. But... that's life, pretty much.
Also Roger Sterling.
>>62624487
>thally
Kinsey was another insufferable faggot like Harry, but Kinsey was actually useless. Maybe Harry saw himself in Paul and thats why he helped him. But yeah Harry and Paul were alike is just one knew how to play the game instead of acting above class like Paul without properly earning it. Look where it got him in the end lol.
>>62629833
>It's not the flashiest show, not super pulpy, and they did a lot of things that I didn't like. But... that's life, pretty much.
> thats life
Life.....is just a bowl of life cereal
Life is sweet
enjoy the rest of your Life.... cereal
Life...the reason to get out of bed in the morning.
Life....the cure for the common breakfast.
Life....its sweetness never ends.
Life...eat it by the bowlful.
>>62630918
>Life....the cure for the common breakfast.
I really like this one.
>>62630971
>>62629833
>People in Mad Men have the best and worst days of their lives, but also the days and weeks and years after that. There's no grand conflict, just the complexities of lives and how we negotiate our situtations pretty much to our deaths.
There's a reason these words get repeated so often in the series.
>You are OK.
>>62631036
> mfw this is the last thing Roger says to Don
> mfw I realized this was probably gonna be their last scene together
> mfw it was.
>>62631129
>>62631129
>>62631329
>It's a billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you're doing is OK.
>You are OK.
>>62631329
>>62631515
damn Mad men gives the feels like no other show.
>>62631606
True that
Best thread on /tv/
bravo weiner
This show might have been enjoyable without the rampant infidelity.
>mfw Maisie Williams was in Mad Men
>>62626623
Elaborate?
>>62635232
you're in for a treatD075ECD
>>62635612is that motherless or something
Isn't that site illegal
>>62635711
>Isn't that site illegal
what
and n-no it's not that site
>>62635762
Oh
So what is the code for
>>62629833
>implying Sopranos isn't also a series of short stories that explores the complexities of daily life with episodes passing weeks, maybe months.
