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Mad Men

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 8:34 pm
by Vataes

You probably envy me that I am watching for the first time and there is so much good ahead of me // spell

Mad Men

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 9:31 pm
by Kaikki

No, because this series is not a whore of its own script and you can easily return to scenes already watched without the risk of depleting the content.

Mad Men

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:30 pm
by Gor

I only agree with Romulus that each subsequent MM season has been better than the previous one so far.

Mad Men

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 11:19 pm
by Triss Merigold

This series makes me want to smoke.

Mad Men

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:23 am
by Brerg

The third season is behind me. The last two episodes disarmed me. Or is it just me that I know that Don deserved what happened to his marriage ... but I regret the bastard, and I feel aversion to his wife?

All the time I am very impressed with the setting, attention to detail and historical flavors.

Mad Men

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:27 am
by Veldrin

I have already "absolved" Don. It is a very "demoralizing" series, because these "family values" do not suit Don. His downside is that he pretends to care or tries to make him care.
The fourth season is ahead of you and there are two great episodes. With the suitcase ad and Don's diary. They blew me away.

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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:11 am
by Woland

The Don is stuck in the trap of convention. After all, he is a guest from the lowlands who has struck his way to a better world. Work *, Betty **, children, home are his American dream come true.

* Don's obsession with independence. The smith of my own fate, I do what I want and when I want.
** domestic hen that can turn into a really hot chick (even a section in Rome)

These are all the elements of the image, the blocks from which he put together a new, better life. The grief and anger after losing Betty weren't fake ... but the interesting thing is, did he actually regret losing her or his own ego, the image of the guy who has it all? I do not know. In my opinion, this is one of the best-written characters in the series. I know he's a bastard ... but I like him a lot.

Mad Men

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:45 am
by Eredin

Well, he just reached the American Dream, but rather it brought him luck only in the short term. Or maybe, while working in advertising, he realized that American Dream is a slogan.

On the other hand, or maybe the same, Don Draper is the guy who still orders Old Fashioned at the bar (Season 5 Finale, Season 3 I think he's making this drink for Conrad Hilton).

In the first season, when she talks to the cute daughter of a department store owner:

Mad Men

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 2:51 am
by Vanity Fair

Well, I can see a certain clash (and no, it's not a flaw of the scenario, it's a ... human clash). He doesn't seem to care about tomorrow, but where does this relief come from when his secret finally comes out? He's a bit like Betty, he doesn't really know what he wants. Of course, with the difference that although at the moment everyone is sure that he is a guy who will do something if he decides to do something ... but you can clearly see moments like "I'll fuck everyone and run away again, I'll start again".

And with Betty it is so much funny that she pissed me off with her decision ... although in truth most of the guilty is Don :)
Oh, the awl comes out of the // spell bag

Mad Men

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:15 am
by Poison Ivy

The fourth season is behind me. Somehow I preferred Mrs. Dr.;)