Be honest. Mad Men is the most overrated show of all time
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I liked Mad Men 
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
50% is Draper and his drama with the many women he’s sleeping with, another 15% is a hysterical Betty - shyt is a soap given they keep running into/doing the same thing time and time again
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Show is a clear exposé of what MAGA means to upper middle class conservative whites...poor whites clearly just want the Jim Crow days back
That was required reading after each episode.
I mean, majority of people on the show were unhappy as hell though.
The show doesn’t paint that era as something to miss.
KalKal
Superstar
I think that's what you might think of the show if you look at the advertising "inspired" by the show after it aired, but I don't think the show itself was about that.
He's not a "REAL MAN".
Don Draper was a totally artificial invented character, the product of identify theft by some loser kid name "dikky". And he's worked his way up to the top of the advertising field, selling fake invented dreams to 1960's America in magazines and on TV.
I don't even mean this as a criticism of "The Sopranos", but you could argue that the appeal of Tony Soprano is even closer to what you describe above. You KNOW there are people who look at Tony Soprano like he's the last of a dying breed of "Men of Honor", they don't make them like they used to, etc.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Unhappy is a personal state, but the era of men being the breadwinner, treating their wives like trophies, sexual harassment in the work place, tons of affairs, the relative docility of women, ease of which they could acquire jobs (no experience or college necessary), lack of equality and inclusion of black people/minorities, no expectation that they play an equal part in child rearing - that’s definitely part of the MAGA ethos for conservative upper middle class white men
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The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
and everything you named, is why people love this show... It's a look into those times, without having to watch the make believe world of, every man courted his wife for years and everyone had a car and home and happy life. No, what really went on was all the things listed above, and still, here's some people who overcame that shyt..
Peggy is trying to make it in a world where women ain't shyt. Don is faking his way through the rich playboy life and happy married life... Neither of which he really is. Roger trying to be young and have fun even though he's supposed to grow up by now... Pete trying to be the rich kid who lives up to what he's supposed to be. Joan trying to be more than t*ts... Betty wanting to be more than a housewife... The gay guy... The other down low gay guy... The black women who get hired.. Etc etc..
It's like "The Wire" of the 50s
By that I mean... Where most shows sensationalize those times.... Where shows made back in the times, look dated and never really captured it..... This show is the "raw" look into those times for "upscale" white people
Season five's finale was amazing.The transition from Don Draper in 1959 to Don Draper in 1970 is
PoorAndDangerous
Superstar
“How do you sleep at night?”
Don Draper: “On a bed made of money“
Don Draper: “On a bed made of money
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Nero Christ
Sniper out now on all digital platforms brev
this is the best breakdown not only about Don but Mad Men and what it's supposed to be
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
Always saw it as Social Commentary of the 1960's.
