If you weren't hooked on episode 1, you can stop watching now.
I don’t get the hype for Mad Men
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If you weren't hooked on episode 1, you can stop watching now.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Same, I stuck it out through season 3 and it just wasn’t hitting like that for me
Tried to watch this years ago ….: shyt boring as fukk
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Jmare007
pico pal q lee
Mad Men is a character driven show -almost entirely tbh- so if you aren't into the people in the show or into that type of storytelling, it's a tough sell.
To this day it's still my favorite TV show of all time but I've always understood why there's people that don't like or could never really get into it.
To this day it's still my favorite TV show of all time but I've always understood why there's people that don't like or could never really get into it.
Folks that don't rock with Mad Men, I like to see what else they like and what lead them to watch it.
I remember loving the show but not liking the later seasons once Don left and married a secretary or something?
This is the only reason it was even a fraction of popular as it was. No where near any no goat shows and 0 replay value.Made it to season 3. Glad I stuck it out. The character development is top notch. I’m also getting a kick at the juxtaposition between current times and the 50s/60s. Pregnant women drinking and smoking, casual sexism, mistreatment of children and of course the unrepentant accepted racism.
This is really the society that cac conservatives still long to return.
One of the funniest scenes was when one of the neighbors slapped another neighbors little kid for running around the house and the dad made the kid apologize to the neighbor. People were savages.
Redwood
Superstar
Haven't gotten that far past Season 1, tbh. I vaguely remember Maggie Siff on there.
if you watch it with an eye that is meant to be critical of the era and not glorify it, i think you will find enjoyment.
if you watch it, especially if you're not some white dude, trying to glorify don draper and the rest of them, then yeah it's going to be an awkward watch.
the stuff about why advertising is dumb as fukk and some white dudes sitting in a room "deciding" what is popular also has some value imo.
if you watch it, especially if you're not some white dude, trying to glorify don draper and the rest of them, then yeah it's going to be an awkward watch.
the stuff about why advertising is dumb as fukk and some white dudes sitting in a room "deciding" what is popular also has some value imo.
I’ve hearda few good things, but I haven’t heard it put up with the Breaking Bads, The Wires, and Sporanos of the world, which was why I was never really compelled to fw it 
the cac mamba
Veteran
in my top 5, but it's definitely not undeniable like sopranos/wire/BB
one of my favorite aspects was how the cover the tone of the country during those assassinations in the 60s. the JFK episode was great, same with the MLK/RFK ones
one of my favorite aspects was how the cover the tone of the country during those assassinations in the 60s. the JFK episode was great, same with the MLK/RFK ones
there's no way there is any level of excitement that compare to those shows.I haven’t heard it put up with the Breaking Bads, The Wires, and Sporanos of the world, which was why I was never really compelled to fw it
seems like more of a critique of advertising as a whole and the 60/70s NYC corporate workplace as a whole.
i think it's a top 50 show all time, not top 10 tho.
it's also tiring to watch, i would never rewatch it. it's basically about some white man who is a fraud, who has a midlife crisis. with the societal landscap in america in the 60s/70s as a backdrop. wire/bb/sopranos have action and thriller tension that mad men could never compete with.
Redwood
Superstar
SOA went too dumb in a way I don't think Mad Men ever did but I enjoyed prime SOA fukkery.Even SOA did.
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