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Just watched all of 'Mad Men'
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One of me favourite shows of all time. Might be the one, really. I'm not sure we'll see something like it again.
amazon prime I think as well as places like vudu, itunes, and youtube
I got a vudu code with the blu ray box set
Her Instagram is looney
she seems cool
It's a top 3 GOAT show
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Fantastic show all around. I need to re-watch it at some point. For all the affairs that took place, if Don and Joan ever hooked up it would have literally destroyed the set. Those two were definition of power.
My memory is a little fuzzy but I remember her arc being interesting at the end but they slightly missed the ending.
My memory is a little fuzzy but I remember her arc being interesting at the end but they slightly missed the ending.
I dunno if I'd call Peggy's ending corny. Nihilistic probably. Having her slowly turn into Don and framing it as becoming successful is incredibly dim and cynical.
One scene that has always stood out from me from the early seasons;
Much like the "I don't think about you at all" scene that is posted way more often now it's Don fooling someone else with something we know isn't true about himself, yet delivered in a way that it's easy to believe him.
Much like the "I don't think about you at all" scene that is posted way more often now it's Don fooling someone else with something we know isn't true about himself, yet delivered in a way that it's easy to believe him.
then again becoming don without all the extra don shit just means she's damn good at her job
unless you think she's sleeping with clients behind stan's back or something lol
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It just seemed very vanilla. Maybe there's some deeper meaning to it that I'm too dumb to get, though.
That was good, I guess I meant the literal end with Stand.
imo Mad Men and Red Dead Redemption 2 are two things you should only do after
- you have been married a few years
- you have had kids and they have grown up past 15
- you have had some sort of mid life crisis ("have i wasted my life?" kinda moment)
- you have decided sometime in the past 5 years to try and understand whats the difference between good booze and bad booze (scotch, bourbon, whiskey, whatever)
- its winter and its dark and cold outside a lot
The series (and that game) are much more impactful the older you are. Of course they are not pre-requisites and younger people will get a lot out of it too, but the way the show hits you is entirely different imo.
That's 92 episodes of 47 minutes each; 72 hours total, so 10 hours of TV a day for a straight week. That can't possibly be healthy, man.
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That's better Emma characterisation than she did in the movie. I blame the director.
I was really in to Madmen but when the last season finally aired I complete lost interest in all the characters or story, I started watching and had trouble caring at all. Really bizarre.
It's still blowing my mind that Angel's emo son plays Pete and Cynthia Cosgrove was played by the actress from The Secret World of Alex Mack.
It's still blowing my mind that Angel's emo son plays Pete and Cynthia Cosgrove was played by the actress from The Secret World of Alex Mack.
they absolutely wasted the perfecting casting choice for emma and I'll never forgive them. still love first class though
big emma vibes with this look, black king emma of course
The best part of Mad Men is that all the background characters stay the same throughout most of the show. Then all of a sudden they get pushed to the front for half a season to tell a story about people mostly outside of the bullshit at the top.
Jared Harris chooses his roles so carefully that if I see him acting in something then I automatically assume that the movie or TV show is 10/10. So far that holds true with Mad Men, The Expanse, etc.
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I was expecting Sal to return for a couple of seasons but never happened.
Was kind of bummed he left Expanse but The Terror was great so whatever.
The only way she is becoming Don is that she's successful. She gets proposed to and has none of Don's fidelity, alcohol, or self loathing issues.
poor sal. they get rachel's husband who we see for maybe 20 seconds once in season 2 come back in season 7 to hold a minyan for her, they get midge to come back as a heroin addict after being gone since season 1, but sal just disappears. it's period accurate for that character but it always hurts especially on rewatches because you know that phone booth call to his wife is it.
The whole series in a week? Watching more then a season of this in a week sounds like over kill. Doesn't do the show justice I feel.
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they get this lady (whose name on the show I know now is joyce) to come back but poor sal. just :poof:
some of the best lines on the show too, on a show with roger sterling no less
barbara: it's 1960, we don't live in a shtetl anymore. we can marry for love
rachel: I'm not sure people do that anymore
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don: they're doing a movie of Exodus with Paul Newman
rachel: Paul Newman? that's nice, now I have two reasons to see it
and of course the wardrobe
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Yep, throw in The Terror, which was fantastic, and Chernobyl.
Just seeing his face pop up in the trailer made me immediately hyped for The Foundation on AppleTV. Guy is batting basically a thousand when it comes to TV roles.
I know i've said that here before. It's just a fact. But they had a lot of women in that writing room.
all the women on this show are so different and nuanced and many show different kinds of strength
