How old are the following now, canonically?

1. Don

2. Roger

3. Betty

4. Peggy

5. Joan

6. Pete

7. Trudy

8. Sally & Glen

9. Ken

10. Stephanie

For a show that’s fairly old now, it really has people posting continually and not just any old posts either - extremely well articulated and dissecting episodes

I love it, keep it up

Mrs. Blankenship dying at work always hit me differently. My dad told me about a coworker who died in the bathroom at the assembly plant (Detroit UAW) and how he asked his friend to drag him out by his feet if that ever happened! 🤣 That didn’t happen. Thankfully!

Betty, Joan and Trudy are all beautiful women. They all have unhappy relationships (only exception might be Betty with Henry, but even then that’s her 2nd marriage.) What I find interesting about Joan is that, though it’s never said, I had the impression that part of the reason as to why she didn’t have an easy time marrying a “wealthy man” is because of the fact that she’s not from Old Money like Betty and Trudy. Betty and Trudy were raised wealthy in homes wherein both parents were present. Betty and Trudy were truly raised with the expectation that they’d become housewives. Joan claims she wants to become a housewife (and I doubt this was entirely true) but it’s clear to me that in spite of her beauty and intelligence, it was always going to be harder for her because Joan doesn’t come from Old Money. Her mother raised her to be admired, but she was presumably raised by a single mother and certainly wasn’t raised in an upper middle class home. She wouldn’t have had as easy of a time marrying into money as Betty and Trudy because of it, and I think the series does a great job of showing this without explicitly stating that it’s one of the reasons as to why Joan never married or was engaged to a man with Don, Henry, or even Pete’s status and wealth.

Bobby should be 13 in the final season but he seems like he’s barely 8 or 9

Gene should be 7 and he’s still acting like a toddler lol

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I'll go first:

"Just assume he knows as much about business as you do, but inside there's a child who likes getting his way." - Roger Sterling

Im on my first rewatch after maybe 3/4 years. Currently on the beginning of season 6. MM Is such a gem in subtle storytelling and characters complexity. I just realized Dick never truly tell anyone the truth concerning how he found himself becoming Don Draper. First, the fact that he caused Don accident and also the way he pruposelly switched the dog tags. Even when he confess to Faye, Anna, Betty he always says that it was an army mistake. ( does Anna still think Don was killed in combat ?)

It is funny because I completly forgot that he deliberately took Don identity knowing at some degre what would happen. In my memory it was an honest mistake from the army which he decided to go along. Still dishonest but much more understandable. (Either way im not judging. War is something terrible I pray ill never experience ).

I feel like in any other show first of all they would have go the honest army mistake path. Or Don would have tell all the full truth whenever he says it. But in MM, no.

Thats so simple but it makes so much sense. Of course in that situation I would probably do the same ! And we ALL do it all the time, whitholding details of information to apear in the story a little better than we actually are. That the little details that makes MM so real and so subtle.

others exemples, i love When SCDP lose lucky stike. the partners never know that Roger never went to the meeting nor that he was aware of it weeks before. In my souvenirs, and I might be wrong, but Greg never ever knows that kevin is not his son. the show choose different path

When Duck meets with Roger about becoming partner...

When Duck meets with Roger about becoming a partner... The audacity this man has... I always wonder if there were any Duck fans who watched this moment and believed it was real, that the man sure did deserve partner, rather than just a catalyst for the story.

Was it not a duplicate gift? She said her aunt bought it, but if it was from their registry, it's not like it required any thought to be put into it.

To be fair I haven’t seen her in anything else, but her performance as Betty has always resonated with me. When I first saw the show (which was, to be fair, when I was 12, 13 at oldest) I “understood” Betty. I understood that she had depression and anxiety. She seemed cold post-season 1, yet it was clear to me that this wasn’t (in my opinion) a result of bad acting but rather Betty’s response to years of bad treatment from Don (and, as we learn, from her own mother.) Betty is, throughout most of the series, a repressed woman. She doesn’t want to be a housewife. She doesn’t want to be a mother. I didn’t find Jones’ performance to be stilted - I thought she did a great job of portraying a woman who can’t be what she wanted to be, of portraying a woman who is trying to follow societal rules yet fed up and unable to talk to anyone about it.

I never get too emotional when watching television shows. I have cried twice that I remember- the LOST finale and during George Sr’s death on Young Sheldon. But the Hershey’s scene in season 6, episode 13 made me cry.

When Don makes up the story about his father buying him a chocolate bar and then tells them the truth about how he grew up in a whorehouse and a woman gave him a Hershey’s bar as a reward for stealing from the John- I just sobbed.

“And I would eat it alone

In my room

With great ceremony...

feeling like a normal kid.”

Floored me. One of the most touching moments in TV for me.

On rewatch, I’m looking for a scene where someone comments on Don having dandruff or something like that about his scalp. But already on season 7 and I remember it was before then. It was in the new office. Anyone remember this scene or maybe I mixed up with something else?

The first time I watched this show was back in 2019 when I was still in High School. If you were to compare me to any character in that show, I have nothing in common, yet I absolutely fell in love with it. Fast forward to earlier this year, I was going through a really difficult time, but mad men was like my safe haven. I cannot explain why, but I could re-watch the show over and over again and it never got old. Even when I am having bad days like today, it always puts me in a better mood. Does anyone else have a similar experience with mad men? There is no other show I like more than mad men, and I cannot explain why.

S4E2 opens with Sally running into Glen at a Christmas tree farm. Glen says “I saw your new dad. My mom said that would happen.”

What does Glen mean? Did Helen predict the divorce? Did she just mean Betty would never be alone, even though there was no gap between her marriages to Don and Henry?

I always figured after a few years. Even someone as class dense as Pete. Would realize that no one outside of the NYC cares what his middle name is. How long do you think it took him to realize his family name carried no weight outside of NYC?

Two seasons directed by Soderbergh, with many similar themes as Mad Men. Lead Clive Owen plays a genius of his field as a 1900 NYC surgeon with massive addiction and relationship flaws. Eve Hewson (Bono’s daughter WHAAAT??) plays a West Virginia native navigating her way through the uncharted social and professional ladder of NYC as an outsider. I thought of Don and Peggy throughout My watch.

This should have been a massive show. Cinemax wanted this to launch them into HBO territory but didn’t have enough faith in it to greenlight a third season. Terrible. Just like Carnivale or Mindhunter it was robbed of it's potential.

If you have watched Mad Men more than once I GUARANTEE, you will like this show.

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I feel this show touched on the topic of how women are used as social leverage for the men, and it is a type of duty that is unappreciated

Performing (literally Joan on the accordion), or figuratively as Betty did in early seasons, entertaining business guests. A man with a beautiful woman on his arm commands respect in those circles. Trudy and Mona with their connections and interpersonal sense. Kitty by being a beard lol. All of the women in this show have to perform in some way for the benefit of the men in their lives Yet the men get to be the “breadwinner”

I have to preface this by stating that I watched Superstore before madmen.

The lawnmower thing was probably the most abruptly goretastic thing I have ever witnessed on television until fucking Jonah presented his >!goddamn nipple in a box to peggy!<

Like that was some Trailer Park Boys level “WHAT IN THE FUCK?!??!”

Elizabeth Moss is an amazing actress and I really don’t know how else anyone could react to that the way she did it. Just amazing.

Ginsburg is/was hilarious/darkly tragic up until that moment but like ….WHAT IN THE FUCK!!!

My God was that a banger.

The build up as he walks on to the balcony and then just when you think Don's going to do something whacky?

He's forcing himself to sober up. The chill helps with that but can also been seen as some sort self flagellation?

Either way, hell of a way to end an episode.

What the heck is she talking about?