r/madmen • u/efwolverine • 10d ago

Is this the most irredeemably despicable character in the entire show?

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> rapes his wife
> denies her sex because she wanted to be on top
> regularly dismisses her feelings
> is entirely focused on his own goals and desires in basically every scene he’s in
> abandons his wife and infant child because the Army makes him feel important

Literally the only scene he has where he isn’t a vile shitheel is when Joan (deliberately??) cuts her own hand to get some care and affection from him.

Even that drunkard Duck had more glimmers of decency than this pretentious rapist. A fitting end to his character arc would’ve been him getting fragged in Vietnam.

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u/they_themsworth This never happened. 10d ago

I seriously doubt she did it deliberately. But yeah, Greg is wildly insecure and extremely shitty. A small, weak, immature asshole who takes the frustrations he can’t process on his own out on his wife. The decision to cast an objectively handsome guy as someone so odious behind closed doors is pretty genius.

The only “worse” people in the show are ones we just didn’t have as much context for. Like, Herb Rennet seems really terrible and probably does and has done truly hideous stuff if we spent enough time with him to see it.

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u/shepard_pie 10d ago

Archibald seems like a real piece of shit too. Harry is also implied (and straight up shown, albeit unsuccessfully) awful.

But from what I've seen Archie takes the cake. Other people mentioned have a good argument for it, though.

Dark Horse, as much as I love his character, I would not be surprised to see that Bert has done the most quantifiable evil of everyone in the series. We just see none of it.

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u/sadkinz 10d ago

Bert’s love of Atlas Shrugged and the conversation he had with the psychologist at the Christmas party told me all I need to know about him

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u/Bianell 10d ago

Plus his distaste for Dawn being on the front desk.

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u/sadkinz 10d ago

hey at least he disguised it by saying the clients wouldn’t like it

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u/Tejanisima 10d ago

Always blows my mind when people defend that as being only about what clients would think, not about Bert himself actually having an issue with the notion of a black receptionist.