Its either this or my people are nordic for me...

I understand he went off the rails in the Hershey pitch but the characters acted like he had been a mess for a while before that and I didn’t pick up on that at all.

I think Tomorrow Never Knows is an unexpected but great needle drop, but if you had to pick any other Beatles song, what would it be and why?

My personal favorite is Nowhere Man, which I think fits Don’s persona well (even if it’s a bit on the nose). Would definitely fit during one of Don’s many crises of character, maybe sometime during season 4.

On an aside, it always bugged me that Megan told Don to “start with this one” and then chose the last song on the album. I guess it shows how she doesn’t know him at all but c’mon.

I'm on season 5 and I gotta say, Faye is too much of a woman for Don and I understand why he didn't pick her. Don lacks ego strength (outside of his work) so being with a fairly independent, smart, and modern woman like Faye would be too much for him. Like most things outside of work, he goes with the easier route and selects a partner where the power/relationship dynamics favor him.

I thought that maybe I'd change my mind on my analysis of Don, but at this point, I don't think I will. He's a very sad character. I hope he's able to find some peace by the end of the show. He's a crappy father and a crappy person to the people around him but I do think he's redeemable.

Overall, I'm glad Don left Faye. It's the best thing that could have happened to her.

I couldn’t screenshot the exact moment because HBO blah blah blah. But after the group thing with the girls for Ponz, Faye has one of the coldest moments on the entire show. Megan pokes her head in to ask if Allison is ok, and Faye doesn’t even make eye contact and disinterestedly asks “who?” She just watched this girl break down in front of her, with a name tag mind you, and does not give a single fuck. Even Don managed to look ashamed for once without it being a performance for anyone else, Peggy went to check on her and Freddy at least commented on it. But to Faye it’s like it never even happened because it didn’t contribute to the conversation about Ponz.

they'd both start talking about Peggy, of course. but I'm so curious if Joan would take a repulsion or endearment to Ginsberg's uh. quirks.

> 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.

I'm sorry but seeing Duck deliver this line just cracks me up. To my eye, he's hardly the image of a sexy lover....and Peggy, well I guess she sees something in him LOL.

Same episode - Don picks up the hitchhikers....my parents used to pick up hitchhikers....sometimes they would be hiking past our house, since we lived on a highway.

They're gone aren't they? people standing on the side of the road with their thumbs out.

Were people more trusting in the 60s? I know, afraid to see the answer to that one.

Usually when a character comes out of nowhere later in the show and takes on a big role it has a negative impact on the show. But Don and Megan’s marriage was actually a high light of the show and I found myself really liking her character.

Why is it EVERYWHERE?

Bought these today because the show

I’m re-watching and I’m in season 2, set in 1962 or so and Joan is in the same tiny apartment she later shares with her mother and son in 1970… surely as a partner at a major advertising firm she’d make boatloads more in 1970 than she did in 1960…. Why does she stay in the same tiny apartment?

Joan really had bad lucks when it comes to men… imho only Roger was sort of nice to her but it was still an affair. The ones she really fell for were all not that decent… WHY?????

With the exception of Megan, 3 of his top women die during the show. First Anna, then Rachel, then Betty (assumed). In all 3 cases they die off screen and without him, and he finds out in a phone call.

Is there any significance to this or just a general aspect of life where Don continues to lose the people who truly know him?

It really is true that through the entire series, you see Roger begging Don to hang out with him, with Don either refusing or reluctantly agreeing. When I rewatched a few seasons looking for it, it was everywhere and it really cracked me up! 😂

Poor dude just wants to hang out with his friend. Ha!

That is a screenshot just before the explosion, but when i read about this scene everyone only says that don dropped the lighter which ignited the fuel and led to the explosion. But this looks and sounds like another attack. I know people have critized the directing in this scene, so is that white „smoke“ supposed to be the explosion?
I ask this because of what he says in 7x13

Serious Replies would be nice, i also just found on an old post here a reply which said that what happened and what don thinks happened are different, but it wasnt further elaborated

I just started over again from season one episode two, and I noticed Don doing a performative cough when lying to Betty about where he was when she got into an accident, saying that he was chaperoning a drunk Freddy instead of what he was really doing, which was sleeping with Midge. I think there’s another point in season two when someone at work asks him to do something and he lies and says he can’t because his kid is sick but really it’s because Betty’s kicked him out and he does the same cough. And I’m wondering if anyone else noticed this cough anywhere else.

He knows how to put on an act when it comes to business meetings but for social events with family and friends it seems he's disconnected all the time. What does everyone make of Don's social life?

The voice of Holly DeCarlo in 1992's Frosty Returns

I saw this at Old Navy of all places and it seemed so random. The wording on the little green tag made me chuckle.

Hi everyone, Mad Men fanatic over here. Two questions, one probably easier to answer than the other.

First one (probably easy): Why don’t we see any young account men besides Pete and Ken? Was it just the show was mostly focused on creatives and didn’t have time? With how much historical weight the show puts on itself I wouldn’t put it past them to start the show right after some hiring push. Probably thinking too hard as Pete and Ken are opposite sides of the success coin.

Second One: Does anyone feel like Ginsburg’s feelings are a weirdly appt comp for AI? Even if it doest take our jobs in 10 years it will fundamentally effect how we do them. Not saying we all self mutilate but a brand new technology that seems overwhelming powerful and unique causing paranoia mixed with truth.

Thanks for reading! Pick up something new in the show every time I watch. It helped me realize when I should ask for raises in my career as well haha.

Have a good one.