Discussion: I Hate to See Mad Men Go, but I Love to Watch it Leave

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Nice post but…

"I should like Peggy, but she sacrifices her identity as a feminist to avoid challenging the male dominated power structure. I got issues with that. "

Let’s see, I think it was Joan who slept with one of the boys’ clients in order to get her partnership position with the company.

“In this moment, Roger and Peggy are equals, cognizant of their shelf life in a changing American market.”

Yes, it was indeed a great scene but I always thought Peggy felt she was equal to any man.

“I always joked with my friends that Mad Men’s real title was White Men. Because that’s what it’s about.”

Wow. I thought it was about advertising, marketing, the '60’s, and the effect it all had on people’s lives. All the men happened to be white and if you lived during the '60’s in NYC, in advertising, you would have noticed all the men were white.

“Mad Men has everything to do with Ferguson.”

Huh?

I enjoyed the show because I lived through the '60’s and my father was in advertising. But for a few superstars on Madison Ave it was, like most businesses, an ugly grind with no redeeming purpose other than to make money in order to make the mortgage payment on time and feed the kids…

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Never watched the show. Still not interested in it. And I work in marketing for a Fortune 500 company I might add.

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Wow. I cannot believe you were a fan of this show. I would never have suspected. I watched the marathon of the final season yesterday because I hadn’t seen it but had seen all the previous seasons, only 5 of which were really worth watching in my opinion. It actually started out as a very good series. So fell for the hype since it was the finale. It was the stupidest non-believable finale I have ever watched.

To believe that Peggy fell in love with her co-worker in 10 minutes after working with the guy for more than 10 years and never suspecting she had feelings for him and absolutely no chemistry between them was a bridge too far. Don Draper leaves a job and millions of dollars to find himself on a long road trip and then finding spiritual enlightenment at the end was at best, laughable.

I guess Joan finally finding love was believable enough and Roger finally settling down - maybe - but giving Betty Draper lung cancer -I don’t get it. I found it so boring I kept flipping between Mr. Selfridge which was 1000 times better. If I had known they were going to repeat Mad Men again, I would have skipped it totally and watched the rerun.

I am glad you enjoyed it.

So did Emily Nusbbaum at tThe New Yorker

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Neither can I but sometimes you get caught up in these shows even if the directing is clumsy or the writing too predictable. Like Boardwalk on HBO, which had a few good seasons but then ran out places to go and things to do. You can only kill so many people and after a while it’s … what else you got.

Yeah, Peggy and Stan? Wassup with dat? Love confessions - over the phone - and then Stan comes in out of breath. I was waiting for the full orchestra! And my wife was saying 'cut your hair Stan and shave so we can see what the hell you look like!

And Joan, with that body and boobs, dressed in red! Yikes! She made out. But Roger was always my favorite. Great line at the end when he orders champagne for his new wife and calls her his mother!

Don was really just a self centered bastard Tells his younger brother to fuck off, don’t bother me, here’s five grand. Don was always about Don. I could see women viewers attracted to him as the bad boy and it seemed to work. His sudden ‘enlightenment’ at the end was goofy but you know, it’s only TV.

They slapped the ending together no doubt but at least they didn’t sensationalize it, except for Betty.

Was watching Mr. Selfridge as well. Jeremy ? had one of the best roles ever in Entourage. The real life ending was quite sad,

Be well.

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I think I watched the show because of Nostalgia. I entered the advertising business in the late-80s and the heavy drinking was still happening. We used to serve hard liquor to clients at 10:00AM presentations. We drank at lunch almost everyday with the senior partners being there and picking up the tab. My design school advertising prof warned us that most of us would be alcoholics by the time we were 30. He was right.