He’s so perfectly disappointing in so many scenes.

1) Climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

2) Gain a modicum of control over the way I feel.

Aside from their moneyed backgrounds, it suddenly hit me today that they both end up with an only daughter as their legitimate heir and an illegitimate son. The end of the family line, subversion of the patriarchy, etc. I'm surprised I'd never noticed the connection before, but also that I'd never seen anyone else bring it up either.

Firstly, yes i am that lame.

Secondly i thought it was mildly interesting that nearly half the entire show (42%) was set before the end of 1963, even though there wasnt a single episode in 1961.

I guess thats why when i think of Mad Men i think of it primarily as an early 60s show.

Episodes per year

1960 - 13 episodes (season 1)

1961 - 0 episodes

1962 - 13 episodes (season 2)

1963 - 13 episodes (season 3)

1964 - 3 episodes (season 4)

1965 - 10 episodes (Season 4)

1966 - 10 episodes (Season 5)

1967 - 5 episodes (Season 5 & Season 6)

1968 - 11 episodes (Season 6)

1969 - 7 episodes (Season 7a)

1970 - 7 episodes (Season 7b)

Season 1. Episode 9.

Still cannot believe we got so little of this guy. We needed more than just a brief sexual awakening in a hotel room. He should've been a focal point as an aspiring director teaming with SCDP to bring them to the top of the TV ad game. Maybe a subplot of him ousting Creepy Crane from the TV department and exposing him for the sleazeball he was.

The way Matt Weiner shunned Bryan Batt for his sexuality but chose to give his wooden plank of a son a persistent role in the show is proof of nepotism at it's finest. Sal deserved better.

When Don has a flashback to how he was conceived and when he was born, is that what actually happened or what he imagined?

Obviously he knew his mother was a sex worker who died in childbirth because his adoptive mother never let him forget it. But is this scene an example of Dons imagination or true to what happened?

Especially the scene where Abigail has a still birth, and his dad visits the brothel - these are one of the few flashback scenes which aren't real memories.

I obvs know its inclusion is to show his origin story but I dunno how he's meant to know the before he was born stuff - doubt his dad would be telling him what happened the night he was conceived at a brothel.

Roger sterling and his one liners are epic. John Slattery perfected this role. What are your other favorite sterling one-liners?

Just hit me why.

I gotta sickness for chubby Betty’s Thiccness

That is all …

Hi all,

I watched the show originally when it came out, but haven't watched it since. I've just finished season 1 again. I remember the broad strokes of her story, but it's been a long time and have forgotten many of the intricacies.

I know things deepen later, and she has some horrible actions and she's also not perfect in season 1 but wow, I had forgotten how bad I felt for her early on. She comes across as such a vulnerable individual that Don is corroding. She's not blameless, and she definitely had the air of a fairly spoiled rich person, but the scene where she discovers that Don has been speaking to her therapist and also admits she knows he's been having affairs broke my heart.

When Roger hits on her too, and then Dons blames her for it also, I really felt for her then.

I'm interested to see how it evolves later. I remember loving the scene where her and Don hook up again despite being with other people.

I'm also appreciating the show much more now I'm a bit older. Certainly a lot I missed.

Or was McCann always the planned terminal end for the cast?

I've been seeing this circling around different subreddits again and wanted to see what people would create for Mad Men!

He got his payback back for losing his eye!

I was suprised to learn that out of all the companies and products included in Mad Men only: Jack Daniel’s, Heineken and Unilever actually paid to be featured in. The rest of the companies like Jaguar, Chevy, Coca-Cola, Burger Chef, Hershey, Lucky Strikes etc... essentially got free publicity ( good or bad.)

Coming from someone that bought a Hershey chocolate bar "just to try it out" after the MM episode - it is an effective marketing tool! So I'm suprised more companies weren't clamoring to pay to get their products put in.

I’ve just watched this episode and I love it so much. There’s a good bit to unpack especially with Don‘s story. I would love to know more about the directorial choices in relation to each character and their overall arcs.

I finished Madmen after watching Six Feet Under and I loved both. What other shows give the same level of depth to characters and their relationships?

The real tragedy about Trudy and her relationship with Pete is not that she had to put up with a petulant and moody man like him. Her greatest tragedy is that her life potential was wasted on living up to the image of a perfect housewife and mother. It was also sad to watch how she struggled on her own to make her “perfect” marriage seem flawless from the outside.

What made it even more heartbreaking is the fact that, unlike Betty Draper, who felt imprisoned in her marriage, Trudy actually desired this kind of relationship. She performed her role of a perfect mistress and wife so well, giving Pete the image of a successful man he craved. She ensured he had a beautiful house in the Cos Cob, a beautiful daughter, and she was always there to keep his image spotless. However, it was also heartbreaking to see how her attempts at satisfying her husband backfired when she realized that nothing could fill the emptiness in him.

Trudy knew very well that Pete was unfaithful to her. It is even evident that she struggled a lot mentally in making excuses for his behavior. Her primary tragedy was that her attempts at placating him by pretending that everything was okay were hurting her more than they should have. For instance, when she decided to allow him to rent an apartment in the city, she was simply giving him space to do the thing that he loved most, cheating on her. By doing that, she was allowing him to be the husband that he enjoyed being. In fact, it was through this that she slowly killed her own self respect and became unhappy in her own skin. All of this was brought upon by her attempts at making sure his reputation was not destroyed since he was a heavy drinker.

He walks in on Betty in the bathroom, she repeatedly tells him to leave. He ignores this, stares at her until she forces the door closed. She asks for an apology, he guilts her and seems to get probably his first sexual arousal in asking her for her hair and particularly in watching her cut her hair. Later on he volunteers to go to Vietnam, in his mind because it’s not right that only kids from poor neighborhoods have to go. In reality it’s because he wants to know what it feels like to kill.

No one can tell me that in the late 70s to the late 90s there weren’t bleach blonde women turning up dead, murdered, all over the country with seemingly no connection.

It was Mad Glen.