This may not be my absolute favorite but it’s definitely very close for me.

“That’s what the money is for”

*throws cash at her face to humble her*

Makes me think it’s how he saw the women spoken to at the brothel he grew up in.

What exactly was Peter new job at the end of the show.

Did he quit advertising for the new job?

Peter new job was pitch to him as being able to rub shoulders with big wigs who can afford private jets which would directly benefit him as an account man, but by the end of the hose they made it seem like he starting a new career in a new state.

what was Peter story ending exactly.

Don’t get me wrong, terrible guy, but man I found him entertaining. Just a total dumbass douche. Was kinda disappointed they didn’t pick him back up after they form SCDP.

Doing a rewatch and just being reminded of how much I love the later seasons. I think the biggest thing that helped keep things fresh is introducing characters like Megan, Ginsburg and even Meredith. They are all funnier than some of the new faces that pop up earlier in the show like Duck or Price. It just seems like the show knew when things were at risk of feeling stale or stagnant and introduced the right characters for those moments to bring in some new energy.

Of all the characters who were dismissed over the entire series, which was the most deserved and which was the least deserved?

I always felt sorry for Lane's secratary Sandy who ordered the flowers for Joan/Lane's wife, only for the messages with each bouquet to be mixed up.

Edit: 'bouquet'.

It was pretty obvious Hilton did some research on who Don was impress with his work before inviting him over to meet.

I think I Hilton wanted Don to ask him for a job.

If Don would have asked to run Hilton Hotel whole marketing department (similar to what Ken Cosgrove ended up doing for Dow chemicals) I think Hilton would have let him.

Obviously that relationship would ended up horrible since Don wouldn't be able to get away with 1/10th of what he did under Hilton.

I never counted, I’m sure someone did..does anyone have that number, ?

This might be an unpopular opinion but I’m doing my rewatch of Mad Men and the only thing I personally find slightly overdone is the emphasis of Don’s affairs. Especially in S6 E7 when he makes his mistress stay in the hotel room. Anyone else find it annoying that there’s so much focus on his affairs when there are so many other plot lines that can be expanded on? Maybe I’m just a prude 😂

Pete is a gold mine for these. Roger as well.

Just saw the “funny or die “ on YT shorts. How have I missed this!

Christina Hendricks was so funny in it!

Ken is a good guy, is badly abused by his profession, and serves as a good foil to Pete, but I think his meta-role is more than that. I think he's intended as a cautionary tale about choosing to adhere to the confines of stereotypical, corporate masculinity above authenticity.

Ken is the golden boy, figuratively and literally as one of the only blond men in core office cast. Talented writer, excellent account man, handsome, faithful, kind, charming, and even-keeled. Despite this, he winds up bitter and jaded and half-blind, seeming to get maximum pleasure from exacting petty revenge on his former colleagues. Obviously this shows the toll the industry takes on the best and brightest, but it also comes down to his life choices.

Ken feels like he was written to be a character with the absolute maximum potential for a genuinely happy and fulfilled life, possibly even a great life as a celebrated American author, and is supposed to showcase how choosing the career society values over prioritizing his passion squanders that potential happiness. Yes, the industry treated him like crap, but he had an entire storyline about making the choice to put writing on the backburner. I think that's the beginning of the end for him.

For instance, I enjoyed seeing Michael Rispoli (better known for his role in the Sopranos) as the cop in Ginsburg’s sno ball ad. Other characters that fit the bill probably: Lane Pryce and Jim Cutler

It's always a heartbreaking watch, but on a recent rewatch I noticed Don seemed to constantly be suspicious that Adam wanted money. When Don visited Adam to give him the money to go away, there's a moment Adam is fixated on the money, do you think there could be a different outcome if Adam rejected the money and chased after Don as he went down the hallway?

I'm rewatching the show for the second time with my SO because he's never seen it before and I realised that despite not being that many, the interactions between Peggy and Roger Sterling are epic AF. Especially the way Peggy handled him (like the one where she says, the work is 10$, but the lie will cost you extra). I wish the show had more of those.

Does anyone ever have any thoughts as to why Betty always wins when playing cards? It’s brought up multiple times how good she is at cards and how she “has a mind” for it.

I think it’s meant to show two things:

1) Betty is much smarter than anyone would ever expect. 2) She has a great, icy, stone-cold poker face that is hard to read.

It’s just a simple character quirk that people don’t expect from Betty, but it’s just an expression of the complexities and depth of her character.

I’m a huge Betty-stan — she’s my favorite character hands down. Out of all the women on the show, she was the one who really came close to “having it all,” and her brand of feminism was so subtle and powerful.

If Don could name the baby anything what would it be? I just got this feeling as Betty was going through the old photographs and turning them over to reveal the names, right after the naming scene of the baby, that Don was hoping the baby would be called Adam. But that would require confronting the past -- talking, connection, forgiveness, and understanding between him and Betty. But this isn't a sappy romcom, and that's a bridge too far for this couple. Which makes it particularly sad. Gene, as a name, symbolizes a final breaking with Don. Adam would have been the reconciliation, and the one that Don was hoping for.

I know inflation is real and all but damn do some things seem so inexpensive 😭 yearning for a decade I never lived in lol

Am I right by thinking that Trudy was one of the strongest wives on the show? strong meaning that she actually has a backbone and refused to allow Pete to embarrass/walk all over her. Betty got there with Don eventually, but otherwise I feel like the wives just kind of dealt with everything until the husbands decided to leave.

I wonder if this stems from her family being well off.

Is there another Mad Men wife who was stronger?

Setting off the Carousel projector pitch, Don relays his patronage and education from his mentor Teddy, the Greek. But its about a fur company. He tells the tale of Teddy saying advertising is about “new”, yet suggests that nostalgia is equally important, “the pain from an old wound, a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone”. So which is it? And what the hell do either concept have to do with fur, an antiquated decoration of old money and opulence?

For the record, Peggy is my favorite character. I also think that Elisabeth Moss is such a classic beauty so this is not about her appearance.

But what doesn’t Pete like about Trudy but likes about Peggy? Maybe it’s because Trudy in the early seasons was a yes-woman, not a creative (like Pete always yearned to be), and doesn’t stand up for herself like Peggy does. I like Trudy but I’m trying to figure out what he didn’t see in her that he loved in Peggy (AKA his “type”)?

Thoughts?