Mad Men

[Sega Genesis]

I just recently started watching this show on HBO/Max... I missed it during its original run (2007-2015).

What a great show... I can't stop watching! An excellent depiction of life in the 60's (1960-1968) in Manhatten NY.

The men and their fedora hats and the smoking! I'm shocked by all the smoking, in virtually every scene with Betty Draper (for example) she is smoking.

I also cannot believe all the cheating that went on and the blatant simping! I mean at times the simping (for a woman's pu$$y) was cringeworthy and I felt embarrassed for those men...

Even Don Draper (DD), a successful womanizer and serial cheater, did his fair share of simping.

He did seem to love his beautiful wife though... but yet didn't think twice about cheating on her... relentlessly!

In one scene even DD's very married boss (who was screwing his own secretary Joan) was hitting on DD's wife... in the kitchen of their home while DD was in the next room!

Anyway I'm only on the first season... looking forward to what comes next but wondering what you guys thought/think about it especially those who lived or worked in Manhattan during that time period.

 

[BaronOfHair]

@Sega Genesis "I also cannot believe all the cheating that went on and the blatant simping! I mean at times the simping (for a woman's pu$$y) was cringeworthy and I felt embarrassed for those men...

Even Don Draper (DD), a successful womanizer and serial cheater, did his fair share of simping for new pu$$y"

Yeah, everything that's "new" is really quite ancient

 

[Clockwerk50]

I watched the full series twice, once before and once after I started successfully dating. Subjectively speaking, and without spoilers, I found Season 1 to be the weakest, even though it has one of the best episodes of the series (“The Carousel”). Things really picked up for me midway through Season 3 and at the beginning of Season 4. Not to discredit Season 1 though since it’s still great TV.

The funny thing is that during my second rewatch, I watched the series with this girl. A month after we finished it, she found some texts on my phone and accused me of wanting to watch the show with her mainly to romanticize and desensitize cheating.

 

[Hamurabimbi]

Fantastic show. And. Very realistic. DD is a giga chad, and his screen life really reflects the Chad life accurately.

 

[Sega Genesis]

I found Season 1 to be the weakest, even though it has one of the best episodes of the series (“The Carousel”).

Agree best episode thus far (still on Season 1).

>>"In Greek, Nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound.

It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.

It takes us to a place where we ache to go again.

It's not called the Wheel, it's called the Carousel.

Let's us travel like a child travels.

Round and round back to the place

Where we know we are loved again."<<

--Don Draper