Everyone always says "give it time!" and while I really hate hearing that, Mad Men will pay off small moments sometimes seasons later, and after a dozen rewatches, I'm still finding gems.
Also Pete Campbell is one of the greatest characters ever idgaf
It does capture a moment in time. This is the world I remember from the time I was about 4 years old to about 10 or 12. And, yes, men & women were like that
I think I'm just perpetually exhausted by how awful real people are because I've bounced off so many TV shows for this exact reason. When there are few to zero redeemable characters to latch onto, I just can't maintain interest. Often it has barely anything to do with the media itself.
Felt the same. Also noticed that fully realized plots weren’t the show’s bag either. But I couldn’t stop watching. I have since re-watched twice… and i still don’t know what it is…. What I’m drawn to despite all that.. Making your grandparents and parents more real…? Putting them in a context? 🤷♂️
Maybe that's part of why it's not connecting for me? My dad passed when I was young, and I was raised by my mam and Nana, so this sort of retro masculinity shtick just feels alien to me.
My grandfather was a fedora, suit & tie to work guy and i can just see him operating in a blue collar variation of that world. It fascinated me. You spend all day in a bs pissing contest. Like I could see how taking a world war ii vet and shoving him in a suit and in that society, got the man i knew
Oh I was under no illusion otherwise, like I get that over time it's going to deconstruct these things, my issue is im just not finding anything to connect with
I realise that sounded rude ‘if you haven’t figured it out yet,’ when of course I meant ‘if it hasn’t yet become apparent’
Haven’t rewatched since watched, can’t remember how slow is the burn.
It’s a dark and chilly ride, despite everything. I hope you stick with it.
You need to just get through season one… they had no budget at the beginning. You can literally see the episode where they suddenly had a budget and then it takes
I kind of enjoyed how much of a bastard he was. There was something that got me about how awful they all were, and incredibly satisfying it was to watch them get bit in the ass by thier own actions.
There's a couple characters I feel bad for but I don't find the male characters compelling at all, just unpleasant. Finding very little to grab me here.
Yeah like I try to give things like this time to breathe, but this is just an unpleasant world to immerse in filled with characters Im struggling to care about.
I was working in advertising when it was first on TV and it felt horribly real, so many of the character types were recognisable, just in better suits. It’s brilliant, but it made me hate advertising even more.
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It was written to slowly reveal him but even the things the show tries to paint him as good at, he still sucks at those things.
his “work” is derivative at best and non existent at worst. he just gives ceos pep talks.
Also Pete Campbell is one of the greatest characters ever idgaf
That I was on game for trying to understand this show, or maybe more accurately, try and understand these characters as if they were real people.
Haven’t rewatched since watched, can’t remember how slow is the burn.
It’s a dark and chilly ride, despite everything. I hope you stick with it.