Pity. The storyline with Peggy sure culminated with a bang at the end of that season.
Is Mad Men worth my time?
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Pity. The storyline with Peggy sure culminated with a bang at the end of that season.
I watched the first episode and gave up, thought it wasn't for me. Then on the recommendation of a friend I tried it again, and went through the first 3 seasons in a matter of days and thought it was brilliant, but after going through it so fast I'm finding it hard to watch it on a weekly basis.Pity. The storyline with Peggy sure culminated with a bang at the end of that season.
It is excruciatingly slow, I imagine, after being treated to the payoffs in a matter of a few days. I hear you. I have to wonder if the show has any fans in the attention deficit post MTV generation. Probably not. Most people I know who love it are 40 and over. I have a terrific sounding board perspective on it since my mother is only 2 years younger than Peggy and worked as a secretary herself. Twas a strange society we had 50 years ago.
I'm 27, the friend who recommended I give it another go is 22, so there's at least 2, if I count as Post-MTV generation?
Hey, I am 26 and I am deeply in love with Mad Men.
I dare say I love it more than *gasp* DS9 or BSG.My characterization of the show is that the action mainly happens off screen and we are watching everyone’s reaction to it. Plot threads sometime pick up where they left off two season previous, for example a certain sliver haired executive’s affair with his buxom office manager.
It’s a very much hands off approach to storytelling, let the character’s tell the story rather than clunky plot devices.
Yea! Young people with attention spans! You give us old fogies hope.
I can't believe there are people saying it doesn't have story arcs either. There's been the whole mystery of Don's past, as well as Peggy's "getting fat", breakdown/recovery, as well as Betty's problems which lead to the split. The events leading to the break down of Sterling Cooper and Sal's outing as gay. Seems like plenty of story arcs to me, and I'm probably missing some.
Those are arcs, sure. Just not interesting ones, except for Sal, and they went and dropped that.
Don's past - that's been answered
Peggy gets fat - big deal, she had the baby eons ago
Betty's problem - who cares about that vapid, brainless bitch? Don's better off without her (and the show would be better if they wrote her off)
breakdown of Sterling Cooper - meh
Just having arcs isn't enough if you don't give a flip about the characters.
Don's past - that's been answered
Peggy gets fat - big deal, she had the baby eons ago
Betty's problem - who cares about that vapid, brainless bitch? Don's better off without her (and the show would be better if they wrote her off)
breakdown of Sterling Cooper - meh
Just having arcs isn't enough if you don't give a flip about the characters.
You said it didn't have any discernible arcs, it has them you just don't care about them. There is a difference. And as for not caring about the characters, well I think they're all good, Pete is a favourite of mine, but I enjoy them in all their flawed, fucked up and unlikeable ways.
Not really. Peggy joins the show as a secretary and as the season progresses
she works her way up in to a bigger job, and lets herself go, so it seems. Then in the last episode she has a baby and is institutionalised because she had no idea she was pregnant and wasn't ready to have a baby.
I think it is one of the best shows on TV.
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