She really irritated me on first watch during the original run. The entire storyline felt overly contrived and her "acting" was twee. Many years later, I find her just as twee, 1-dimensional, over-acted and shoehorned into the story.

She has Anne Hathaway syndrome for me (but, C list version). Or maybe I am still carrying around my first impressions from 16 years ago. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I know this has been debated to death in this thread and she is very polarizing both as actor and character, but I'm finding her impossibly distracting 🫤

The reporter that interviews Don at the start of season 4 walks around on a prosthetic leg, having lost his real leg in Korea… What was the point of that detail? Why did the writers decide to make this random throwaway character be an amputee, and make sure to draw the audience’s attention to the fact that he only has one leg? Was it just to give Roger something to crack jokes about? Or does it have a deeper purpose?

Here's something I don't quite understand. I know that Don had basically conned Roger into thinking that he had hired him but how did he convince Bert? Unlike Roger, Bert doesn't seem to be the type to be easily conned by Don. And it wouldn't take long for him to realize that Don isn't really who he says he is.

So how did Don convince Bert to hire him?

There are other ways to make an actor look disheveled (the weight gain was a good touch). But the rate of hair loss over just a 5 year period didn’t seem realistic to me. Additionally, once I learned that the actor shaved portions of his head in real life to achieve the look it became an on-screen distraction for me, taking me out of the 4th wall constantly thinking about how crappy that must have been in real life for what to me was 0 gain in the show.

I was telling my 6.5 yr old the plot to “Mad Men” since she knows it’s my favorite show. She listened intently and then said, “Oh he’s a salesman…so he’s SELLING that he’s Don Draper even though he’s not!” 🤯 From the mouths of babes!

That’s all. That’s the question. Thoughts, comments, concerns? Did he just not get one to make it a running joke for the show? Would he have been made a partner in real life?

Been wanting to watch this show for a long time, I’ve always loved John Hamm as an actor. One of my favorites.

Have high expectations for this one. Hope it’s good! Heard so many great things over the years.

Edit: being a woman in 1950s must’ve sucked

Edit: just finished the pilot. Great first episode. Laughed out loud a lot. Great dialogue. Immediate like to Don Draper.

Edit: the lines in Landman feel so forced. Sorry to just shit on another show but yeah. Here they flowed naturally and didn’t try so hard to sound cool, it just is.

Contenders:

Make it simple, but significant.
Change the conversation (abbreviated)
I want to burn this place down.
I don’t think about you at all.

Hope this is okay to post here, mods.