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Mad Men is here! Glad to be starting this journey and seeing where this story and it's characters will take us. Excited to see aspect of filmmaking within this show. Would love to hear your comments while we trip through this! Thanks for everyone that voted.

EP 5: https://youtu.be/cGXlkQm_S7Y

EP 6: https://youtu.be/n5OeAHRVOi0

EP 5 & 6 Uncut: https://livid.com/watch/_Sg81mNLzwTm

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SPF06

This show and Sopranos ruined TV for me

TES

God...I love this show. Love how we're still in 1960 but we start seeing what's to come in the 60s. In 1960, it still feels very much like the 1950s, but the ending we see Don in that folk spot, the beginning of what will end up becoming the counterculture movement, folk rock, etc. We have that guy criticizing Don for "spreading the lie" we have youth culture of the 60s! Which in so many ways still has such influence today for us

LSTER

Check out Mr Inbetween, the writer was heavily influence by The Sopranos. The dialogue is incredibly realistic as well as the gun fights. I would love for James to react to it but it's probably not popular enough. You should check it out in your own time though, James!

Anthony Khayat

I think you hit the nail on the head with the Utopia discussion. The characters all work to sell a Utopia, the good place, but really the good place they're selling doesn't exist. The happiness they're selling is fleeting, and you can see it in their own lives. None of them are happy.

Kara

the show creator and set designers said "if you want to make something feel like the 1960s, fill it with furniture and cars from the 50s". The idea being people always use too much contemporary stuff, whereas people own cars/furniture for years, 1950s fashion + hairstyles + interior design aesthetics don't just suddenly go away on January 1st 1960 its like how a show "set in the 80s" will always have loads of stuff right from the 80s, or late 80s even, when it should have loads of stuff from the 70s, even older hold-overs from the 60s

TES

I really love that idea and never thought about it that way before. I wonder how many period pieces get that wrong. Every house or apartment will likely have relics of the past even if only a decade old. Think about how many homes we grew up in had cd players or record players that were sometimes 20, 30 or even 40 years old that we still used all the time

Chaos T

"She's over here talking about making love to Fidel Castro..... that's the whitest thing I ever heard" James.... that was randomly one of the funniest things you ever said 😂 The scene in the club encapsulates the counterculture movement at this time in US history where there's a lot of privilege for people being in the position to be anti-establishment. Don Draper is the only person in the scene that comes off as rebelling against the establishment.

Chaos T

@Kara having worked in the Federal government, it's kinda annoying seeing basic federal facilities have up to date technology in media. In normal times when laws are followed, infrastructural change is slow. In the 2000's, the agency I worked for along with many other federal agencies were working with technology from the 90's and earlier. Fax and microfiche machines............ ugg