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Mad Men 1x13 Reaction (Patreon)

Published:
2025-07-23 23:29:29
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2025-09-07 22:11:55
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2026-06
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the internet is slow,the episode’s been uploading on yt for a while and i’ll fall a sleep so i converted it and uploaded it on vimeo. i’ll link also yt so that you can watch it when it uploads:

https://youtu.be/I6pwL3oo4-k

and the bear will be up tomorrow

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Mad Men 1x13

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Kara

Thank you so much for going through the effort 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️ its my birthday and i literally just got back drunk as helllll and hoping the reaction was up 😌

Nina

Can someone tell me what the current schedule is? Not complaining about anything, just curious.

priscilla

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! ❤️

Kara

Tuesday: The Bear Wednesday: Mad Men Thursday: Monster Friday: Chainsaw Man Saturday: Mad Men Sunday: Monster Monday: rest day 😴 (but with delays or swaps sometimes)

Julien

WE WANT TO LOLA

Mike

You can turn off autoplay on the Netflix website!!!

Mike

OK, I have a lot of thoughts on this one: How can you start with anything other than the carousel speech? Maybe the finest moment in the entire series. A few weeks ago, we talked about whether Don was "self-aware". I said that he has to be, because so much of the show is him transmuting his personal turmoil into creative at the office. There might not be a better, more affecting example than this scene. The whole speech is note-perfect -- Teddy, nostalgia, Duck wishing the Kodak execs good luck at their next meeting -- but my favourite parts are Harry running out the room in tears and (most of all) those family pictures. The production team captured something magical there. Don pushing Bobby on the swing with the cigarette awkwardly hanging from his mouth; resting his head on Betty's pregnant belly; and that gorgeous, evocative NYE kiss... You can feel all the history in their relationship, and it's just crushing to know it slipping through their fingers. Don is time-travelling back to when they still had it. Now it's gone. I have always thought that the fake-out "Don gets home in time" was a little cheap, but the Dylan needle-drop makes the scene. One of my favourite songs of all-time. About the song: That's an anachronism, actually! *The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan* album wasn't released until May 1963 and this episode takes place in November 1960. ("Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" was a b-side to "Blowin' in the Wind". How's that for an all-time single?) For a show that is so meticulous about getting the period details "right", that can only be on purpose. Weiner has said that he used the song for a few reasons: First of all, it's such a perfect fit thematically (he imagined it was Betty singing the lyrics). But mostly, he wasn't sure that the show would get a second season, and how can you make a show about 1960s America without featuring Bob Dylan? This was a chance to do a kind of flash-forward for Don and for the culture in general. There is so much else here that I love. Peggy turning away from her newborn in the hospital. The obvious contrast between Trudy's father and Pete's father. Cooper giving out another copy of Atlas Shrugged. Francine assuming that Betty would know how to handle a cheating spouse. Betty's shock at hearing her therapist answer the phone and then her side-eye when she "lets slip" that Don is unfaithful at the next session... I really like the scene between Betty & Glenn. It's terribly tragic that some weird kid is the only one she can turn to for consolation, but it also kind of supports the doctor's "diagnosis" earlier this season that she is an emotionally-stunted child. She's complicated! It didn't make the edit, but I also love Harry's conversation with Don about the pictures on handprints and the cave paintings at Lascaux. The difference between "new" and something deeply old. "I was here." Great, great stuff. Best episode of the season.

Jenny D

I can't believe we get 6 more seasons of my favorite reactors reacting to my favorite show. It only gets better!

Mike

hell yeah

Mahad Ali

The wheel pitch is literally one of my all time favorite scenes of television.

Eric Viola

Great episode, great reaction. So, so happy they love the show.

JBK405

Oooooh, so much here. Harry cheated on his wife for (apparently) the first time, and he confessed (out of guilt?) and is now sleeping at the office after she kicked him out but he is pleading to come home. Don has been cheating on his wife forever, but has never felt enough guilt to come clean and is sleeping in the office of his own volition to escape his life. I do think you two swapped what happened in the audition. Peggy saw a beautiful woman auditioning for the ad and hired her thinking that she must be self-confident and self-assured. But that woman was just as insecure and self-critical as everybody else, and maybe even moreso than other people because you don't get to looking that beautiful without putting in time and effort and money because you DON'T think you're beautiful. It's the frumpy looking woman who would have been the right person to hire, because she could ACT beautiful, and that's what they needed for the ad. Ken Cosgrove was correct, and Peggy eventually realized that during the recording when she realized it wasn't working. I can't believe you two predicted Peggy's pregnancy several episodes ago. I don't know anybody else who put those dots together before the end of the season. It's not exactly common for women to not know they're pregnant, but it's not unheard of, either. There's plenty of documented cases of it happening. Especially in areas and times with poor sex education, because people can't recognize the signs. But even when people do theoretically know the biology, it still happens now-a-days. It's traumatic when it happens.

Infode

I think I read (maybe heard) somewhere that the dynamic between Don & Peggy of mentor/mentee is somewhat inspired by Matthew Weiner & David Chase

Kara

Peggy: the voice actor doesn't sound very confident Ken: try giving her a direction 😊 Peggy: ok...... 💥🎤 CONFIDENCE!!! 🎤💥 What an amazing season of television. I cry every time during the carousel speech, its even worse knowing its coming + how the episode ends. Still to this day one of the most memorable TV scenes of all time. Something about the delivery, the wording, the music, the pictures + the sincerity of the pitch... i tear up and then i think, i'm literally crying over a pitch for an ad to sell a novelty slide projector.... what a good show lol. Lola "I think this is gonna be one i my fav shows ever" i almost never say this but i TOLD YOU SO!!! you never *know* but in my soul i FELT that this was a show built for Lola (and milena! but Lola). its just distilled character development shot straight to the veins for 7 straight seasons. its insane lol. every time i rewatch im like "damn people really made this". there's literally 7 SEASONS of this shit and it doesnt "get bad". what tha fuck This was brought up last episode but so-called "Cryptic Pregnancies" are a real phenomena. We had a girl in our school who didn't know she was pregnant until she went into labor in the line at the supermarket. Don is so funny making Peggy a junior copywriter to dunk on pete (she earned it! he wouldn't be doing it if he didnt respect her + her work! but still). The Harry scene stayed with me, again an example of how patriarchy harms men because Harry was at his most eloquent and animated when describing his "artsy" (read: gay / feminine) photos of handprints, which somewhat informs the Carousel pitch. I actually forgot Ayn Rand was mentioned twice this episode, I'm more glad I wrote about her now lol... Don + Pete have 1 thing in common at least (they aint reading that book). I completely agree - betty's observation that sometimes Don has sex in a way that's clearly for someone else is so poignant, I feel it has to be written by someone who has experienced an affair because it's so real 💀 Love the speculation. Love the reactions. Love the discussions. Love everything. Many people say the show doesn't "get good" until S2 👀 wish i could show this to all the people who said "the girls wouldnt like Mad Men" 🤔 🤯

Kara

it's up there for sure, just a beautiful flawless scene

Kara

its wild every time I rewatch the show and get to this point and im like "there's still 6X 13+ episode seasons to go" TV used to be crazzyyyyy lmao

Charlie M

I didn't want you to have choreography before, but now that you mention it, yes you should.

Kara

Them putting Peggy on birth control in ep 1 is very smart because many viewers think birth control = no pregnancy and dont know about cryptic pregnancies. the girls are extremely observant but also knew that birth control takes time to kick in + Lola was familiar with cryptic pregnancies from reality TV lol. a girl in our school didn't know she was pregnant until she gave birth in the supermarket btw, I think her and her bf were 16, they didn't teach us anything growing up lol.

cheech

Every rewatch that ending feels a little more devastating. We all have our own ep where every thing about the show clicked and this was always mine. Sometimes things are famous for a reason and that carousel pitch is that. Luckily the show is full of those moments

Mike

Giving Elizabeth Moss a bunch of (pretty bad) prosthetics is also *kind of* a giveaway.

Riff Michaels

Choreo? Well I want a life where I never take my eyes off the muse that is Lola, so, yes maybe.

Scott (edited)

Comment edits

2026-09-19 14:00 This was an easy layup for you ladies to love. I have no idea why anyone objected to it. It's everything you adore and so much to come!
2025-07-24 02:36

Sami

Happy birthday.

Sami

We are all Harry in the carousel scene.

Mark M

I'll probably say this a lot, but I don't care, I love that they're enjoying it and I'm really enjoying the reactions too. This episode for me shows one of my favourite aspects of the show, which is how the advertising becomes a way to express the character's feelings. Some of my favourite parts of the show are them either pitching or discussing ads. At the same time Betty shows maturity and acknowledges Don's infidelity, he is becoming aware of what he has lost and stands to lose. It's beautifully done. I've been rewatching this show for years and there are new depths to it I find out about each time.

Stan the Man

Never forget that Peggy’s becomes a copy writer not because she earned it or deserved it. But because it was the most insulting thing he could do to Pete. All this “Don is Peggy’s mentor” talk is really BS when you think it was Freddy who saw her true potential, picked her out of the chorus and Don promoted her out of his spite for Pete

Sebastian

Yeah, it really is the perfect show for them. Can you even imagine if fucking Barry had won instead?

Sebastian

I find it funny how Milena and Lola are kind of the anti-reactors because they keep predicting plot twists before they happen instead of being gobsmacked by them. Picking up on Peggy's pregnancy several episodes ago is sharp. Same way with The Wire where they'd talk about a character's impending death several times just because there was a vibe.

Sebastian

I mean it's kinda both, isn't it? He definitely does it to spite Pete in the moment, but he also genuinely sees something in her. He wouldn't have done it if he didn't think she'd be good at it.

bondbond53

I have the tendency to dissasociate so this episode felt very personal. By that I mean that Don is going through this weird combination of being told his “real” brother Adam hung himself, having to sell the illusion of his new life and having to come to an empty house. It all feels like Don is an observer and can’t really get a hold of the wheel or stop impulses. We know he can but as all is things are easier said than done

Eric Viola

No, it was clearly both lol.

Michael M

I started watching for the first time when it won the poll and I'll be watching the final 2 episodes tonight. I can confirm: It never got bad. Not once.

Stan the Man

No. He could’ve made her a junior copywriter at any time. That moment wasn’t about anything other than making Pete feel small by giving him a woman JUNIOR, copywriter on Pete’s big new account. Everytime this season Peggy is given a chance at something, it’s because of Freddy, not Don. Did you notice that Don did a similar thing he criticized Peggy for in her pitch? She used Latin. He used Greek. I think people like to romanticize the relationship between Don and Peggy. Obviously we’ll get to that later but…I think Peggy sees herself as his protégés. But Don doesn’t think like that.

Stan the Man

I’ll be honest. It’s made me suspicious a few times. Like…guessing her pregnancy just seems so odd to me. Then there was their reaction to the sopranos finale. I’ve seen a few reactors do Sopranos and their reaction to the ending was definitely unique in their immediate acceptance of it.

Kara

@Stan the man: they've been wrong plenty of times before with their predictions, they just get forgotten about. The girls just have an extremely highly dialled / innate understanding of characters and theme and how YV show arcs are written Guessing pregnancy isnt that crazy. A woman character who had sex gains weight for "no reason", theres really only a few possibilities: the actress gained weight or is pregnant IRL, they're doing a health issue story, they're doing a "weight gain" story for plot reasons, or shes pregnant. I didn't guess it personally but I also got baited by the birth control scene in pilot into thinking she couldn't be pregnant. There's also like.... once you've settled on a theory, your mind is looking for things that support said theory, so when the topic of concieving a child comes up at the top of this ep, its suddenly so obviously setting up the twist that Pete is already a father.

Kara

Don would never make Peggy a Junior Copywriter if he didn't feel she deserved / earned it. It was both, anything else is a semantic discussion.

Kara

I'm so glad you liked it! I've seen a few people start the show because of the channel, it makes me so happy 😊

Kara

its ok ive said it 7 times in 13 episodes.... AND ILL SAY IT AGAIN

Stan the Man

It’s cool you feel it’s both. You’re allowed to have that opinion. But personally I think Don in that sequence didn’t care if Peggy had talent or not. She was a weapon he could fire at Pete.

Eric Viola

He absolutely cares that she has talent because her having talent means that he and Sterling Cooper can use her to make more money. If Don didn't want her to get a shot at the relaxicisor, she wouldn't have gotten it, regardless of what Freddy thought. And obviously Freddy initially recognizes something in her before Don because Don wasn't present for the Belle Jolie brainstorming session, that doesn't mean Don didn't recognize her Belle Jolie copy was good (or he wouldn't have run with it).

Sebastian

Yeah, I think the whole conspiratory "They've seen it before to impress us by predicting things" is ridiculous. They're just good at picking up on clues because they understand narrative.

Stan the Man

Nobody said Don doesn’t think Peggy has talent. But Don absolutely at this point in the show has no feelings about her as a protege or sees himself as a mentor. Again, I think people want to romanticize the relationship between Don and Peggy. I wish I could talk spoilers because there’s a parallel to Don & Peggy where we see a character mythologize their importance to someone’s career only then to see the reality. That’s about as vague as I’ll get. Maybe you’ll know what I’m referring to. Don sees people in a more “what can they do for me” way. They are disposable. He doesn’t care where an idea comes from. It could be Peggy, the elevator operator, a cab driver or a bartender. Again, I wish I could say more but I guess we’ll have to wait until those storylines come.

Stan the Man

I should clarify. I do not think they’ve seen the show before. It’s clear they are surprised by many elements. But society isn’t a vaccum. There’s shows I’ve never seen that I know plot details about because they are infamous. Like…I’ve never seen the show Dallas. But I know someone named JR gets shot. And who shoots him. Or Twin Peaks. When I watched that show I knew a few plot details. So I think there’s infamous things they may or may not be aware of. I really don’t know. All I know is a few times I’ve been a wee bit suspicious that they may have known a story beat.

Kara

@stan: it's possible there have been subconscious ones but I sincerely doubt it for anything else. they've straight up told us before when they've been spoiled on something e.g in Mr Robot, Milena said in Ep 1 that she saw a meme shipping 2 characters so she knew they ended up in a relationship. I guess a lot of twists in TV too, i'm just not making reaction videos for my job lol

Kara

I don't agree but like you said, we can't really discuss that. My whole thing is: do you *really* think Don Draper would give anyone a copywriting job if he didn't want them to work for him as a copywriter, didn't think they were talented + wasn't forced to? He just wouldn't, there is no world where he hires/promotes anyone he doesn't like to work full time on his team. He barely likes Kinsey and [spoilers spoilers spoilers]. It has to be both.

petitcorbeau

I understand Lola. I'm watching season 3 right now but i could already feel in the first season that mad men could easily become one of my favorite show. I really love that show, the writing is too good. Oh and since we don't have cowboy bebob anymore, a little dance could be fun :)

Patrick

It may or may not end up being your fav ever, but I'm glad its easy to see why people wanted you to watch it!

Julien

There is nothing sus about guessing that Peggy is pregnant. The show expressly drew attention to her weight gain and there are few possible reasons for that.

Luis

I've always felt that Teddy is a creation of Don and that there is no Teddy instead Don wants to mimic or rather reproduce Rachel's utopia explanation a half-season ago but he doesn't have her education so instead he creates an idea of an old mentor and their sage advice.

Josh

let Elena speak! haha damn, she gets cut off every time she utters three words