Mad Men - “Let them open the kimono.” — Burt Cooper

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The second half of that show's run always seemed to me as being faintly feminist coded as in most of the men came off poorly, while many of the women were noble in an era of MISOGYNY!!!1!
It's hilarious because behind the scenes Matthew Weiner was sexually harassing practically every actresses. And even fired one of the female writers after he tried to casting couch her, despite already working for the show, and she turned him down out of disgust. He was so obsessed with Jessica Pare (Megan) that he wrote her into being one of the main characters and had her running around in bikinis or lingerie every other scene and creeping all over her during shoots.

If you listen to the commentaries on the Blu Rays he's openly fantasizing about the actresses. But the biggest creep factor was him casting his son (who acted and looked like a serial killer) and putting him in scenes with half naked adult actresses. Then bringing his son back on the show and trying to push him onto the audience like some young hip sex symbol.
 
My favorite character was Duck, because he drank too much even for Roger and Don.
DUCK PUT THAT FUCKING DEAL TOGETHER AFTER DON DISAPPEARED TO CALIFORNIA FOR THREE FUCKING WEEKS.

It's hilarious because behind the scenes Matthew Weiner was sexually harassing practically every actresses....He was so obsessed with Jessica Pare (Megan) that he wrote her into being one of the main characters and had her running around in bikinis or lingerie every other scene and creeping all over her during shoots.
Male feminist turns out to be a perv? I'm appalled to learn such a thing is even possible.

Ironically, Jessica Pare says anyone who isn't a feminist is a fascist.
 
I think the only thing about Roger that sus'd me out was in the last season
when he's at the hippie commune with his daughter and I don't remember if he participated in the free lovemaking or not but I would not be having any sense of sex around my daughter, but also I get that he's kept the two lives distinct in his mind
 
I don't like how Joan turned out. Supposed to be sympathetic to her and be amazed how she's a girl boss when in reality she was just a whore who happily enjoyed being a whore.
 
I remember watching it as it released and thinking it was fantastic. Until in later seasons it rather disappeared up its own backside apparently believing it was being deeply meaningful with the focus on "who is Don Draper" at the expense of the show as a whole. Don Draper was a fascinating character played by Jon Hamm with the charisma cranked up to 11 but it was the wider set of characters, the individual episode stories woven into the overall arc and, that fantastic period aesthetic (also with great use of music) that made the show.

And for the Joan (Chistina Hendricks) detractors.... Sure, she was never some stick insect and later seasons did her (amongst others) dirty but in those early seasons she was nothing short of magnificent. I didn't know what the word sashay truly meant until those shots of her making walking down a corridor into a quasi-religious experience.
 
I remember watching it as it released and thinking it was fantastic. Until in later seasons it rather disappeared up its own backside apparently believing it was being deeply meaningful with the focus on "who is Don Draper" at the expense of the show as a whole. Don Draper was a fascinating character played by Jon Hamm with the charisma cranked up to 11 but it was the wider set of characters, the individual episode stories woven into the overall arc and, that fantastic period aesthetic (also with great use of music) that made the show.

And for the Joan (Chistina Hendricks) detractors.... Sure, she was never some stick insect and later seasons did her (amongst others) dirty but in those early seasons she was nothing short of magnificent. I didn't know what the word sashay truly meant until those shots of her making walking down a corridor into a quasi-religious experience.
I think everyone was mainly complaining about later-seasons Joan. I agree, she was perfectly good at the start as the bitch-queen of Sterling-Cooper.

As for Don, I just disagree. "Who is Don Draper" is an interesting question to ponder. He isn't a good man but he is a great man, and the show's exploration of the difference between these two mutually exclusive things a man can be is thematically strong enough to carry the later seasons imho. The only thing that really gets tedious later is the show trying really hard to emphasize how actually super not-sexist it is.
 
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