#matthew weiner mad men

[nuriaverde]

Los adictos en "Mad Men"

Don Draper se levanta tumbado en el suelo castigado por una resca de espanto. Lo que empieza como placer acaba como tortura. Los principales personajes de la serie “Mad Men” son adictos al alcohol, al tabaco, al sexo, al trabajo, a la heroína, al dinero. El creativo Freddy Rumssey bebe demasiado. Todo el mundo lo sabe. Pero una mañana, cuando está preparando con Pete y Peggy y Salvatore la…

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Remember when Matt Weiner got so uptight about Mad Men spoilers that every episode promo in the later years was just:

"on the next Mad Men"

Don: *stares pensively*

Peggy: *looks thoughtful*

Pete: *closes a door*

Don (to no one): are you sure about that?

Roger: *lights a cigarette*

Joan: *frowns contemplatively*

Don: *stares pensively but in a different room*

[generallynaive]

Mad Men (Season 6 - Episode 12)

“The Quality of Mercy”

written by Andre Jacquemetton & Maria Jacquemetton

directed by Phil Abraham

[judelaws-hairline]

i finally finished mad men and i only have one question: why is glen bishop?

[ninaemsaopaulo]

Acordei pensando em Betty Draper, a perfeita imagem da esposa troféu dos anos 60, congelada na década anterior. No início de Mad Men, Betty foi conduzida a um psicanalista que, no final de cada sessão, contava ao seu marido o que ela tinha explanado. Na última temporada, Betty decide cursar Psicologia, mas descobre um câncer e morre antes do fim dos anos 60. Matthew Weiner, criador da série, queria que alguma personagem feminina morresse e estava em dúvida sobre as três principais. Betty morre por não ser "uma mulher a frente de seu tempo", ela fica presa ao passado e morre bonita, do jeito que queria, com seu aspecto de Grace Kelly no auge. E morre fumando, mesmo com o câncer no pulmão. Morre quando adquire enfim sua independência, após dois casamentos e dois filhos, uma graduação em andamento. Ela morre quando acorda e decide viver, morre cheia de vida e vontade de mudança. Entendo a morte de Betty Draper como entendo a morte de Sylvia Plath, mas ainda não parece justo. Não foi uma personagem amada, mas com certeza foi tão complexa quanto Don Draper, estrela da série. Mad Men não existiria se, no lugar de Betty, Don tivesse feito terapia (e entendesse que nem fazia sentido trair a esposa). Mad Men termina com Don meditando e transcendendo, que lindo. Gosto dessa série porque ela é igualzinha a vida real: homens vencem.

[fagrackham]

never forget the sterling cooper draper pryce throuple....the scdp three if you will...peggy stan ginsberg...short lived but not forgotten

[vintagewarhol]

[madmensideblog]

Every Episode of Mad Men In Care Of — Season 6, Episode 13 dir. Matthew Weiner

"It said 'sweet' on the package. It was the only sweet thing in my life."

[thevividgreenmoss]

Matthew Weiner grasped at something beyond his daily-historical consciousness with Mad Men, which on one hand is part of the reason for making/sharing/experiencing art, but on the other hand the missapprehensions embedded within that consciousness play a huge part in him misapprehending his own* art as well as his role in its creation - the environment he cultivated within the writers room he administered, his documented harassment of the women he worked with, his incomprehension of the fact that Pete Campbell raped that au pair, that the wistful little etymology lesson that sets it up does nothing to obscure or negate the deeply fascistic impulse ingrained within Rachel Menken's claim that Israel "simply has to be", that the ending of his* show is not and can not be nearly as optimistic or hopeful as he-we might like to think.

The third quarter of the Clippers-Bulls just ended and I have neither patience for nor interest in American sentimentality.

Various notes of grace may play individual characters off the screen in the final episode and yes that may allow us to leave them a bit more at peace with themselves and each other than we found them in the pilot but the American society & nation to which they belong they belong is if anything far less at peace with itself in 1970 than it was in 1960 and all the way through 2024 it will continue along those same lines while also - although this part is probably a matter of lesser import to Weiner (but also likely the majority of his collaborators and audience) than things that primarily directly affect/ed real people ie American citizens whether it be the dissolution of the keynesian welfare state or the election of Donald Trump - continuing to inflict the most savage and brutal imperial horrors upon the rest of the world.

The game has ended, Clips won.

What inner peace drops a man back into the corner office from whose window he flung himself in the first place? If the fall was broken by an armchair behind the desk where he'd settle back in to launder the public image of a multinational conglomerate that steals water from indigenous people and pays mercenaries to murder those that dare to identify the theft might it not have been preferable to keep falling?

[nuriaverde]

Betty Draper y la maldición de la belleza en "Mad Men"

Betty Draper es un personaje desgraciado en “Mad Men”. Está atrapada, tiene todo lo que la sociedad le ha dicho que debía tener para lograr la felicidad y, pese a ello, es profundamente infeliz. Como le dice Arthur, el chico casadero con el que coincide en el picadero de caballos, en la segunda temporada, cuando Betty va a montar: “Eres insondablemente triste”. Por supuesto, ella lo niega porque…

[idonthaveacontract]

If it makes you feel better, I’ve seen some discussions on what makes a piece of media conducive to having a big fandom (specifically on tumblr) and there’s some consensus that media lends itself better to fan spaces when it’s “almost great” with some rough edges, gaps, or unrealized potential. I think Mad Men may have simply been too tightly-written to truly thrive in this environment on the level of some other shows. There’s less room to explore aspects of the show in fan spaces when those aspects are thoroughly explored in the text (or subtext) of the show itself.

So true. Which is why we must spread the good news of spotting knowing glances between don and pete that matthew weiner himself didn't notice

[generallynaive]

Mad Men (S06E13) “In Care Of” - 'Both Sides Now' ending

[actualhumancryptid]

I’ve reached that point in my Mad Men rewatch where I want to drown Don Draper in a shallow puddle. His grasp on his fragile ego is so tenuous and I just want to see him drown in a foot of water on a mildly rainy day,

It’s not helped that I have since read various things about Matthew Weiner and how he fancied himself as Don, tried to replicate the womanising and various lecherous behaviours. And so I’m just seeing this very handsome actor walking around like his sad pathetic avatar. It’s Joss Whedon and his self-inserts all over again. Except less self-aware somehow.

I read that Jon Hamm couldn’t stand Don by the end, I wonder if that’s true.

[sideshow-tornado]

“Nostalgia - it’s delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means “the pain from an old wound.” It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.”

Mad Men “The Wheel” (written by Matthew Weiner, Robin Veith)

[warningsine]

Wasn't mad men a feminist show tho?

Well, I mean, one of the influences for the show was "The Feminine Mystique."

Peggy was the heroine to Don's antihero, but that does not not make MM male centered TV.

She and Joan remain amongst the most complex and well written female characters on television. As for Betty, well, there's an overlap between people (critics included) who hate her and those who hate Carmela Soprano (Weiner was an exec and writer for "The Sopranos") and Skyler White, the wronged housewife archetype.

Still, it's interesting that MM judged the past from the present without depicting the struggles of the second wave movement in the middle when it did mention other sociopolitical events of the time.

P.S. Matthew Weiner's writing assistant accusing him of being a creep certainly has an impact on how I see certain choices on the show now vs. how I saw them during my first watch.

[itcanbefilmed]

Mad Men (Matthew Weiner, 2007-2015)