I try staying away from any TV shows that is all the rage and only watched a show when it is finished or the hype died down.
After two episodes of this, why does any critics or viewers considered it to be the one of the greatest televisions series made? The stories felt like a female fantasy. I meant all the characters are like herds, the men and women are defined by the materials they own, the clothes they wear, the money they have. No male characters have any honor and accountability toward their family or organization. Every characters are selfish. The entire female workforce treating infidelity from their bosses like it is thing to admire and aspire to. The race inequality sub-themes are extremely heavy handed and felt too distracting for no good reason. I studied graphic design and marketing, and the process in real life are far more exciting than what this show offered.
I know this show is written by women, and geared toward women (they sure loved stories that glamorized infidelity, materialism and assholes males) but it felt too much style and scarcely any substances. I don't mind shows written for women and filled with characters that are petty and I never liked (I liked Big Love and watched Pretty Little Liars as a guilty pleasures) but this show is boring, annoying, and soulless.
Will it get any better? The themes getting more thought-provoking, the characters more complex (pettiness and selfishness not the only dimensions) and the story-lines more interesting? Or is it just an overrated soap opera, respected only because almost all women are plebs and critics want to say they like women point of views being shown on TV?
extremely overrated the audience was very proud about the supposedly dense formal structure of the episodes (witness the countless Onion AV dissertations), but at its core it was just a tawdry soap opera with hacky character writing. I felt it was a failure as a period piece too, it presented a glamorized, modern, simplistic idea of what those times were like.
Brayden Parker
it moves away from product-of-the-week and towards full-blown soap opera territory. don even gets a secret past.
Jaxon Harris
The dirty secret of this show is that no one watched it.
The night its last episode aired I Love Lucy reruns kicked its ass (which is true for most things. The old sitcoms blow the doors out of all the current year faggotry.)
Brayden Gray
mad men sold to netflix for $1 million an episode though, Nielsen ratings don't tell the whole story anymore
Jose Carter
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I am fine with soap elements. I just cannot understand the raving praises when it is very very shallow in ideas, characterizations and themes. Style, no substances whatsoever and very boring. I just watched it after rewatching Breaking Bad and the Simpsons and I could not understand why anyone would talk about Walter White to Don Draper in the same sentence. One had depth, the other just got style.
Wyatt Cox
avclub.com/tv/mad-men/?season=1 learn to use google though don draper becomes a deeper character than he is in the first episode, not as interesting as people seemed to think but they did flesh him out kind of the opposite of breaking bad tbh, walter white started out complex and interesting and became cartoonish and cliched
Sebastian Morales
I understand the criticism but it worked overall with the way the show is going. I like it tbh, most shows tried to maintain what people loved about it, but Breaking Bad embraced the changes. Walt become cartoonish because the story changed slowly from the realistic story of a nerd dabbling in crimes into a mythical story of a crime king. With fulminated mercury and Saul Goodman, there is no way the show can still have the tone of season 1 forever and be good, and the writers are right in steering toward that direction. I knew they are going to flesh him out will him and his become fascinating or just another bland fictional character.
Colton Ross
*will him and his story actually interesting or depth for depth sake?
