Mad Men: is it based?

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I've been watching Mad Men lately, and it's not bad. For those who don't know, it's set at an ad agency in 60s Manhattan. More than anything, the show is cool. Such style and class. Even the homeless bums had class back then. It's cozy. It's not saccharine, but there's always a a happy ending. Mad Men is what The Office wishes it were. Together with Breaking Bad, I think that this show was part of that last spurt of pre-woke creativity. The creator is a guy named (((Weiner))), but it's surprisingly free of poz.

The cast is overwhelmingly White. There is a large minority of Jewish actors, mostly playing Jewish characters, and their Jewishness is usually made explicit. (One possible subversive angle is that the show downplays how Jewish such an industry would almost certainly have been, even by 1960.) Black characters are all relegated to being either servants or robbers. The number of LGBT characters can be counted on one hand. I do think that there is a fair amount of revisionism done to make the characters sympathetic to a normie audience. For example, there is a conspicuous lack of the N word.

Overall, would recommend.

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[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I liked it but it drags a bit in the later seasons. My favorite parts were the socio-political conversations in the first season between Don and the owner. Those were interesting.

The big poz part I saw was semi normalized divorce sub plot. People did divorce in the 50's and 60's but there would have been a LOT of shaming, especially from women. Divorce didn't really pick up till 70's and 80's. In fact the company Don works for probably would have shamed him or even fired him for divorcing.

Of course there's the angle of the women being the 'real' brains behind the operation. That was a bit annoying to watch.

I also think Don's excessive affairs were a bit over the top and not very realistic. Seemed like they were just trying to make men look bad. White men have pretty low rates of infidelity even today.

Nobody seems to go to church in the show either which wasn't very accurate.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Wasn't saying nigger considered uncouth (because of vulgarity, not racism) by most upper class people at the time? I remember reading it in some old book. Unless you meant negro.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I meant nigger, they do say Negro. Even so, there are at least a few situations and characters where it realistically would have come up. Maybe it's a matter of rating. It's TV-14, so no nudity and no f-words either.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Damn a well acclaimed TV show that doesn't have copious amounts of nudity, sex, and vulgar language. So quaint compared to the current media landscape. The rating is probably the reason yeah.

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I always look for the Jewish angle in any apparently not-pozzed media. In this case I think it's the "Ad Men were White", "it wasn't Jews bullshitting you into smoking and taking Halcion, it was Whites". The rest of the show is pretty cool, to be honest.

[–]TheWorldToCome 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One of my favorite shows ever so I am biased. It's definitely redpilled on certain things especially women/women's nature/women finding out you can't have it all (career and family and kids.)