best character in Mad Men?

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By a mile.

>>81818090
The Mad Man!

He was funny and had some great moments, but Pete is by far the best.

I don't know about best, but Roger was one of my favorites because while most characters tried to deny their awfulness Roger frequently just wallowed in his.

Pete and Peggy definitely had the most developed character arcs.

Also I really like Stan for purely superficial reasons.

>>81818069
Wtf Mike Pence was on this show??

>>81818668
who?

>>81818668
face blindness strikes again

>>81818069
You could argue for Don, Pete, Peggy, Roger, and even Betty. Too many best characters on that show.

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was he our guy?

>>81819309
>successful
>killed people in a war
>banged broads all the time
>rich and born into money
>witty
>good looking
Nah, /tv/ is less successful version of Harry.

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>>81818191

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>>81819309
No Ginsberg was /ourguy/.

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>>81819309
>are we negroes

>>81818069
If someone adapts the 2016 elections into a movie/miniseries, they need to cast John Slattery as Pence.

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>>81818069
/easily/

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>DUDE WE'LL JUST BUY OURSELVES OUT OF OUR CONTRACTS LMAO
They did the same fucking plot like 5 times, fuck off with this shit.

>>81818069
Hendricks's ass

>>81819309

what was with white people and black face? Maybe it was like how 4chan likes saying nigger all the time.

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I'd say Roger's not the very best but he's definitely a close second, tied with Pete.

God I miss this show.

>>81819610
Saying nigger online is casual racism. Wearing an entire ensemble including makeup is advanced racism, something best left to the experts.

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>>81819309

I'm gonna get all film school faggy for a minute, but aside from Roger's humor I also loved his office and how the decor was a visual representation of what was going on with his character.

Starting with the fairly classic and oppulent executive look, the crazy mod-style midlife crisis office and the final form of his "oh, fuck it" office which was basically an empty room with a small desk facing the window.

>>81820100
hmm, I never normally notice things like this unless they're pointed out

the closest i get is seeing an obvious pathetic fallacy

am I retarded

what modern business is most like 60s advertising

>>81820950
Probably sales, considering it's the same thing they did in the show. The actual advertising work was all the lower level shmucks doing, all the main characters ever did was shmooze their clients, drink and compare dick sizes, like all salesman throughout history.

>>81820561
there's shit everywhere for you to analyze
there was a dissection of the fashion episode by episode (color theory, palettes, etc.) that predicted stuff episodes ahead

>>81820561
no, you have to actually make a (small) concious effort to spot things like that, ie. engage your critical faculties. Arguably you are missing out on a lot if you don't make that tiny effort, and some people are literally incapable of doing it (these people ARE retarded) but there is no 'right' way to watch a show. As long as you are entertained you're doing fine.

>>81821769
okay thanks for the tip

>>81819491
you sure about this?

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>>81818069
Hands down. You cannot debate this.

>>81821795
TBF, Mad Men takes it to a level a lot of shows don't. But that's one of the reasons I (an art school fag) loved the show. The costume and set designers weren't just tasked with creating accurate or stylish pieces, they were actively included in the storytelling process.

>>81822250
Don being fashionable in the early show but not really changing. Roger always going with the latest fashion along with everything else making him a man of the moment.

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>>81818069
>He will never be your best friend
>You will never go out on the town to pick up classy whores together

Roger is the most fun character. The best character is probably Pete.

>>81822518
I also liked how the set designers subtly slipped little mementos into Don's spartan office over the course of the show. Like the pennant from the baseball game he took Lane too.

Another good way of contrasting his stoicism to Roger's capriciousness.

And Bert Cooper's office was basically a feudal warlord's trophy room.

>AMC licences the Sterling's Gold book
>it's merely a collection of quotes from the series

blunder of the century

>>81823887
more analysis please

I relate to Roger the most so probably

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>>81824060
The only other office that really jumped out to me was Harry's office in the early seasons. It was packed full of yard sale antiques that his wife bought, highlighting his awkward role in the company and the fact that he wasn't an ivy league blue blood like Pete or Roger. It's fitting that younger Peggy inherited it, because many of the pieces had a very gothic cathedral feel and went well with her "good little Catholic girl" outfits and reflected her guilt about straying from the path her family expected of her.

Although there was also Ted's oddly vaginal wallpaper which tended to feature prominently when he was feeling conflicted about Peggy and the agency.

>>81824763
anything else
doesn't have to be office related

>>81824831
Check out a blog called Mad Style by Tom and Lorenzo. It was written by a couple gay dudes so it's campy, but it's probably the most in-depth breakdown of the show's visual styling.

They really get deep into it. Like they were the first ones to point out that whenever a man in her life let's Joan down or betrays her, there's roses somewhere.