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That sent a shiver through my entire body. Thank you.

Yes! This was a haunting recitation.

This is such a gorgeous poem. Though, one thing dislike I have about this series is that, between these moments of profound intro- or retrospection, we are given sub-par, daytime soap-opera drama.

InternetLawman 1 year ago

@InternetLawman I don't sub par is right, and it is far from a soap opera; the acting is great, and the characters have depth and complexity. I think the series loses its philosophical acumen in season 4, but even then it's an excellent show.

ImperialUSA 9 months ago

@ImperialUSA You're right, sub-par maybe a bit of a hyperbole, but i wouldn't go so far as to say the show is philosophical. Sure, like many other things the shows is essentially existential, but so many things are inherently so.

I just think that the show is popular in America because it glamorizes American culture at its height. Constant drinking, smoking, infidelity, you name it. What I do like about it is that it's different from the many pro-feminist, anti-masculine shows out there.

InternetLawman 9 months ago

@InternetLawman Are you kidding? This show is EXTREMELY anti-masculine. There's not ONE male (straight) on this show without deeply masculine flaws, and few women who are not either "victims" or just plain stupid (another form of victimization anyway). Others are heroic, like Joan and Peggy, fighting the good fight to claim their identity in a world of male primacy. There were no happy or well-adjusted women before the great emancipation of the 60's. Didn't you know that???

LazlosPlane 2 months ago

this is brilliant. And as has been observed here, this is probably the best tv series ever. Was the music in the original? Or did you add it?

coyotesong 1 year ago

@coyotesong - yes, it was part of the audio from the original episode. ps. thanks!

littleblackpistol 10 months ago

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@coyotesong It's called "I'm Not Going to Fight" from Mad Men (Original Score Vol. 1)

Xfire258 10 months ago

I love Don Draper quotes, they are usually "stone cold". As I have said they would make Ayan Rand blush..here's one: "The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons. You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one...Season 1, Episode 1, "Smoke gets in your eyes."

billeagle51 1 year ago

I cant reaalu get this poem? what is he meaning about it when he think about her when i are reding it?

Mad Men is the best!!

SuperDepps 1 year ago

This gives me chills every time I watch this.

evanrauhanen 1 year ago 4

That music is beautiful.

Underneath it all, why is everyone so unhappy?

I think I know.

gotami2500 1 year ago

Mad Men and LOST -- two best shows on television today for their profound and unique characters.

DarthV87 1 year ago 2

Everything about this show is A 1. Can't wait for season 4.

ivyronda 2 years ago

Oh my god, I am in love with this. Excellent job.

CharlotteChakra 2 years ago 2

I love this reading of Frank O'Hara's poem — it brings out the darker, more depressive quality that underpins the buoyant optimism most people comment on in his work. It is the final section of the final poem in his first book. The book is MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY, and the poem is "Mayakovsky."

vincentkatz 2 years ago 4

That was brilliant, beautifully done and great scene choices.

How I love this show

BDboystoys1 2 years ago 2

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.

35thave 2 years ago 15