Mad Men 1x13 Reaction
Added 2025-07-23 23:29:29 +0000 UTCthe internet is slow,the episode’s been uploading on yt for a while and i’ll fall a sleep so i converted it and uploaded it on vimeo. i’ll link also yt so that you can watch it when it uploads:
and the bear will be up tomorrow
Comments
let Elena speak! haha damn, she gets cut off every time she utters three words
Josh
2025-08-17 18:14:51 +0000 UTCI've always felt that Teddy is a creation of Don and that there is no Teddy instead Don wants to mimic or rather reproduce Rachel's utopia explanation a half-season ago but he doesn't have her education so instead he creates an idea of an old mentor and their sage advice.
Luis
2025-08-10 19:30:51 +0000 UTCIt may or may not end up being your fav ever, but I'm glad its easy to see why people wanted you to watch it!
Patrick
2025-07-26 22:27:15 +0000 UTCI understand Lola. I'm watching season 3 right now but i could already feel in the first season that mad men could easily become one of my favorite show. I really love that show, the writing is too good. Oh and since we don't have cowboy bebob anymore, a little dance could be fun :)
petitcorbeau
2025-07-26 17:00:04 +0000 UTCits ok ive said it 7 times in 13 episodes.... AND ILL SAY IT AGAIN
Kara
2025-07-24 23:56:13 +0000 UTCI’ll be honest. It’s made me suspicious a few times. Like…guessing her pregnancy just seems so odd to me. Then there was their reaction to the sopranos finale. I’ve seen a few reactors do Sopranos and their reaction to the ending was definitely unique in their immediate acceptance of it.
Stan the Man
2025-07-24 18:49:34 +0000 UTCI started watching for the first time when it won the poll and I'll be watching the final 2 episodes tonight. I can confirm: It never got bad. Not once.
Michael M
2025-07-24 16:38:14 +0000 UTCI have the tendency to dissasociate so this episode felt very personal. By that I mean that Don is going through this weird combination of being told his “real” brother Adam hung himself, having to sell the illusion of his new life and having to come to an empty house. It all feels like Don is an observer and can’t really get a hold of the wheel or stop impulses. We know he can but as all is things are easier said than done
bondbond53
2025-07-24 13:31:19 +0000 UTCI mean it's kinda both, isn't it? He definitely does it to spite Pete in the moment, but he also genuinely sees something in her. He wouldn't have done it if he didn't think she'd be good at it.
Sebastian
2025-07-24 11:17:34 +0000 UTCI find it funny how Milena and Lola are kind of the anti-reactors because they keep predicting plot twists before they happen instead of being gobsmacked by them. Picking up on Peggy's pregnancy several episodes ago is sharp. Same way with The Wire where they'd talk about a character's impending death several times just because there was a vibe.
Sebastian
2025-07-24 10:01:08 +0000 UTCYeah, it really is the perfect show for them. Can you even imagine if fucking Barry had won instead?
Sebastian
2025-07-24 09:54:32 +0000 UTCNever forget that Peggy’s becomes a copy writer not because she earned it or deserved it. But because it was the most insulting thing he could do to Pete. All this “Don is Peggy’s mentor” talk is really BS when you think it was Freddy who saw her true potential, picked her out of the chorus and Don promoted her out of his spite for Pete
Stan the Man
2025-07-24 09:53:22 +0000 UTCI'll probably say this a lot, but I don't care, I love that they're enjoying it and I'm really enjoying the reactions too. This episode for me shows one of my favourite aspects of the show, which is how the advertising becomes a way to express the character's feelings. Some of my favourite parts of the show are them either pitching or discussing ads. At the same time Betty shows maturity and acknowledges Don's infidelity, he is becoming aware of what he has lost and stands to lose. It's beautifully done. I've been rewatching this show for years and there are new depths to it I find out about each time.
Mark M
2025-07-24 07:17:42 +0000 UTCWe are all Harry in the carousel scene.
Sami
2025-07-24 03:55:33 +0000 UTCThis was an easy layup for you ladies to love. I have no idea why anyone objected to it. It's everything you adore and so much to come!
Scott
2025-07-24 02:36:22 +0000 UTCChoreo? Well I want a life where I never take my eyes off the muse that is Lola, so, yes maybe.
Riff Michaels
2025-07-24 02:03:23 +0000 UTCEvery rewatch that ending feels a little more devastating. We all have our own ep where every thing about the show clicked and this was always mine. Sometimes things are famous for a reason and that carousel pitch is that. Luckily the show is full of those moments
cheech
2025-07-24 01:29:14 +0000 UTCThem putting Peggy on birth control in ep 1 is very smart because many viewers think birth control = no pregnancy and dont know about cryptic pregnancies. the girls are extremely observant but also knew that birth control takes time to kick in + Lola was familiar with cryptic pregnancies from reality TV lol. a girl in our school didn't know she was pregnant until she gave birth in the supermarket btw, I think her and her bf were 16, they didn't teach us anything growing up lol.
Kara
2025-07-24 01:22:17 +0000 UTCI didn't want you to have choreography before, but now that you mention it, yes you should.
Charlie M
2025-07-24 01:20:00 +0000 UTCits wild every time I rewatch the show and get to this point and im like "there's still 6X 13+ episode seasons to go" TV used to be crazzyyyyy lmao
Kara
2025-07-24 01:17:25 +0000 UTCit's up there for sure, just a beautiful flawless scene
Kara
2025-07-24 01:16:55 +0000 UTCPeggy: the voice actor doesn't sound very confident Ken: try giving her a direction 😊 Peggy: ok...... 💥🎤 CONFIDENCE!!! 🎤💥 What an amazing season of television. I cry every time during the carousel speech, its even worse knowing its coming + how the episode ends. Still to this day one of the most memorable TV scenes of all time. Something about the delivery, the wording, the music, the pictures + the sincerity of the pitch... i tear up and then i think, i'm literally crying over a pitch for an ad to sell a novelty slide projector.... what a good show lol. Lola "I think this is gonna be one i my fav shows ever" i almost never say this but i TOLD YOU SO!!! you never *know* but in my soul i FELT that this was a show built for Lola (and milena! but Lola). its just distilled character development shot straight to the veins for 7 straight seasons. its insane lol. every time i rewatch im like "damn people really made this". there's literally 7 SEASONS of this shit and it doesnt "get bad". what tha fuck This was brought up last episode but so-called "Cryptic Pregnancies" are a real phenomena. We had a girl in our school who didn't know she was pregnant until she went into labor in the line at the supermarket. Don is so funny making Peggy a junior copywriter to dunk on pete (she earned it! he wouldn't be doing it if he didnt respect her + her work! but still). The Harry scene stayed with me, again an example of how patriarchy harms men because Harry was at his most eloquent and animated when describing his "artsy" (read: gay / feminine) photos of handprints, which somewhat informs the Carousel pitch. I actually forgot Ayn Rand was mentioned twice this episode, I'm more glad I wrote about her now lol... Don + Pete have 1 thing in common at least (they aint reading that book). I completely agree - betty's observation that sometimes Don has sex in a way that's clearly for someone else is so poignant, I feel it has to be written by someone who has experienced an affair because it's so real 💀 Love the speculation. Love the reactions. Love the discussions. Love everything. Many people say the show doesn't "get good" until S2 👀 wish i could show this to all the people who said "the girls wouldnt like Mad Men" 🤔 🤯
Kara
2025-07-24 01:15:04 +0000 UTCI think I read (maybe heard) somewhere that the dynamic between Don & Peggy of mentor/mentee is somewhat inspired by Matthew Weiner & David Chase
Infode
2025-07-24 01:11:20 +0000 UTCOooooh, so much here. Harry cheated on his wife for (apparently) the first time, and he confessed (out of guilt?) and is now sleeping at the office after she kicked him out but he is pleading to come home. Don has been cheating on his wife forever, but has never felt enough guilt to come clean and is sleeping in the office of his own volition to escape his life. I do think you two swapped what happened in the audition. Peggy saw a beautiful woman auditioning for the ad and hired her thinking that she must be self-confident and self-assured. But that woman was just as insecure and self-critical as everybody else, and maybe even moreso than other people because you don't get to looking that beautiful without putting in time and effort and money because you DON'T think you're beautiful. It's the frumpy looking woman who would have been the right person to hire, because she could ACT beautiful, and that's what they needed for the ad. Ken Cosgrove was correct, and Peggy eventually realized that during the recording when she realized it wasn't working. I can't believe you two predicted Peggy's pregnancy several episodes ago. I don't know anybody else who put those dots together before the end of the season. It's not exactly common for women to not know they're pregnant, but it's not unheard of, either. There's plenty of documented cases of it happening. Especially in areas and times with poor sex education, because people can't recognize the signs. But even when people do theoretically know the biology, it still happens now-a-days. It's traumatic when it happens.
JBK405
2025-07-24 01:05:09 +0000 UTCGreat episode, great reaction. So, so happy they love the show.
Eric Viola
2025-07-24 00:54:48 +0000 UTCThe wheel pitch is literally one of my all time favorite scenes of television.
Mahad Ali
2025-07-24 00:34:52 +0000 UTCI can't believe we get 6 more seasons of my favorite reactors reacting to my favorite show. It only gets better!
Jenny D
2025-07-24 00:24:57 +0000 UTCOK, I have a lot of thoughts on this one: How can you start with anything other than the carousel speech? Maybe the finest moment in the entire series. A few weeks ago, we talked about whether Don was "self-aware". I said that he has to be, because so much of the show is him transmuting his personal turmoil into creative at the office. There might not be a better, more affecting example than this scene. The whole speech is note-perfect -- Teddy, nostalgia, Duck wishing the Kodak execs good luck at their next meeting -- but my favourite parts are Harry running out the room in tears and (most of all) those family pictures. The production team captured something magical there. Don pushing Bobby on the swing with the cigarette awkwardly hanging from his mouth; resting his head on Betty's pregnant belly; and that gorgeous, evocative NYE kiss... You can feel all the history in their relationship, and it's just crushing to know it slipping through their fingers. Don is time-travelling back to when they still had it. Now it's gone. I have always thought that the fake-out "Don gets home in time" was a little cheap, but the Dylan needle-drop makes the scene. One of my favourite songs of all-time. About the song: That's an anachronism, actually! *The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan* album wasn't released until May 1963 and this episode takes place in November 1960. ("Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" was a b-side to "Blowin' in the Wind". How's that for an all-time single?) For a show that is so meticulous about getting the period details "right", that can only be on purpose. Weiner has said that he used the song for a few reasons: First of all, it's such a perfect fit thematically (he imagined it was Betty singing the lyrics). But mostly, he wasn't sure that the show would get a second season, and how can you make a show about 1960s America without featuring Bob Dylan? This was a chance to do a kind of flash-forward for Don and for the culture in general. There is so much else here that I love. Peggy turning away from her newborn in the hospital. The obvious contrast between Trudy's father and Pete's father. Cooper giving out another copy of Atlas Shrugged. Francine assuming that Betty would know how to handle a cheating spouse. Betty's shock at hearing her therapist answer the phone and then her side-eye when she "lets slip" that Don is unfaithful at the next session... I really like the scene between Betty & Glenn. It's terribly tragic that some weird kid is the only one she can turn to for consolation, but it also kind of supports the doctor's "diagnosis" earlier this season that she is an emotionally-stunted child. She's complicated! It didn't make the edit, but I also love Harry's conversation with Don about the pictures on handprints and the cave paintings at Lascaux. The difference between "new" and something deeply old. "I was here." Great, great stuff. Best episode of the season.
Mike
2025-07-24 00:18:41 +0000 UTCYou can turn off autoplay on the Netflix website!!!
Mike
2025-07-23 23:59:24 +0000 UTCWE WANT TO LOLA
Julien
2025-07-23 23:51:31 +0000 UTCTuesday: The Bear Wednesday: Mad Men Thursday: Monster Friday: Chainsaw Man Saturday: Mad Men Sunday: Monster Monday: rest day 😴 (but with delays or swaps sometimes)
Kara
2025-07-23 23:40:31 +0000 UTCHAPPY BIRTHDAY!! ❤️
P
2025-07-23 23:38:29 +0000 UTCCan someone tell me what the current schedule is? Not complaining about anything, just curious.
Nina
2025-07-23 23:35:57 +0000 UTCThank you so much for going through the effort 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️ its my birthday and i literally just got back drunk as helllll and hoping the reaction was up 😌
Kara
2025-07-23 23:32:49 +0000 UTC
