I thought season 2 sucked as well. If season 3 doesnt turn around soon, I’m going to stop watching. It’s so bad.

So basically you watched Mad Men seasons 1-2 in a few days and then started watching season 3 week to week and suddenly decided NOTHING HAPPENS. I’ve seen some bad blog posts in my time but this is nothing but a whiny knee jerk reaction to a change in viewing style. Frankly I’ve found the first three episodes of this season to be funnier than the first two seasons so I’m not quite sure what you mean by that and I think you need to re-evaluate what happened in this past episode because it’s more complicated than you made it seem, like pretty much every Mad Men episode.

But of course you don’t want to watch Mad Men because it’s a good show, you want to watch it to be apart of the hipster hive mind. You said it yourself you only started watching it because your hipster friends wouldn’t stop talking about it. I know I can feel smugly superior to you knowing that I started watching it the week it premiered because the marketing made it look interesting. You’ll move on to something else and then whine about how it turned to shit after season 2.

You know I was going to start pulling your hair and insulting you for daring to diss Mad Men, but then I calmed down and thought about it, and realized you were right. This season has been awful. Wretched, really. Nothing has happened. I’m not giving up on it obviously, but here’s to hoping the writers have a few tricks up their sleeves.

…not to mention all the story lines from season 2 were completely forgotten. What about Don’s rebirth and reawakening at the end of season 2? Fifteen minutes into season 3, he’s cheating on his wife with a random stewardess.

For a minute there I though Tom Cruise got sucked into the Mad Men hype and did a cameo, but hey, hey ain’t that fucking stupid.

Totally agree on Season 3. If this keeps up, you might just see Don Draper going for a another California adventure which includes waterskiing.

Something ain’t right over at WeinerVille.

I agree with Greg too. The British people are totally stupid. There is that one British guy who looks exactly like Pete (episode 1). Why did they cast him? I liked seeing Duck crash and burn. He was interesting.

There hasn’t been ONE funny moment at all (remember when Freddy Rumsen pissed his pants). The shows are moving SOOOOOOOOO slowly and aren’t making any sense at all to me. I don’t understand why Don wanted Betty’s father to move in when he has always hated him. Only 10 epsiodes left also. I bet Betty’s baby will die in the next episode from her smoking just as Jackie Kennedy’s baby Patrick died that September also due to Jackie’s smoking. Mad Men will NOT be back for Season 4 if this continues.

I’m glad that I’m not the only one. I don’t know how many more episodes I’m going to wait before I give up completely. I don’t know how the writing could have gone so far downhill so fast.

This is a no brainer. Five episodes in and season 3 sucks. Plain and simple, and I was one of the show’s biggest supporters. Turn it around and quick! What the hell happened to this show!?

The whole conversation with Don Draper and the guy in the maternity ward while Betty was having a baby was THE STUPIDEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN ON TELEVISION.

It was so pointless and boring and witless! I kept waiting for something to happen… anything… but nothing did. It fizzled and died.

The entire show is fizzling and dying before our eyes.

I, too, agree with many of the comments. The plot lines and writing are really losing me; Joan playing the accordian for guests? Betty’s creepy dream? Sally driving a car?? Betty, standing comatose at the door when the cop comes to tell her her father just died. at the supermarket no less,then turns and walks away, shutting the door and leaving her daughter on the doorstep?..Her character is so morose and depressing, I hate whenever she’s on the screen.(is it the director or is she just a bad actress?). and what’s up with The Charleston..why not the Twist or something more current to the year and theme of the show? A strange man touching Betty’s stomach AND her allowing him to do so?..a woman, maybe..a MAN IN 1963.. NEVER. Subplots and subtlety are great, but I’m getting more and more confused. Too much is going on and too many characters flowing in and out of the plots. Gene the father should have lasted a bit longer. There was wealth of stuff there for Don to contend with. Keep it simple, tight and interesting. Expand more on the existing characters, there’s certainly enough of them with enough issues to delve into. This series had such promise and it’s starting to remind me of Twin Peaks in the 80’s; loved it in the beginning, and then ended up hating it. Fix it before it’s too late !

Matthew Weiner: I hope you are reading this blog. I was a huge Mad Men fan. I have season 1 & 2 in my ipod and have seen each of those shows like 10 times. I was so excited about season 3 finally starting. Your show jumped the shark as soon as season 2 ended and Sterling Cooper was sold. Betty’s creepy dream of her mother and the black servant and the catepillar was one of the WORST things I have seen on television period! You have wasted 5 shows on Betty’s lame father Eugene. The show has lost its focus. I hated when Don cheated so much and now I’m begging him to go out and fuck a bunch of women just to make things more exciting. I want to see Sal have a gay lover, I want to see Peggy find a really rich man, I want to see Joan and Roger have hot office sex, I want Roger’s wife to go insane and kill someone! Shame on your Matthew WEENER for ruining my favorite show.

Season two started to suck, but now it is the official Emperor’s New Clothes, winning awards for horrible writing and lifeless acting.

WTF happened to Mad Men? It seems sooooo different than Season 2. NOTHING has happened. The season is NOT funny or interesting. I don’t care about the British people at all. How come when the British guy had his foot run over by the lawn mower there didn’t seem to be very much damage. Then later on there is blood all over and he loses a foot. That was supposed to be funny? NOT. Stop wasting our time with stupid characters. What happened to the idiotic Jai Alai plot? I want to see Joan kill her a-hole hubby. How about hooking up Sal with a gay lover! I want to see more of Ken Cosgrove and Pete. The show was so intriging before. Bring back Anna Draper. Matthew Weiner- DO SOMETHING! The show blows.

How did you guys make it through the past two seasons of this show without having any patience? Mad Men has always been slow and about character development. The guy in the hospital waiting room was supposed to represent the expectations of a new father in comparison to what fatherhood is really like. He reminded Don Draper of what it was like when he had his first kid, and how much he has neglected and avoided his family since then. I found it to be one of the more poignant scenes in the show so far. As for the pot smoking scenes, I found that hilarious and it makes sense to introduce weed during this time period. Those characters have been comic relief for 90% of the series so far, so I don’t know why you expected them to have some deep storyline. And I thought the interactions between Eugene and his granddaughter to be heartwarming, they reminded me of my grandfather. What about seasons 1 and 2 did you find so fascinating in comparison to this season? I found the whole plot with the comedian and his wife in season 2 to be much more boring than this season. And lets not forget, a guy got his FUCKING FOOT SHREDDED APART BY A LAWNMOWER in the last episode. If that’s not interesting to you guys, I don’t know what is.

Give it a chance. You’re used to watching the episodes on DVD and getting instant gratification. The fans who have been watching it on a weekly basis know how to be patient.

I was responding to the comments discussion which has been going on as recently as yesterday, you obnoxious fucking cunt

Oh yeah Mad Men is sooo amazing. 45 minutes of boring SHIT, with 2 seconds of someone getting their foot run over by a lawnmower. Genius writing!

Matt if you thought the conversation between Eugene and the grandchild were endearing, you need to stop watching Oprah Winfrey and get a hobby bro. Even my fucking 92 year old grandmother thought that shit was lame, and I’m not kidding

Seasons 1 & 2 were great; 3 is cringe-worthy. So much praise has been heaped on the authenticity, which I don’t ever feel has been the strongest point but is worse than ever this season. Particularly the depictions of “WASP” behavior, which is nothing like the real thing, and the lazy, almost ridiculous oversights (such as the fact that engaging the blades on a rider mower, which is a separate process from driving it, would never have happened). Annoying melodrama, and a truly sad fall from grace.

tonight was definitely the worst episode ever (don’s contract, peggy sleeping with duck, betty draper meeting with that politician, snore snore snore)

this show has gone to shit

Chase- love your comments! The real Conrad Hilton raped Zsa Zsa Gabor and she became pregnant and divorced him. His son beat the shit outta Elizabeth Taylor. Then we of course have super slut Paris Hilton!

I think Sal should fuck Conrad! I want Sal to hook up with someone. I guess his wife finally figured out he is a faggot with his gay re-enactment of Ann Margaret. I love it how she’s like “Sal, I need tending to!”

youre right, mad men is done, season 3 sucks.. its unexplainable.. i dont get it..

i’m clinging to my faith that these seemingly meaningless scenes will cease to be meaningless. (tongue-twister unintended.) i disagree about the maternity ward waiting room conversation being pointless and boring. it was significant and boring. the whole exchange became laden with meaning at the end of the show when Don passed the prison guard in the corridor, and the guard wouldn’t meet his eye. Mad Men doesn’t spell things out for you like ‘Diffr’nt Strokes’ or ‘Family Ties’. you have to do a little work to glean the meaning from the dialogue. Kinda like life itself. (only prettier.)

Too bad! Mad Men has lost its tension. Weiner got his cash and is playing it safe, so safe, the series risks being trashed. The Brits lack interest, let alone danger, and my beloved female characters are now milquetoast!

Jim King- who gives a shit that the bartender is Connie Hilton? Don’s conversation with him was NOT interested and was NOT of any significance at all.

Season 3 blows because the writer has run out of decent plots. I rather that Don seek out the real Mrs. Draper again. Hook Sal up with a gay dude! Ken Cosgrove is HOT

Weiner: Watch reruns of Rescue Me if you need some artistic insight into creating a series! Have you even thought to check with anyone outside yourself?

George- Peggy was always a rebel. Do you forget the series premiere when after Pete insults her at her first day at work, he later goes to her apartment drunk? Peggy starts the Pill the same day. I assume Peggy lost her virginity to him and got pregnant the same night. Peggy also fucked Pete on his office couch and then showed up the morning early to get fucked once again (Pete=no-show). Peggy has also told Don off a few times. I was sure she was going to fuck the preacher (a la Thorn Birds) but thank goodness, the writer stayed away from that cliche.

Mad men sucks because the HIlton empire pays it to suck:
http://hiltonworldwide.hilton.com/en/ww/promotions/hf_madmen/index.jhtml

The show is boring and shallow because the writers are boring and shallow. The show really stinks.

I was very surprised that Betty confronted Don last night! I didn’t think she would EVER do this and just keep it a secret. Now that Sal is gone, Roger is probably going to leave his wife for Joan, and Betty knows almost everything, is Mad Men canceled? I know the ratings are REALLY bad despite winning the Emmy and Golden Globe for acting and drama, etc.
The last 4 shows were good but SOOOOOOO much time was wasted on stupid British people and Grandpa Eugene. Pete Campbell and Ken Cosgrove were on for a total of like 5 minutes this season. The season really focused in on the Draper family. I mourn Sal’s departure. Please have Joan fuck Roger hard soon!
Where can they really go from here? Obviously the season finale will end on Kennedy’s assasination.

This year is absolutely horrible. I think the writers got drunk on their own success and decided to do artsy-fartsy crud that just isn’t working on the audience. One full episode of Betty in and out of drug induced sleep and looking at caterpillars, please! What happened to Peggy’s baby, and the young priest that had the hots for her? What happened to Peggy and Campbell, they wrote out the chemistry and they act as if nothing happened between them.

I can’t think of a single aspect of this show that hasn’t gone south this season. Taking Joanie and Sal out of the picture – why? More Jane, less Cosgrove? More Brits, less Creative team hijinks? Much more governmental politics and much less office politics – wha? Dropped or hole-ridden plotlines abound. The show formerly known as Mad Men shall be henceforce called Real Desperate Housewives of Westchester County.

The finale better be the shark messiah.

Disclaimer: I haven’t watched seasons 1 and 2, but plan on it soon. That being said, I began watching from episode 1 this season due to all of my friends saying how great the show is. I admit I like the idea of the show, but the plots have stagnated since the first episode and the characters haven’t developed any since the first couple of episodes. And what’s with the abrupt ending of storylines? You would think the failed British reorganization of Sterling Cooper due to the lawnmower incident would at least be mentioned in later episodes. Wasn’t Sterling Cooper for sale a couple episodes ago? What happened there? President Kennedy plot was really cliche, as was Don banging the teacher. Please fire all of the writers and start over with fresh plots and more character development.

I agree about the unnecessarily weird plot turns and lack of follow through on older plot threads. (the same thing happened with the Sopranos from one season to next, or one writer to next, or director, etc.) The “no one including me knew i was pregnant and then i had to give away my baby” story (huh?) is worthless.

But there is one thing that bugs me and probably only me. – on Madmen if someone answers a question like: “did you go to the store?”, normal people answer “yes”, “no”, or “yeah”, or whatever.

madmen dialogue answer is always: “i DID!”, emphasis on the did.
did you sign the contract? i DID!
did you eat dinner? i DID!
has my secretary called you? she DID!

god it is so unnatural. Hey i was alive in 1963 and we actually used the words YES and NO. (really, we DID!)

No, it’s true Season 3 really sucks. I’ve watched a bit past episode 5 (episode 9 actually) and it only gets worse, more boring and stupid.

Seasons 1 and 2 were so great but now the vision of the show is somehow lost and we are left with some shallow and contrived soap opera. The characters are just former shells of themselves.

I don’t even think I will finish watching season 3 and I won’t even consider season 4 unless all the crappy writers who ruined this awesome show are kicked off.

Thank god. I thought it was just me who has found this season boring, pointless, predictable, and annoying. NOTHING has happened, the best characters aren’t given any screen time, and Don and Betty are so unlikeable now I can barely stand it.