Did You Not See Mad Men? Neither Did We! Here Is Our Recap

Gawker Media Special Projects Editor Alex Pareene and Executive Features Editor Tom Scocca have never watched the much-discussed AMC program Mad Men. Nevertheless, in honor of the show’s much-anticipated finale, we scheduled a roundtable discussion on Twitter.
PAREENE: It is I, Donald Drapery. I am handsome yet still mad. Race relations are strained because it is the ‘60s.
PAREENE: Rock and roll and women’s lib are things happening that I am aware of. Vietnam.
SCOCCA: Things are going to change. Things will be different. Hats. I was a man who wore a hat. Now I will not wear hats.
PAREENE: The Russians are also sending men to space.
SCOCCA: I light a cigarette in my office. I pour a scotch. One of these things will not make it into the 21st century workplace.
PAREENE: I am casually sexist. The interesting part is that perhaps things have not changed as much as you think.
SCOCCA: Sexual mores have changed, another thing. The woman puts an LP record on the stereo hi-fi and lights a cigarette.
SCOCCA: Perhaps America herself is an attractive lie, a commercial fiction, an aspiration like those composed for money on Madison Avenue.
What will you miss the most about not watching Mad Men? Discuss!
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