re: Mad Men first watch

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Anyone else so put off by Peggy's character they almost don't want to watch? She's fricking horrible.

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Peggy becomes the best character besides Don.

There is a male protagonist and a female protagonist and Peggy is it.

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She becomes half the story...and her strange relationship becomes a big part of the story. Mad Men is all chauvanestic...but in retrospect it's a Women's lib show. Peggy, Joan even the wives of the men.

They all break away from being subsrvient secretaries to totally successful on their own merit.

If you don't like Peggy...you will hate the show. Don is the confused character, Peggy is the driven fast talking career gal character who doesn't want to get married.

The show is showing the shift from the 50's to the late 60's. Leave it to Beaver is collapsed - imploded upon itself - and even Don goes Hippie.

And the Pete and Peggy scene might just be the best scene in the series. Pete is such a fool. Peggy knows what she wants.