Where does Mad Men rank in the prestige tv cannon?

boring soap opera for women

It’s the best show ever made. It’s the only Tv show that approximates literature. Some very low IQ viewers prefer Sopranos, which relies on nudity, cursing, and violence, but the only literature this approximates is pulp fiction

>>213347133 (OP)
Anti-white filth.

For me it's just under Sopranos. I'd go
>Sopranos
>Mad Men
>The Wire
>Better Call Saul
>Breaking Bad
In that order

>>213347429
In what universe is better call Saul better than breaking bad

>>213347133 (OP)
#1

>>213347133 (OP)
Its probably the best. The production values alone puts it above its only competition (The Sopranos).

Top 3

>>213347429
>Better Call Saul
>Breaking Bad
reddit is that way (I'm pointing at my toilet after I just took a shit and haven't flushed yet)

>>213347429
Oz is above Mad Men

The only reason this show doesn’t have regular discussion on /tv/ is because one mentally deranged basement-dwelling schizo spends 24/7 here shitting up every Mad Men thread, mass replying to everyone until discussion is killed off. He’ll be here any second

>>213347133 (OP)
I thought Mad Men and Sopranos were part of the same Universe.

>>213347429
Very normie teir list summerfag

>>213348154
Is the anti smoking schizo still here? This is my first time visiting/tv/ in a while

Top three with The Sopranos and The West Wing

>>213348431
You’re right he should have deliberately put garbage like The Shield or Twin Peaks on the list to show his /tv/ bona fides

>>213348543
breaking bad wishes it was the shield

>>213347133 (OP)
Top 3

Mad Men doesn't have a single memorable line except for "What do women want? Who cares."

>>213348088

The Sopranos, Mad Men, and the Wire are the holy trinity of television. They're the three series that are the tv equivalent of the Great American Novel. There are other great series, but those three stand apart.

Man, I wish I could get into the Wire, but I'm too racist

>>213348883
I’d be surprised if you could remember your own phone number

>>213348883
zoomer moment

>>213348832
Every Shield fan wishes there was more dick sucking going on.

>>213348883
He had chewing gum on his pubis.

>>213347133 (OP)
Shitty show. The setting doesn't look authentic at all because of the bad outdoors shooting. People who say Mid Men is good expose themselves as lacking cinema understanding.

Mad Man seems boring to me but I guess I'm watching it now.

>>213348883
>did we ever hire jews?
>not on my watch
This stayed with me before I had to stop watching this garbage show. Not even Hendricks hot body makes me want to continue.

>>213349077
kys

Mad Men is a show specifically for heterosexual white men exclusively, so it's no wonder there's a large contingent of /tv/ users who don't like it.

>>213347133 (OP)
1. The Shield
Then, there's everything else. Only godforsaken imbeciles think otherwise.
/thread

>>213348883
>discussion about Utopia at dinner with Rachel
>chip and dip stuff
>stuff about Neville chamberlain smoking in Munich
>car parked in wrong garage story when roger goes to dons for dinner
Just off the top of my head from just the first season

Sopranos is just a show about a greaseball with mommy issues surrounded by a bunch of "Hey! I'm fuckin' Italian he-e-e-e-ere...!!!" stereotypes. It's "great" to millennial fuckups because memberberries.

That's it.

>>213348916
>>213347292
How pathetic to drag literature's name to the mud by comparing it to glorified soap operas.

>>213349108
/thread
>t. literal ad man irl ama

The last 20 minutes of The Shield's finale put even the most powerful moment in any of these other shows to shame.

>>213347429
>>213348543
>>213348916
>the wire over the shield
In what world?

>>213348154
if you've noticed its the same sperg who also makes the gaddon threads, mc content threads, etc...
just a terrible, ugly vibe off that faggot

>>213349165
too bad you have to watch 88 episodes of the very repetitive format to get to there

>>213349168
they're both trash you tasteless dipshit
bb and bcs are unwatchable-tier as well

>>213348883
"Better than nuts...bitch!"

>>213349077
>the scene where joan's roommate tells her she's in love with her
>milena gets extremely quiet and awkward for the rest of the video
cinema

>>213349192
How is it any more repetitive than any other show? In fact, it has far more variety in its point-of-views than most other shows.

>>213349127
> It's "great" to millennial fuckups because memberberries.
The Sopranos was enjoyed primarily by boomers and gen x, any millennial fans are so small in number that they proportionally don't even matter
You understand the show was at peak popularity 20+ years ago, right?

>>213347133 (OP)
all looks but no substance, it really was written by retards

>How pathetic to drag literature's name to the mud by comparing it to glorified soap operas.

>>213349211
BB was a gold medalist in the "Battlestar Galactica Terrible Fucking Ending" Olympics until BCS knocked it into silver.

>>213347243
if you skip all the betty parts its way better

>>213349339
I didn't watch any of those shows because I'm not a retarded overweight faggot
you tasteless shithead

I have no idea why the Wire has the reputation that it does. It feels like a glorified network show, very lacking in style, depends entirely on a script that is just above-average, nothing special. It’s fine but there’s no way it’s better than Breaking Bad. I doubt it will ever rewatch the Wire. I could watch Breaking Bad again 3 or 4 more times.

>>213348883
>i dont think about you at all

>>213349389
people trick themselves into thinking it's good and they ignore how all the street nigga storylines are capeshit-tier

>>213349362
betty's kino af you ugly dweeb

>>213349362
As a rule, skip anything to do with Don’s
family where he isn’t in the scene. Anything Betty, Sally, and Megan can be neatly excised. Betty and Sally in particular are some of the worst actors to ever work on TV.

>>213349389
>>213349414
very few people are even capable of judging the quality of art
it's all manufactured parroting by fat redditor homos
those shows are all embarrassing tier

>>213349431
>t. some angry incel

>>213349162
>literal ad man irl ama
Is Woke finally dead? Have we truly left Clown World?

>>213349494
I'm not responding to some clearly mentally ill faggot like you who speaks entirely in buzzwords regarding made-up culture-war faggotry
you juggalo looking dipshit

>>213349477
I didn’t say skip Joan or Peggy scenes, did I retard?

>>213349389
It’s all people who found out about it a decade after it aired but pretend like they watched it when it was new.

>>213347133 (OP)
Below True Detective s1.
Above The Sopranos.

>>213349550
I'm really not taking anything you say seriously because you talk like such a mealy mouthed pussy

>>213349414
I’m sure a lot of the acclaim is from shitlib publications who fawn over the street-wisdom of ghetto thugs. “Wow they’re actually really smart!”

>>213349579
Oh no, some anonymous faggot retard isn’t taking me seriously!!! I’m in crisis now

>>213349589
nailed it
its just like bb, it's made for sheltered faggots to feel like they're tough street-guys

Mad Men is terrible. Nothing happens. Nobody is punished for their behavior. It's just a lot of disgusting people.

>>213349621
go be brown somewhere else

>>213349649
you're just too ugly irl to get it

>>213349649
>none of these white people get arrested or randomly murdered
weird how that makes you mad

>>213347133 (OP)
>Sopranos
>The Wire
>Mad Men (fuck that israel arc bullshit tho)
>BB
>Better Call Saul
>
>
>True Detective S1

This is the definitive one, TD is only redeemable because of Matt and Harry, everything else is dogshit/overrated.

>>213349660
I thought you weren’t taking me seriously?

>>213349729
Rome season 1>>>>

>>213348883

Not great Bob!
The king ordered it!

Am I hallucinating or was there a moment when Walking Dead was considered kino

>>213349768
YOU WALKED UP TO ME!

I'd say below Six Feet Under but better than Oz.

>>213347133 (OP)
I tried watching it when i was 15. It was boring. What can i expect as a mature intellectual man if taste now that I'm 26

>>213349810
only by faggot redditors, you tasteless queer
>>213349834
awful, just stop trying to pretend you have any concept of what makes anything good

>>213349754
Rome S1 is between BB and Mad Men, still can't recover of how bad it falls off in S2

>>213349810
People were deluding themselves to like it because it was on TV

>>213348883
>That's what the money is for
>I don't think about you at all

I recommend you turn on the subtitles if you can't hear shit

>>213349856
Stop being an obsessive fat child and learn to deal with differing opinions. You sound very dumb!

>>213349938
No.
You're objectively wrong and a coward who doesn't get it and I'm not going to be yet another even bigger coward in your life who coddles you
stop talking and inflicting people around you with your dime a dozen reddit-tier opinions that you didn't even come up with on your own

>>213349519
lol. Do you even know where you are, you veiny black cock engorged hermaphrodite asslicker? I've got Zyklon-B infused gas chamber full of "buzzwords" for you.

>>213349984
what an ugly, unhinged, offputting series of incoherent nonsense

>>213350035
That's the idea, peckerhead. And you're damn right there's a "culture war"...I won't rest until every blue- haired tranny has been gagged with Sydney Sweeneys pussy juice soaked panties.

>>213347133 (OP)
top 5 for sure

>>213349982
You can't even substantiate your opinions and just get emotional instead. You're a waste of space and not getting any more attention.

>>213350140
You need to try harder to fit in, tubby, you're not cutting it.

>>213350362
>eveything is lé debate me bro with facts and logic
faggot

>>213350362
I don't have to substantiate shit you yappy midwitted homo

>>213348883
>but what is happiness? Its a moment before you want more happiness
>I don't think about you at all
>that's what the money is for

Mad Men is filled with kino moments

>>213347133 (OP)
top tier #1 for sure. I watched Soprano first and was thinking this is the best. Then watched Mad Men and even half way into was way better than sopranos and basically any other show.
The writing is top tier where literally any lines that matter have second or third meaning to the characters and what is happening around them. The costumes decor and design is top tier. They capture the 60s vibe and manage to implement major event from that time into the characters and they stories.

>>213350489
hell yeah this guy gets it
>hells bells trudy
>they can get their own pool
>the hersheys pitch

>>213348154
pretty much this. some mentally retarded anon who spergs on every thread till he kills of any intent of discussion. the kind of deranged faggot that most certainly doesn't have any real friends

>tfw been here long enough to remember Breaking Bad live threads

most posters here were in 8th grade

>>213350529
>>the hersheys pitch
I used to suck cock for a bar of Hersheys.

>>213350540
and here you are spending time talking about hum when he's not even here, instead of chad-men posting with the cool people who are here
you're the reason the world is such a mess
you dumb sack of shit

>>213347374
There are no brown characters

>>213350556
breaking bad is literally shit tier compare to mad men. also Lost threads where way better and more fun

>>213350487
i liked mad men and have rewatched it maybe 4x. Don's 'who am I' dilemma gets fucking repetitive I cant lie. He's not even the most interesting character in the show

>>213350605

I was in the Mad Men live threads too faggot. the night Lane Pryce hanged himself was supreme kino

>>213350622
>Don's 'who am I' dilemma gets fucking repetitive I cant lie
how the fuck can you watch mm 4 times over and still think this
jfc you people are so dumb it hurts
its like you're another species entirely, its baffling

>>213347133 (OP)
I love this show this so much, nothing has come close since.

>>213350663
because theres a lot more plots/characters introduced into the show you fucking nigger retard? I'd rather watch Cosgroves book hustle than see Don x Miller X Megan you stupid fucking woman

>>213350622
He's the most kino character tho (other than the first half of season 6 when he's a weird horny dude for the woman watching) and his 'who am I' thing goes away at a certain point and it's more so a 'why am I not happy' thing. The last seaon is Don at his most interesting. When he leaves and starts driving around ending up at that veteran party, kino.

>>213347243
fpbp

it's just a fantasy flick about wearing nice clothes and going to work with several different chads

>>213350569
Mr anon, you and i are gonna adress that insult

>>213350705
you fundamentally don't posses the brain power to even discuss media, you functional illiterate

>>213350718
>When he leaves and starts driving around ending up at that veteran party, kino.
for me its
>you got any liqour I've been drinking beer all night
>>213350747
you want to take your teeth out first, mister toad?

>>213350748
just say you're a retarded woman and move on dumb nigger

>>213350718
>weird horny dude for the woman watching
>The affair with the Arnolds wife shit
So fucking boring

I haven't watched a single episode but Joan is very hot

>>213350747
>layneposts in your path
hahahaha kino
ok you can hang out
>>213350794
whats with the grade school insults directed hatefully towards women?
you talk like an overweight bald guy bud, you ok big guy?

>>213347133 (OP)
It doesn’t rofl imagine comparing Mad Men to Twin Peaks

>>213350834
>says an important aspect of the show becomes boring and repetitive
>lashes out calling someone a different species
lmao. reflect.

Boardwalk Empire's good seasons shit all over most of the things mentioned in this thread.
Normally I wouldn't bring it up, but there's people here mentioning Rome which has a worse good-to-bad ratio than Boardwalk.

>>213350794
It wasn't boring just weird. Don at his most different and weird. Almost as if you're seeing him in the perspective of the wife or something

>>213350569
damn you really are lashing out at other anons. Yea you're brown.

>>213350886
>throws around more mexican tier abbreviated text-speak and childish insults
no, I'll keep doing whatever the fuck I want and call faggots like you out for being such total mealy mouthed faggots with zero character or concept of critical, original thought

>>213347133 (OP)
doodoo
not even in the conversation

>>213349165
Was there more cop dick sucking?

>>213350399
Is "tubby" the best you got, you infected post-op rectal queef discharge?

Mad Men is a miracle. It’s too good for TV.

>>213350938
>dude the shield sucks, ACAB!
you have aids

>>213350957
it's terrible, you people have awful taste in everything dude
>>213350956
this

>>213350931
Keep crying youre a fucking crybaby faggot when you realize you were watching a soap opera made for women. This guy thinks Glen scenes were peak. Reflect on being an absolute insufferable faggot. Don Draper gets repetitive. nuff nuff, nigger.

>>213350970
>you people
just be honest and say whites

>>213350718

pete is the best character/has the best arc

>>213350931
brownest post I've ever read.

>>213350986
I don't think about you at all

>>213351030
The quote that makes brown people onions. Dead giveaway I'm afraid. Don is for brownoids, Pete is the white mans path

>>213351011
this and it's not even close
harry is a close second, he makes every second of screen-time count
>>213351046
one of the best scenes in cinema history

S1E7 is the best shit ever

>>213348154
trailer park boys threads are like the least chill ever as a ratio to how chill the show is once he's done with spewing over everyone

>>213351064
I'm literally don irl and that's not a joke

>>213351137
>I'm brown irl and that's not a joke
we established this

>>213351078
pete thread?

>>213351078
>>213351275
same price as a droid n roid

>>213350830
She's absolutely insufferable in the earlier seasons

>>213348047
i hope a cute girl typed this

>>213347429
bcs approaches character kino
breaking bad is just pure comic book drivel

>>213351796
shut up faggot you have no idea what you're talking about

>>213351837
if you like breaking bad you are either a teenager or have gay sex with black men
so which is it

>>213347243
Fpbp

>>213351837
no you, retard
mad men is a show about in depth character exploration
breakind bad is cliffhanger trash
if you can't tell the difference you are probably barely out of highschool

I dont remember this moment

>>213352361
no shit
bb and bcs are both trash tier and that was my point numbnuts

>>213350830
She singlehandedly gave me an adult woman fetish

>>213347133 (OP)
1. Twin Peaks the Return
2. The Wire
3. Breaking Bad
4. Mad Men
5. Better Call Saul
6. True Detective s1
7. Fargo s1
8. Deadwood
9. Fishing with John
10. Dexter

>>213352879
>all that redditslop over deadwood

>>213352540
Yuck!

>>213349168
The Shield is low budget schlock compared to The Wire.
babby's first crime drama

>>213350718
Peak is when Don has to work for Peggy. Drifter Don was only the last 2-3 episodes.

>>213353026
The Wire is far more schlocky than the Shield. The Shield doesn't have any marvel slop characters with plot armor.

>>213352977
Deadwood never finished and the third season wasn’t good

>>213353170
Still better than half the shit you listed, including the cherry-picked season 1s of TD and Fargo

>>213352540
Fucking disgusting

Just watched it this year and I'm extremely impressed how good the quality stays throughout, amazed how John Ham went from this to making absolute shit

>>213347133 (OP)
it's on arte

>>213347133 (OP)
Easily top 5

>>213347133 (OP)
1. The Wire
2. Mad Men
3. The Sopranos
4. Rome
5. True Detective
6. Breaking Bad
7. Dexter
8. Oz
9. Chernobyl
10. Game of Thrones

(LOST is the real #1 if it counts as prestige TV)

>>213353611
Jesus, I forgot Twin Peaks. Slot that in at #5.

>>213353611
this is like a tryhard woman's list

>>213353660
I do have the taste of an edgy 16 year old girl. Which reminds me True Blood should be on there at like #9~.

>>213353712
K I N O

The Wire and Mad Men are insanely overrated. Seeing their praise reminds me of the music aficionados who take that /mu/ essential list of approved albums as gospel and make stale 00's indie rock and hip hop their whole personality.

Now, they can add Succession to their holy trinity of pretentious schlock television series to gloat about because they that they are just far enough out of reach that the people they are annoying by talking about them will never actually see those series.
>>213353694
True Blood is certainly better than Dexter and Rome

>>213353775
no u but with the things u like

>thing good? no, thing bad!!!

>>213353845
>thread topic

>>213353775
shut the fuck up you dumb tasteless dipshit

>>213351046
did harry deserve best girl?

>>213354542
mid

>>213354569
you're a faggot

ZOOBY ZOOBY ZOO

>>213354542
>>213354589
always wished she'd had more scenes

>>213347374
Eh, I heard it fails as le satire and it shows anglo chads being cool

Mad Men is a show that's very hard to understand if you're unemployed/blue collar or not a white straight man. Which explains the general disdain for it on this board.

Also where tf is the anti-smoking schizo

>>213355413
this guy fucks

>>213353327
Jon Hamm's best role came after Mad Men, in Corner Office with Sarah Gadon.

>>213347133 (OP)
1) The Sopranos
2) Mad Men

>>213356653
its
1. sopranos
2. wire
3. breaking bad
(these are all completely non-negotiable)

then u can say
4. mad men
5. BCS

on a parallel list oldschool simpsons is tied at #2-#3

>>213356795
>breaking bad
you need to understand this outs you as a redditor whenever you say it

why don't we have good tv anymore?

>>213357368
Streaming encourages quantity over quality

>>213357368

The world still can't cope with this meme. Thank you Mad Men.

>>213357963
its exclusively this
>t. actual former hwood chad

Kings
Too Old To Die Young
Deadwood
Justified
Rome
The Wire
Oz
The Shield
The Sopranos
Mad Men

>>213358044
Mad Men is such kino. Just a shame it didn’t end very well.

>>213347429
The wire is several levels above mad men the latter of which is totally fucking retarded and made for idiots

>>213358044
That and "who cares" are the best two parts of Mad Men that doesn't involved Kiernan Shipka.

>>213358285
the wire is the thinking man's breaking bad
both shows are for reddit

>>213358255
brainlet

>>213358255
shut the fuck up you stupid sack of shit

>>213358285
you can always tell who the spergs on by their complete obliviousness to nuance or human interactions
the wire is unwatchable and mm is for chads who FUCK irl
dont @ me again eiher

>>213347429
You had me until better call saul. that show is trash

Also Mad Men has one of the greatest final seasons/finale episodes.

The final season dips in quality but that final episode is such a roller coaster and the ending leaves you thinking hours after the episode ends

>>213347243
No, it's actually an intriguing soap opera for men. But you do need an over 120 IQ to get it.

>>213358443
>The final season dips in quality
it 100% absolutely does not
its one of the strongest final seasons/finales of all fucking time and its not even close
even if for the just pete pstroyline alone
they nailed it

>>213358482
these ugly midwits think there's value in appearing smart, when, actual really smart people know it's much better to appear dumb and aloof
that's why theyll never be true mad men

>>213357963
yep

>>213350634
>the night Lane Pryce hanged himself was supreme kino
so kino it hurt

>>213359204
it was a 14 day loan!!!

>>213359204
god imagine being a limey ugly brit surrounded by americhads every day. i'd do it too.

>>213347133 (OP)
Why does a board as rabidly anti-woke as /tv/ give this shit a pass? It’s literally just masculinity and capitalism bad the show

>>213359453
Tbf He does whoops Pete’s ass in a fist fight

>>213359515
shut up queer

>>213359515
Dumb fuck

>>213347429
what a shit list
>The Wire
>Mad Men
>Friday Night Lights
Large gap
>Sopranos
>Arcane
>The Shield
>MASSIVE GAP
>Breaking Bad
>Reacher
>Better Call Saul

If Don just hard-fucked Betty at least once per week he would still have a happy family.

>>213347133 (OP)
Would be a lot higher if they had sense enough to end it with him walking out at the end of season 3.

I wish Sal wasn't snubbed. It seems like there's some behind the scenes reason because it's pretty abrupt. Maybe some plot between him and the other homo :/

t. I'm a gay fag

>>213361348
I’m surprised Sal never came backs although when they brought back Freddie he didn’t do anything interesting at all

>>213347429
Yep.

>>213347133 (OP)

For me its Season 5 > 3 > 4 > 1 > 2 > 7 >>>>>(power gap) > > 6

>>213360801
>FNL
based beyond belief

>>213361348
kys faggot

>>213349077
>kemono finally updated

nice

>>213351046

Who was in the wrong here?

>>213363446
he came over to him

>>213361348
weiner is a closeted faggot
sal started out as a fun commentary on his lifestyle but it got too close to home and he had to go