The Most Irritating “Deep” Tweets About Last Night’s “Mad Men” Premiere
Turns out, you can fit a lot of pretension into 140 characters.
Turns out, you can fit a lot of pretension into 140 characters.
Look, we love Mad Men. We do. It’s a good show. It got a little stale for a while, but it’s still solid. What we don’t love are self-important people trying to force it down our throats because, “Oh my God, it’s like, so deep! Everyone smokes!” Combine that attitude with Twitter, and you have a whole mess of folks eager to tell you what last night’s episode really means. Here are some of the worst:
Mad Men is pummeling me with metaphor after wonderful metaphor
— reffuefP wehttaM (@mathyoufivefur) April 8, 2013
Yes, they’re wonderful. And…what are they, exactly? Eh, some crankknob blogger will probably tell us.
So glad that after 6 seasons, Mad Men is still deep.
— Dennis Futoryan, Esq. 🇺🇦 (@dfutoryan) April 8, 2013
Those crafty writers, managing not one long-lost twin or nefarious coma story line in six whole years!
I love that every episode of Mad Men is so fraught with meaning that I will spend the rest of the week pondering it.
— Sydney (@KSydneyHubbard) April 8, 2013
FRAUGHT! FRAUGHT, I SAY!
I love when I get the deeper meaning of Mad Men episodes. #mortality
— James 🏳️🌈 (@jameswb94) April 8, 2013
Yes, the 138 death references (and a straight up funeral and someone literally dying) were pretty subtle.
Shiz is getting allegorical in this bitch!
Teen squatter to Betty: "What you can't rock is we are your garbage" – the ultimate metaphor of their generation #MadMen
— Däm (@db) April 8, 2013
That wasn’t the line, and also, no.
The furniture's been rearranged in Don's office. Subtle metaphor. #MadMen
— Tanya Koivusalo (@teekaay) April 8, 2013
Nothing more subtle than “WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU MOVE MY COUCH?”
Don didn't speak for the first 8-ish minutes of #MadMen; his first word was 'army'. I feel this has some meaning I can't parse out. #AreMe
— Lauren Epstein (@superlau77) April 8, 2013
Arm me? A remy? Arm why? Ugh, the existential imponderables are literally, like, flabbergastingly opaque in their verisimilitude!
But what did the violin represent? And what did it mean that Don Draper was reading The Inferno? #MadMen
— Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken) April 8, 2013
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes oh my God just watch the show for the pretty clothes.
Fair enough.
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