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...and then I was floating over town, standing straight up—not like Superman. Only it wasn't Ossining; it was London. Like in Mary Poppins.

MAD MEN 4.12 | Blowing Smoke

#mad men #madmenedit #tvedit #sally draper #glen bishop #*gifs #introducing glen to the idea of atheism before going on to insightfully cite an ad (of all things) with a precision that borders on eidetic #talking about how she hates the thought of permanence.........oh yeah. the prestige drama daughter curse got her ass folks #sally's gonna father's daughter her way to monumental and irreversible psychological damage 😄 and that's a guarantee

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MAD MEN ⇢ 1x13 | THE WHEEL

#the creepy glenness of it all aside...this scene is so fucking sad 😭😭😫😭😫#mad men #betty draper #madmenedit #mmedit #bettydraperedit #jjonesedit #glen bishop #1x13 #mad men 1x13 #mm 1x13 #the wheel #mygifs #mygifsets #myedits

MAD MEN 5x11 "The Other Woman"

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All Seasons of Mad Men, Ranked from Least to Most Negatively Affected by the Presence of Glen Bishop

1. Season 3

Mad Men arguably reached its peak in Season 3, which brought us the explosive conclusion of multiple narrative arcs, long-awaited depictions of important historical events, and hints of the disturbing sense of unreality that would creep into the later seasons. It also does not feature Glen Bishop at all.

2. Season 7A

Mad Men arguably reached its nadir in Season 7A, a blatant cash-grab half-season featuring a tonally inconsistent storyline in which a character comes down with a badly written case of schizophrenia and cuts off his own nipple because he thinks a computer made him gay. On the other hand, Glen Bishop is nowhere to be seen.

3. Season 2

Here, runaway preteen Glen is used sparingly and effectively to illustrate Betty’s growing maturity as she responds to finding him camped out in her kids’ playhouse. He’s clearly an unhappy little dude with some intense emotions about his mom’s remarriage, but there’s nothing particularly disturbing about that.

4. Season 5

There’s a little too much Glen in Season 5, but he’s pretty endearing as an awkward, bullied teenager who builds a friendship with Sally.

5. Season 6

This is the season where they tried to make Glen cool. This was maybe, like, an ethical necessity after Marten Weiner’s own father branded him as the creepiest kid on prestige TV, but it’s not convincing unless you assume that no one at Glen’s prep school has ever met an actual cool person.They’re the cave-dwellers in Plato’s allegory, mistaking Glen’s shadowy imitation of coolness for the real thing. I’ll allow that Glen’s classmates could be that clueless, but I don’t buy it from some queen bee at Miss Porter’s. He’s a bro to Sally, though, so I have no bad feelings towards him.

6. Season 1

Surely there were better, less distracting ways to establish Betty’s emotional immaturity than to have her grant nine-year-old Glen’s unsettling request for a lock of her hair? Don’t get me wrong; Helen Bishop was absolutely right to be disturbed by this and point out that Betty, an adult, had the responsibility to draw an appropriate boundary. It’s just that Glen’s actions need an entire John Irving novel’s worth of explanation to be comprehensible--where did he even get the idea to ask for a woman’s hair?--and they end up overshadowing Betty’s relatively simple deal.

7. Season 4

This was a transitional season that led viewers from the early sixties (aka “still the fifties, kind of”) to the mid-sixties, from Sterling Cooper to SCDP, and from mostly realistic historical drama to historical drama with a generous dash of Gothic horror and drug-induced hallucinations. Adding to the sense of unease was the actively foreboding presence of Glen. All Glens are a little bit off, but Season 4 Glen is the only one who seems capable of cold-blooded murder. I lived in fear that he would set fire to the Draper/Hofstadt/Francis home and kill someone. He wouldn’t mean to, but you know he wouldn’t feel anything about it, either.

8. Season 7B

It’s bad enough that nineteen-year-old Glen declared his love for Betty before shipping off to Vietnam, apparently fully confident that this nearly forty-year-old married woman would return his affections even though they hadn’t spoken for five years or had a civil interaction in eight years. It came out of nowhere--during Seasons 4 through 6, Glen seemed alternately hostile or indifferent to Betty--and it threw his increasingly pleasant friendship with Sally into doubt. What’s worse, though, is that Glen is still kind of presented as being cool? He has a hippie girlfriend following him around, Sally seems jealous, and Betty appears more flattered than anything by his out-of-the-blue advances. Nothing about this is cool! I am very concerned!

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