I've never watched Mad Men.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

I've never watched Mad Men. Feeling like maybe I should do that before cancelling HBO Max for a while. Seems like it's pretty universally loved?

[swelljoe@mas.to]

"I love smoking." What a time to be alive (for a shorter time than one might hope).

[jumile@mas.to]

@swelljoe Yep. Great show with a good story well acted by all concerned. IMHO.

[bryan@dusty.ninja]

@swelljoe
My grandmother quit smoking when she was 70-ish. She stated her habit of smoking daily at 12. Anyway, at 70, she was taking care of her mother at the time. Her mother (my great-grandmother) spent the last 10 years of her life with dementia.

The experience made my grandmother decide she’d rather be dead than “talk like a fool”. So she started to smoke again. She passed many years later and never had dementia.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

@bryan survivorship bias survives on survivor anecdotes. My grandmother, a lifelong smoker, died when she was about 60 from lung cancer. No dementia, though, she had that going for her. Entirely aware all the way to the end.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

I'm having a hard time believing in mousy Peggy, after Handmaid's Tale. June would have murdered all these men.

[bryan@dusty.ninja]

@swelljoe I’ve never smoked and will not start. I’m happy to be a healthy dementia patient over an early preventable death.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

@bryan dementia would suck, but I'm hoping they'll have that figured out by the time I get there. They seem to have some pretty good leads. Shingles is strongly linked to cognitive decline, for instance, and I guess the vaccine protects against that.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

And, half an episode in, I really think some murdering would improve things. These men are terrible.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

This child has a plastic bag over her head and mouth, and her mom just yells at her about dry cleaning and sends her off to keep playing with the bag. It was a different time.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Lady who just walks for no reason is the first sane person I've seen on this show.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

That's right. Helen's bringing the murder. Figuratively speaking.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Nevermind, Helen's kind of a bitch.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

TFW smokers take the stairs.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

She's right. Don Draper does look kind of square.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Betty does not deserve this mess. She should kick Don to the curb.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

They're all Nixon supporters, as if we needed another reminder they're terrible people.