Post: #26

Never watched Mad Men, perhaps I should. I've marathoned Entourage in the past and loved it. Ari Gold is a boss.

Post: #27

Didn't want to start a new thread. I guess because of the married and single comparison has probably been done many times here before. But I hate seeing the married life on Mad Men. Shit drives me nauseous. But then you see examples of the benefits of marriage such as when Roger had a heart attack. January Jones is gorgeous in the show but real life meh. Just finished season 1.

Couldn't stand the E and Sloan relationship. Hollywood and their love interest. After the writers strike, the show fell off. Haven't seen the last two season though.

Post: #28

Jerry Ferrara (Turtle) sat in on the ESPN show "FirstTake" and said that they are writing a possible "Entourage" movie. I hope they don't just put out some bullshit if they're going to do it. I don't want to see them go down the road of "Sex and the City."

Post: #29

Just finished Season 4 of Mad Men. Will start Season 5 soon. It's good shit.

Post: #30

Mad Men. Not even close in my opinion. Sure Entourage is more "fun," obviously- hang with your boys, party, swim, talk to women. But the depth of Mad Men is amazing (Wire-like). Among the things it forces you to ponder: capitalism, image setting v reality, personal identity, racism, women in the workplace, nature of how we remember the past, societal change, the whole f---ing concept of the United States... I could go on and on.

Post: #31

Definitely Mad Men. I really can't think of a single male role model from Entourage. Maybe turtle who hits above his weight and isn't a pussy about it (Eric).

If you have to rely on another man's handouts to live, maybe he should have your pussy too? (Nas)

Not to mention the show is watered down. Each episode has maybe 5 minutes of content.

I don't really care if the show represents advertising agencies or not. Draper has qualities that can be adapted, beyond his looks. Vince has his looks, that's it.

Post: #32

http://www.hulu.com/watch/40972/saturday...pers-guide

i dont know how to embed. but this is hilarious

Post: #33

I'm only up to episode 5 of Entourage so far, but the beta displayed by Vince so far is cringe-worthy. It's like watching myself 10 years ago.

He's a crazy worldwide famous movie star who can get any quality pussy he wants, yet puts up with this vegetarian bitch "Yoko" chick. Fuck her if she's hot, there's 10,000 more hotties in LA for you to bang.

Post: #34

I'm calling out Mad Men... It's giving the lazy parts of the Manosphere a false perspective on what gender relations where like in the 50s-60s. It's basically a feminist view of how society was at the time. Which is bullshit. It's a 2010s show based on a fantasy view of a passed aged.

Look at old TCM movies if you want to really know the score.

Casablanca, Gaslight, Mata Hari, Anna Karenina.. heck even Gone With The Wind. Women are always the manipulators at the heart and thirsty simps, no matter how well they held up to other men, are at their call. Guys on RVF today look at Mad Men and go "oh I wish I could live in the 50s" with the series being one of their few real reflections over the time period, and accepting it as truth!

Guys where no more boss back in the day. They were just better dressed.

Post: #35

Mad Men portrays the female manipulation and control as well. Betty wants divorce? Don has to move out. Pete gets caught at a whorehouse? Get's kicked out. Joan decides on divorce. All of them get and control their men to a point with their feminine wiles.

Remember the episode where Don and Roger go to Pete's apartment to convince him to join the new firm? Trudy is in the bedroom while the men discuss things and calls out to Pete "Peter, may I speak to you?" when he waffles on taking the opportunity.

It doesn't seem far off to me. Even back then women were not powerless. They carried themselves much differently however and the public persona they projected was much more proper than today. Being known as a slut was a death sentence to any girls desire to get a decent man.

Women have never been powerless. They just wielded that power differently in the past.

Post: #36

I'm about to finish season 3 of Mad Men, and have watched all of Entourage.

I like Mad Men so far. Keeping me entertained. Starting to hate Betty. I like Roger Sterling so far. He just kind of doesn't give a fuck it seems like. Never really gets angry, even when Don is angry at him. He just brushes everything off with a smart remark or joke.

I really enjoyed Entourage, but the last season or two wasn't very good. The finale was lame as fuck. I don't want to drop any spoilers, but I thought the finale was very piss poor and seemed thrown together.

Post: #37

I love Madmen. There are so many lessons in that show that can be applied to the modern day. It is a sad story about the rise and fall of the alpha male though.

Saw Entourage and couldn't get into it. Main characters were annoying and all of his friends are clowny starfuckers.

Post: #38

(02-22-2014 12:29 AM)Hotwheels Wrote:  Joan decides on divorce.

Not sure if she really wanted that divorce

Post: #39

(02-22-2014 07:33 AM)frenchie Wrote:  I love Madmen. There are so many lessons in that show that can be applied to the modern day. It is a sad story about the rise and fall of the alpha male though.

Saw Entourage and couldn't get into it. Main characters were annoying and all of his friends are clowny starfuckers.

I agree with everything you said. I have watched the entire series of Madmen.

I watched two episodes of Entourage and thought "WTF, why would anyone watch this sh_t."

The BBC TV show "The Hour" is set in the same time period as Madmen and has the same type of intellectual verve and thoughtful subtlety.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is_bbARM4ig

Post: #40

The Club vs The Penthouse
Direct vs Indirect
Watch & React & vs Think & Analyze
Junk Food vs Broccoli

Seen all of Entourage, cool show but very tongue-in-cheek. Every time I'd watch it, I would imagine me and my boys in the place of Vince (My character, of course) and his crew.

Show had good pacing, didn't get stuck on insignificant minutiae. Fresh/Short Memory

Always think how undisciplined they were and how much money they left on the table by being unfocused most of the time. Seems like Vince squandered a lot, and was in a position to do some legendary shit by Hollywood standards. Yet who gives a fuck, they had fun right? Frat boy shit: Queens meets SoCal

Just finished watching all of previous seasons of Madmen and awaiting the upcoming one.

Madmen delivers as far as it's style, substance and subtlety (bad pacing, plots lingered too long as was mentioned/stagnant at time)

At one time, I wanted to go into advertising and marketing. Have always been a sort of a history buff as well.
+ 1 Madmen

Post: #41

I love entourage but all the guys are a bit dooshy imho. I like madmen love the time first off with traditional gender riles. Love the drinking and smoking in the office. Also love the style guys wearing fitted suits pocket squares etc. Madmen seems like class entourage too much hollywood

Post: #42

(04-01-2014 03:04 PM)jamaicabound Wrote:  Madmen seems like class; entourage too much hollywood

Perceptive comment. It is almost as if Madmen shows where men traditionally began in society whereas Entourage shows where they ended up, after a loss of empowerment and an evolution into banality.

Post: #43

I love Mad Men.

I've always been interested in the time period between late 50's and mid-60's (JFK era, basically).
Plus, I work in advertising and am an ad geek.

The era is truly fascinating with the advent of advertising/design breakthroughs with standouts like George Lois, Saul Bass, Esquire magazine, Milton Glaser, and David Ogilvy.

Other than this, I really don't follow trends, but if a current-day cable drama show brings light to previously overlooked notable periods in the history of American business, I'm for it.

Post: #44

If you like period piece tv show you may like this one. I havnt watched it so pardon me if its a chick flick or women empowerment crap but it looks like they did a good job of hitting the time period from the glances i get when my gf watches it. A show called bomb girls about women working in factories when men were off at war. Ive never watched an episode just see a few min when i walk by the tv and my girl is watching it but i think it has good reviews and is on netflix

Post: #45

Ari Gold is badass, however after watching the whole series now he's a complete bitch when it comes to his wife.

This forum must love Entourage considering two of our GIFs came from there:

Post: #46

This should be under Everything Else or the Arts one

Post: #47

I'm undecided between:

Son of Anarchy
Mad Men
Suits

White noise helps me while I'm working and I guess I won't be wasting much of my time since I won't be devoting all of my attention to it. Plus, I can at least listen in if my eyes are not on the screen.

Post: #48

Entourage is the dumbest show I've ever seen - the whole concept is fucking pathetic. The characters are fucking wack, especially Vincent, the "so cool" main guy. What a twerp.

Everyone loves Ari... I have never seen an actor "eating the set" so much... worse than Al Pacino is some of his later terrible movies.

LA seems to be some black-hole of narcissism and ego. Toxic as fuck.

But full of hot girls so.... I guess that's why folks stick around.

Post: #49

(09-18-2016 11:53 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:  I'm undecided between:

Son of Anarchy
Mad Men
Suits

White noise helps me while I'm working and I guess I won't be wasting much of my time since I won't be devoting all of my attention to it. Plus, I can at least listen in if my eyes are not on the screen.

If you are looking for white noise then go with Suits or SoA. Mad Men is the type of show you dip into an hour or two at a time, with a bourbon or scotch in hand and a fresh pack of smokes to reflect with.

Don Draper deserves that type of respect from anybody that has an account at RVF.

(side note: are you a mudlogger? what kind of job allows you to watch netlfix in the background?)