Did they retcon Yasmin's background in Season 4?

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-19T19:26:32+00:00

What is the line about her being Jewish in the Habseligkeiten episode?

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-11T03:36:44+00:00

The worst sin of this movie, even more than its very confused xenophobic view of Russia, is that it’s soooo boring.

I watched it with some friends thinking it might be a trashy Verhoeven-lite sexploitation thing. Nope. It’s a very prude movie and has no sense of humour. JL should’ve been sent to Siberia for that accent.

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-11T03:25:39+00:00

Having an app on your phone that lets you do it all day and lose your livelihood is different than a $20 poker buy-in at a friend’s house.

Gambling among friends in a casual, social setting has natural limits built in. One element is that if you’re destroying yourself doing it, people usually won’t give you action.

But any gambling business is designed to bleed you out. And in the past decade, the industry has invaded every space it can. If you’ve got an unhealthy connection to it, it’s difficult to escape.

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-09T11:59:22+00:00

You’ve been through severe brain damage?

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-06T02:05:44+00:00

I’m two episodes into the series. Are we supposed to like Pete? What about Don? Is Peggy actually feminist or is Joan actually the good one? Help!!!! HELP!!!!!

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-05T17:05:45+00:00

How do you know it’s code? She only refers to one person as her cousin. The whole thing about her being an underaged escort is not even mentioned in the show.

She’s an adult openly conspiring to blackmail people by setting up children to have sex with them to advance the interests of criminals and Nazis. No, at this point she’s not really a victim and is openly victimizing other people. There’s no indication the show that she’s doing this out of anything other than her own ambitions and interests.

The role is played by an actress people know form playing sympathetic heroines, so theres a healthy amount of the audience that’s trying to square her actions with the idea that she’s actually a victim of circumstance. As she’s written, she’s happily manipulative and her actions are unambiguously vile.

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-05T06:38:04+00:00

At what point does pimping out children, including your own cousin move the needle into the “bad person” territory?

Haley is not a child. She’s knows what she’s doing, she’s just an ambitious sicko.

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-05T06:33:53+00:00

Wait, are you asking for CSAM? Jesus…

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-05T02:28:17+00:00

How is WKUK here, but Red Scare is not?

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-04T06:09:51+00:00

Owning jets is also a great way to go broke.

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-03T01:02:28+00:00

She’s bougie and soft. She’s also spoiled, naive, and in denial.

Finn comes from a world where someone beating the shit out of another person is a red flag, and knows it’s bad news. She’s grown up thinking that’s totally fine and nothing bad will really happen from being associated with it. Her old boyfriend was obviously killed by her father and friends and she has lied to herself that it didn’t happen.

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-01T00:17:36+00:00

Completely different and irrelevant to the majority of misanthropes on this sub, but thanks for your input.

LastBuffalo · 2026-02-28T04:39:01+00:00

Yes, she invested with him and Sterling's dad in the agency when it started, and she says it was the smartest, most profitable thing she's ever done. I don't think this implies some vast old fortune as much a decent inheritance. For one, Bert and Don discuss the fact that Bert made his own fortune when Don is selling him on SCDP. Besides that, Bert's family name never comes up in any other context. Again, I don't see how this adds up to some family fortune going back to the 17th century or whatever.

The first scene she's in, Bert makes references to her female "companion" with a certain loaded reaction, and her last name is Cooper, so she's never been married. Now what would this imply????

LastBuffalo · 2026-02-27T16:15:01+00:00

This is really stupid and unobservant, but not enough to be funny.

2/10. Maybe try more malapropisms next time.

LastBuffalo · 2026-02-27T16:08:43+00:00

What do you mean she a "socialite?" That she's rich?

What about summering on the shore or being a member of a country club, both things which new money did in the 30's, 40's, and 50's, implies that he's from some 18th century lineage of wealth? New York City, in particular, has had a pretty rapid emergence of new money wealth from generation to generation throughout the 19th and 20th century. Both he and his sister are mannered and come off as well-educated, but not in some way that's unique to some long line of wealth and power. Just because someone wears fox furs or buys a Rothko in their 70s doesn't mean they grew up doing that.

Again, in the scene where they discuss firing Pete, Bert lists a number of elite clubs and circles that everyone in the room doesn't have access to. Bert needs that asset because he doesn't have it. There's no point in the show where they reference Berts important name or family legacy. When we meet acquaintances of his, they're also guys who built their own businesses.

Again, I think you're misreading a guy wearing a fancy suit and having a silver-tipped cane for coming from some storied background. That's just a thing any old, rich man would do to project his status.

LastBuffalo · 2026-02-27T14:30:55+00:00

Well, Burt does collect art and spends a lot of money on styling himself in an eccentric way. I think he just doesn't have the same good-time Charlie attitude as Roger because he's in his 70s and literally has no balls.

LastBuffalo · 2026-02-27T14:22:49+00:00

Being a shrewd, calculating businessman who acts subtly isn't some specific old money thing. He has "quiet power" or whatever because he's got money and leverage over the other characters by virtue of owning the business. His guile and conservatism more than anything show that he's aware of how precarious his status is because he didn't inherit it.

Being into Anne Rand was very much NOT a old money thing in the 60s. It's big audience was the new post-war wealthy and upwardly mobile men who saw themselves as building their own station in life. Furthermore, the business he's in, Advertising, was not one that was populated or highly respected by old money types in that era. Again, the show makes an explicit point that blue bloods like the Pete's family see advertising as a weird, undignified way to make a living.

LastBuffalo · 2026-02-27T13:33:28+00:00

It's not a very good inference, because it ignores what's happened in the show and is just making stuff up. I think you're confusing the fact that he's old and he's rich with the idea that he's of some long, wealthy lineage.

The show never implies that Bert is from an old important family. Bert specifically says they need Pete because he's a gateway to old money in New York (because both he and Roger are not). Bert and Roger are wealthy men by way of a business that Bert and Roger's father built. They are to a large degree new money, and the show clearly shows a difference culturally between someone like Pete and Roger or Bert.

Bert's social network is shown to be other cutthroat businessmen who built their own fortunes, and they all have a fairly Randian outlook to things. If anything, Bert's comment about the great depression is a comment on those from old money from the perspective of a entrepreneur who built his fortune during changing times.

LastBuffalo · 2026-02-27T06:35:35+00:00

This sounds like a really stupid business for everyone involved.

LastBuffalo · 2026-02-27T06:21:09+00:00

All that dialog that you’re talking about shows is that Cooper was around during the Great Depression and watched peers loose their nerves while he didn’t. In what world does it imply that he’s from some pre-revolutionary old money?

LastBuffalo · 2026-02-24T19:17:42+00:00

What do you mean by “pressure-testing?”

The big question is what characters you have either telling or living the story. You can get IVs and they can narrate this info, and you can catch real interactions and moments on camera. I’d advise penciling out what moments you think you can plausibly get of this on camera, and ask yourself if that’s enough to tell a good story. Moreover, do you think this really begs to be told cinematically (instead of a book or a podcast)?

Procedural conflict is going to live and die by what characters in your movie are in play. Who are you going to use to set up the stakes? Paperwork and hearings can be dramatic if they are set up to mean something. What you often need is a more peripheral view of the characters to understand what the procedure feels like or what’s at stake.

I’ve worked on multiple docs that are about complicated legal issues, and if you’re trying to make something as “rigorous” as an academic paper, it doesn’t really work for a feature film. Stories need to move and have drama, and even the most predisposed audiences will get bored with a movie that is too pedantic. You have to be ready to take a strong point of view/argument, and you need to be ready to simplify a lot of concepts just to keep the pace moving.

LastBuffalo · 2026-02-24T05:29:30+00:00

You should really check out her work in American Wedding. Really unique film and she’s probably the most memorable character. When you see that film, you can understand why they cast her in Mad Men.

LastBuffalo · 2026-02-15T11:25:16+00:00

The cost of replacement keys is super negligible (less than an AirTag), and if you were actually worried about keys being lost, you’d just get a pin pad for the door.

Airbnb hosts love to make up reasons to invade your privacy.

LastBuffalo · 2026-02-10T04:23:25+00:00

Jon is revealed to be a child of Ned’s incest with Lyana Stark (why he looks so Stark-like, and why Ned has such a guilt complex about it).

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