Does the dog die?
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Mad Men
TV Show • 2007 • Drama
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Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, located nearby in the Time-Life Building, at 1271 Avenue of the Americas. According to the show's pilot, the phrase "mad men" was a slang term coined in the 1950s by advertisers working on Madison Avenue to refer to themselves. The focal point of the series is Don Draper, creative director at Sterling Cooper and a founding partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, and the people in his life, both in and out of the office. The plot focuses on the business of the agencies as well as the personal lives of the characters, regularly depicting the changing moods and social mores of the United States in the 1960s.
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The dog doesnt necesarily DIE but he is abandoned--turned out into the street alone in NYC. It still broke my heart so I'm saving you the pain. It happens in S2E6 Maidenform" near the end of the episode.
Jana LaRue
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
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At about 39:40 - 40:15
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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A recurring theme of the whole series is the abandonment of children by their parents (especially mothers).
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Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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Don often leaves for spontaneous vacations when he pleases, without telling anyone
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Abuse
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Early in the episode, after his boss heads home; Draper becomes physically aggressive to his wife. There aren't any other outbursts that episode.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Extensively and for several episodes for some of the principal characters.
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Characters that had an abusive upbringing use the same educational methods on their children
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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All the principal characters, almost all the times. They smoke a lot too.
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LSD, hashish, and marijuana
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Are animals abused?
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Can someone elaborate?
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S6Ep11, there is a rat in Peggy's apartment that gets caught in a trap.
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Does a pet die?
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Beloved racing pigeons are shot
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Is there a dead animal?
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A mouse (its blood is shown, but not the animal)
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Is an animal sad?
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A dog is abandoned in front of the office building and looks through the window sadly
A dog is abandoned in front of the office building and looks through the window sadly
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Are there bugs?
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Mentions of cockroaches
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Are there snakes?
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A charakter gets a snake statue as a present. It looks very real.
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Season 2 episode 12 Joan is raped by her fiance. It happens on screen though I don't recall it being very graphic.
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In Season 2 Episode 12, Joan and her fiancé attend the office, where he goes to have sex with her in Don’s office. She protests, and he persists. It is not a graphic scene, but does show the assault and some elements of dissociation.
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Is there pedophilia?
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Don was raped by a woman when he was a minor
Don was raped by a woman when he was a minor
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Is rape mentioned?
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In the office a group of people are looking at real crime scene photos (not shown up close) and they speculate if the women victims were raped or just killed by the serial killer. The group is shocked but also are sensation mongering.
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Is someone drugged?
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Don is drugged and robbed in one episode
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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Is it onscreen?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Spoiler: In season 3 episode 6 one character loses his foot. The scene is very graphic and a lot of blood is seen.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Sole of foot, someone steps on glass, look away when sally asks Betty if she’s ok
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Are any teeth damaged?
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(S5E13) Don has a "hot tooth" that is ultimately extracted on-camera
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Is someone burned alive?
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Someone is killed in a bomb/napalm explosion. It is graphic and disturbing.there is also news footage of the Buddhist monk who self immolated
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Is there a hanging?
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There's at least 2. One just shows his feet above the chair. The other actually shows the full picture and is pretty graphic.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Brief mention (not shown), of it as a plot point in a tv show
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Is there amputation?
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There is an incident with a lawnmower leading to an amputation. Very disturbing.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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There's a scene where someone gets strangled but its not real. I think.
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Is someone choked?
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It is shown how a man (Don Draper) chokes a women to death. The viewers later find out it was just the mans fever dream and it never actually happend.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Off-screen, but it's a topic of discussion
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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A main character steps on a toy halfway up a flight stairs while holding a breakfast tray, tumbles down splatters food, breaks glass, but is ok and immediately recovers.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Title sequence shows silhouette of man falling
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Does someone become unconscious?
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It happens more than once throughout the show
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Does a parent die?
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A mother dies from cancer. A father/granfather dies. Another character's mother dies
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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A child isn't listening and continues to play with a toy at the dinner table, leading to a knocked over drink. The toy gets thrown at the wall by the parent.
This is not something you would expect from the parent's character.
This is not something you would expect from the parent's character.
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Does someone cheat?
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There's lots of cheating in the show.
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Fear
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A character shaves his face on screen.
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Are there ghosts?
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Spoiler: Don has a dream/vision (it's unclear) about a friend who died and it's a very sad scene
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Someone throws up oysters. I stopped watching the show after that.
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Is there defecation?
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Spoiler: someone attempts to poop on an ex-colleague's chair
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Is someone eaten?
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Not shown but brief mention of it as a theme in a tv show
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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A character is bailed out of jail.
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Is there menstruation?
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There's also some mention of menstrual products in the context of advertising clients
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There are two deaths by suicide in the same manner - hanging. One shows the man's feet only. The other shows everything and is very graphic. The first guy also appears again though with ligature marks on his neck as someone hallucinates him. Very hard to watch.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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There are a few episodes that depict drug trips but never for longer than a few minutes and it only happens a few times.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Spoiler:
Most notably in the very last episode, there's a huge emotional meltdown
Most notably in the very last episode, there's a huge emotional meltdown
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Paranoia
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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I believe it's season 7 episode 1: a character presents a sale's pitch directly into the camera
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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In a flashback s3 e1 a baby is stillborn and shown on screen.
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Does someone miscarry?
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One of the characters mentioned that she previously had a miscarriage but it's not depicted in any detail.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Blackface is used in one episode
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Season 3 episode 3
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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A grown woman has non-consensual sex with a young teen in a flashback.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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Peggy goes to church and there are a few episodes with her priest
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Sex
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No, but a young boy appears to have an obsession both with a young girl and also with her mother.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Joan, often
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Is there BDSM?
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A woman is tied to a bed and in another episode there's some psychological power play
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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The topic is in the focus in season 3 and season 6
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Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Yes & No. It's obviously a period piece, but its opening episode talks about birth control as it was just introduced, though with a period-accurate air of judgement. Abortion is debated as an option when a character gets pregnant in s2, but will decide against it. A character will reveal in season 4 that she's had two abortions and later gets pregnant and debates having a third. theres a scene at a doctor's office and a conversation she has with the mother of a teenager getting an abortion has her ending up deciding against it.
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Are there fat suits?
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Yes. s1 there's subtle/growing fat suits.
fat suits appear again on another character in s5, being written in after that actress got pregnant in real life
fat suits appear again on another character in s5, being written in after that actress got pregnant in real life
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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The ending is sad but it's not really tonally different from the rest of the show
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
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There is a car crash in which two cars collide and leave characters with injuries afterwards.
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Does a car crash?
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A main character is in a car crash due to a passenger covering their eyes. they are shown in the offices later with injuries still recovering.
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Does a plane crash?
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A real life plane crash is referenced in the story, and a character's father is said to have died in the plane crash.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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There is a war scene in season 1 that is quite graphic following an explosion
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Does someone drown?
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Someone is saved from drowning
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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It's talked about and seen in a video, but it doesn't directly happen in the series.
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