Mad Men - The moment of truth (Part 3)

[@huntersun9]

You can see Betty wavering between feeling sorry for Don and not knowing if she can trust him any more. January Jones is phenomenal.

[@Blueeyesinthesky]

Elisa Hunter ikr! That’s exactly how I would feel. Definitely confusing

[@proserfina21096]

After this, I got turned off by her. Shes making rush decision to end the marriage.

[@HusseinDoha]

@@proserfina21096 Rush decision? He could've told her all of that. She would've trusted him more. But no, he didn't. While he was being emotional here. He had a woman waiting for him in the car. He just came home to change his clothes and hit the city with her. Betty also busted him on the cheating. Untrustworthy!!

[@HusseinDoha]

@@Blueeyesinthesky Nothing causes confusion here. He could've told her all of that. She would've trusted him more. But no, he didn't. While he was being emotional here. He had a woman waiting for him in the car. He just came home to change his clothes and hit the city with her. Betty also busted him on the cheating. Untrustworthy!!

[@jprz13]

Spoiler alert, I think this is what caused part of her cancer ♋️

[@carlosalegria4776]

Such an emotional scene. Jon Hamm is a terrific actor.

[@wocstudios1]

Hamm portrays Don with such swagger and confidence, and then he's able to show such vunerability in scenes like this and with Peggy and in the last episode.

[@thaddeuswinslowcooper8962]

I think for him to portray such antithetical identities (alpha winner/broken orphan) so well, Jon has to have his own story relating to these IMO.

[@kdids]

He has said his dad died when he was young @@thaddeuswinslowcooper8962

[@sharonapadalecki9923]

@@kdids his mom died (cancer) when he was 10 (8 years after his parents divorced) and his dad died when he was 20. While all that does lead to him relating to Dick's past it doesn't help the "unethical" parts of the plot.

[@JohnBarron-n]

Darvin hamm is a good basketball coach

[@MarvelousLXVII]

I really love the lighting in this scene. Both were so well-cast in Mad Men.

[@bethanycook8124]

Jon Ham should have won the Emmy for this episode alone

[@UploaderGuy3000]

What about Jon Hamm ?

[@dargtagnan3696]

@@UploaderGuy3000 For Jon Ham the Emmy, so for Jon Hamm the Emmym

[@richos07]

Having seen both Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad season 3 and Jon Hamm’s performance in this episode, I think Jon Hamm definitely should’ve gotten the Emmy.

[@JohnBarron-n]

No way, I can tell he was acting the whole time

[@justinschrank4806]

Hamm was incredibke at displaying a deep sadness in the most subtle way

[@charliewartelle6720]

The amazing thing to me is that John Hamm was virtually unknown until this show. He's a terrific actor but was essentially undiscovered until his mid 30's, very much like James Gandolfini. In both cases the perfect intersection of the actor and the role he was born to play.

[@JohnBarron-n]

Christian slater would have been better in this role

[@CodaMission]

Fun fact: he was Ellie Kemper's acting coach

[@methus57]

@@JohnBarron-n no way

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Curb Your Enthusiasm: What is John Hamm doing here? 😂

[@johncopple6479]

Like they say in Hollywood, It takes ten years to be an overnight success.

[@Davian2075]

You can tell, Don didn't wish to tell Betty the truth but he wasn't holding back telling her everything either, like he felt relief that he could finally show her who he was!

[@queenbee7074]

Pity it took him till Betty confronted him to open up! Sorry but I didn’t feel too much for him in this scene even though it’s actually sad but you reap what you sow

[@MarvelousLXVII]

Reminds me of when he confronts Lane and Lane says he's "light headed" or something like this. Don says, "That's relief." I wonder if it all goes back to this scene.

[@bsrk3170]

Really, this was the end for Betty and Don.

[@dennissvitak148]

Jesus...I've never seen this series..but ten minutes, and I was riveted.

[@luckyluke4276]

Dennis Svitak Watch it, it’s an awesome series

[@WantonMyth]

Sweet. You're in for a treat.

[@chandlerwhite8302]

It’s one of the top five television series ever. Just amazing from beginning to end.

[@RayFromLUCKYSHADOW]

Finding this comment 5yrs after the fact. I wonder if you ever watched the series. I also was thinking what I would've thought the show was about seeing only these three clips. Yes, Don is the main protagonist, but it's an epic, with multiple well-defined characters and their stories. It's just so, so good. None of the other shows everyone cites even come close. I mean, yeah, The Sopranos was good. But come on. In essence it's another wiseguy "fuhgedabout it" kind of thing where someone gets a bullet in the head every five or so episodes. It was really well done, but basically it was, what if we took Goodfellas and made a ten-year show out of it. Like after a while it's like, we get it, they're all comically blase about violence and it's funny when they talk philosophically in those accents, misusing words and stuff. Like Goodfellas, like Donnie Brasco, like a dozen other things. Mad Men, there's nothing I can even compare it to. It's like a giant novel. It's just the best. Definitely the best-written, most well-developed FEMALE characters in television history. In comparison, The Sopranos is basically, here's yet another girl all casual about her husband's violent lifestyle, played for a laugh again and again. Or they do the bit where one of the crew has to deal with a "regular" person, and isn't it funny how shocked they are. Again and again. I love The Sopranos, don't get me wrong. And Mad Men probably wouldn't have ever gotten greenlit if The Sopranos hadn't ushered in that era of great dramatic television. I think even Matthew Weiner realizes he owes The Sopranos a huge debt. But for me, Mad Men is just so much better. The only way I can think to describe it is it's like a novel.

[@shawnfella]

Meanwhile, his mistress is waiting to run away with him in the car outside. Cancelled.

[@jishnujishnu1467]

that's why Don's a pimp for life!

[@earlofwickshire5416]

Don’t worry, this is a mild emotional interruption; he’ll be back to banging chicks in no time

[@malavikaharikuttan6772]

I was really glad that she dumped him

[@ianmangham4570]

😅

[@Natalie404.]

I think season 1 Betty would have forgiven him, but season 3 Bettys just dealt with way to much of his bullshit already.

[@JohnBarron-n]

What about season 2 betty?

[@1canadiangrl]

@@JohnBarron-nlol you mean when Don disappeared for 6 weeks? When she found out he was cheating on her w Bobbi?

[@thomasbriggs4718]

I recall watching this scene the first time and thinking this is the best written and acted scene I had ever seen, in any medium. Period.

[@JohnBarron-n]

You haven't seen very many mediums then

[@thomasbriggs4718]

@@JohnBarron-n Film professional for 30+ years, so no.

[@JohnBarron-n]

@@thomasbriggs4718 I've seen over 238 mediums and this one doesn't crack the top 100

[@MalGK24]

@@JohnBarron-n In my book your top 100 is worthless.

[@JohnBarron-n]

@@MalGK24 nobody wants to read your book

[@joshuagerthoffer4664]

This man needs to play Bruce Wayne.

[@DocRunaway]

He even looks like the classic Bruce Wayne. But it's too late now.

[@tinocobp]

Yes!

[@JohnBarron-n]

I think he'd be better as robin

[@disct1597]

Can’t beat Christian Bale as Batman.

[@Tripp393]

Nah, James Bond.

[@WantonMyth]

Don wanted to get caught, to save his soul. But his Camelot was destroyed.

[@merisagoodier4981]

This was such a good series. So sad at times

[@kathrynwales4423]

"He kicked his blankets off."

[@GeddyRC]

Hah! Didn’t even think about the double meaning there.

[@arnaumartin8999]

One of the best scenes of Mad Men

[@willcorker763]

He's finally telling her everything but its far too late in their relationship for her to accept it

[@Keleu]

Don acting sad is so fucking deep, always gets me.

[@malvinderkaur4187]

well knitted human emotions always win as narrative

[@TuckFrump-r9h]

nicely said.

[@slide4180]

Foreshadowing of Lane Pryce...

[@TheTalha94]

David carbonara is a one of the reasons we love this master piece

[@cristianstoner]

Perfect scene

[@BubblegumCrash332]

Top Five TV moments. AMC was pure gold there for a while. Up in the leagues with the king, HBO.

[@rsingh2595]

i still wonder what happened to the thot in his car

[@TheLostBoys-r1n]

LOL THOTALERT

[@sydneybynum6046]

I think she ended up walking home and she was mad at don too

[@dexlove89]

Legend has it she is still there to this day

[@zemaria566]

@@SteInsixiengmay the point of the series is to show how we are all flawed human beings, with awful defects and pasts, but still, we can all find a way to better ourselves and find our own way. but yes, lets forget all that and focus on the balance of accuracy of a joke, and try to make a social critic on that same joke, just to feel better about ourselves, forget the important stuff and feel better by pushing someone else down.

[@vondonstrut218]

@@zemaria566 lmfao. there was no need to write a dissertation about this. The previous commenter had issue with the first guy using the word thot about a woman who is only hooking up with Don. Seemed pretty valid.

[@ucheesomonu9098]

Don cries, I cry

[@PomazeBog1389]

*_YOU CRY, I CRY._*

[@I_Get_Computers_Puting]

Lmao

[@punchandjudy1]

Sometimes I think he’s making the whole story up as a pitch to save his marriage

[@Dan-zq5wt]

This show took the metaphor of an “empty suit” to a new level and almost made it literal; a deep comment on class and capitalism. The empty cynicism of advertising embodied in the rootless Don. Almost an early 60’s version of The Great Gatsby.

[@broncodeviltexas]

The villain is revealed. Amazing writing and Hamm is really good.

[@nefelitsakiridi]

I know this is an old comment, but what villain is supposed to be revealed?

[@rjgesq.8967]

Ladies and gentlemen, acting.

[@Fischstix95]

poor Don

[@rankoorovic7904]

I am amazed how many people hate Betty its hilarious.

[@chandlerwhite8302]

Ranko Orović I dislike her for the way she treats Sally. Betty lashes out at Sally because she is jealous of her youth and that the fact she has a chance to have the happy life Betty could never find. The reason Betty is miserable is because of her own selfishness and narcissistic personality.

[@rankoorovic7904]

@@chandlerwhite8302 How about people liking Don and hating on her?

[@chandlerwhite8302]

Ranko Orović I personally do not like Don’s character and don’t see how anyone could. It’s hard for me to like Jon Hamm in anything because of him. But different people have different opinions I still think Betty had big problems besides Don and had no right to treat her daughter the way she did.

[@TheNerdForAllSeasons]

Probably because a lot of people watching the show have had to make sacrifices and broken rules and lied to get what little they've managed to scrape together, and for someone who was born with it all to sit so high and mighty judging them for doing what needs to be done feels a bit close to home.

[@josephinenilsson1541]

Right? It really shows the twisted view people have on women still even though we think we live in better times. People still expect women to just take being completely devalued by their parters, and they expect no self control of the men. It’s really sickening.

[@jigneshsisodiya4789]

I don't why but i think if she hasn't met henry francis(asshole) she would have forgive him.

[@amorepsyche808]

How did he ruined such a beautiful home it’s beyond me, for what? For some old ladies and empty pleasure 🤦‍♀️

[@Moonsun9]

Did anyone think it was odd how there was a huge 666 outside there office building

[@Ghost7065]

Odd indeed but that's Hollywood.

[@GenerationX1967]

There is a 666 5th. Avenue. At one time it was the place to go to get a passport...

[@Sashazur]

@@GenerationX1967 it’s a real, very prominent building in midtown Manhattan.

[@michaelanderson9792]

I wish they make mad men movies now

[@nefelitsakiridi]

I don't think a film format would work with this slow story nearly as well as a show does

[@Marsella9]

@@nefelitsakiridi The genius of Matthew Weiner, his cinematic shows are raw enough 😍 like sopranos its almost like a mix of a film/show

[@oldirtydasher]

Don crying in this scene is for himself, not the issues he;s had before becoming Don. He is crying because he has finally told the truth to someone other than a work relationship. He's been found and he's sorry he got caught.

[@RV-vx9ek]

Hmm I disagree, I think he feels pretty guilty for what he did to Adam, and at the same time I think he's a little relieved he can open up about this, despite the trouble it's going to bring him.it's how most people feel after living in a lie for so long, they get tired and are relieved they don't have to keep up the act anymore.

[@rejeeshreji91]

wrong don is acting sad so that he gets sympathy from his gullible wife, grade A emotional manipulation....and it worked.. saved his marriage,work...and his secret will remain a secret... watch the whole scenes again ..you will know im right...

[@AmericasComic]

I think it's worth it to be skeptical about Don, but I'm a little more optimistic about what this event did to him - a large part of Don's arc throughout the entire series is him slowly, to more and more people, lifting the veil of "Don" and revealing his story. First to his co-workers, then to Betty, later to his kids (showing them the house where he grew up) and finally to "the world" by that breakdown to the Hershey people. For such a ugly guy, I think this is an example of the good of him shining. It's kinda like the Grandma in that A Good Man is Hard to Find story - he's a good person as long as there's a shotgun to his face.

[@atma86]

I think he's crying because he drove his brother to suicide to protect his secret, and his family found out anyhow. Don is realizing just how much maintaining his fake life has cost him.

[@nuthineatholl6434]

​@@AmericasComic "It's kinda like the Grandma in that A Good Man is Hard to Find story -- he's a good person as long as there's a shotgun to his face." The story's God's-grace-deprecating psychopathic killer, Misfit, remarks in his dialectal way that the hyper-religious old lady he just murdered (just as she was reaching a sort of mystically empathic epiphany deeply repugnant to him) would have been a good woman if "it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." There's a lot of psychological resonance in what transpires in the cosmopolitan yet cloistered Northern setting of "Mad Men" with that of the Deep-Dark-South-environed inner-world as depicted by Flannery O'Connor and other Southern writers. Draper is a fascinating study in what the Sufis call "an-nafs al-ʾammārah," or False/Inciting Self (an artificial-intelligence-like, self-servingly automatonic body of time/place-conditioned notions of what should constitute a proper "self") as it gives way -- painfully and imperfectly -- to a higher state of being.

[@chuckbuckbobuck]

Even though this is all fictional it well is quite moving. Gets you all inthe gut.

[@Stevie66ful]

Don is a heartless bastard.

[@SpankSandwitch99]

I liked your comment, but i honestly disagree. I think he has a heart, but he's not good with genuine emotion. He's allowed himself to become too concerned with fear, consumed by shame of his prior life, and a paranoid grip on his illusion.

[@deecee796]

@@SpankSandwitch99 agreed, fear makes people do stupid shit

[@vincentharris8552]

My current reply to an old message: Don was a heartless bastard. Note how quickly he corrected Betty about his half brother. He was not emotionally attached to him or his father, or mother, or the woman who raised him. It was easy for him to leave and start over as Don Draper because he had emotionally cut himself off from his family. He was heartless.

[@curlyhairblacklilacs]

Don is a heartBROKEN bastard.

[@imachynn]

Flipped.

[@silverkitty2503]

if she had hugged him once it would be the first real touch and kindness ...he had so much life experience she wasn't willing to try to relate to ....

[@marichristian1072]

I can't stand Betty. She's such a goody two shoes.

[@i.e.presents638]

So she should have been a boundary-less, idiotic victim? Nah

[@elololo5202]

I assume you forgot that he cheated on her countless times, ignored her and the kids, didn't really listened or supported her, and even in this scene, his mistress was waiting him to come out, in the car. Who was that mistress? SALLY'S TEACHER. Don made too many mistakes and Betty was aware all of that. Had he been nicer and a better husband, things would have turned out differently. She could have forgiven him.

[@davideagin5321]

Man, this is just hard to watch.

[@frandemarco]

Classic

[@borderlord]

Don just can't help himself...

[@tiffanyhall1944]

Finally the truth

[@Lily-ed2sc]

i always think it's crazy men but then i remember that it's an american series so it's angry men

[@Egilhelmson]

In American usage, “mad” means both angry and crazy. OTOH, a Mad Man is always crazy (except in Zelazny’s Amber Chronicles, where he played with the expectations a bit in the second from last book).

[@unaninanine3743]

Mad for Madison Avenue

[@lmp19791]

He needs a coke

[@manlyscents]

Betty is old fashioned and until then her life was built around having a picture perfect family and marriage. She'd already been through a lot of shit with Don and was somehow willing to take it, to keep up appearances maybe, but this was just way too much for her. Empathy was never her strong point, so the best she could do is not dump him on the spot, but you can see from her facial expression that this was it, this was the end.

[@mjremy2605]

Poor man. He was running from his past, but it just burst on him again. How sad. Don Draper is so real to me.

[@fatbowe]

What's the point...its all brain dust...its life....its only consequences if you cant understand...etc...….

[@lupe_a347]

😭

[@BarbieCatt]

A liar and a cheat. You lie in the bed you make.

[@flashers.5212]

That’s what I would of done, cried. It works like a charm as long as you don’t over play your hand. You want the woman to feel sorry for you but, if she pity’s you it’s time to man up & move on.

[@nefelitsakiridi]

That's horribly cynical, he's not faking

[@brianellinger6622]

I hate that brother...

[@johnwonder8720]

5000 then would be like a 100000 now. He could have just started a life somewhere else.

[@joyalways1179]

Only Jesus can fix a broken life.

[@codysigouin5033]

Maybe you should try thinking for urself

[@Ghost7065]

@@codysigouin5033 maybe you should first.

[@hindenburg1596]

Jesus is an imaginary friend for the weak who can't hold responsibility for themselves

[@joyalways1179]

@@hindenburg1596 if you meet Him you will know.

[@hindenburg1596]

@@joyalways1179 Bad logic

[@shadowdance4666]

I’m sorry. Now, I want a divorce