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the conversation pit - by Helena Fitzgerald - Griefbacon

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My favorite character on Mad Men is the conversation pit in Don and Megan’s apartment. The rest of the apartment that appears for the first time in the opening of the show’s fifth season is just your standard late-1960s-rich-people-with-a-troubled-marriage interior. But its living room is a spectacular stage set and functions throughout the rest of the series as a character itself. I love many characters on this stupid television show, but none as much as this big beige carpet pool sunk into a living room floor, which every time it appears anywhere on the internet or on the screen when I’m rewatching the show, shocks me into pure longing. The Mad Men conversation pit is a lower level in an already low-slung room, sprawling across a whole frame of television. It has that same comfortable science-fiction feeling that the command headquarters of the ships on Star Trek from the same era and a little later do, rolling and modular and almost no angles in sight, every possible object carpeted

the conversation pit I love exactly one room and that room is my wife Helena Fitzgerald Jan 26, 2021 66 1 Share don has once again ruined a party My favorite character on Mad Men is the conversation pit in Don and Megan’s apartment. The rest of the apartment that appears for the first time in the opening of the show’s fifth season is just your standard late-1960s-rich-people-with-a-troubled-marriage interior. But its living room is a spectacular stage set and functions throughout the rest of the series as a character itself. I love many characters on this stupid television show, but none as mu

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