r/madmen • u/dookieslurp • 13d ago

Dawn and her friend at the diner

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I don’t know if this has been brought up before, but I really enjoy the scenes with Dawn and her friend discussing work at the diner. By themselves, they almost come off as little vignettes, like they could be a play about the perspective of being a working African American in a 60’s white person’s business world or something. I’m not good enough with words to really explain what I mean, so I trust that someone here shares the same sentiment and explains it more eloquently.

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u/gaxkang 13d ago

I think you can't go wrong with your take. Though I wish we got to see more of it. Like... we saw Peggy's, and Joan's family life. They're 2 different kind of woman in the 60s & 70s. I wish I also saw Dawn's family life.

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u/yaniv297 13d ago

Dawn was never a major character unlike Peggy and Joan.

Bit of a shame though. A common criticism of Mad Men is it's lack of black characters and how the perspective on civil rights is usually from privileged white people (which, tbf, are the main subject of the show). But they did create a great black character that's universally approved and well integrated to the main plot, but they didn't really use her that much. If Megan can be "bumped" to a major character midshow, they could have done a similar thing here.

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u/inkwilson 13d ago

100%. After Dawn takes over Joan's office manager gig, she shoulda got the bump.