AMC’s Mad Men certainly wasn’t a fairytale, filled with sex, corruption, money, booze and adultery — but it somehow made us love these characters, even at their lowest moments. With seven seasons, we got to watch what it really took to succeed in advertising in the 1960s, and some of these characters (looking at you Pete Campbell), lost all sense of their moral compass to get what they wanted.
Through all the noise, we saw the story of an underdog with Peggy Olsen — where a woman who was written off before she even stepped into the office didn’t give up, eventually propelling herself to the career she always dreamed of. Here are our favorite prominent characters from Mad Men, ranked from most to least favorite, who impacted us so deeply that we still think about them since the show concluded in 2015.
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There were so many powerful characters to choose from across the seasons.