Downloaded--now it's just a matter of finding the time to watch it, although I'm pretty darn curious, so it shouldn't be too long from now.
Mad Men is actually the best television show in America right now. If you have an interest in American culture in the 1960s--and all the upheaval that took place--it does have some intelligent and interesting insights to offer, particularly with regard to the changing role of women. Not to mention that it's beautiful to look at--and not just for the gorgeous John Hamm (who is refreshingly relaxed and articulate in real life). The period detail is so precise that the prop mistress shops regularly at vintage stores in and around LA--she even got the keychain for Don's car, which is perhaps overdoing it, but the careful attention does pay off.
I also like the show because I spent four years as an advertising copywriter and loved it, and the show is set during what's generally acknowledged as the golden age of American advertising, and in fact focuses on some very real campaigns of the period. The show is so cleverly done that even the commercials which appear during the broadcast are tied into advertising concepts and history. In fact, there's one campaign that produces its own mini-mad-men adverts set in the same period, with two sixties ad men discussing how best to sell the product. They're clever, but ironically, they're not good advertising, since it took several of the commercials for me to remember what the product was!
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Downloaded--now it's just a matter of finding the time to watch it, although I'm pretty darn curious, so it shouldn't be too long from now.
Mad Men is actually the best television show in America right now. If you have an interest in American culture in the 1960s--and all the upheaval that took place--it does have some intelligent and interesting insights to offer, particularly with regard to the changing role of women. Not to mention that it's beautiful to look at--and not just for the gorgeous John Hamm (who is refreshingly relaxed and articulate in real life). The period detail is so precise that the prop mistress shops regularly at vintage stores in and around LA--she even got the keychain for Don's car, which is perhaps overdoing it, but the careful attention does pay off.
I also like the show because I spent four years as an advertising copywriter and loved it, and the show is set during what's generally acknowledged as the golden age of American advertising, and in fact focuses on some very real campaigns of the period. The show is so cleverly done that even the commercials which appear during the broadcast are tied into advertising concepts and history. In fact, there's one campaign that produces its own mini-mad-men adverts set in the same period, with two sixties ad men discussing how best to sell the product. They're clever, but ironically, they're not good advertising, since it took several of the commercials for me to remember what the product was!