Mon. Aug 06, 2007
They Were, And We Are, Mad Men
There’s a guy named Don Draper, creative Director for a Manhattan advertising agency. In his world, everybody smokes, even the doctor when doing a patient exam. People at the agency are drinking by lunchtime. The guy in the art department is gay … and very much in the closet. The rest of the guys are innate chauvinists. The neighborhood divorcée makes all the wives nervous and catty. When Mom sees her little girl playing “astronaut” using the dry cleaning bag as her spacesuit, she gets upset … because she’s worried the girl dirtied Mommy’s freshly cleaned clothes.
It’s 1960. On this show, it is so very 1960. I was two. It’s a miracle any of us survived.
But it’s a really good show, a slice of life that no longer exists. Or does it? Mad Men, on AMC.
Published 02:11PM, Mon, Aug 06 2007
Category: TV
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We’ve seen one episode and have two others queued up on the DVR awaiting some free time, but I’m not sure I can handle that much second-hand smoke, even virtually. (The wife and I also had a good chuckle over the plastic bag scene.)