Maddening Men

[starzki]

We've finished discs 2 and 3 of Mad Men this week.  It's still a great show and I'm being highly entertained by it.  I want to punch pretty much every character in the face, or at least tsk at their poor decision-making abilities, but they all have some redeeming qualities and are all trapped, in their own way.

I, of course, love Peggy.  Joan rocks

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[starzki]

It's a show set in 1960 in Manhattan. It's mostly about Don Draper, a senior copywriter at an ad agency (ad man/mad man, get it?). It shows the office and home life for a pretty well off guy right before the '60s really started to get going. Secretaries are called "honey" and "sweetheart" and assumed to be flighty bubbleheads just looking to marry their bosses. Wives stayed home with the children. Everyone smokes. Drinking at the office is seen as an innocent perk.

It's all about the quiet desperation of the times. It's really good.