TheSubtleDoctor (post: 1456611) wrote:Mad Men Seasons 1 and 2.
Sweet, fancy Moses. This show is fantastic. Sometimes I forget how good American television shows can be.
Mad Men is a wonderful, complex, thoughtful character study of 1960s ad men (and women) and the people in their lives. It did not take me long to become heavily invested emotionally in the lives of these characters. It's the kind of show that I sometimes have to tell myself, "Hey, don't get so upset. These are not real people." In a sense, they are though. They are our parents and grandparents.
The show is absolutely meticulous about recreating the 1960s onscreen. You can just feel it in the decor. The show uses actual TV show?news footage of what would have been on TV at the time (JFK, Cuban Missile crisis, etc.). Pregnant ladies are smoking and drinking. Kids romp around the inside of cars without seat belts. The racial and gender landscape is quite a bit different. The actresses cannot work out (typical body shape was different back then) and they have to wear era-specific (read: more conservative) undergarments any time they are on set, regardless if they are going to be "showcasing" said undergarments. Basically, the creators are friggan dedicated to the realism of this thing.
I cannot say enough about how amazing this show is. Deserving of all its Emmys. Totally worth seeing.
If you like Mad Men, be sure to check out Breaking Bad, The Wire, and Boardwalk Empire. All of these shows are just utterly fantastic.
Love this movie!
