Mad Men also wins through because it asks us questions about how we see the world today by making us reflect on the things we have lost and won since then. Watching Mad Men is like looking through a window at a wild party sure, you know there’s a headache to come, but for now it looks kind of fun. But it also shows us a world where there were fewer rules – a greater innocence – and for many people there’s something in that intoxicating mix of alcohol and cigarettes, of sex in a time before Aids, of fast-ish cars and rule breaking that is very seductive.
Mad Men shows a world where we can see that all is not well the really grim sexism and racism make that clear. But there’s more here at play than cool settings and sharp scripts.
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Weiner’s shelves have buckled under the weight of all the Emmys it has received and some believe it to be the best TV series ever made. And the final episodes have also been tinged with sadness so far, Don – played by Jon Hamm – does not seem to be heading for a happy place. Indeed it could be criticised for a certain slowness.
And while lots has happened, scriptwriters have never been forced to add crazy storylines to keep the real fans hooked. Mad Men has also been glorious in its choice of settings, furniture and costumes. So you see the first black employees being hired who are not janitors, gay characters who no longer hide their secrets, hippy hair falling on to shoulders, joints being passed around. It’s the 1960s and they are gently melded by the civil-rights movement, man landing on the moon, the assassination of a president and women’s slowly hatching liberation.
Launched in July 2007, the TV series was created by Matthew Weiner and has charted the careers and lives of the advertising executives at Sterling Cooper, an upstart agency on Madison Avenue.įor those who have stayed the course – and millions have – the lure has been watching characters evolve, or unravel, in what feels like real time. We have just a few weeks to go before Don Draper leaves our lives forever.
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