Friends and readers, if you know me personally, you know I love tv. My tastes are pretty extreme. Either it's a super intelligent drama/comedy or its a really crass and assinine reality show. Today you get to see the super intelligent drama side. The show I'm talking about is Mad Men.
A drama set in the 1960's, follows an advertising agency's triumphs and pitfalls during that turbulent decade. Speaking of which, part the reason the show is great is because you can witness historic natonal events through the eyes of these characters. In the last season, there was a wedding on the day of the Kennedy Assaination. Yeah, imagine how that went. Most of the male characters are womanizers and cheat with everything that has a pulse. Mad Men deals with topics such as homosexuality in the 60's and divorce too. Obviously, back then, both of those subjects were super super taboo.
The writing on the show is excellent. It's about what they're saying in one scene and then what they're not saying in another. Here, everything means something. Silence actually does speak volumes on this show. The style is great. You can see where the inspiration for today's fashion trends came from. Men really have been rocking skinny ties and slim fit pants for the longest.
The only gripes some people may have about the how are the way women are treated. But we're going to have to get over that because back then women were disrespected on the regular and they just had to deal with it. It's a hard truth a lot of modern women can't handle. Also, there are no black people on the show except for a maid. In response, most upper class white people only associated with black people if the black person was working for them. Even though, those sterotypes are portrayed, let's not let those things keep us from enjoying an intelligent show. You guys get a pass for now being that it's on hiatus. But when it comes back on, please believe I will post about it. Sometimes I'll tweet about it. Either way, you're going to know about it.
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Still can't get into it, but I will take your word for it.
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