Comments on: I Finally Have an Excuse to Write About Mad Men

By: Ezzie Cushman

Ezzie Cushman — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:15:24 +0000

.. And I finally Have an Excuse to Watch TV Again!

Boy, am I ever glad I gave this show a chance.
How did Matt Weiner come up with such a stellar ensemble of actors?

This excellent show may have turned out to be just another uninspiring pre-fab period piece had it not been for the creative genius of Matt Weiner and the talented cast he chose to brilliantly portray a group of 1960s corporate ad executives and the female satellites that orbit around them.
Jon Hamm and the rest of the extremely talented cast will have you, in turns, laughing, gasping in horror, commiserating, or squirming in your chair. One thing you won’t be doing is looking at the clock as this is one series you just don’t want to see end.
PS: The office party scene was hilarious.

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By: Dirkh

Dirkh — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:51:47 +0000

The latest episode of “Mad Men” had a classy end-of-show credit sequence with Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right” over the top of it.I’m even willing to forgive them the fact that the song came out in 1963, and this first season is set in 1960–unless they’ve done some serious fast forwarding that I missed.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:42:25 +0000

Asia is still out of reach in information and knowledge, but the region is going to dominate world. Read a great new book: China and the new world order, by some Chinese journalist named george zhibin gu, which offers huge ideas on what is going on in Asia and around the globe. That is sort of information people really need.

By: Dirk Hanson

Dirk Hanson — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:58:07 +0000

That’s the other thing “Mad Men” gets painfully right: The impossible role of women circa 1960. If your husband’s boss makes a pass at you, it’s your fault. If you are a secretary and you don’t cover for your boss’s absence at work, and let him pat you on the ass, you aren’t being a “good sport.” Makes me cringe. It really used to be that way.

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:09:39 +0000

The two-episode arc that led up to Don getting revenge on Roger after about a 12-martini (and oysters!) lunch was nothing less than brilliant. And as for Jones, it was so crushing to see Don get angry at her for being “overly friendly” to her husband’s boss.

By: Dirk Hanson

Dirk Hanson — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:28:12 +0000

More January Jones! Beautiful but troubled. Her repartee and body language at dinner with her husband’s boss was great. I’d like a little more of her back story to go along with her husband’s.

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:18:20 +0000

I think we can allow for some shallowness every now and again. By the way, Mrs. Draper (January Jones, I believe?) is gorgeous — amazing that Don would even think of straying, though this week’s ep provided some more insight into his past and why he is a nihilist I suppose thriving in what is theoretically a highly ordered universe.

By: Brad Laidman

Brad Laidman — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:41:55 +0000

Would I be shallow if I only said that the chicks were way way hot esp the beatnik mistress?

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:36:21 +0000

Dirk, good news for us both and fans of great TV as it was announced recently that Mad Men has been picked up for a second season.

I’m a little younger (born in ‘74 !) but I still see a world on the show that hearkens back to my youth, and certainly one that feels very fresh and real.

The social mores and attitudes are one of the more fascinating aspects of the show, and they do a great job of highlighting that 1960 is a very different time/place than 2007. I’m thinking particularly of the scene where a little boy accidentally knocks over a vase during a booze-fueled birthday party at the Draper’s…