Online Media Cultist

For anyone that will give me the smidge of a chance, I’ll be happy to talk your ear off about Mad Men, a glorious and cutting and masterful drama centered around a fictional advertising agency in New York City circa 1960. It’s easy to miss as it’s on AMC, but I highly recommend this show. It matches the incredibly fleshed out characters and deft humor of The Sopranos (and indeed Mad Men’s creator Matthew Weiner exec produced and wrote for that show, perhaps the best to ever hit the small screen) with precise details that pull you into another world and time and place.

Thankfully, I finally have the chance to spread the gospel of Mad Men a little bit here at OMC, as I found a Mad Men Guide to New York (via TV Squad). Locations from the show – both real and fictional (such as ad agency Sterling Cooper) – are guesstimated on an interactive map of New York, replete with anecdotes and show notes. Very fun to check out the locale of the Gaslight Café on MacDougal Street (also the street where you can find some of the cheapest and very best falafel on the planet these days), where protagonist Don Draper slums it during one episode, dragged along by his mistress and her beatnik friend. The scene also featured an absolutely haunting version of a song I believe is called “Babylon.”