Mad Men, Women, and a NYC Culture Shock

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | May 18, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

RUSH: Anybody in the audience watch Mad Men? Do you watch Mad Men in there? (interruption) You watch it but you didn't see the finale? Well, heck, that means I can't talk about it because if I do it would be a spoiler alert for you. Oh, well, it isn't that big a deal anyway. You haven't seen the finale either, Maimone? And you watch it? Oh, gee. I see. Okay, well, anyway, it reminds me that I had a story last week that I didn't really spend enough time on, so I saved it, and it turns out there's a companion story that goes right along with it.

It's the story: "Why New York Women Wish They Lived In The 'Mad Men' Era." Remember that story? I teased it a little bit last week. I didn't really get into it in too much detail, and it turns out it was a good thing that I didn't and waited because there's a story in the New York Times: "Poor Little Rich Women." It's about some leftist babe that lives in the Village and for some reason she and her family picked up and moved to the Upper East Side. And what she found there, i.e., the wives of rich Wall Street types and the way they deal with their family and kids was a culture shock for her. And she's written about it.

She cannot believe, in terms of feminism, she can't believe what she found on the Upper East Side. So it'll dovetail nicely when we get to it, but don't worry, I'm not gonna do that first, and I don't know how many of you in the audience watch Mad Men and not seen the finale. The only thing I will say, I've read all of the reviews, and all the TV critics think it was brilliant and it was just the best thing ever. And, why, it was the best TV series ever and the best TV drama, every critic thinks that, which should tell you that that's not the correct assessment, when they're all in lockstep on it.

For their analysis of this series finale to be the absolute best show ever, there's a bunch of stuff you have to know about the real-life McCann Erickson and a Coca-Cola commercial that I don't think 95% of the audience watching that shows knows. Therefore the brilliance, the so-called brilliance in the finale was gonna be a way over everybody's head.

[NormsRevenge]

<>>Insert APPLE 'Mad Men' plug here!<<>

[T-Bird45]

Now that MM has concluded, that’s my signal to go to Netflix for a binge watch session.

[Elsie]

New Coke© ??

[Kaslin]

I watched Mad Men on Saturday. I was not impressed. I ordered the complete first season of Washington’s Spies from Amazon and watched the DVDs on Saturday and yesterday

[SamAdams76]

I'm still on Season 4 in Netflix. Darn good show and there's not too many "chick" shows I like, but "Mad Men" is very well written and true to form on how a typical Manhattan ad agency functioned back in the 1960s.

Back in the 1960s, every executive had a liquor cabinet in his office. And just about every office had the nonstop click-clack click-clack of typewriters. And they didn't need copiers because they had carbon paper.

No worries about "spoilers." I don't care if I know what happens if it's a well written show. I still haven't watched the last season of "Breaking Bad" yet even though I know pretty much everybody dies in the end. I just watch it on Netflix at my own pace and on my own schedule.

Favorite "Mad Men" moment was when that new boss came over from England and some secretary got on a John Deere tractor during a Christmas party and ran over his foot. Yes, this was in the office!

Awesome moment.

[T-Bird45]

I’m thinking about doing a binge-watch on Turn, the series on the spies. I started watching it but couldn’t get dialed in on the story.

[Hugin]

I watched the first couple seasons before I got completely bored with it.

Best show ever? Not even the best on AMC.

[dfwgator]

Loved the ending. Didn’t spoon-feed, but left enough clues to tell you what happened.

[dfwgator]

Definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, but I liked it, and thought it was well-written and acted.

[dfwgator]

What happened on Mad Men, in a nutshell, the 60s ended, and the 70s began, with all of the “New Age” BS with it.

[dmz]

I’m thinking about doing a binge-watch on Turn, the series on the spies. I started watching it but couldn’t get dialed in on the story.

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I wish you luck.

Found the show to be sleep inducing.

And the book Washington’s Spies, on the same topic, is the kind of history I cannot stand. Made up dialog between folks.

[LeonardFMason]

Agreed.

Don reinvents himself AGAIN. Delivers one of the most iconic Coke ads ever. He adapts and survives. He always did. Those thinking he would kill himself missed the point completely.

[navyguy]

The Coke ad at the end was a stroke of genius. Don finally got his game back.

[discostu]

And Don figures out how to package up 60s idealism to sell crap in the 70s just like how the show started with him packaging 50s idealism to sell crap in the 60s. I like the way the gave characters direction without actually ending their stories, really good way to not wrap things up in a bow and now leave things dangling at the same time. A pretty solid sticking of the landing.

[dfwgator]

The clue was always in the opening sequence. Don indeed falls, but winds up right back in his chair.

That is until around 1984, when he really jumps out of the window after coming up with the idea for “New Coke.” ;)

[discostu]

They definitely gave us a head fake with that wobbly window a few episodes ago.

[Chickensoup]

Has it concluded? There is supposed to be the rest of the season released next year, I thought.

[dfwgator]

My theory also is that they Roger and Marie getting married, created the opportunity for Don and Megan to reconcile, as Don realizes he can no longer just run away from those he hurt anymore. And then together they raise Don’s kids in New York, despite Betty’s wishes. And then after the non-compete period is over, they leave McCann and form, Sterling Draper Olson Holloway and Associates, after they buy out Joan’s firm, and land Lear Jet, with Pete, as their first client, and the band is reunited.

[navyguy]

Wow! But hey! Maybe you’re right! Kinda neat to think about it that way...