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.

[dfwgator]

Not that I care for awards much, but if Hamm doesn’t get an Emmy for Best Actor, there is really something wrong.

[Usagi_yo]

Last episode was awesome. Nothing we haven’t seen before from Don Draper. Like Stan said, he’s a survivor and expects him to come back with a great pitch.

SPOILERS

The whole full circle thing going on in the end with Don, Peggy, Stephanie (and the deceased Anna) was impressive. I overlooked the story line of Stephanie and her decision as a mother vs Peggy and her decision as a mother and the directions each others life were taking on the end. Her’s a slow motion disaster and Peggy hitting her stride.

[Night Hides Not]

Not that I care for awards much, but if Hamm doesn’t get an Emmy for Best Actor, there is really something wrong.

Agreed. The scene near the end where he just collapsed physically and mentally was stunning (right after he hung up with Peggy).

I didn't get interested until the last month. I thought the final episode was a snoozer for most of it...I don't get into nuance too much anymore.

I hung in there for all 7 seasons of Sons of Anarchy. Kurt Sutter did a better job of tying up the loose ends. The ending for Mad Men was perfect for all the people that lived and died with the show for its entirety.

[Night Hides Not]

The show helped me come up with a line to handle my children’s difficulties with me: hey, just because you think I did a lousy job as a dad, it doesn’t give you the excuse to be a crappy parent to your child(ren). lol

[dfwgator]

Mad Men is one of those shows where you pretty much have to watch from start to finish, it’s like a novel. There are a lot of references to things in earlier episodes, that if you missed it, you won’t have the context for them.

[T-Bird45]

I’ve understood Sunday night was the conclusion of the entire series, based on the way various shows discussed it today.

[gattaca]

I felt let down myself. Turn (Washington Spies) is on Netflix. Think I’ll give it a try.

[gattaca]

That was one of my favorites, too. I like the older Man Men episodes. I started getting board with it later on.

[gattaca]

Interesting. I didn’t get the connection. I’ll have to watch it again.

[gattaca]

Interesting. I didn’t get the connection. I’ll have to watch it again.

[Chickensoup]

oh I just watched a half season posted to net flix a couple of months ago and thought the next half season would not be airing and then available on Netflix til next year. I will wait for them to post it.

[Chickensoup]

Looked on IMDB and it seems that the final seven have been aired which means I will see them on Netflix soon.

[Charles Martel]

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.

Yep, the riding lawnmower scene - classic. Roger's comment: "It looks like Guadalcanal out there!"

[webheart]

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.

I keep seeing the promos for Turn, but the guy who it seems to be about is always looking suspicious, so I wonder how he can make it very long as a spy.

[denydenydeny]

Matthew Weiner is a big lib but the show was never particularly preachy. You can be highly political like Aaron Sorkin, but your shows will be awful garbage loved only by lefties. Weiner aimed higher.

Pete was the most obviously politically liberal character of the regulars; an Aaron Sorkin show would have made him into a mouthpiece and given him agitprop dialogue to excoriate the evil conservatives with; Sorkin would have basically depicted him as brilliant and saintly and flawless. But in fact Weiner’s Pete is a truly awful person for the most part until the end of the series when he wised up and went back to his wife.

Lane’s life was ruined by high taxes, and they drove him to suicide. I can’t remember the last time ANY movie or television show depicted lives ruined by taxation.

[ncalburt]

We had never seen any of the episodes before but a relative visiting watched it so we caught the last two.

I was impressed by the actress playing the ex wife Betty who had just been notified of her lung cancer.
Its was a little too realistic and her final scene with her ex was brutal but very realistic.