Posted on 01/29/2012 3:20:48 PM PST by OrangeHoof
Mad Men is incredible. Very well done.
AMC rocks. Hell on Wheels, The Walking Dead, Mad Men. All great shows.
Never got into Breaking Bad for some reason (the subject matter drugs)but I heard it was good.
Thanks for the synopsis. I’ve heard Rush mention the show with favor. Your review adds a lot.
I agree - excellent series. My complaint is that it’s far too long between seasons.
Thanks for the insights into the series. I have purposely avoided it because the ads for it make it look like a wholesale condemnation of the Fifties and Sixties as a time of nothing but oppression, suppression, behind-the-scenes perversity, and rampant bigotry. As one who grew up in those days, i know things to have been very, very different. And I resent the libs who are hellbent on revisionist history aimed at destroying the basic moral rectitude that played such an integral part of people’s lives at the time.
In short, even growing up in Baltimore’s inner city, my home was actually much like Leave it to Beaver — as were the homes of most of my friends. A perfect world? No. But head and shoulders above the moral abyss in which America now finds itself. And a far cry from what libs try to paint the Fifties and Sixties as. I know. I was there.
If I’m wrong about the shoe — and if it is evenhanded enough to depict the positive along with the negative of that era — I’ll go out and buy the DVDs.
I’m going to have to watch this show one of these days. If nothing else I consider the style of that period to be pretty much the apex of American style. I love the whole modernist thing, and I’ve heard the show’s set designers captured it perfectly.
The "shoe" was what Ed Sullivan had.
Sorry, but Hell of Wheels sucks. Big time. They should have just licensed Red Dead Redemption so that they could use the REAL John Marston character. They also need to learn to write dialog; maybe they could have watched a few episodes of Deadwood, or better yet hired David Milch or ted Mann. Bottom line is that this show doesn’t even make it to second rank. Just rank, that’s all.
And I haven’t even started on the soundtrack. Ugh. Or the sets. Or the acting.
I’ve just started netflix, so i might check it out.
That’s too bad—I was looking forward to catching it on DVD. Sounds like I’m not in for a “Breaking Bad”-level treat...
To be sure, it’s Hollywood liberalism - especially when you look at some of the extra features on the DVD. But I’m willing to accept that if it isn’t preachy and if it is mature enough to poke fun at liberals too.
One white character on the show lived in Greenwich Village because it was hip and trendy and dated a black supermarket clerk to prove he was supportive of “civil rights”. He tried to walk the walk of a good liberal and ultimately looks just as phony and bigoted as others do.
When I used to watch All In The Family”, I realized that the main focus of the show was to skewer the “conservative” bigoted Archie Bunker. But I understood that Archie was a product of his upbringing and that much of his bigotry wasn’t rooted in hatred but the stereotypes he learned from everything in his world. Archie wasn’t about to lynch a black or beat a gay or don a hood. He was simply expressing the jargon of his era.
If you can stomach the typical Tom Hanks historical Hollywood films, you’ll be okay with Mad Men.
I understand the show was originally pitched to HBO and they turned it down. I think if HBO had bought it, there would be more smut, more f-bombs and more liberal preachiness. The fact that it was picked up by AMC, which is “regular cable” in many places, actually made the show far better.
Couldn’t agree more as Christina Fredricks is HOT!
That comment struck me as very funny. I'm old enough to remember the real Sixties. But I remember it more like Sally's Daddy. I was a copywriter in an ad agency in those days.
I've avoided watching the whole series because the episodes I've seen have seemed rather shallow and out-of-context with what was really happening then. I'll withhold judgment until I can get the whole thing on DVD. It was a very turbulent time -- one that can honestly be called a cultural paradigm-shift. On the whole, I think things were much better then.
Christina Hendricks is, too!
I can only speak for myself, but as for me, I’ll take Breaking Bad any day.
My bad, you’re right.
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