Posted on 07/23/2010 4:17:33 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The women of the 1960s and their 'period bodies' with normal proportions are rare today, and something to be envied.
The fourth season of "Mad Men" starts Sunday, and with it another round of opportunities to both marvel and gasp at how much things have changed since the early 1960s. Much of the genius of the show, of course, lies in its ferocious attention to period details. From the entrenched womanizing and nonstop drinking and smoking (even while pregnant!) to children who play with plastic dry-cleaning bags
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I just finished watching season 1 on Netflix. I would say if you have Netflix, give it a go. That's the beauty of Netflix!
I personally find the show a little slow, but I guess it is interesting enough that I'll watch season 2. I guess my personal taste runs toward something both more dramatic, and perhaps more violent; like 'Sons of Anarchy'; an amazingly good drama.
One thing about Mad Men: they don't sugar-coat adultery. They show it for the sordid, unsatisyfing sin that it is. Nothing will keep a guy faithful better than watching Don Draper's filthy, philandering lifestyle slowly ruining his relationship with his wife, his friends, and with the children that he loves. You can see that the conflict is killing him inside -- as real-world adultery does.
Plus the show is packed with honeys, wall to wall, all wearing the kind of clothes people used to wear when grownups were running the country. Christina ("Joan Holloway") Hendricks is so freaking attractive that it's frightening -- I mean, it's like taking a baseball bat in the gut every time she comes on camera. I mean, I love my wife, but OH YOU KID. Sometimes I think that women like her ought to be kept in trust by the Department of the Interior for all Americans to enjoy. Even the mousy girls on the show (yes, the Progressive Insurance girl is one of them) are well turned out and cute. Hats, gloves, nylons — those were the days.
And she's a damned good actress, too. In fact, all the actors and actresses on that show are of top quality. The scripts are zingy and smart, with just the occasional hint of wry nostaligic humor. (Condescending Beatnik: "How do you sleep, man?" Ad Exec Don: "On a bed made out of money"). Yes, it's uncomfortable to see blacks and women kept "in their place" as they were in the real-life world of early-1960s America, but even with the casual racism and objectification of women that was everywhere in those days, I sometimes wonder if the lives of most blacks and women are fundamentally better in our modern "liberated" age.
And of course it's lots of fun to see people smoking pack after pack of cigarettes (in bed, at work, in public, everywhere), driving gigantic gas-guzzling street panzers without wearing seat belts or strapping the kinder into child restraint systems, drinking on the job, throwing litter everywhere, letting their kids play with dry-cleaning bags — you know, doing all the naughty, dangerous, and irresponsible things we used to do back when this was a free country. It's wicked. It's refreshing. It's hard to imagine a time when the federal government played essentially no role in the lives of average people.
If you haven't seen Mad Men, give it a try. But be warned: it's hip, witty, cool, and fun, but it's also at its root a sad story of a sad man. Go, and do thou otherwise.
Nonsense
In its own way MadMen is a patriotic all American show. The Kodak Carousel episode was the best one and was in Season One. After Season One MadMen is still good but more soap operaish. I like seeing all that 60s stuff in MadMen..... the clothes and the furniture. Robert Morse is a scene stealer with hip-Ayn Randian character.
I think eveyone’s take on this is wrong. AMC = Time Warner = CNN.
I cancelled tv to stop supporting the regime bcause all of tv supports him including Fox/Saudia News.
The creator is gay and essentially: all white WASP men from the 1960s were devious adulterers and white women who worked in offices were either sexually harrassed or tramps. See desparate houswives as suburban housewives are sluts - liberal hollywoods take on heterosexuals. Usually the vile characters are Christians too.
TV manipulated the masses into eleecting the coup. Keep watching and supporting the regime.
I love ‘Sons of Anarchy’! Can’t wait for season 3.
If you want " something both more dramatic, and perhaps more violent", check out Breaking Bad.
The show brings back a lot of memories.
I couldn’t stop laughing when Mrs. Draper, pregnant, pulled out a cigarette, lit it up, and started puffing away — in the doctor’s office where the Doctor was puffing on a cigarette, too.
Michelle Obama would love those dresses, they are her style.
Each season on the show moves a few years ahead.
In the early episodes of a new season, they make reference to some well-known historical event to give the audience the timeframe.
All because the homosexuals got into the fashion industry and wanted to make women look like their fantasy (young boys).
They hate the body of the natural woman. This hatred is manifested to the girls and women who view the "ideal beauty" that the fashion industry has power to create and has made most women and girls hate their bodies....as shown in every poll taken since the 80's. Eating disorders were hardly heard about prior to the 70's. Eating disorders are prevalent in very young girls now.
I know a young woman who could be her twin sister. Both are striking, although a bit too thin for my taste.
Smashing. Lovely lasses who look like grown women.
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