I watched it, and I love it.
About time the toll of divorce gets a public hearing. My mom was Betty Draper. Period. My mom, however, was stoned a good bit of the time.
Dad worked three jobs.
Thank God for the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America. I avoided the meth and coke habit my younger brother picked up. My youngest is five years younger, and had the benefit of some correction enforced by my Dad on my mom.
I hope the touch on all the new age crap that made the rounds at the time. EST and TM were big in my house. I have friends in my company whose parents were part of a Christian commune, which was more commune and less Christian.
I think it demonstrates how the world of Leave It To Beaver, and the world that led to the one we have today actually coexisted, and one sort of crashed into the other. It shows people who don’t swear, and always dress nicely, yet smoke, drink, chase tail, drunk drive, smoke dope, whatever.
Everyone in America wasn’t dissipating at the rate of these characters, but Madison Avenue had a reputation for this kind of behavior. And everybody WAS coming home and knocking back a few drinks every night, and the divorce rate DID skyrocket.