Maybe that’s why I find Jon Hamm’s character Don Draper in “Mad Men” so appealing. I remember men like him when I was a kid. Not the womanizing, but the suave coolness. The show may be intended to be an indictment of the olden days—”look at those people, smoking, drinking and cheating on their wives”—but I have to admit I watch it with a touch of nostalgia.
I don't think it's an indictment as much as it attempts to be an honest depiction of that era without sugarcoating or damning which is what makes that show so compelling to watch.