Mad Men

[BoylenOver]

Who knew a guy named Tagg wouldn't appreciate a fictional drama?

I thought it was a decent episode. Michael is hilarious, and like it was mentioned, Roger Sterling is a gem.

Don and Betty probably have a better relationship divorced than they did married.

[Viking]

Who knew a guy named Tagg wouldn't appreciate a fictional drama?

I thought it was a decent episode. Michael is hilarious, and like it was mentioned, Roger Sterling is a gem.

Don and Betty probably have a better relationship divorced than they did married.

So do I and my ex-wife. We're fantastic friends.

[marsupial]

Don't blow up. In the early seasons Betty was a real bitch about her daughter's weight... Betty gaining weight is totally karma for her obsessing about her little girl's weight. We're supposed to be happy she got fat.

Joan, on the other hand, can rock the curves. Although, I wouldn't want to have to carry those things around, especially on a run. I get a back ache just looking at her.

[LA Ute]

Still waiting for someone to point out a character who's admirable and has something like a happy life among the Mad Men folks....

[marsupial]

Still waiting for someone to point out a character who's admirable and has something like a happy life among the Mad Men folks....

Happy people are boring.

[Mormon Red Death]

Still waiting for someone to point out a character who's admirable and has something like a happy life among the Mad Men folks....

Don Draper's new wife is happy and admirable.

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[Tim]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolit...-grandson-tagg

LOL! Lib media? What an idiot...

[Tim]

Still waiting for someone to point out a character who's admirable and has something like a happy life among the Mad Men folks....

If you want happy people, go watch Wheel of Fortune.

[Pelado]

LOL! Lib media? What an idiot...

From the article:

Last night's episode, called "Tea Leaves," was directed by Mad Men star Jon Hamm and written by Erin Levy and Matthew Weiner, who's the show's creator.

Weiner told Bill Maher on HBO's Real Time this past Friday that he's a Democrat.

Is Matthew related to Anthony?

[LA Ute]

If you want happy people, go watch Wheel of Fortune.

I'd be content with one person in an entire cast of characters. That seems realistic to me. I'll broaden my request. How 'bout you tell me about a Mad Men character who (a) the audience can care about or (b) doesn't live a self-inflicted miserable life? I mean, the show looks to me like a tony soap opera. I like James Lileks' take:

There are two approaches to writing about Mad Men. Number one: this is a serious show about America and I am a serious person so I will think about what it all means. As in:

“Maybe it’s not all about work,” Dr. Miller says to Don Draper at the start of “Tomorrowland,” the end of the latest Mad Men season.* It’s good advice. Like every other piece of good advice, you suspect Don will hear it, understand it — and ignore it. A man is his work, isn’t he? You can step away tomorrow.* Tomorrow you can go to California, to Disneyland.

The second approach:

Did you not just love it when Peggy stomped into Joanie’s office after getting the news about Don and grabbed a cigarette and vented?* She’s mad at Don for stealing her limelight again of course, but was that heartbreak in her face when she realized he was in L-O-V-E? And then there was Betsy’s awesome coat at the end when she was in the house with Don alone. She’s always so put together, even when she’s falling apart!

They’re both correct, which explains the show’s appeal. It’s a thoughtful disquisition on the days before the counterculture began its transformation of the post-war order, and also a soap with exquisite production values.

The show's well-done and kinda fun to watch, but it ain't Shakespeare.

[Hsaru]

I'd be content with one person in an entire cast of characters. That seems realistic to me. I'll broaden my request. How 'bout you tell me about a Mad Men character who (a) the audience can care about or (b) doesn't live a self-inflicted miserable life? I mean, the show looks to me like a tony soap opera. I like James Lileks' take:



The show's well-done and kinda fun to watch, but it ain't Shakespeare.

Or it could be a combo of both, which is what reasonable people who don't need everything to be talked about in extremes do.

[LA Ute]

Or it could be a combo of both, which is what reasonable people who don't need everything to be talked about in extremes do.

Hey, this is about the show, not about any real person. You miserable....

[SeattleUte]

I'd be content with one person in an entire cast of characters. That seems realistic to me. I'll broaden my request. How 'bout you tell me about a Mad Men character who (a) the audience can care about or (b) doesn't live a self-inflicted miserable life? I mean, the show looks to me like a tony soap opera. I like James Lileks' take:



The show's well-done and kinda fun to watch, but it ain't Shakespeare.

In the New York Review of Books Daniel Mendelsohn wrote that the show is not great art but he concludes he likes it and it is extremely popular because so many of us know that's how our parents lived. Well, my parents didn't live that way to my knowleldge, but I do recall as a child my father describing his workaday world and convention sojourns as involving constant exposure to colleagues' alcholohism, inconsiderate chain smoking in close quarters, objectification of women, and of course rampant adultery. It was just like Mad Men, and far more decadant and amoral a world than anything I've been exposed to in a fairly tough and stressed environment of lawyers. Until Mad Men came along I was wondering if he was embelishing or ultra-sensitized like a BYU fan at Rice-Eccles stadium.

[LA Ute]

In the New York Review of Books Daniel Mendelsohn wrote that the show is not great art but he concludes he likes it and it is extremely popular because so many of us know that's how our parents lived. Well, my parents didn't live that way to my knowleldge, but I do recall as a child my father describing his workaday world and convention sojourns as involving constant exposure to colleagues' alcholohism, inconsiderate chain smoking in close quarters, objectification of women, and of course rampant adultery. It was just like Mad Men, and far more decadant and amoral a world than anything I've been exposed to in a fairly tough and stressed environment of lawyers. Until Mad Men came along I was wondering if he was embelishing or ultra-sensitized like a BYU fan at Rice-Eccles stadium.

I think you've nailed the show's appeal. Watching those "Mad Men" characters is kind of like watching Michael Scott in "The Office," without the comedy and lovable goofiness: "Holy cow, did he really just say that?" My guess is, however, that the behavior in "Mad Men" is about as close to how things really were in 1960s Madison Avenue ad agencies as the hijinks in "L.A. Law" were to life in real L.A. law firms.

[Mormon Red Death]

I'd be content with one person in an entire cast of characters. That seems realistic to me. I'll broaden my request. How 'bout you tell me about a Mad Men character who (a) the audience can care about or (b) doesn't live a self-inflicted miserable life? I mean, the show looks to me like a tony soap opera. I like James Lileks' take:



The show's well-done and kinda fun to watch, but it ain't Shakespeare.

Is Tim the only one you will hear from on this? I answered your query above.