Mad Men The setting: Madison Avenue advertising industry, 50s/60s New York

• Mad Men is intimidating. It is an adult show that's both most stylish and best written. Very intelligent and superior television. Not like True Blood with just people being humans as the sexual animals that they are nor like Glee with the teenagers their singing, and overall shallowness. Men are still douchebags, but when are they aren't? But in Mad Men, they're with higher wisdom and charm. The show is adult as in subtle & complex, not just in the sex sense.
• Mad Men has ingenious story telling. Everything is told low-key, which is how it usually goes in real life. Issues sneak up on us like that. People don't spell out their whole selves for you.
• Mad Men is delicious. Quintessential men, not boys.
• Mad Men presents worldly women. They're repressed and are supplicants, but come on. Two words: Joan Holloway.
• Mad Men is a period piece. I have a passion for period pieces, which is actually reason alone for me to watch the show. It's a period piece so well-delivered and intricate. The production design is simply a beauty.
  • It made me think of technology, and how great leaps we've had over the years.
  • The grace, fineness, the depth despite corruption and immorality.
  • I'm not wholly familiar with the culture, but I can see it's all, "fuck political correctness!"
    • There is obviously discrimination against the Jews, the Orient, negroes, women. Recurring themes: smoking, contraception, repression, conformity
    • elegance, manners, fashion, alcohol
  • Remember Bewitched? This particular piece is special to me because I am a fan of the 60s shoe Bewitched. Samantha's husband Darrin is an ad man in that time too.