I have been thoroughly entranced with this series. Having lived through so many of the situations depicted, I do commend you on recreating the era almost accurately.

However, your script writers should run their dialog by some 6o's survivors because they do tend to include some current idioms and expressions. One that I, and many of my friends noticed particularly early on was a reference to "play dates". That phrase is a more modern term. We were much more 'on the spur of the moment' about such things. And although I can't think of it right now, there was another idiom used in ep. 5 that is equally of the present day, not the 60s. It would really be a shame to mar such a perfect re-creation of that period with those false notes.

I was on the secretarial end of the stick during that time, and I really cringe at seeing how things that seemed perfectly normal at the time, were actually standard put-downs of the feminine work force.

We've come a long way, baby.

Jean Lockwood

McLean VA

I'm wholly entranced by the series, especially the exceptional attention to period detail.

However, one glaring error did surprise me a bit: in Episode 3 Don Draper takes indoor home movies with what appears to be a 1959 model Keystone automatic camera. Unfortunately, had he been filming with the then-current color home movie film (Kodachrome Type A, with an indoor ISO of only 16!) the film would have come out grossly underexposed without blindlingly bright movie lights. Since the episode uses simulated home movie color footage, I assume that the intention was that he was filming successfully.

As a survivor of early 1960s kiddie parties, I remember all too well those movie lights, which were inflicted on unsuspecting guests at almost every birthday and other indoor special event. I also recall that someone's daddy would inevitably wind up burning himself on the hot, exposed photoflood bulbs.

We love the series and hope that it gets renewed for another season.

The series gives advertising a colorful personality filled with intrigue and gossip. The details to all of the sets enhance the stage that bring you into the real world of the advertising agency. I thought the beginging trailer title sequence was especially well crafted from a graphic impact. The siloquett of the falling man along with the titles in typographic motion was a fresh way to tie together the materials the agency would use. I wanted to ask how can I get a copy of the title footage to show my class. I teach advertising design and that interviews and graphics would be great to show the students. Great show!

ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SHOW. lived the most exciting period of my life in the 60tys....This show brings it all back and I look forward to every single episode.

They only answer 3 questions out of all of the ones asked?

This show is nothing but an anti straight hetero 60s cool satire and bash fest with a usual suspect minority agenda. But with our first US dictator who is into bald men and a NeoCon fascist media more worried about Middle East politics than domestic soverignty, it's safe to say that the real madmen rule the dying present and not the pristine past. You can live in denial and poison the zeitgeist all you want to make your case. But real people without selfish motives know we can't be blind to the here and now by condemning history. There was an 80s soft rock anthem about generation gaps as such. You belittle breeder boogie men in a culturally biased TV show while in real life you and your ilk are leading US toward our end days from Hollywood to DC, as the western world choses golden rule hedonism over procreation and civilization. Enjoy the fall. I'm sure the Neros and Caligulas of ancient Rome felt the same way you do about rogues who smoke and drink too much!

While I enjoy this well-made soap opera immensely, I strongly suspect the whole initative came from the tobacco industry. The constant smoking mars the show, belying its attempted realism, and is sure to produce future nicotine addicts just as intended. Isn't the whole thing really an ad for cigarette smoking?

Smoking was a big part of this era. My parents smoked in the car with the window rolled up. The cinema seats had ashtrays attached. Even my Doctor smoked IN THE OFFICE. I am a Nurse and we smoked while charting. I think this an accurate depiction of what it was like to grow up in the enviromental cesspool. I don't think it will encourage smoking, in fact it shows just what gains have been made to fight such a socially accepted addiction. My 23 year old daughter watched an episode and asked me if people really smoked like that and then observed " No wonder my grandparents weren't alive to see me"

I love this show!! Its fresh, clever, witty, sophisticated and decadent! The casting is superb the writing is excellent. I was hooked from the get-go and I hope it comes back as I will be sorry to see it end this week. We need more programming like this one. Kudos to the producers! Mad Men is what great viewing is all about! Thank you AMC!!

Women have come a long way. The true is I liked where they came from. Dang they looked sexy back then. Who knows that style might come back

I have watched the entire series. I really have enjoyed this show. However, I do not remember the electric typewriters from 1960. Every Thursday, I have asked the same question did secretaries use electric IBM typewriters in 1960? This show is a keeper.

I absolutely love the show!!! It's the best!!! I was born in 1963 in a small NH town. I missed what was going on in the '60's!! Parents did not talk about sex, who was having an affair, who was divorced and children did not ask! I remember the constant smoking and cocktails. Thanks for sharing John Slattery. The cast is superb. I look forward to next season. MJ

The IBM Selectric typewriter (occasionally known as the IBM Golfball typewriter) is an influential electric typewriter design. It was introduced in 1961.

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