Mad Men Re-runs
Is there going to be a Mad Men marathon before the second season starts? It looks like the re-runs are on episode 13. I would like to start from the beginning.
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Talk: Mad Men: March 2008
Mad Men DVD
Will Mad Men Season I will be available on DVD anytime soon?
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New Amsterdam Copies Mad Men?
Black bow-ties, white shirts, and all in tonight's flashbacks in New Amsterdam... I half expected to see Don walking down the street...
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"Shoot" Episode
I missed this episode the first time around and forgot to tape it. The closing scene, one of my favorite songs playing in the background, Betty in total control, with the cig hanging out of her mouth, shooting those damn pigeons who dared to harm her family. Priceless.
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Masters of Their Universe
Watching Sunday night's episode of Mad Men, I was struck by Don's interactions with the West Village beatniks.
Throughout the series we're given a glimpse into these men who are self-styled"masters of their own universe," to borrow a phrase from Tom Wolfe. Nothing can touch them, and more importantly, nothing and nobody can beat them: Sure I can chase my secretary around the office trying to get a look at her panties, who is going to tell me otherwise?
It's a disturbing social trend we see these characters exhibit, and yet it never occurs to us that this was perhaps not the "norm" for everyone in the 60s. The beatniks certainly don't share in any of Don's sensibilities, and for the first time I think he feels rather small in their presence -- as though he and his sensibilities were the butt of a joke.
I'm curious if anyone else got that impression. I'm also curious, for people who lived through the sixties, if these Mad ways of living were truly the norms for that era, or if we're just looking at a bunch of self-involved narcissists and the rest of the world behaved more or less, shall we say, appropriately. What do you all think?
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