WOW! WOW! WOW! Love the show! I get into it and POW! It's Coming Attractions time for the next show...It FLIES by so fast!
Love episodes with Morse, I remember him in How to Suceed, as well as later on in Capote. He's a veterine heavy wieght, great actor.
The 60's started out one way and evolved into a whole new culture. I remember going to the village Cafe Wha, I remember beatnick style dress (all black) After the Kennedy Assassination the crap hit the fan. Anti War, Civil Right, Women's Rights, Gay Rights on and on. It will be interesting to see the characters evolve. I see Peggy having growth and asserting herself. Also the gay issue. Any body remember Stonewall out there. HELLO!
Don's & Betsy's arch will be interesting to see.
The Times They Are A Changing...GOT TO HAVE
Dillons song in there. Cause all the characters will change with the times. Looking forward to the next segment. Mad Men is THE BEST SHOW and I think it will win the EMMY.

WOW! WOW! WOW! Love the show! I get into it and POW! It's Coming Attractions time for the next show...It FLIES by so fast!
Love episodes with Morse, I remember him in How to Suceed, as well as later on in Capote. He's a veterine heavy wieght, great actor.
The 60's started out one way and evolved into a whole new culture. I remember going to the village Cafe Wha, I remember beatnick style dress (all black) After the Kennedy Assassination the crap hit the fan. Anti War, Civil Right, Women's Rights, Gay Rights on and on. It will be interesting to see the characters evolve. I see Peggy having growth and asserting herself. Also the gay issue. Any body remember Stonewall out there. HELLO!
Don's & Betsy's arch will be interesting to see.The Times They Are Changing.GOT TO HAVE Dillons song in there. Cause all the characters will change with the times. Mad Men is THE BEST SHOW and I think it will win the EMMY.

The 60s, as most people understand them, didn't really hit until 1964 or so. Up til then the early 60s were a continuation of the stultifying 50s. I like the way the show is set in this era -- it's mostly overlooked, and most of the cultural signposts of the times then were wholly unaware of their era. But how could they be -- how could anyone know about the cultural tsunami that was about to engulf the world (do I need to list anything? start with the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, hang a left at Easy Rider and Kent State, and end up in a car wreck at Studio 54 ten years later)?

The show reeks of irony—the good kind— because we know how things are about to turn out. It's like the first series of its kind set on the cultural fault line of this era. Enough to get me watching TV other than sports and wars.

While I was running errands Sunday AM a woman on the radio was talking about why the 50s were the way they were. After almost four decades of world wars and a depression, western society was in shreds. After the war the GIs returned, hunkered down to get their college degrees, wives, and kids, and the U.S. rebuilt a civilized society. And the focus was on North America -- Europe with its infatuation with totalitarian regimes had abdicated that role (and with the exception of Scandinavia and Finland, basically still has). Americans quickly acted like adults. Of course there were vestiges of bad behavior -- the racism, sexism, ageism, and individual self-centeredness the show documents so well. The success of the 60s was in knocking down all those pins, and in the 70s new roles and attitudes took hold. Like I said, the show is set on the cusp. I'd like to see the show hang around the Kennedy era, because it's so underlooked compared to the 1964-72 years, but what do I know?

There's another trend that the first season hinted at, but this season seems to have ignored as the characters are well enough established that sample campaigns will just get in the way of their further development. You know how those initial Bethlehem Steel ads looked completely out of place? Even the coke ad set looked 50s-ish. Advertising would change in the 60s, and play its part in changing the world. All due to a font. Go find the movie Helvetica -- if you've been nodding in agreement with what I've written so far, you might need to get your nephew to torrent it for you.

Is it just me, or was the smoking way down in s2e7?

I hope they are purposely making him look older it is hard to believe he is elderly

Robert Morse is 77 (really!) And shows up for work whether he's in that week's script or not, just because it's so much fun.

I was born in 1952 and the Kennedy assassination was the dividing line for me. The Beatles and Dylan gone electric marked the musical turning point (shouldn't Don's theme be "Like a Rolling Stone"?) Things moved WAY fast from late 63 into about 1973/74 (civil rights, women's movement, Vietnam, youth culture etc.) By the time Nixon resigned post-Watergate in August 1974 it was an entirely different-feeling world.

I have to agree with the Kennedy assassination as being the watershed event the ended the age of innocence at least in my opinion. How many people who were alive at that moment can remember where you were and what you were doing on that eventful day? This event certainly set the table for what followed like the Beatles etc.

I love this show because it takes place during a pivotal time in our country's history. This past episode definitely set the foundation for some great storylines.

My bad for recommending people steal Helvetica. It only made the film festival rounds, but apparently it's available at good video stores everywhere, and no doubt on Netflix, and even at amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Helvetica-David-Carson/dp/B000VWEFP8).

Kennedy is the elephant in the room. Is the show going to skip Nov '63 (assuming it's renewed for another season)?

h Johnny98! The writers can't ignore JFK's assasination.
Actually, I am hoping they will show reactions of at least the main characters.

To ignore the impact of some of the darkest day's in 20th century history would be tragic.
Most Americans were glued to their TVs, businesses closed out of respect. The characters on MM were part of that history.