erik lundegaard

Thursday July 31, 2008

We've come a long way, baby

A thought on the first season of “Mad Men,” the AMC show about a boutique advertising firm in New York in the early 1960s.

The show draws you in with whispers of handsome men and curvy women having martinis and cigarettes and uncomplicated sex in a time before feminism, and then delivers such reprehensible men and such sad, unsexy sex (Don't do it...don't do it...NO!) that you wind up longing for feminism to come along and finally right the effin’ ship. It’s the opposite of what it advertises. In this way it’s closer to art than product.

Tags:
Posted at 07:56 AM on Thursday July 31, 2008 in category TV  
« Roger and Gene   |   Home   |   That McCain Rumor »
 RSS
ARCHIVES
LINKS