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Anyone watching Mad Men on AMC?

post #1 of 47
9/21/07 at 11:00pm
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Some chick at work recommended this to me and I was skeptical due to her generally bad taste, but the show is downright flawless. Created and written by Matthew Weiner of The Sopranos fame, it stinks of quality. It was picked up for a second season, so you'll have something to look forward to next summer.

http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/about/

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One of the best-written, all-around sparkling works to come along in many a season.
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...“Mad Men,” the new drama on AMC set in the world of advertising at the dawn of the sixties—and encompassing New York life, and marriage, and sex, and repression, and what America was and was not. It is gorgeous in every way. As it should be—it’s the spawn of all those handsome, stylish office movies that were made in the fifties. Like those movies, “Mad Men” is smart and tremendously attractive, and it stirs you more than it probably should. It may not be deep, but if you’re a certain age and have a certain sensibility and certain fantasies of what New York used to be like (thanks to those movies) it hits a deep place in you, like a straight-up Martini made of memory and desire.
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post #2 of 47
9/21/07 at 11:05pm
Its a good show. Its not a "great" show (Rescue Me, Big Love), but certainly in the top 5 of stuff on basic cable.... Really, is there any other reason to even watch AMC?

My favorite MAD moment: Don's girlfriend's stoner buddies get baked to Sketches of Spain

"We're gonna get high and listen to Miles"

I serious had just done that to that same album a few weeks earlier.
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post #3 of 47
9/21/07 at 11:06pm
No, I don't watch it... that kind of stuff is extremely depressing... it really wears on the soul after a while.
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post #4 of 47
9/21/07 at 11:12pm
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No, I don't watch it... that kind of stuff is extremely depressing... it really wears on the soul after a while.
You've got to be kidding.
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post #5 of 47
9/21/07 at 11:13pm
No, I'm really not. Why would I be? All of those types of shows really get me down... shows about well-dressed men with despicable moral standards... they're all the same, and they all leave me with the same drained feeling.
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post #6 of 47
9/21/07 at 11:15pm
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All of those types of shows really get me down.
Dramas?
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post #7 of 47
9/21/07 at 11:24pm
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No, I'm really not. Why would I be? All of those types of shows really get me down... shows about well-dressed men with despicable moral standards... they're all the same, and they all leave me with the same drained feeling.
Does anything make you happy? Your avatar doesn't really jive with your serious personality.
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post #8 of 47
9/21/07 at 11:56pm
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No, I'm really not. Why would I be? All of those types of shows really get me down... shows about well-dressed men with despicable moral standards... they're all the same, and they all leave me with the same drained feeling.
and you make me feel sad. it's a tv show.
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post #9 of 47
9/22/07 at 12:07am
And some people are more easily affected by TV shows and movies. I'm one of those people, and so I choose to abstain from them. No need for snotty comments.
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post #10 of 47
9/22/07 at 12:10am
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Does anything make you happy? Your avatar doesn't really jive with your serious personality.

I completely understand where PiccoloNamek is coming from.

I think MadMen is a well made show, I saw the very first episode, but shows like it create an internal battle in oneself....you desire to be like them but you know what they do is kinda wrong (NOTE, I don't think advertising is wrong, I'm talking about personal conduct). It's the internal battle that helps make them enjoyable to watch, but also it can be exhausting. In PiccoloNamek's case, I'm guessing the depression comes from seeing people like that get ahead in life. His avatar reflects a kind and happy-go-lucky attitude that is disturbed by seeing what is possibly evil, prevail. Moral controversy is VERY interesting, but it does get exhausting.
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post #11 of 47
9/22/07 at 12:52am
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I completely understand where PiccoloNamek is coming from.

I think MadMen is a well made show, I saw the very first episode, but shows like it create an internal battle in oneself....you desire to be like them but you know what they do is kinda wrong (NOTE, I don't think advertising is wrong, I'm talking about personal conduct). It's the internal battle that helps make them enjoyable to watch, but also it can be exhausting. In PiccoloNamek's case, I'm guessing the depression comes from seeing people like that get ahead in life. His avatar reflects a kind and happy-go-lucky attitude that is disturbed by seeing what is possibly evil, prevail. Moral controversy is VERY interesting, but it does get exhausting.
I'm not trying to force the show on anyone, so don't take this the wrong way, but it evolves past what it seems to be about in episode one. I don't think it presents these ad men as men who got ahead and found happiness through their moral bankruptcy. In fact they experience some very lifelike ups and downs, often caused by the lifestyle of their profession, creating both happiness and misery for themselves and their wives and the rest of the women around them in the process. I'm not sure what about real life is depressing. Life is moral controversy. 1960 was an interesting year, a time of transition from a seemingly golden era to a time of civil unrest, dissolution, radical ideas and hope, and I think the show captures it quite well, all while channeling the period elegantly and allowing it to exist on its own terms. After taking a comprehensive American pop culture class that explored the advent of modern advertising I found myself more disgusted by it than ever, and it is a testament to the show that it has me empathizing with kinds of people I'm not particularly fond of. We're all just people. Take any slice from any segment from any time and you get just about the same thing. I don't mind when TV (or whatever) explores the sometimes darker side of humanity. Reality TV (any of it) is far more depressing to me than Mad Men could ever be. MTV's Real World - now that's depressing and empty.
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post #12 of 47
8/16/09 at 1:05am
FYI, Season 3 will premiere Sunday night. I'm stoked.
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post #13 of 47
8/16/09 at 1:39am
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FYI, Season 3 will premiere Sunday night. I'm stoked.
I think this was a worthy bump of an ancient thread.

I'm just a few episodes short of finishing the first season. It has quite stuck to me yet, but my friend told me it wasn't until the end of the first season that he started to appreciate the show, so hopefully I'll be that way as well.
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post #14 of 47
8/16/09 at 2:16pm
I haven't seen it yet. As a concept, it sounds kinda dull to me. But the execution must be good because so many people like it. Then again, America fell in love with "Dallas."
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post #15 of 47
8/16/09 at 3:22pm
I'm happy it's starting up again too. I really love how stylized it is.

The only thing I didn't like from Season 2 is that there were a few worthwhile side storylines that were started but never went anywhere, like the racial activism trip, or the California trip. Then, the season ending seemed a bit rushed or patched together, as if it were cut short by an ep or two. Anyone else feel similiar?
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