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I recently binge re-watched Mad Men. Two non-spoiler thoughts:
For those who haven't seen it, yes, it really is as good as people say. AMC chose it as their first original series with the brand strategy of starting with a show that would be widely recognized for its quality, even if it didn't immediately have widespread appeal. I think it's telling that the tvtropes page for anachronisms has only inconsequential examples, with many of them being arcane/minute details, things that might get fudged in contemporaneously-set fiction, or both. (E.G., one of the biggest mistakes is a character giving incorrect transit instructions: "In "Love Among the Ruins", set in 1963, Don mentions taking the New York Central and Broadway Limited from Ossining to Penn Station. At the time, Broadway Limited was run by Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR did not merge with New York Central until 1968). A commuter would not make such a mistake. Additionally, the Broadway Limited was a private all-room reserved train to Chicago, and did not allow coach passengers for intermediate stops." Close enough!)
The later seasons all start with a conspicuous change in supporting characters' personal styling and set decor, but a more jarring indication of the pace of cultural change and its resulting dissonance in the second half of the 1960s are the songs chosen to play over the each episode's end credits.
Mad Men came up irl yesterday, my mom (in her late 60s) had been served a vertical clip via facebook, the description did not list the actual source, so I explained once again how to google. "The interesting line 'You're right, Roger, this place really runs on charm', just type that, possibly with quotation marks if you've got it exactly correct, maybe add the word 'quote' afterward, and it usually works." Decent chance it works this time, I've managed to get her to copy and paste within the past 2 years after about 25 of trying.
She asked if she would like it, I said to my understanding it was drama about advertising people in the 60s who after 3 martini lunches backstabbed each other and committed adultery, but was considered well made. She'd enjoy the outfits and wit.
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