No worries, they aren't giving away any secrets...
Watching "Mad Men" on AMC - Mom wrote down the date, time, and channel, which made it extremely easy for me to tune in (thanks, Mom, always looking out for me).
It's about the "golden age" of Madison Avenue advertising. The fictional agency, Sterling Cooper, is filled with 1960's man's men - cheating on their wives, belittling female clients, having affairs with their secretaries, all in a day's work.
The "pitch" scene to their latest client (a wanna-be high end retail store on 5th Ave.) was, to me, hilarious. Basically, they had their multi-degreed research man tell the client all about her competitors and how they were going to update her store, etc etc, all in under three minutes. Pitches today can take 3-6 hours.
Daughter's birthday party scene:
Husband: I heard a really good one the other day -
Wife: Oh, honey, not again!
Husband: ::laughs:: So, your wife and your lawyer are drowning and you have a choice to make - go to lunch or a movie?
::All men laugh::
Oooo, the new-to-the-neighborhood divorced harlot just entered the birthday party with her son and is chatting it up with the other housewives in the kitchen - they're obviously jealous of her honeymoon in Paris.
Oh man, is everyone having an affair in this show!?
Seriously, I can't watch this if it's mostly about the personal life of 1960's America. Give me more about the advertising, people. No one watches CSI to hear about Warrick's Friday night or Greg's latest pick-up line, they want to see the crime get solved! Here, I want to see the product get sold!
In other news, AMC does this delightful little thing - buffers? - before the commercials: they give little bits of trivia about the following commercial. Before the Jack Daniels commercial, "Jack Daniels took the meaning of 'Old No. 7' to his grave"; before the Geico commercial, "The song in the caveman commercial is 'Remind Me' by Royksopp." Nicely done, AMC. :)
It's about the "golden age" of Madison Avenue advertising. The fictional agency, Sterling Cooper, is filled with 1960's man's men - cheating on their wives, belittling female clients, having affairs with their secretaries, all in a day's work.
The "pitch" scene to their latest client (a wanna-be high end retail store on 5th Ave.) was, to me, hilarious. Basically, they had their multi-degreed research man tell the client all about her competitors and how they were going to update her store, etc etc, all in under three minutes. Pitches today can take 3-6 hours.
Daughter's birthday party scene:
Husband: I heard a really good one the other day -
Wife: Oh, honey, not again!
Husband: ::laughs:: So, your wife and your lawyer are drowning and you have a choice to make - go to lunch or a movie?
::All men laugh::
Oooo, the new-to-the-neighborhood divorced harlot just entered the birthday party with her son and is chatting it up with the other housewives in the kitchen - they're obviously jealous of her honeymoon in Paris.
Oh man, is everyone having an affair in this show!?
Seriously, I can't watch this if it's mostly about the personal life of 1960's America. Give me more about the advertising, people. No one watches CSI to hear about Warrick's Friday night or Greg's latest pick-up line, they want to see the crime get solved! Here, I want to see the product get sold!
In other news, AMC does this delightful little thing - buffers? - before the commercials: they give little bits of trivia about the following commercial. Before the Jack Daniels commercial, "Jack Daniels took the meaning of 'Old No. 7' to his grave"; before the Geico commercial, "The song in the caveman commercial is 'Remind Me' by Royksopp." Nicely done, AMC. :)