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May 18, 2015 · After all, Mad Men has told us enough times that what feels like happiness in the moment can turn out to be anything but, and what looks perfect—whether Don and Betty’s model looks as a young ...
- Peggy Olson
- Joan Holloway
- Don Draper
Peggy has always been a headstrong, determined career woman, which is obviously a very admirable feat. She appears very reminiscent of New York’s first female copywriter, Mary Wells Lawrence: who, ironically, worked for Sterling-Cooper’s rival, McCann-Erikson. Lawrence was an inspiration for many women of the time that desired a fulfilling career i...
Moving onto our other leading lady, Joan Holloway, whose arc is actually the yin to Peggy’s yang, to reference the balance metaphor. In "Person to Person," Joan's arc goes in the opposite direction of Peggy’s. Joan, throughout the show, remains a zealous believer in marriage and needing a man to have a full and happy life. However, men have not pla...
Last, but certainly not least, is the main man, the gorgeous glue that holds the entire show together: Don Draper. We’ve followed Don the most closely, compared to any other character, having access to his troubling childhood during the Great Depression and his traumatic time in Korea, where his great lie of Donald Draper began. This intimate acces...
May 20, 2015 · Back to the future. It was the extraordinary performance of Jon Hamm that made this work. Hamm’s gleaming Bond-like coif, his mixture of decorum and aggression and the way he let his thoughts ...
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May 18, 2015 · The final moments of the final "Mad Men" were true not only to the series and its characters, they also were true to the animated credit sequence that opened every episode and to the spirit of ...
Jan 19, 2022 · "Mad Men smashes history, desires, dreams, and life's mundanity together like Douglas Sirk's Large Hadron Collider. It's a classic," an Esquire review said in 2015.
May 18, 2015 · It's a special occasion, so instead of the usual 90-minute chat, I'll be dropping in throughout the day when I'm not doing other things. Please, please, please send me your thoughts.
Jul 19, 2017 · It's time to fix that. The show turns 10 this year, in a world where TV mostly learned the wrong lessons from it. Look back at season one of Mad Men, when everybody was SO YOUNG. Emily St. James ...
