Mad Men: Season Two
Last week, I attended, as a customer of AMC, the sneak preview of the first episode of the duplicate season of Mad Men, the show that has been hailed by The New York Times as: the smartest show on telly." Written, created and managerial produced by Matthew Weiner, Mad Men has become the dear of critics and critical viewers exhibiting a resemblance. And with good reason: the show creates a fraternity of hard drinking, Madison Avenue ad-men in the 1960's Camelot that was gone by the board never to be regained again. These Mad Men shaped the way America remembrances, and they accomplished it all with a martini in one hand, a cigarette in the other, and striking juggling acts that balanced wifes and mistresses in ways that corporate American males of today could not collide. Don't look at it as nostalgia, but more like a carefully crafted, chicly researched slice of life of a every so often old-fashioned gone by.
The Museum of Modern Art, where the screening took pad, could not have been a better venue to show off the first show of the second seasonable. In the same building where the principal works of Distinguish oneself Rothko and Jackson Pollock be conditioned, Matt Wiener's series feels morality at home. New York was the center of the art location at the time that Mad Men takes place. And even though it might be a span for these corporate characters to share hurly-burly about the artistic experimentations of the Abstract Expressionists, the veracious writing, sleek design, and cold look of the show is definitely influenced by this downtown action. In future episodes, I can most decidedly see Sterling Cooper acquiring a complicated Clifford Still: it would complement reception's decor rather nicely.
Talking with Matt Weiner after the screening, I shared with him my thoughts that it was very pleasurable and rare to get a chance to watch the show with a monstrous audience, a treat that most television viewers never get. On the miserly screen the details are more vivid and the viewer smoothly focuses on subtleties. Watching it on TV is like...
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