Mad Men

[qtlaw]

No fans? I watched the pilot last week and found the show (on AMC) fascinating for the time period piece (1960) and the characters who I thought had interesting qualities.

(Wife hated the portrayals of the female species, but then again that was how it was then.)

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I thought it was very, very well done. I set a Season Pass for it on my TiVo.

 

[pa writer]

Enjoyed the pilot very much. I will be watching tomorrow night.

 

[shotglass]

Very, very promising start. And I LOVED Rosemarie DeWitt on "Standoff" before this.

 

[93Devil]

I finally watched the first episode on TIVO, and I thought it was very, very good.

Don Draper could be a very interesting character. When he chastises people when they screw up, he just seems so darn cool.

I need to rewatch the episode because there was so much going on that I'm sure I missed half of it.

Loved all the drinking and smoking going on during the work day.

"You think people will buy clothes in your store just because they are expensive?"

"Until they make a magical machine that copies pages, stay out of my trash can."

 

[Rockbottom]

Watched the first two episodes, and I am hooked. It is a wee bit odd, and takes some concentration to follow, but it is a thinking-person's story. The TiVo hits it every week.

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[shotglass]

It's just so unique, being a period piece done in a later period. There are now things that fly in TV/film-making that didn't in 1960. So when you see a movie from 1960, you see this kind of world, but in a skewed way because of the limitations of film at that time. Seeing it here, it's something you really HAVEN'T seen before.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

My mom worked as a secretary at a Manhattan ad agency before I was born, but the co-owners were Christian Scientists who didn't accept alcohol and tobacco accounts and certainly wouldn't tolerate the behavior we're seeing on this show.

I enjoy the show and have no doubt it was like this at some agencies, just not all of them.

 

[DanOregon]

Finale was on Thursday and yet another great episode. but I find it very hard to believe Peggy didn't realize she was pregnant until she had the kid. I know her character didn't know, but it didn't jibe with the rest of her storyline.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

My mom worked as a secretary at a Manhattan ad agency before I was born, but the co-owners were Christian Scientists who didn't accept alcohol and tobacco accounts and certainly wouldn't tolerate the behavior we're seeing on this show.

I enjoy the show and have no doubt it was like this at some agencies, just not all of them.

Which agency was that, if I may ask?

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

Needham & Grohmann

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Thank you. That is one name I had yet to hear. Biggest accounts, at the time?

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

I believe Hilton was the largest; my mom still has a brochure they did for one in Havana. Victor Grohmann was an alum of Cornell's hotel management program, so they did a lot of tourism and restaurant ads, somehow without involving liquor in them. A search shows they were absorbed by a Florida agency in 1991.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Thanks. Another thing learned, today.

 

[westcoastvol]

Sterling Cooper is largely modeled after BBDO/NY. Not so much in style, but certainly in attitude (I work in the biz and a good friend of mine is the technical consultant).

 

[Ben_Hecht]

That, I could appreciate.