CTV has finally got around to airing Mad Men. I've been waiting forever for this show.
The first episode did not disappoint. It is as has been described: everybody smokes constantly. My sister kept saying "Did people smoke that much?" We can't remember the 60's and smoking, although both our parents smoked at the time. I do recall that.
Also, everyone (i.e the men) is drinking at the office. Love that. The anti-semitism is weirdly casual, and I doubt that black people even exist in this world.
Anyway the show looks great. I love the clothes and the hairstyles. And the amazingly sexist dialogue. At one point, a boss (male, of course) tells a secretary (female, of course) to go home and put her curlers on and relax. My sis said "Anyone who doesn't call herself a feminist should ask herself if THIS is what she wants to go back to."
All the characters seem pretty nasty and conniving. I'll keep watching because I love nastiness, but I think sis will tune out because the creeps on the show were giving her the creeps.
4 comments:
Haven't watched this show...but am watching Swingtown, which takes place in the 70s about a suburb where "swinging" is in...Why are other decades always cooler than the one we're living in...Even now, at times, I think, hey the 80s looked like fun...and then I remember that I was a part of it (and that it wasn't thaaaat fun!)
JAW fan
Haven't watched this show...but am watching Swingtown, which takes place in the 70s about a suburb where "swinging" is in...Why are other decades always cooler than the one we're living in...Even now, at times, I think, hey the 80s looked like fun...and then I remember that I was a part of it (and that it wasn't thaaaat fun!)
JAW fan
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JAW fan
Isn't swinging still in? I thought people were getting arrested for that in the past few years, for running brothels under the title of swinging parties?
I know of one person who was invited to a swingers party on the West Island. And we think the West Island is dull...
I don't understand swinging. Maybe just because there aren't that many men (I'm talking regular men here, not European soccer players) that I would want to "swing" with.
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