So, you've got so much going on your life that you watched "Mad Men", a TV series about an "uninteresting dweeb", and that the only thing you could think of to do with this experience was to turn it into a Yahoo FFL message, but you failed to watch the entire series.
Where is Judy when we need her? Quoting "TurquoiseBee [email protected] [FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]>: > As I've probably mentioned before, I gave up on "Mad Men" early, > after maybe the second season. But I watched this final episode > today for the heck of it anyway, so I have to check in to disagree > with your "captured the times" comment. > > The reason I stopped watching it was because I couldn't identify > with any of the characters in it. They all struck me as bourgeois > wage slaves pursuing the American consumer dream, sleepwalking > through what was *otherwise* one of the most interesting times of > the twentieth century. These seriously BORING people managed to > become so immersed in their petty concerns that they missed pretty > much all of the transformations that the Sixties were really known > for. Even at the end, the closest Don Draper can get to the real > action is going to Esalen and learning to meditate (at least four > years after many of us on this forum did), finding a bit of inner > peace, and then being such an uninteresting dweeb that the only > thing he can think of to do with this experience is to turn it into > a Coke commercial. > > You'll have to forgive me, but as a veteran of the early Acid Trips > and Love-Ins and the Fillmore and the Avalon and as someone who by > 1970 had left the drug culture that many of the Mad Men characters > are just discovering behind, I don't really see this series as *in > any way* "capturing the times." These characters weren't in the game > at all -- they were off on the sidelines as the real action played > out elsewhere. "Mad Men" always felt to me like a series created by > people who weren't actually *there* during the time period they were > portraying. > > Just my opinion, having spent the period covered by the show > (1960-1970) closer to the front lines... > From: laughinggull108 <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 2:04 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mad Men final episode > > OK, for those that follow such things, what did you think of the > final episode of Mad Men that aired last night? Don Draper sits a > pretty decent half lotus in the closing shot of reciting OM and > finding his inner self...the series definitely captured the times! > What a hoot!
