Mad Men Season 1
This show is nothing like I was expecting, and because of that, it took me a little while to get over it and enjoy it for what it actually was. I'm not so sure what my expectations were or how they got where they were, but I was expecting some mafioso type situation, not boardroom politics and backroom shenanigans.
This show is about The Advertising Business and more specifically, focusing mostly on one man at an Advertising Firm. It's an interesting, nothing too crazy happened, but Sterling Cooper sounds like the place to work back then (if you are a white male). It actually reminds me of 2 jobs I had where the men would conspire around the women of the office, some even benefiting from what I will refer to as "Office Syndrome"* & others desperately throwing themselves out there for any sort of attention.
I've actually gotten into this show( and I might have given up if it weren't for my girl liking it), but up until near the end of the 1st season, I had to keep guessing what year it was and how much time was passing since they give you no reference of time.
I noticed somewhere around the middle of the season that Peggy looked pregnant since she had a little gut growing on her. My girl thought I was crazy for even mentioning such a thin, But then she went from mousy unattractive to fat rat looking complete with chubby cheeks and second chins. My girl kept thinking I was an ass for thinking that she was pregnant, fat, ugly and disgusting[....and maybe I was, but my suspicions turned out to be true in the end, So whatever.
We're still not sure how she could have given birth to a baby that big and healthy looking while barely showing and not even have known she was pregnant at all or that anything was wrong until she was about to pop the baby outAlso I can't stand the way Campbell talks, Cut throat Bitch is the neighbor to the Drapers (from House M.D.), Annie is much cuter on Community(she doesn't even look like the same person), Mrs. Draper looks like a Stepford Wife, Cooper looks like a short fat Colonel Sanders, Campbells secretary is the finest chick in the building and last but not least Christina Hendricks is beautiful on the show as she fits the style perfectly, but WTF is up with that 45
o angled hinge on her neck? She needs posture lessons to bring her head straight up and her shoulders back.
Now having said all that.... On to Season 2.
edit: I forgot to mention that I love the intro music.
It's like a hip hop infused waltz or something. I keep picturing Antonio Banderas teaching a bunch of troubled highschool youth how to dance classically to it.
edit 2: I forgot to explain "Office Syndrome"
It's something that I've first seen explained on a TV show called Working (s1e2) starring Fred Savage. Where you work in an office environment seeing the same people day in and day out. Some you find attractive and some you don't. Eventually the ones you don't start to slowly become attractive as you start overlooking the things that un-attracted you in the first place.