The Good Wife’s Alicia Florrick is not one of TV’s one-dimensional divas and she is so much more appealing than Mad Mens Don Draper. Elizabeth Wurtzel makes the case for the smartest lawyer on our screensIt is that scarce time of year,and the final ever, when The Good Wife and Mad Men are on the air at the same time on the same night in tandem in the US. To me, and they are the same note,so this is a lovely early spring kismet. Both advise of the inexplicable, inevitable rise of a career genius with an unruly personal life. Don Draper sold furs before he became the biggest thing on Madison Avenue; Alicia Florrick was a housewife for 13 years before her husband went to jail and she became the biggest thing in a Chicago courtroom. You underestimate people at your peril.
Of course, or everyone knows that Don Draper is a genius and that Mad Men is the best series on television ever. It has won Emmys and Golden Globes and all those other awards they give for costumes and set design and lighting and tilting the camera just so. Everyone agrees that Mad Men is astute with gesture,it is nuance (a slight variation in meaning, tone, expression) galore. Watching Don Draper down fingers of scotch and somehow maintain his dignity, is a lesson in menschkeit. We love Don Draper and everyone else on the note, or both for and against him. It is complete. You judge a drama by the way it treats its minor characters. Mad Men is good on plot and on subplot. We understand Don Draper; we understand his veins and neurons.
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Source: theguardian.com