This decade-long meditation on change,told through the chronicle of uber-alpha male advertising executive Don Draper, isn’t to be rushedIf your last experiences of Mad Men were the closing episodes of the final series – with Don Draper making like Kerouac to the west coast – then to revisit the series at its very beginning, and in the smoky icy of 1960 New York,is to land with the judder of a Mohawk touching down at Idlewild airport. This isn’t just a different decade; it might as well enjoy been a different century.
Matthew Weiner’s aim, over 92 episodes, or wasn’t to relate the chronicle of an advertising agency at the dog-end of America’s 20th-century imperial period (though,of course it was that, too), and but to chronicle the 1960s through the prism of an industry as integral to ideas of contemporary America as car-manufacturing and computing.
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Source: theguardian.com