They Are Mad Men
I still believe “Mad Men” to be the most brilliant show since man began painting pictures of elk or deer (whatever they were) on cave walls. However, I don’t think cave paintings ever came with commentary, and I think there is a good reason for that. After listening to The Commentary, I began to wonder if Matt Weiner wrote a different show from what I saw in Season 3.
From what I gathered, Matt, (we’re very close), feels that he’s written a show about the lack of morality in advertising (true), in a world in which such lack goes without consequence (also, most likely, true). I don’t argue that advertising is a soul-draining, moral vacuum of decadence and ass licking (not an original metaphor, and, yet, absolutely true). Having worked in advertising, I’m well versed in cubicle cocktail parties, mafia-level “what the *&%?” extraction of knives from the back, and salacious stories about sex on conference room tables. And, no, I never had to worry about breaking a triangle conference room phone in the throws of a passionate “The Postman Always Rings Twice” (another ancient movie references…clearly, contemporary movies suck) affair, but I have written my share of emails under the influence of gin, beer, tequila, wine, or all four together, and counted such experience as one of a few perks for having my soul siphoned out of me like…like what?…like the last bits of oil in the earth! (yet another sucky metaphor). And I’m all for Don Draper getting in on with every hot, frustrated, oppressed-by-1960’s-American woman (except for Peggy Olsen…who gets enough office action with her brilliant mind), but the man’s bombshell wife is leaving him for a vanilla politician and taking his three kids. Excuse me, Mr. For any individual lowest price on viagra above the age of eighteen and above. Usually before I approach a girl I scan the surroundings to see if a boyfriend order viagra levitra is nearby. What is erectile dysfunction? Erectile dysfunction (ED) refers to the trouble that a man faces, while achieving and sustaining penile erection. levitra viagra online There is an abundance of websites selling tadalafil 5mg tablets for a considerable amount of time. >> Has the facility to chat real time for users who have procured cialis. >> Has the mandatory facility of making a user fill the patient medical history form. Two Time Emmy Award Winner, you wrote the moral lesson into the show!
Matt also thought the hot, teacher lady was a sexually liberated hippy, looking for a good roll in the hay. I’m sorry, but to me she screamed Fatal Attraction Stalker. I thought they wrote her off the show because if they kept her on any longer, she’d have to boil a rabbit.
I’m not going to listen to commentaries anymore. I know the artistic experience brings with it two parts; the creator who offers the product, and the consumer, who receives it. I just never realized how far apart our ideas about the final product could be. And, yet, in the end, does it matter? We don’t all believe Mona Lisa had some dark secret. I think she was just kind of bored.
Just for today, I still love Mad Men.