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Op zaterdag 8 november 2008 15:23 schreef Laureline het volgende:Ik had juist een beetje moeite het eerste seizoen 'erin' te komen: voor mij waren al die mannetjes op het reclamebureau (vooral het team van Don) zo inwisselbaar! Nu, na seizoen 2, hebben ze allemaal wel een achtergrond gekregen, en een paar goede scenes. Volgens mij is dit ook zo'n serie die, net als de Sopranos, juist beter wordt ieder seizoen. Ik hoop in ieder geval dat er nog veel volgen!
Heb jij enig idee over de respons in Amerika? Heeft het succes, of moeten we vrezen?
En nog over Joan: heerlijk om eens een niet piepdunne vrouw als object van ieders begeerte te zien. En wat is ze prachtig!

Natuurlijk ook echt het ideaal van die tijd.
Er komt ook nog een pitch voor een campagne waarbij iedere vrouw òf een Jackie, òf een Marilyn is. Zie je ze het hele kantoorbestand secretaresses langschecken
Het eerste seizoen dient denk ik vooral om de setting neer te zetten. Net als The Sopranos worden de karakters steeds verder uitgediept in daarop volgende afleveringen/seizoenen. Wel grappig hoe onbeholpen ze met vrouwen omgaan, zoals bijvoorbeeld die Joodse cliente met haar modeboetiek, zoals ook besproken in onderstaande artikel uit The Guardian:
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Sexist, racist ... I truly loved it
Through a politically incorrect haze of cigarette smoke, Lynn Barber spots a TV hit
Lynn Barber
guardian.co.uk, Sunday February 10 2008 11.50 GMT
The Observer, Sunday February 10 2008
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Someone sent me a DVD of the first episode of Mad Men and it is utterly brilliant. It is written by one of The Sopranos' writers, Matthew Weiner, and if it carries on as well as it starts it could even rival the sainted Sops, or at least make up for its absence.
It is so deft, so quick, so subtle, it makes even supposedly intelligent films such as Charlie Wilson's War seem plodding. Set in a Manhattan advertising agency, circa 1960, the first episode is all about smoking. Of course everyone in the office smokes. But the Reader's Digest - a huge influence in those days - has just run an article about the connection between smoking and lung cancer and the government has ruled that cigarette manufacturers can no longer advertise the health benefits (!) of smoking.
This leaves most advertising agencies despondent but Don Draper, our hero, points out that this is the greatest opportunity for advertising since the invention of breakfast cereal because you have six identical manufacturers making six identical products and it is only advertising that can differentiate them. He asks his client, Lucky Strike, to describe how cigarettes are made and latches on to the word 'toasted' and says that's our campaign - Lucky Strikes are toasted and all the others are cancer.
But there is more, much more, packed into this episode - in fact a snapshot of an era. While I was wallowing in nostalgia for those happy days when everyone could smoke in the office, in bars, in restaurants, I was suddenly brought up cold by a scene in which a gynaecologist smokes while examining his patient. That's right: doctors did smoke in those days - I'd forgotten. Moreover, he was simultaneously telling her that while she was 'not a strumpet' for wanting the contraceptive Pill, 'even in our modern times, easy women do not find husbands'.
The women in the office of course suffer routine sexual harassment - all the blokes rush to see 'the new girl' secretary and tell her off for wearing her skirt too long. And there is racism - when a Jewish client (a woman!) approaches the agency, the admen all dash round trying to find out if they have any Jewish employees and dig out someone from the mailroom to attend the meeting. They also hint, none too subtly, that there are Jewish agencies for Jewish businesses and she has come to the wrong place.
Sorry, I'm going on. But I have never seen an hour of television that made me think so much. Everyone who complains about political correctness should be forced to watch it because it is a reminder of what the work environment was like before we had laws against sexism, racism, homophobia and the rest. It even made me rethink my own attitude to smoking, though admittedly while puffing away.
But in case that makes it sound too serious, I should quickly add that it is also, and primarily, very funny. One series has been shown in the US (to rave reviews) and a second has been commissioned so let's hope it doesn't fall victim to the writers' strike - this could be one of the all-time greats.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/feb/10/art.televisionDe respons in Amerika is erg goed! Vele Emmy nominaties en een serie waar veel over gesproken/geschreven wordt. Ik ontdekte Mad Men ook op aanraden van wat Amerikaanse vrienden.
En Joan is echt supersexy met d'r zwoele blik en mooie lichaam