Excessive Opinions

A follow on from: http://www.66seven.co.uk/post/347251252

There’s something about the show Mad Men, it’s nice and slow. I mean everything happens, just not all at once. With all the drinking, smoking and wit, the characters seem to find a comfortable mix of talking and work. Not too much yet just enough to satisfy you; it’s the pace of the show which really sells it so me.

It’s not amazing in its content, I mean it’s main focus of this show seems to be the characters and some of them just aren’t quite sold to me. Being set in the 1960’s adds little appeal for me, Boston Legal worked fine set in the present. I do realise the date is part of the whole concept but again the focus here doesn’t seem too much on their actual job. The issue of women’s equality is treated almost as a novelty and the use of dramatic irony is pretty much always irritating to me, this show not an exception.

I do love the intro, the black and white, the imagery of the falling all mixed in with the classics of advertising, the score, and generally it’s well done. Some of the writing is pretty good, although obviously American.

Basically, I understand why it’s not in the UK, and I’m not even at the end of episode eight yet. All in all, it’s a good show, enjoyable and from what little information I have on the subject, quite accurate in the portrayal of the 60’s. Just the subject matter isn’t really interesting to the English; do we really care about the Nixon campaign or the American attitude to cigarettes? Sure it’s interesting it’s just it’s not quite what I want a TV show on. Not so much.

Continued: http://www.66seven.co.uk/post/364942305