Quote: (03-06-2012 12:23 PM)Commander Shepard Wrote:
Also, the sources of conflict in Mad Men, to me atleast, are not that big of a deal (interracial dating, drug addiction, extra-marital affairs). I can see if there were some exploration in those arenas, but nothing MadMen portrayed on those issues moved me emotionally. The exploration stopped at the superficial level.
Ironically, it is those historical portrayals that seems to be Mad Men's most potent weapon. The show gets its greatest strength in its style and feelings of nostalgia that are conjured up in the viewer.
That's why I don't like Mad Men, and much of modern entertainment. There's no depiction of the good and the beautiful. There's nothing uplifting about it. To the extent that it tries, it's often heavy-handed, immature, and moralizing, usually childish fare.
It's always depiction of things like catastrophe, tragedy, hardship, failure, loss, infidelity, violence. These are the only things which a serious auteur concerns himself with.
Alternatively, watching a film like Spartacus or Ten Commandments is an invigorating experience. Or The King's Speech.
Plus Mad Men, like most entertainment, revels in thrusting these liberal themes on its viewers, at the expense of a realistic portrayal. When I sit down to see a film, I want to see something beautiful and uplifting, without being maudlin and saccharin. Or something realistic. And not something that glamorizes dysfunction. So Mad Men fails on all these, for me. Plus as I and Shepherd said, the pacing is glacial.
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Peggy is going to become a real feminist before the series is over.
Peggy was a strident feminist from the beginning. She bears a bastard and gives it up for adoption, and is completely shameless about the entire affair.