Are you Don? 'Mad Men' and its challenge to the audience
" Mad Men " finally started filming its fifth season this past month; It's now expected to start airing in March of next year. But there's plenty of "Mad Men" about anyway — there's a "Mad Men" inspired collection of clothes at Banana Republic just now, created with the costume designer for the show, Janie Bryant. The collection mostly looks to the costumes from the first years of the show, when the cast was still mired in the early '60s — there's Don Draper's grey flannel suit and grey felt fedora. "Are you Betty?" the ads in the store ask, "are you Don?"
Good question! Let's see — am I a deeply repressed suburban housewife who, with her three children, is unconsciously mimicking the curt abusiveness of her own mother? Or am I the serial philanderer who's been living a secret double life as a result of deserting the military during wartime? Good question! I suppose it depends on my gender and what clothes I prefer. Gosh, I hope I can be Pete Campbell, the spoiled scion of an old, but bankrupt, New York family who has never entertained an ethical question, but constantly throws tantrums because he can't get whatever he wants the moment he wants them! I like how he dresses!
However stylish the show may be (and its styles are likely to get a lot wackier as the show progresses further into the 1960s), at its core are a group of characters who are pretty miserable. And this is, in my opinion, one of the show's better features, although this is not a show without its critics. All really interesting art will have its detractors, and "Mad Men" walks an exceptionally fine line between drama and melodrama, history and satire of history, and naiveté and archness. It's telling that the show has a peculiar obsession with "Peyton Place," the neutered prime-time soap opera based on Grace Metalious' scabrous novel, the details of which television ad man Harry Crane loves to spill before it has aired. Both shows lovingly detail scandalous behavior by wealthy men and women, but you'd have to be awfully sheltered to be shocked by any of it.
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AMC recently made "Mad Men" available via Netfilx's streaming video service, making it easy to plow through all four existing seasons in a week or so, as I have just done. I'd like to note a few things I especially like about the show. 1.
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