So says eccentric crazypants Bertram Cooper as he and Roger look at a picture of the founders of Sterling Cooper taken forty years previously. If only he knew that 1963, like 1923, was a year on the cusp of enormous, groundbreaking change! He doesn’t, of course, and therein lies one of the show’s central themes: [...]
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“We had no idea the soup was going to hit the fan”
Posted in Mad Men on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Betty Draper: a character study
Posted in Mad Men on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night’s episode of Mad Men has me thinking of how satisfying it would be to see Betty pull a Nora from A Doll’s House. She is so incredibly miserable, far more so than she was in the first season. Betty has undergone two dramatic changes so far, the first being her transformation from the [...]
