Mad Men TV Show
was the story of a major advertising agency operating from New York's Madison Avenue in1960. The most successful ad executive at the Sterling Cooper agency was handsome,indefatigable Don Draper (Jon Hamm), who was not only expert at "playing the game" whileservicing accounts ranging from cigarette manufacturers to political candidates, but was also anaccomplished ladies' man.It was crucial for Draper to always be at the top of his professional form -- there were scores of hungry young executives who were eager to topple him from his perch and become SterlingCooper's new top dog. The series evoked the manners and mores of the early '60s with pinpointaccuracy: the advertising business, like practically every other business, was completely male-dominated, with an overabundance of WASPs, a minimum of Jews, and virtually no other minority anywhere in sight; women were second-class citizens and sex objects, expected to be both subservient and "available"; honesty and integrity were merely words in the dictionary; andeverybody drank and smoked to excess (indeed, so many cigarettes were lit up in the course of each episode that a number of TV critics were turned off by the show, undoubtedly preferringthat historical fact be subordinated to contemporary political correctness).Others in the cast included John Slattery as agency CEO Roger Sterling; Elisabeth Moss as wide-eyed novice secretary Peggy Olson; Christina Hendricks as wordly wise head secretary JoanHolloway; Vincent Kartheiser as Don Draper's sharkishly ambitious protégé Pete Campbell; andMaggie Siff as Rachel Menken, a source of anger and confusion to the Madison Avenue machomales not only because she was the executive in charge of a major department store (and Jewish
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Mad Men TV Show
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| Upload Date: | 05/01/2009 |
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