attempting to whet your appetite....

I've spoken about how the husband and I are into Mad Men. the attention to detail in set and costume design, the brazen chain-smoking of the 60's, the blatant chauvinism, the interesting characters, the casting... all of these things make for a really great series. what makes for an even greater series is excellent writing. here's a link to a scene from season 1 that I loved, when Kodak is shopping agencies to market it's 'wheel'. in the world of the show, the face of advertising is changing and Sterling Cooper, where much of our story takes place, is trying to catch up and maintain it's foothold. if you choose to watch the clip, imagine that Don, the guy doing most of the talking, is a pretty complex dude - troubled, secretive past, one foot in the idyllic 'burbs with the perfect family, one bigger foot on Madison Avenue as a talented ad exec, coctailing his way through the day with the boyz and philandering in a quiet, maddening, absolutely self-destructive sort of way. oh, and that guy that tears up and leaves the room toward the end of the scene is separated from his wife.