Excellent series with a terrific idea – Madison Avenue ad exes in 1960. It takes a world we’re semi-familiar with due to movies and TV (Rock Huson in Lover Come Back, Darrin in Bewitched), then runs is through the filters of history (beatniks, Nixon’s campaign for the presidency) and the female gaze. The flashy roles are the guys – smoking, womanizing, brooding – but the girls are there too: the pretty but bland housewife, the nubile young secretary, the buxom sexually experienced secretary, the Greenwich Village artist.
Superbly cast. Two starts at least are launched: Joe Hamm as the handsome, enigmatic Don Draper, and Christina Hendricks as the curvey Helen Gurley Brown type. Jennifer Jones, a pretty blonde who is a little bit interesting, has found perhaps the most perfect role she will ever play. And there are also excellent performances from Elizabeth Moss (formely Zoe in the West Wing – how lucky can one actor who specialises in mousy types be?), the bloke who plays the creepy corporate climber. Actually everyone is good, right down to the smallest roles.
Some great lines – “this isn’t China there’s no money in virginity” and pretty much 70% of everything John Slattery says (I just plucked that figure out of the air but I hope it gives you a rough idea).
Season 2 isn’t as much fun to start off with mainly because the 60s start to be really felt –but still excellently made.
No comments:
Post a Comment