Nerve Endings Firing Away

"You can now talk about a Mad Men skirt or lampshade or pickup line where once you might have used “space age” or “Kennedy era” or “Neanderthal.” But while the show, like its subject, has many surface pleasures—period design, period bad behavior (if you like high modernism, narrow lapels, bullet bras, smoking, heavy drinking at lunch, good hotel sex, and bad office sex, this is the series for you)—at its core

Mad Men is a moving and sometimes profound meditation on the deceptive allure of surface, and on the deeper mysteries of identity. The dialogue is almost invariably witty, but the silences, of which there are many, speak loudest: Mad Men is a series in which an episode’s most memorable scene can be a single shot of a woman at the end of her day, rubbing the sore shoulder where a bra strap has been digging in. There’s really nothing else like it on television."

Apart from Dexter, Man Men is one series on television that I wouldn't miss. Although this article was written (accompanied by fantastic Annie Leibowitz photos) just before the start of season 3 last year, it is still relevant and provides the perfect introduction and context for the series. Season 4 started yesterday and promises to be yet another brilliant season after the fantastic finale of its previous season. If you're not watching it, you are missing something. Even SNL gets it.

[Link to Mad Men]