I don’t see what thing is about mad men
the tv show
I watched it twice
first dismissed as depressing
then again
this last month
because such a hoopla
and it’s still bad
I don’t understand
even wikipedia mentions praise for “historical accuracy”
and THAT’s the problem I have with it
the writing is BAD – as in colloquialisms from at most 20 years
into the past
and this is supposed to be the 60’s
but the writers of this show have them talking like NOW
I forget what the man was saying
wife sitting in bed
but was nothing
not even close —- to how anything would sound in the 60’s
I was THERE
so not like I’m comparing to old movies
comparing to real forms of expression
they are totally overlooked in mad men ….
in all their “historical accuracy” the one thing
they don’t bother to get ‘right’ is
the language.
and that sort of ruins it, makes more like
a host of players doing dress-up into mommy
and daddy’s sixties, but nothing really
truly close. I felt cheated. I felt like “that seventies show”
was better at presenting material
because at least they got SOME of the words right
it’s the SCRIPT – the most important part of a show
and you have them talking like
they just stepped out of a Barnes and Noble
sucking back a starbucks …. because now-sound
is COOL …. and it’s more important to nail-home
this absence of reality
in distance from a past that is so much easier
to absorb as some form of now
language is attitude, after all.
I hate mad men for wasting my time TWICE
to check out a TV show not worth even once
because the premise
sounds completely interesting……… a drama set in the 60’s.
try only listening to it, though
without the costumes or props – does not SOUND
like the 60’s
nope nope nope
sounds like people talking just around the corner
more like a drama set in the 90’s
===flat and non-committal language ===
and that’s not interesting at all.
