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mindmetoo
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 Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:31 am Post subject: Mad Men |
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| Anyone working through the back eps of this series? I've almost finished ep 1 season 1 and I have to say it's hooked me right away. So far the hook seems to be "whoa, did people really work like that 40 years ago?" Smoking, chasing skirts, using typewriters... |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 9:05 am Post subject: Re: Mad Men |
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It gets better in season two.
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| So far the hook seems to be "whoa, did people really work like that 40 years ago?" Smoking, chasing skirts, using typewriters... |
Whaddaya mean 40 years ago? I thought that was standard office culture in Korea today? ( okay, without the typewriters) |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject: Re: Mad Men |
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| peppermint wrote: |
It gets better in season two.
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| So far the hook seems to be "whoa, did people really work like that 40 years ago?" Smoking, chasing skirts, using typewriters... |
Whaddaya mean 40 years ago? I thought that was standard office culture in Korea today? ( okay, without the typewriters) |
Muahahaha.
Better in season 2? I'm extra interested now. |
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fortysixyou
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, that show was introduced to me by another foreign teacher, and I got into it right away. Such good writing, such awesome characters, the sets, the costumes...it's awesome.
Hard to watch if you're trying to quit smoking, I hear. They smoke everywhere!
OP: Who is the lady in your avatar? Your girlfriend?...lucky! She has pretty hair. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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Some of the funny "oh yeah, that's how people used to live and we don't see that anymore" type things they sort of spice the eps I've seen so far with:
1) smoking in the office
2) drinking in the office
3) scene where the mother is driving and the kids are crawling around the car... no child seats, no seatbelts.
4) no jews are hired
5) black people aren't allowed to speak
6) no political correctness |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| This sounds excellent. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
Some of the funny "oh yeah, that's how people used to live and we don't see that anymore" type things they sort of spice the eps I've seen so far with:
1) smoking in the office
2) drinking in the office
3) scene where the mother is driving and the kids are crawling around the car... no child seats, no seatbelts.
4) no jews are hired
5) black people aren't allowed to speak
6) no political correctness |
Don't think all this stuff ended along time ago...
No 1 was common until the early-90's in Canada.
No 2 is kind of common until the tech crash, if you include special TGIF days in the summer.
No 3, that and drinking and driving until the mid-80's before MADD got really organized and the police really cracked down. Kind of like what Korea as been doing the last couple of years (for drinking and driving).
No 4/5 probably happened around the time I was born (mid 70's).
No 6 until the mid-90's you'd here racist jokes in public. It usually wasn't directed towards blacks. But towards Asians, Indians, Arabs and Natives were fair game.
Although for Japan and Korea 2 and 3 are still very much alive. 4/5/6 don't really apply in the average Korean office. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I saw a couple episodes and wasn't impressed at all. It seems to be just a period piece without much in the way of story aside from "This is how it was supposed to be back then." My wife is hooked on it though. |
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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| It really does get a lot better, actually. The first couple episodes are very like what you say, but things do happen and characters do develop. |
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