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Friday, October 1, 2010
Five shows you should be watching
It's hard to make a case for a show that has won 3 Emmy's in a row for best show, as a show that no one is watching. I'll try anyway. Madmen averages roughly 2.5 million views a week.(and that's being generous)Since there are 300 million people in our country there is considerable room for growth.
Madmen chronicles the life of Don Draper, a Madison Avenue ad executive living in the 60's. John Hamm plays the complex Draper flawlessly. Draper's a demanding boss, an absentee father, a drunk and a womanizer. Despite these warts Hamm finds a way to make Draper likable. Layer beneath the bravado there's a vulnerability about Draper that Hamm taps into each episode, the moment you're about to write Draper off he always does something to redeem himself.
Initially I thought Mad Men's premise boring, who wants to watch a show about a Ad agency in the 1960s? I couldn't have been more wrong. Madmen is a meditation on the 60's and the role of women in our society. There are times when I forget the show is set in the sixties, so many of the issues represented on the show still permeate. Mad Men is a a tour de force exploration of the human condition.
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