Ms. Peepers:
Most of the shows revolve around ad concepts so famous that they are remembered fondly 40 years after the fact, and a good client conference or two. Perhaps you are correct that these concepts were more the product of sweat than inspiration, but showing someone think about it for a few hours wouldn’t exactly be good for ratings, would it? I am surprised that one would have to explain this to a creative director, who is supposed to be open to, well, creativity.
BTW, I am a person that likes Mad Men for it’s faithfulness to the era and open mockery of the current lefty conception of how repressed Americans were before 1968. The entire first season was a hit list of all the things that are now taboo by Americans who are indisputably more politically correct, neurotic and repressed than this supposedly buttoned down era. MadMen depicts a time when you could slap somebody else’s child for misbehaving and expect to be backed up by that parent, punch a colleague in the nose because he smarted off about your wife and not get fired or even hauled off to jail, bring a firearm to work without raising eyebrows, drive your kids around while they bounced between the front and back seats, shoot a neighbor’s pigeons out of the sky just because you can, smoke & drink while pregnant, and reprimand a child for playing ghost with a plastic dry cleaning bag because you suspect they dumped its contents on the floor. We are sissies and prudes compared to what is depicted in every episode of this thoroughly entertaining show.
