The stories behind Mad Men revealed
The wait is finally almost over… the new season of Mad Men premieres July 25th on AMC. It’s about time. The recently released Season 4 poster has been getting a ton of attention including this in-depth examination and search for hidden meaning from TV Guide.
But to find out the real meaning behind the hit show you’ll need to read Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America by Natasha Vargas-Cooper, the woman behind the highly popular blog The Footnotes of Mad Men.
In the book, Vargas-Cooper turns her eye to everything from Lucky Strike to Madienform, gray flannel suits to Burt Cooper’s Japonism, Grace Kelly to John Cheever — and examines iconic morsels from the show and the error. Very Short List agrees, Mad Men Unbuttoned is like a little time machine that takes us, as Mr. Draper so elegantly put it, ‘to a place where we ache to go again.’”
Still need more Mad Men in your life and on your computer screen? You can download two Mad Men wallpaper designs for your computer: What’s in Don Draper’s Desk and What’s in Joan Holloway’s Purse.
Buy the book at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders or Books-a-Million.
Mad Men goes shark jumping.
Say it ain’t so, Matthew Weiner! First Sal gets the axe for having some scruples, now this? Everyone’s (okay, only the 2 million of us with good taste) favorite show, Mad Men, has gotten the Sesame Street treatment. In the short segment, Don Draper (a daper Guy Smiley) teaches two of his underlings a lesson about Mad vs. Sad. While the whole exercise make me a bit sad, I’ll admit I was pretty surprised to hear the word “sycophant,” thrown into the segment. Maybe back when I was a toddler they threw those sort of 10-cent words into the sketches, too, and it just went over my head.
Stay tuned for Episode 2 staring the newest Sesame Street character: Whisky Monster (“M is for Maker’s…”)
