I read somewhere that there's also a "Playboy Club" series debuting this fall, perhaps on NBC. Set in the same era. All of it mainstream network reaction to the success of "Mad Men," which I still haven't seen.
Brian Lindsey has it right -- two episodes now and where the hell are the cigarettes, which by all rights should be ubiquitous? I have noted the usual sort of revisionism at work -- those characters who DO smoke (not that we ever see them doing so) are portrayed as shady or whatever. In the first episode it was the "Russian" spy who asked for a cigarette, and in the second episode it was the drunk guy who later accosted Christina Ricci.
The show is okay but needs some work. The Lost Effect is again rearing its head -- the annoying flashbacks, "mysteries" that could be solved with the simplest of questions, etc.
The cgi is horrendous and looks like a video game...the scene in the first episode, where the plane landed in Heathrow, was so bad it might've just had "You win!" emblazoned on the bottom of the screen.
It's a shame Mad Men is set in the early 60s. Given this spate of retro-TV was inspired by that show's success...it would've been so much better if the show had been set in the late '60s and we'd have hippies and SLA and groovy stewardesses who globe-hop from bed to bed with none of the melodrama and self-pity mandatory for TV shows of today.
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I read somewhere that there's also a "Playboy Club" series debuting this fall, perhaps on NBC. Set in the same era. All of it mainstream network reaction to the success of "Mad Men," which I still haven't seen.
Where are all the cigarettes???
Lots and lots and LOTS of cigarette smoking back in those days...
Brian Lindsey has it right -- two episodes now and where the hell are the cigarettes, which by all rights should be ubiquitous? I have noted the usual sort of revisionism at work -- those characters who DO smoke (not that we ever see them doing so) are portrayed as shady or whatever. In the first episode it was the "Russian" spy who asked for a cigarette, and in the second episode it was the drunk guy who later accosted Christina Ricci.
The show is okay but needs some work. The Lost Effect is again rearing its head -- the annoying flashbacks, "mysteries" that could be solved with the simplest of questions, etc.
The cgi is horrendous and looks like a video game...the scene in the first episode, where the plane landed in Heathrow, was so bad it might've just had "You win!" emblazoned on the bottom of the screen.
It's a shame Mad Men is set in the early 60s. Given this spate of retro-TV was inspired by that show's success...it would've been so much better if the show had been set in the late '60s and we'd have hippies and SLA and groovy stewardesses who globe-hop from bed to bed with none of the melodrama and self-pity mandatory for TV shows of today.
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