Joanne Ostrow asks what TV trend defined the aughts. One possibility: The rise of basic cable, meaning, of course, Mad Men.
Several articles I’ve linked to have discussed retro-chic as a trend of the decade, including a mention of Mad Men. The Statesman, though, explicitly refers to “Mad Men-chic” as a trend.
The Chicago Tribune also talks about how TV in general influenced the decade’s fashion. Janie Bryant as well as Sex and the City are singled out.
Mad Men also influences what we’re drinking, including on New Year’s Eve.
The resurgence of the advertising jingle is a nod to Mad Men’s retro advertising.
The Baltimore Sun’s David Zurawik has a wish list for 2010, and guess what? HHerald e hopes Mad Men is better and more historically accurate. This is, by my count, the fourth time this guy has used his column to complain about the portrayal of Baltimore and/or London Fog in Out of Town. Color him obsessed.
Australia’s Herald Sun hates Mad Men, which is, the author claims, a soap no different from Grey’s Anatomy.
Meanwhile, Australia’s Crikey is looking at cringe-worthy Mad Men-era ads. (h/t to SmilerG.)
The Philadelphia Inquirer asks actors what their characters’ New Year’s Resolutions are. January Jones weighs in on Betty Draper.
In (positively) reviewing Men of a Certain Age, Canada.com mentions the rise of cable as the home of good new shows, mentioning AMC & Mad Men.
In looking at movies of 2009, columnist Richard von Busack says
Mad Men on AMC was more exciting than two-thirds of the movies released this year; this season-long immersion in the world of a half-century ago proved breathtakingly strange even to those who were children then. With Jon Hamm’s astonishing Don Draper as a traumatized executive ready to chew his leg off rather than get caught in familial snares, Mad Men made Up in the Air look fairly soft.
Rich Sommer is quoted by Variety in a piece on the SAG Awards.
The Mad Men cast is photoshopped into Star Trek: The Next Generation.
A little dark Don Draper humor for Christmas. (h/t Kelsey)
The Persuasionists, a new BBC stcom set in an ad agency, drops the obligatory Mad Men reference.
The Truth in Aging blog finds that Joan’s makeup makes the women who wear it look older (as Christina Hendricks has noted herself in the S1 DVD extras).
Basketcase Carla found us some more pictures of January Jones working with Oceana.
The Winnipeg Press reviews the television year for trends and lessons.
Basketcase Saber2185 found a Mad Men Christmas wreath!
Five things that transformed TV this decade: Includes fans and the Internet, and hey, that’s you guys.
You can vote for your favorite Mad Men party at the AMC blog.
Naturally, an article about the most aggravating ads of the year mentions Mad Men.
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Did you see David Bianculli listed Mad Men as his #2 show of the year? It was on Fresh Air on NPR (he's NPR's TV critic.) Here's a link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor…
I'm sure this is been posted earlier…the gold infomercial:
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/42…
Happy New Year everyone! I drank Mai Tais (appeared twice in season one) in appreciation of the show and BoK. Glad I could do my part!
So JJ Abrams invented dense tv? Jeeze how old was the guy writing that thing, 12?
So JJ Abrams invented dense tv? Jeeze how old was the guy writing that thing, 12?
He might not be far off the mark. Superficially, Abrams' shows tend to be well made. But once you take a good look at the writing, it seems as if there is something not quite right about them. Or shaky.
"Did you see David Bianculli listed Mad Men as his #2 show of the year?"
He teaches a course on TV at the school I went to, random fact. LOL
In 1959, McCann-Erikson came up with the "Put A Tiger In Your Tank" slogan for Esso Gasoline (now Exxon).
Here's a print ad from 1964, that features the slogan. http://www.vintageadgallery.com/sitebuilderconten…
In the mid-1960s, Esso gas stations offered a plush, stuffed tiger tail, about 9 or 10 inches long. It could be attached to your car's gas tank cap, which gave the impression that there really WAS a tiger in your tank, with the last bit of its tail hanging out.
I am from Baltimore and do not understand what Zurawik's beef is. The "inconsistencies" he's been railing against since July are completely inconsequential to the story. It really didn't matter if "Out of Town" took place in Baltimore or Boston. Who cares? Weiner and co. get the important details right. So what if the paintings in Haussner's weren't historically accurate, or if the London Fog owners weren't portrayed exactly as they were in real life? Get over it! It's a TV show and they're trying to advance a story, not tell the world about restaurant culture and raincoat salesmen in 1960s Baltimore.