Mad News, August 24-26, 2008
- George Hatza perceives how Mad Men’s look at the past is a lens on the present.
- The Las Vegas Review-Journal understands that Mad Men is not about the props and period detail, but gets caught up in them nonetheless (sound familiar?). Author Christopher Lawrence also gets off what will probably be the quote of the week:
The two greatest joys of “Mad Men” are admiring Draper as he smokes his ever-present Lucky Strikes as though he’s angry at them and watching office manager Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks) walk, her limbs moving as if independent from her body and her hips swiveling in ways that kept parts of Elvis off TV.
(The two deserve their own spinoff. Call it “Smoking & Walking.” Just an hour each week of them doing their thing — smoke, smoke, smoke; walk, walk, walk — with a little lounge music in the background. It would be a sensation.)
- Or maybe you just want to look at pretty pictures. Holy cow, I almost died when I saw Hamm on the motorcycle.
