I adore Mad Men and not because of the time period or how perfectly it shows the period, although it would have to be set then to show correctly how women were treated and how Madison ave advert firms were starting to rise due to TV's new found popularity. I lived in NYC then having been born in the early 50's and it was just like it is shown. I had a cousin marry an ad man,,very prim and proper and always with a coat and tie on. The stories are well written and acted, so you see there are many of us that watch it for it's cerebral genre and a few other things.
It took me three tries to get through the first ep of The Hour, even though it is based on our show "60 Minutes" which has been on since the 50's. This show is so well written and I couldn't catch all the words and no cc to help with the accents, but once I got through that part, I loved it and the remaining eps brought every thing together. Not a series for a slower minded person, they want a quick result and everything spelled out for them.
Also, it helped to know a bit of the historical background about the Suez Crisis and Hungarian Revolt which we knew about, but not the background knowledge that was hidden. I used to watch tv with my father and he kept up on things then and explained them to me, even though I was in elementary school. I also know someone who's family lived through it and had to escape to England. Very sad and the end of UK domination in the world..after not honoring their word to other countries they were defeated morally. The US was not much better...all ignoring the spread of imperialism at that time.
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