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On ‘Mad Men,’ The Allure of Messy Lives (nytimes.com)
2 points by aditya on Aug 1, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Anyone else get bored with it after the first season? I mean, it's an ad agency, there's only so many plot-lines before it just became a soap opera. I also didn't understand how the main character hardly said a word, yet people seemed to think he was interesting, the writing wasn't very sensical.


I was watching the show for the characters. The setting of the ad agency isn't entirely incidental, but it's largely there for backdrop.




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