How many critics need to tell you to watch [Mad Men] before you actually sit down and do it? Yeah, it’s a little slow, but slow things pay off. Like a spaghetti western. Or graduate school. It’s light on overt plot development and heavy on mood and subtext, but that mood and subtext are an effective, biting indictment of the misogynist, capitalist era it’s focused upon (an ear in which, some would argue, we still live). The acting is mostly presence, but most of the actors have the type of burning presence you just plum don’t see anymore. Also, I want Don Draper to be my boyfriend. Yeah, I know he’s married and I know he has other mistresses and he can be a little cold sometimes and I know we’re both heterosexual and I’m a record store clerk and he’s a fictional character and yadda yadda yadda. All I know is that when I’m in his arms I feel safe.— Javier, employee at Amoeba Records Hollywood, in the “Music (and Movies) We Like” booklet. Possibly the best mini-review I’ve read ever. :)
Posted 8 July 2009 | Permalink
