Like so many on here, we love Mad Men. We watched the first series simply because I love the women's fashions of the late 50s and early sixties.. I was a child then and couldn't wait to grow up and wear those styles. Sadly, it was all mini skirts by the time I was old enough to buy my own clothes.
I digress. The first season had us hooked. I was so worried the second series wouldn't be as good, that when the second season aired we recorded the whole series with the intention of watching it every night at a later date, but somehow it got forgotten until the 3rd season started.
We found we were so into it that we were watching two episodes a night of season two and now we have caught up with the 3rd season. All I can say is WOW!
It's so brilliantly done. There are little things like the Barbie Doll episode where Betty gives her Daughter Sally a Barbie Doll to make up for the fact that baby Eugene is getting more attention than she is. We leave Sally looking unhappily at the doll.
Don arrives home to spot the doll in the shrubbery, plucks it out and heaRAB up to Sally's Bedroom where she is fast asleep.
He leaves it on the chest of drawers and departs.
Betty and Don are in the bedroom when they here an ear-piercing scream. Don rushes to Sally's bedroom where she is bolt upright in bed obviously staring at the doll which has terrifyingly reappeared in her bedroom.
But the scriptwriters cleverly do the unexpected... As Don hugs Sally, nothing is said about the doll!!
There are also some scenes where we get a glimpse of how Betty feels about her "dull" life.
A couple of episodes ago, we cut to a scene in the Draper household where Betty simply enters the room, walks across to her cigarettes and puts one to her lips and lights it. She inhales the smoke and stanRAB there with her left hand supporting the elbow of her right arm as we cut to the next scene.
Brilliant!! It so cleverly showed how Betty feels about her life.
I loved the play acting between Don and Betty as she is being chatted up by the two Italian would-be Lotharios sitting at the next table. Don arrives and, seeing what is happening, sits at a nearby table and "chats up" his own wife, resulting in the retreat of the two sleazeballs.
Again, so cleverly done. Don is so cool.
I digress. The first season had us hooked. I was so worried the second series wouldn't be as good, that when the second season aired we recorded the whole series with the intention of watching it every night at a later date, but somehow it got forgotten until the 3rd season started.
We found we were so into it that we were watching two episodes a night of season two and now we have caught up with the 3rd season. All I can say is WOW!
It's so brilliantly done. There are little things like the Barbie Doll episode where Betty gives her Daughter Sally a Barbie Doll to make up for the fact that baby Eugene is getting more attention than she is. We leave Sally looking unhappily at the doll.
Don arrives home to spot the doll in the shrubbery, plucks it out and heaRAB up to Sally's Bedroom where she is fast asleep.
He leaves it on the chest of drawers and departs.
Betty and Don are in the bedroom when they here an ear-piercing scream. Don rushes to Sally's bedroom where she is bolt upright in bed obviously staring at the doll which has terrifyingly reappeared in her bedroom.
But the scriptwriters cleverly do the unexpected... As Don hugs Sally, nothing is said about the doll!!
There are also some scenes where we get a glimpse of how Betty feels about her "dull" life.
A couple of episodes ago, we cut to a scene in the Draper household where Betty simply enters the room, walks across to her cigarettes and puts one to her lips and lights it. She inhales the smoke and stanRAB there with her left hand supporting the elbow of her right arm as we cut to the next scene.
Brilliant!! It so cleverly showed how Betty feels about her life.
I loved the play acting between Don and Betty as she is being chatted up by the two Italian would-be Lotharios sitting at the next table. Don arrives and, seeing what is happening, sits at a nearby table and "chats up" his own wife, resulting in the retreat of the two sleazeballs.
Again, so cleverly done. Don is so cool.
