Top Five Mad Men moments from Season 1...
...okay I lied, I am doing a post on Mad Men. I can't help it, I love this show—I cry thinking about the pain it's going to put me through every Sunday after I watch another perfect episode and know I have to wait A WEEK for another look into this world I would have loved to be apart of.
I really shouldn't do this because it's rewarding the people who
haven't seen the show yet, but (ahem)
SPOILERS AHEAD!
4. John Slattery's slippery comeuppance in "Red in the Face" after making a pass at Don's wife Betty. Oysters and Nixon. Yum.
3. The emotion in Vincent Kartheiser's face when he thinks he's been fired by Don ("New Amsterdam") It's telling that this sort of amazing acting is so commonplace in this series, I wasn't shocked for a second to see the show nab so many Emmy noms.
2. Christina Hendricks (Joan the head secretary and redheaded bombshell) and January Jones (nervous, picture perfect wife Betty) in everything. Betty's nervous shell of a life and marriage compared to Joan's control and confidence she has with men play so nicely against each other.
1. While most people will tout "The Wheel" for its magnificent writing, I personally like "Babylon" the best. The last scene, with Joan and Roger Sterling at the hotel room, paired with Don Drapier listening to that wonderful music...there's this sense of emptiness in what these people have created for themselves. An emptiness I think plays at the heart of this show—the '50s promised a perfect life to people returning from a decade of war, and in the '60s these empty dreams are starting to unravel.
