Mad Men was a stylishly executed, sprawling and sophisticated novel
of a show about the historic illusions of American society — the facade of
postwar suburban perfection, the ignored injustice of 1960s attitudes toward
blacks, gays and women in a society “with justice for all,” and a man who
successfully sells lies in a backstabbing profession of lies on Madison Avenue.
The series’ underlying joke is that
the man himself is a lie, and its running theme is the characters’ confused
groping toward truth.
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