Review of Mad Men by Javier Johnston-Marquez in the Amoeba Music newsletter:How many critics need to tell you to watch this show 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 the mood and subtext are an effective, biting indictment of the misogynist, capitalist era it's focused upon (an era 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 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.
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