Tomorrow never knows. How Mad Men solves the problem of finding the past
It has been 17 months since the Season 4 finale of AMC's Mad Men, "Tomorrowland"--enough time that the show seems not just about another era but from another era. In October 2010, when Don Draper proposed to his secretary after a trip to Disneyland, Democrats controlled the House, Osama bin Laden was still alive, and ABC and NBC had yet to try their own early-'60s dramas, Pan Am (now on indefinite hiatus) and The Playboy Club (which has already bunny-hopped to that big grotto in the sky).
But Mad Men, which survived a rancorous contract negotiation between AMC and creator Matthew...
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