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Eeeeeeeee Mad Men squee
Mar. 3rd, 2008 09:39 pmI just finished watching the first season of Mad Men. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mlyn and I tried to get through the last four eps last night, but tiredness won out. Sorry Jo and Christy -- I couldn't wait weeks more to see the end. I was too tense.
At first I didn't want to watch the series. Everything I heard about it sounded so much like In the Company of Men, the deeply upsetting movie by Neil LaBute from quite a few years ago and one of the main reasons I can never elevate Aaron Eckhart to BSO status, because I can never stop thinking of him from that squirm inducing cruelty fest. Also, having grown up, my little feminist self, in the time immediately after Mad Men is set in, I wasn't interested in reliving the sexism and general boorishness of the time. But M'lyn's enthusiasm and explanations relieved my fears and I was hooked by the first episodes completely.
( Spoilers for Mad Men, not that anyone's watching! )
mlyn and I tried to get through the last four eps last night, but tiredness won out. Sorry Jo and Christy -- I couldn't wait weeks more to see the end. I was too tense.At first I didn't want to watch the series. Everything I heard about it sounded so much like In the Company of Men, the deeply upsetting movie by Neil LaBute from quite a few years ago and one of the main reasons I can never elevate Aaron Eckhart to BSO status, because I can never stop thinking of him from that squirm inducing cruelty fest. Also, having grown up, my little feminist self, in the time immediately after Mad Men is set in, I wasn't interested in reliving the sexism and general boorishness of the time. But M'lyn's enthusiasm and explanations relieved my fears and I was hooked by the first episodes completely.
( Spoilers for Mad Men, not that anyone's watching! )
